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OL: Oakland Surveillance Center delayed by opposition

by Eddan Katz

Approval for citywide surveillance now scheduled for July 30. > The Domain Awareness Center began as a federal grant for port security, but has expanded to include more of Oakland. > http://oaklandlocal.com/2013/07/a-proposed-citywide-surveillance-center-in-… > > The approval of $2 million in federal funding for a citywide surveillance center in Oakland was postponed to July 30 as opposition to the controversial proposal slowly gains public awareness and criticism. > > The agenda item first presented in an Oakland City Council Public Safety Committee received little vetting by the some council members when it was heard July 9. It also attracted no public comment that night. However, in the past week the issue has gathered energy as some city advocates question the proposal, they say, may further infringe on their privacy, in addition, to it lacking any guidelines for its use and possible expansion. > > At Tuesday’s Oakland City Council meeting, the director of the city’s emergency services, Renee Domingo, said no standard operating procedures currently exist for how the system known as the Domain Awareness Center (DAC) will be employed, if approved by the council. In addition, the city and port are in the process of studying various public records and data retention requirements in relation to the DAC, said Domingo. Later, she added there is doubt whether the DAC will function as a center for data storage since the feeds it will pull in already come from sources with their own retention rules. > > The DAC was first approved by the City Council in July 2010 following the allocation of federal stimulus dollars for security at the Port of Oakland. The $2 million outlay before the council this month represents phase two of the program which, according to a city staff report, has ballooned from covering the port to other parts of the city, including street cameras and various other locations, including schools and the Coliseum. Approval would also allow the city and port to seek out other agencies to provide additional video feeds to the DAC, including the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and Caltrans, among others. During the Public Safety Committee meeting last week, staff also indicated plans to partner with other statewide and federal authorities for inclusion in Oakland’s DAC. > > Privacy advocates say the DAC’s ability to become a clearinghouse for numerous video feeds from a panoply of government agencies, along with a torrent of data sources, including information and statistics from law enforcement, sets a dangerous precedent in a city beset with a police department, which in the past, has routinely infringed on citizen rights and has paid millions in settlements for their actions. > > “[There are] huge opportunities for abuse here, too,” Oakland resident Joshua Daniels said Tuesday night. “We’re talking about giving a surveillance system for the entire city over to, perhaps, the most abusive police force in the country.” > > Gwen Winter, another Oakland resident speaking during public comment said, “This has nothing to do with crime. This has nothing to do with terrorism. What you want to do is watch what all the people are doing so they won’t organize.” > > Following revelations brought on by Edward Snowden over the federal government’s ability to spy on Americans, Sandy Sanders urged for the council to maintain a delineation between the city’s data and other agencies. “Our data is our data and your data is your data and those should be separate. Do your job in government and protect us.” > > A few public speakers took fault with Councilman Dan Kalb’s comments in committee last week when he concluded his statements on the DAC by saying, “sounds good to me.” In response to the public outcry Tuesday night, Kalb said, “This is not a fault or a criticism, but I’ll only say, I wish all the people who were here today were at the public safety committee a week ago. It would have been more helpful.” > > The City Council may have been caught flat-footed by the amount of criticism against the DAC Tuesday night. Councilman Larry Reid moved to delay the item to July 30. Councilmember Lynette Gibson McElhaney, who sits on the Public Safety Committee, agreed. Reid asked staff for additional research on the proposal before adding, “Given that we can’t even get our freaking phones working for our police officer…and now we want to add this additional technology when there’s only two to three years for maintenance?” He also criticized the public safety committee for not properly vetting the item. > > Councilmember Desley Brooks said the item should have never been placed on Tuesday’s consent calendar. “It was only supposed to go on the consent calendar if it wasn’t controversial and clearly there are people who have a different opinion. > >

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help coordinate TILs!

