If you remember after last week's meeting we were anxious because we were
$800 behind on rent. Now we have $5500 and are officially a Public Benefit
Nonprofit Corporation.
Let us take a moment to meditate on this week and the efforts of our
members.
Minutes: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2013-11-06
Hey all, I just noticed that Oakland is the WikiVoyage "Destination of the
Month" -- awesome!
Might be a good time to make sure WikiVoyage's pages point to Oakland Wiki
where appropriate -- or just generally celebrate, dance in the streets…ya
know?
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Main_Page
-Pete
This seems good to support:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ladar/lavabits-dark-mail-initiative
"Along with preserving existing functionality, the team will build in
support for the Dark Mail protocol. Dark Mail, a newly developed messaging
protocol, is designed to provide end-to-end encryption of both the message
itself and the email in transit. Because encryption will be integrated into
the protocol itself, it will be invisible to the user. Dark Mail users will
get the security of PGP without the cognitive burden; *if someone can use
email today they will be able to use Dark Mail tomorrow*." *← Finally this*
"The project will also include building, and releasing as F/OSS, the first
Dark Mail compatible clients. We are planning to launch with clients for
the desktop (Win, Mac, Lin), smartphones and tablets (iOS, Android)."
Super stoked to announce that both Sudo Room AND the Public School have
each won a $4700 grant from Southern Exposure, an excellent nonprofit
supporting the arts in the Bay Area:
*Southern Exposure is proud to announce the recipients of grants in Round 7
of our Alternative Exposure Grant Program. In this round, Southern Exposure
is awarding $70,000 to 16 projects at levels ranging from $5,000 to $2,400.
With major support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts,
Alternative Exposure supports the independent and self-organized work of
artists and small groups that plays a critical and significant role in the
San Francisco Bay Area arts community. In the seven years since launching
Alternative Exposure, Southern Exposure has awarded $421,000 in direct
funds to 120 Bay Area projects.(http://soex.org/artistsresources.html
<http://soex.org/artistsresources.html>*)
This is a nice bit of cash that will very nearly provide the 3-month rent
buffer we endeavor to have as a foundation, though we still need to build
up Rainy Day, maintenance and operations funds. This also gives us
significantly more to work with should we choose to move into a larger
space in the next couple of months.
It would be great to reinitiate conversations and proposals toward a
membership policy and long-term sustainability goals.
Thanks to David Keenan for inspiring a down-to-the-wire grant-writing
hackathon and making the process super fun and collaborative, and major
props to Marc for excellent feedback and revisions. I'll write a blog post
this weekend to publicly thank SOEX.
And <3 to all y'all for making an awesome Sudo Room!
<3
Jenny
http://jennyryan.nethttp://thepyre.orghttp://thevirtualcampfire.orghttp://technomadic.tumblr.com
`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
"Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories."
-Laurie Anderson
"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
-Hannah Arendt
"To define is to kill. To suggest is to create."
-Stéphane Mallarmé
~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Matthew Harbowy <hbergeronx(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> In the future, it might not be so wise to advertise the sale (future or
> past) of alcohol in a public forum if you haven't obtained a permit via
> http://www.abc.ca.gov/Forms/PDFSpc.html since the $1000 fine for holding an
> unlicensed event would exceed any takings you might have had.
>
> This is the sort of accountability your board members should be watching
> your back on, and the fact that none of your board-elect squelched or at
> least turned down the gain on this despite the fact that they would be
> personally liable for this, should be of particular concern, especially
> since you have zero liability insurance.
>
> Not to spoil your fun or anything, but... is sudo room a frat house or an
> adult endeavor? I realize this is the "Wild West" of Oakland, and all, and
> the getting away with it quotient is high, but really?
Hi Matthew,
After reading this email I've nominated you to Sudoroom's board. Will
you accept?
This might be of interest to biohackers and food hackers, and 3D printer
hackers:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24825582
"French physical chemist Herve This says every foodstuff is made up of a
basic chemical mixture - and so it's possible to create nutritious
dishes from powders, oils and liquids that contain the building-blocks
of food, rather than conventional raw ingredients...."
The video shows Professor This making up a fresh serving of something
that could be cookie dough for Soylent Orange. At the end of the video,
with a bit of garnish, it even looks like futuristic sculptureon the plate.
No need for farm animals, no need for vegetables, no need for fruit, and
fortunately, no need for eating worms. Professor This calls it
"Note-By-Note cuisine" but I'd call it "phood."
Whoever invents a 3-D printerfor using this stuff, like the food
dispenser on Star Trek, is goingto earna fortune. "Burger, medium, with
a pickle. Tea, Earl Gray, hot." Or at least, "Phood, orange with blue
swirls, spicy."
-G.
[incorporation] [board] [501c*] [SELC]
INCOMING TRANSMISSION:
This is a reminder to join your fellow Sudo Room intergalactonauts at a
free legal cafe with all of your questions regarding our impending
doom/incorporation!!! (If you are not able to come, please reply to this
thread with questions I can transmit through the darkness for you.)
HOST: Sustainable Economies Law Center <http://theselc.org/>
SPACE: LOL Hackerspace, 1234 23rd Avenue (23rd and International)
TIME: 4:30-7:30p
END TRANSMISSION
[incorporation] [board] [501c*] [SELC]
That is so excellent. Fantastic job to the folks who worked on it. I'm
sure I speak for others as well, We'll be grateful for this major step
for a while to come.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [sudo-discuss] Sudo Room wins $4700 grant from Southern
Exposure!
