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The Holdout Computer Accessibility Project seeks Queer, POC and Women to help!

by Gregg Horton

Hey everyone, The holdout bookstore is seeking to create a range of computers with and emphasis on security and privacy. If anyone is interested please let me know and i'll include you in the discussion. http://theholdout.org/ Thanks!

12 years, 6 months

open access button launching nov. 18th - trying to get a big public message

by Marina Kukso

hi all, on nov. 18th open access folks are launching an OA button that will allow people to make a public comment every time they hit a paywall. they're trying to make a big splash and are asking people to sign up to make a coordinated social media message about the issue. here's a description and the link to sign up (from https://www.thunderclap.it/en/projects/5675-open-access-button-launch): *If someone hits a paywall in the forest, does it make a sound?* Every time you hit a paywall is an isolated moment of frustration, that is unlikely to shake the ivory tower of academic publishing. By putting these moments together using the Open Access Button, we will capture your individual moments of injustice and frustration and display them, on full view to the world. Only by making this problem impossible to ignore can we change the system. This project was started by two students <http://bit.ly/19QMpMD>, good friends frustrated by the current system and driven to change the publishing system we will have to work with. The project was made possible by the invaluable support of developers, advocates and the open access community at large. Our team has worked extremely hard in the past few months to develop a prototype which we’re finally ready to show to the world. At launch, the button will be able track and map every time a user hits a paywall, help them share their struggle and finally help them get access to the paper for free. Advocates can use the stories and data the button collects to push for change. Our data and code will all be available for others to use, improve on and do things we couldn’t have dreamed of. Everyone is affected by this problem, patients, students, doctors and academics. We need your help to make this problem too obvious to ignore. Please help us. Share this thunderclap, and download the button November 18th Find out more : http://bit.ly/1bEH7XT

12 years, 6 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] 3D Printer - needs new heating element

by Jake

Hol, you forgot to put any text in your post at all! please be clear of how you came to this conclusion. The heating element is a resistor glued into a block of metal on the end of the extruder. It has two wires which go to a connector a couple inches from it, and they go back to the machine. To test the heating element, one can unplug this connector and use a multimeter to measure its resistance. It should be something like 8 ohms, i don't know the exact value but 100 is too much and indicates it's bad. it was replaced a little while ago by a technician from the corporation that made it. If the machine is acting up about heating, we need to know whether the problem is with the heating or the temperature sensing. If the temperature sensor is reporting ambient temperature, it's probably working. if the temp sensor is working but the heating element isn't making it heat up, it could be the heating element (see test above) or it could be the connector near it, or the wires from there back to the main board, or where those wires connect to the brain. can you give more information about what you tried and what you observed? -jake

12 years, 6 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] Sudo Room wins $4700 grant from Southern Exposure!

by Vicky Knox

WOOOAAAH!!! Could we all see a copy of what you wrote for the grant application? Maybe store it in the wiki for future reference as we continue applying for grants? :D :D

12 years, 6 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] sudo crowd

by Vicky Knox

Thank you, Eddan! :D Will you let us all know when you get those updates up?

12 years, 6 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] Sudo Room Wiki/Wordpress beautification hack day

by Vicky Knox

Updates to the wiki! I began work on the wiki by categorizing pages so that they can eventually be clustered into single page portals and/or menus (similar to the Quick Links the main Mesh group page has <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh>). I started by going through All Pages < https://sudoroom.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Special%3AAllPages> one-by-one, and categorized articles as Projects < https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Category:Projects>, subcategory Food Hacking < https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Category:Food_Hacking>, Events < https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Category:Events> and Stub (for pages that may be abandoned or need expansion) <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Category:Stub>. I also did a little bit of spam rollbacking and prettied up the language in a few articles. Still on my list are to complete categorization of every page in All Pages, research a new template for the front page of the wiki and build out the Funding page Jenny started <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Funding>. Please let me know if you'd like to meet up and work on this with me!