by Marina Kukso

hi everyone, you may have heard of "today i learned," our wildly successful co-learning-teaching one-off workshops that take place every saturday: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned since the launch of TIL in January we've held over 20 workshops on topics that range from jewelry-making to today's statistics with doodles. many thanks to everyone who has facilitated a workshop, attended a workshop, suggested a workshop, promoted a workshop, and workshopped a workshop. i've mostly been taking the lead on keeping the schedule filled up, encouraging people to do sessions, and promoting the TILs, but i need help! we are not doing as well as we could be on really fulfilling the potential of the TILs. unfortunately i don't have the time to really give this project the love it deserves. here are some of the tasks that we need help with to really have the TILs fulfill the original intended function: providing an easy way for new people to show up and participate in sudo room (while also sharing our knowledge with each other and improve our teaching techniques): - keeping the schedule filled up & encouraging sudoers and others to facilitate sessions - ideally we'd have at least a month ahead booked up so that we can prepare detailed schedules for distribution to local schools, after school clubs, etc. - promoting events - at the moment, we barely provide a week's notice for upcoming TILs. this is not enough lead time and as a result, they are often not as well attended as they could be. - promotions currently really only happen to channels that are likely to reach people who already know about us: via email lists, twitter, fb, and our blog. creativity in promotion (with different kinds of promotional activities for different TILs) - currently, i mainly promote the events with little participation on the part of the facilitator or larger sudo community. if we'd like to distribute responsibility for the promotion, it would be helpful to have a "how to promote your workshop" guide and provide other mechanisms to help make it easier to promote (blog post templates, flyer templates, etc.) - documentation - we should have been taking video of every workshop and putting it online. we have not done this. this would be a huge improvement. who's in? XD - marina

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help make sudo radio happen!

by Marina Kukso

hi everyone, a few of us have been working on getting the radio up and running with lots of great programming all the time. we need help! do you want to be a part of coordinating the radio? here are the kinds of things that need to be done: - recruiting dj's - training dj's - coordinating scheduling let's spread the work around so that we can give the radio the love it deserves! - marina

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Bay Area media labs

by Mark Terranova

This may prove to be interesting, although its just a blogging class now. http://info.bayareanewsgroup.com/communitymedialab *The Oakland Tribune Media Lab* 1970 Broadway, Suite 100 Oakland, CA 94612 Most likely there are many issues close to Sudo that might be helped here :) -Dude

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Sun July 28th Event- Biological Data, Bioinformatics and the Gears that Make Biological Machines Tick.

by Ryan Bethencourt

Dear All, Please feel free to sign up for the free Bioinformatics class that Ron will be running at Sudo room on the 28th of July! http://www.meetup.com/Counter-Culture-Labs/events/129899352/ The intersection of biology and computer science is showing tremendous potential. Literally thousands of data sources great and small are publicly available now. Come and enjoy a low key introduction to all the ‘omes’ – genomes, transcriptomes, proteomes, methylomes, metabolomes, etc. We’ll play with some of the more useful data sources, tools and biological pathways. No biology training is necessary – the talk will be accessible to anyone. Programming skills are useful, but not necessary. Tools: If you have a laptop, please bring it. We will try to look at data in the class and preview a couple of tools. Cygwin on windows machines, OsX or linux are useful here, but we can go over these at the time if needed. We will be open to designing a project for anyone who wants to go deeper and get more experience with Bioinformatics. Ron Shigeta PhD Trained in biophysics and structural biology has been doing bioinformatics for 12 years in bay area biotech. My current interests are pharma pipeline tools, machine learning, and synthetic biology. All the best, Ryan -- Ryan Bethencourt Tel: (415) 825 2705 ryan.bethencourt(a)gmail.com www.bamh1.com www.linkedin.com/in/bethencourt www.logos-press.com/books/biotechnology_business_development.php

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[off-topic but nearby] PRISM & Privacy, Pizza, Parkway Theater - July 31

by mark burdett

Come out for a fun night of PRISM & Privacy & Pizza at the New Parkway Theater in downtown Oakland. Wednesday, July 31 - a free evening panel and film screening about the past present and future of privacy and national security, and the historical importance of whistle-blowers. The thought-provoking panel discussion will be followed by a screening of *The Most Dangerous Man In America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers*, which received an Academy Award nomination for best documentary feature. Panel discussion featuring: · Cindy Cohn, Legal Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation · Judith Ehrlich, Director, Writer, Producer, *The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers* · Nicole A. Ozer, Technology and Civil Liberties Policy Director, ACLU of Northern California · Moderated by Declan McCullagh, Chief Political Correspondent, Senior Writer, CNET When: July 31st, 2013 - 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM. Doors open at 5:30 for mixing, mingling and purchasing food and drinks, panel begins at 6:15 PM and will be followed by the film screening at 7 PM. Where: The New Parkway Theater, 474 24th Street Oakland, CA (just a couple blocks from BART) RSVP at http://www.acslaw.org/BayAreaGovernmentSecrecryFilmScreeningRSVP Admission to this event is free, but space is limited and RSVP is required. *The Most Dangerous Man in America* is the true story of what happens when a former Pentagon insider, Daniel Ellsberg, armed only with his conscience, steadfast determination and a file cabinet full of classified documents, decides to challenge an "Imperial" Presidency -- answerable to neither Congress, the press nor the people -- in order to help end the Vietnam War. Presented by the Bay Area Lawyer Chapter of the American Constitution Society, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, BORDC, and Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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by Hol Gaskill