Date: 2013-11-06 08:49
From: David Keenan <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com>
To: "sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org" <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org>
I am so, so, so, so happy for sudo and the public school.
We worked our freaking asses off those last two days all the way down
to
the wire. I am super impressed by Jenny, Marc, Sudo, and all of us.
We fucking rock.
David
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Jenny Ryan <tunabananas(a)gmail.com [8]>
wrote:
> Super stoked to announce that both Sudo Room AND the Public School
> have each won a $4700 grant from Southern Exposure, an excellent
> nonprofit supporting the arts in the Bay Area:
>
> Southern Exposure is proud to announce the recipients of grants in
> Round 7 of our Alternative Exposure Grant Program. In this round,
> Southern Exposure is awarding $70,000 to 16 projects at levels
> ranging
> from $5,000 to $2,400. With major support from the Andy Warhol
> Foundation for the Visual Arts, Alternative Exposure supports the
> independent and self-organized work of artists and small groups that
> plays a critical and significant role in the San Francisco Bay Area
> arts community. In the seven years since launching Alternative
> Exposure, Southern Exposure has awarded $421,000 in direct funds to
> 120 Bay Area projects.
> (http://soex.org/artistsresources.html [1])
>
> This is a nice bit of cash that will very nearly provide the 3-month
> rent buffer we endeavor to have as a foundation, though we still need
> to build up Rainy Day, maintenance and operations funds. This also
> gives us significantly more to work with should we choose to move
> into
> a larger space in the next couple of months.
>
> It would be great to reinitiate conversations and proposals toward a
> membership policy and long-term sustainability goals.
>
> Thanks to David Keenan for inspiring a down-to-the-wire grant-writing
> hackathon and making the process super fun and collaborative, and
> major props to Marc for excellent feedback and revisions. Ill write a
> blog post this weekend to publicly thank SOEX.
>
> And <3 to all yall for making an awesome Sudo Room!
> <3
>
> Jenny
> http://jennyryan.net [2]
> http://thepyre.org [3]
> http://thevirtualcampfire.org [4]
> http://technomadic.tumblr.com [5]
>
> `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
>
> "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories."
> -Laurie Anderson
>
> "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of
> defining it."
> -Hannah Arendt
>
> "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create."
> -Stéphane Mallarmé
> ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
> _______________________________________________
> sudo-discuss mailing list
> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org [6]
> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss [7]
Links:
------
[1] http://soex.org/artistsresources.html
[2] http://jennyryan.net/
[3] http://thepyre.org/
[4] http://thevirtualcampfire.org/
[5] http://technomadic.tumblr.com/
[6] mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org
[7] http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss
[8] mailto:tunabananas@gmail.com
>> Just put a big fucking antenna on the roof and start broadcasting, if
>> you don't, i will, god damnit.
>>
>> Stop overthinking things and do it.
>
> Why? So you can inflict a $20,000 fine on Sudo Room as quickly as
> humanly possible?
it takes a long time and a lot of work and listeners before you even get
the ten-day warning, let alone an unenforcable fine. Don't forget that
Berkeley Liberation Radio has been broadcasting for almost ten years now,
interrupted more often by their own failures than by two FCC raids where
the FCC basically snatched their equipment and fled like cowards.
No one at BLR has ever been successfully "fined", and even the NAL (Notice
of Apparent Liability) filed against Stephen Dunifer of FRB before them
has just sat uncollected, like almost all NALs against pirates, for twenty
years now. Stephen's very public response to the Notice of Apparent
Liability was "Apparently not."
The FCC's fine enforcement mechanism is to threaten to revoke your
stations lisence. This works when they fine lisenced broadcasters for the
seven deadly words or whatever, but filed against an unlisenced person
it's a joke. Witness the fine against Daniel Robert of Pirate Cat Radio,
which is an example of a person who put his full name all over everything
and even corresponded with the FCC in the mail, making it personal. They
haven't even collected anything from him.
here's the story of pirate cat's fine:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/10/fcc-fines-monkey-man-radio-pirat…
The point is, if sudoroom decides as a group to broadcast a signal from
the roof or wherever (we can stream over the internet you know) then
sudoroom can decide for itself whether it wants to keep going after
getting a "ten day notice to cease broadcasting" If that EVER happens.
http://transition.fcc.gov/eb/FieldNotices/2003/DOC-264276A1.html
and if a broadcast is not coming from the building where sudoroom is, then
it is not even a matter for sudoroom to have to decide on. Sudoroom can
continue to have an internet streaming radio station and leave it at that.
Sudo-ers,
I mailed this list a couple weeks ago, but wanted to ask again. For the
next Oakland Nights Live, on the evening of November 9th, we are having a
series of booths to visit rather than a proper stage show. There will be a
variety artists, performers, and informers who will interact with a few
audience members at a time. We would love to have 1 or 2 people from the
Sudo room have a booth or do a demonstration if any of you are excited
about it.
I'd be happy to answer any questions, and I can give you more info to
anyone who is interested.
Thanks for any interest and thanks in general for sharing the space with us.
-Jeremy