12 years, 6 months

Sudo Room's Values, Participation, etc

by Matthew Senate

Hey all, I've been thinking about some things and wanted to share a few thoughts: Reflecting on this: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles_of_Association#Values I'm of the disposition that sudo room as a collective values "open, public discourses over closed proprietary processes" and I believe in good faith that this is held and executed by sudoers generally. I appreciate when folks want to offer positive acknowledgements, suggestions for improvement, and support to fellow community members. I also think that sudoers generally practice "do-ocracy over bureaucracy" with an added element of "access and transparency over exclusivity" in order to help that do-ocracy remain accountable and enable us to "solve real problems over hypotheticals, while respecting visions of the future." Ultimately, it is my perspective that sudo room's various participants are interested in acting based on "community and collaboration over isolation and competition" not the other way around. I do not think things are perfect, but I think by and large folks do a good job of these things and everyone is interested in improving. >From this point of view, I would like to express my excitement and encouragement for folks to reach out in various ways to add value to sudo room, and also to share and communicate at appropriate times. I firmly believe that the work executed on a recent topic, a particular grant application <http://soex.org/alternativeexposure/>, was appropriate, and that while a message indeed would have been fine or even nice, ultimately, it was brought to everyone's attention at the right time--just before it was due seeking help and when it was confirmed that sudo would actually be a recipient of funds. I barely even remember working on it--I believe I gave some feedback or something, or perhaps was distracted by something else, I don't know. To be honest, applying to grants can feel like a game of chance, so I didn't put emotional stock into it. In other words, I personally don't see any problem with folks reaching out on their own in order to add value to sudo room, especially when information is brought to light when the value-add is actually feasible or even confirmed. For instance, I think it's a great efficiency that Marc found a craigslist post for a free, modern, color printer, reached out to the poster, confirmed the pickup, picked it up, dropped it off at noisebridge, returned with a car to retrieve it from noisebridge, hauled it upstairs, cleaned the walkway area adjacent to the elevator, ran an ethernet cable, installed shelves, and plugged in the printer itself. It is unnecessary for him to have said anything about this for it to be a value-consistent value-add to sudo room. It could be nice, even advantageous to post it--maybe someone could have picked it up from noisebridge on their way home?--but in the end, it doesn't matter, and now this great resources is available for us to share and use. This to me is do-ocracy, and the minutia of timing the communication is less important if there is nothing to lose. Applying to grants gives us absolutely nothing to lose. I say: reach out. // Matt

12 years, 6 months

math literacy meetup wednesday night

by Mike Schachter

Hey everyone, a few people are going to meet up on Wednesday around 6pm at sudoroom to talk about math literacy stuff! Please stop over if you're interested, or another time in the future if you're not available. mike

12 years, 6 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] [sudo-announce] forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings

by Art McGee

Greetings, I'm curious, but would not this post have been more appropriate for the sudo-discuss list? I assume you may not be aware of it. As for your specific point about the American Civil War being about states' rights, that just makes me say hummmm... :-\ I'm going to do the Fanonian thing and not shout, since I'm too tired for that anymore, but I will just add that in the opinion of a lot of historians, some of them Anarchists, the "battle for power" between U.S. states and the Federal government is simply that, a battle for power, but it doesn't tell you anything about why the states want that power. It doesn't tell you anything about the motivating factors behind such a long-standing struggle, which, if you're unfamiliar with U.S. history, could lead you to the erroneous conclusion that it's a neutral "freedom" thing. It's not. I think you already know this, but your phrasing triggered my White Supremacy detector, so I had to respond. :-) Oh, and since I've now delurked and am posting on this discuss list, I'll just say that I live in Oakland but haven't as yet made it around to the sudo room in person (I'm hoping to change that in the upcoming year). Art McGee On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:50 AM, aestetix <aestetix(a)aestetix.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I've been lurking for a while, but this caught my attention. > Especially given that I recently watched the musical 1776. > > IMHO, we're at a turning point in history. I spent part of this > morning watching the testimony on healthcare.gov, and seeing the > interplay of lawyers and technologists. We seem to be sandwiched > between two paradigms: the NSA/Omnicorp merger from Prism and other > Snowden leaks, and totally unrealistic valuations of companies like > Snapchat, which apparently just turned down a $3 billion cash > acquisition offer from Facebook. That spells out a damned if you do, > damned if you don't scenario. > > The one common theme we've seen through the history of the US is the > battle for power between State and Federal governments. This is what > the Civil War was *really* about, why laws like the Civil Rights Act > of 1965 are so important, and why the most recent government shut-down > happened. And inherent to this power battle, for which there is no > "better" side, is the will of the people. How do we overcome the > tragedy of the commons enough to build a system that generally, kind > of sort of works? > > It's hard to practice what one preaches if there's no cost. For > example, it's easy to use Google/etc, until the government subpoenas > your email and search history and uses that as evidence (hidden via > State Secrets) to throw you in jail. I speak on this with several > friends who are either in jail or dead because of bad laws, and many > more who have been harassed, detained, in most cases for doing nothing > more than dissenting. > > This is why I agree strongly with Eddan about the notion of > neutrality. I haven't kept up with sudo room as much lately, partly > because I don't have the time/energy to engage in some of the > transitions that were going on. I'm beginning to get to a point where > I can re-engage with people working on projects tackling these kinds > of issues. I suppose we shall see what happens. > > Back into the woodwork, > aestetix > > - --- > > I've often thought of Sudo Room a little bit like the District of > Columbia. and Rachel's subject for her email reminded me of that. > > It is often forgotten that there was a first constitution of the > United States after Independence before the one that people call the > Constitution. It was called the Confederacy of States. The nation's > capital was in Philadelphia and through a series of events ended up > moving to a newly formed neutral district - that we all know now as DC. > > It wasn't just a series of events, but a structural flaw in the > Confederacy that doomed itself. As James Madison wrote in Federalist > 43, "We have seen the inconvenience of this omission, and the > assumption of power into which Congress have been led by it. With > great propriety, therefore, has the new system supplied the defect. > The general precaution, that no new States shall be formed, without > the concurrence of the federal authority, and that of the States > concerned, is consonant to the principles which ought to govern such > transactions." > > As population grew and the country was further colonized by the > European settlers, the creation of new states turned into a disuniting > disaster. Different coalitions of states banded together to promote > their collective interest at the expense of others. Those states > excluded formed their own alliances and there were many cries of > treason thrown around back and forth. Each cluster thought of > themselves as the "us" and the others as the "them" until the "them" > became the "us" and the "us" was "them". And so on. > > So while New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland - all wanted the new > federal seat of power in their states, a deal was struck to create a > district that didn't belong to any particular state. They all wanted > to have the center of the nation's power in their territories. And > this is how we got in Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution, the > provision saying: > > "To exercise exclusive legislation, in all cases whatsoever, over such > district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of > particular States and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of > the government of the United States; and to exercise like authority > over all places purchased by the consent of the legislatures of the > States in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, > magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings." > > I'm not sure we need forts and magazines and arsenals and such, but I > still think we need a neutral center so that no particular cluster > confuses themselves as being what constitutes Sudo Room. Only when the > country adopted a political structure that transformed the "us" and > "them" into we - did the agreement amongst them create stability and > mutual respect that made them united states. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.19 (Darwin) > Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSg9gZAAoJEOrRfDwkjbpTzNYIALdkLYpUOINBMdaoTgyfv5+d > 4mL38CWysMiceiA8AqMXUStiZOsp4aEiOgsYnSOrookSdnQbVbxPD10keH+0P4Jm > 7es9ibfvk5PT/Bj5IThB9pSsUpS3coeVVmOHScYnPVQzPGihIMpcMGcLaNpviZBE > BE9IOpK5EcBpgBh25mVqIFp6nJisuOq1mTgwAjHoZUOb+VxKbSLoCPaEVcHkpgVL > cvdMJSCSrk1rZVkTA0oWfMW57NRQY47z7e+tXm5xvkJXvJA2mYbcOgaQssnRqp0/ > wspCWOdP4ior8xvaQE7KrUQvj3JxbLOY8I92UhXC3Sj29BXw7xy3i08hoLUg6kY= > =42g2 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > sudo-announce mailing list > sudo-announce(a)lists.sudoroom.org > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-announce >

12 years, 6 months

Waste Management billz

by David Keenan

https://www.wm.com/myaccount/ account | amt 00012-86938-43003 | Amount: $224.28 00012-87014-63003 | Amount: $71.80 Total paid: $296.08 Confirmation Number: 69784810329 As I mentioned to some of you, I've paid for combined garbage and recycling for SUDO and BAPS from 9/15 til now. Basically I consider this my membership dues to each respective group for the past three months - essentially, ~$50/group/mo since Sept. or however that works out. I thought just paying this for SUDO and BAPS might kill two birds with one stone dues-wise, but going forward it's obviously way less confusing to have SUDO to take over the wm.com account and bill BAPS, and I'll just pay dues to each group like everyone else... Re: the wm.com login, I sent Matt this info a while ago, but at this point I'd like to change out the bound email address from my personal email to a generic sudoroom email (or at any rate, some other email) that sudo and baps can both check. Can someone volunteer a sudoroom or other email SUDO and BAPS can share for this purpose? Thanks, David

12 years, 6 months

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