Hi Folks, Last night went pretty well overall despite not getting my beer machine operational due to disappointing answers to such questions as "how many power cords into power strips into power cords can I connect?" and the ever popular "will the plumbing leak where you least expect it?" We did have some newbies there working on a robotics project for a school assignment and let me tell you, there's something about the smell of burning servos that just can't be beat. Overall their objective is to use machine vision as a feedback for actuators, seems pretty cool. Rabbit and I put together some power hardware to map 4D visualizations to some addressable LED strips for a burning man project. We did a little probing of the door raspi but couldn't get a rise out of the relevant GPIO pin so I defer to the original system designers, but volunteer to fabricate a plug-in circuit board to streamline the component layout. Also got some soldering assistance from one of the sudo kids who gravitated toward the table full of wires. This final point lead me to an idea - I'd like to incorporate a sudokids robotics event once a month. Open to any and all ideas as to how this would play out, but at minimum we could have them build and compete remote controlled rovers, in both co-op and free for all modes of course. Let me know if you have any ideas for kid-friendly microcontroller projects. I'd like to develop this idea and start mid-september. Happy Hacking, hol

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Fwd: [P2P-F] Fwd:Invitation to sign up for a course on collaborative workshops

by Marina Kukso

hey sudoers, if you have done a TIL, workshop, or had any other colearning experiences (if you've learned something from someone at sudo room, grats! you have had a colearning experience) and are interested in learning about how other people approach workshops in order to improve your experience, i am considering signing up for the below. anyone else interested? - marina ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Darren <mail(a)vegburner.co.uk> Date: Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 5:31 PM Subject: [P2P-F] Fwd:Invitation to sign up for a course on collaborative workshops To: ose-europe(a)googlegroups.com, openmanufacturing(a)googlegroups.com, p2p-foundation <p2p-foundation(a)lists.ourproject.org> Forgive the cross posting -------- Original Message -------- Anyone up for a bit of this? https://p2pu.org/en/courses/77/collaborative-workshops-in-informal-learning… nice one Mick Invitation to sign up for a course on collaborative workshops I’m helping to run a course on delivering workshop which is going to be hosted on p2pu.org as part of the School of Open- I’ve designed some badges and we are due to start sign up on the 22nd of July. While I like to think that we have added our own special touch, most materials have been gathered from existing sources. The one thing they all have in common is that they are all published under open licences. The main sources have their own excellent websites so if you want to go straight to the source then check them out here; http://www.seedsforchange.org.uk/ http://aspirationtech.org/ http://rhizomenetwork.wordpress.com/ Would you like to be a part of this course? Maybe you already know a bit about delivering workshops and would like to share your experiences? Maybe you are new to workshops and facilitation? Perhaps you can join this course with some of your colleagues as a way of learning together? One of the reasons that I am helping to run this course is to use it as a way of doing some professional development. I’ve spend some time working with partners from Creative Commons and the P2PU.org to research and pull together some of what we feel are the best introductory materials and techniques on delivering collaborative and interactive workshops. This course is a way of bringing existing materials to a new audience on new platforms (p2pu.org and FLOSS Manuals). Also by remixing them into an online course it allows people to share their experiences while they work through the materials and suggestions for planning a workshop. We are adding Open Badges into the mix too. We are keeping it simple. If you plan a workshop you can submit it for peer review to get a badge. And if you deliver a workshop and take photos and write up your learning, well that deserves a badge too. Though online discussion via comments, and via live group chat sessions we hope to build a community of people who will plan and then ideally deliver a workshop with peer support from other course participants. If you are new to delivering workshops then this is a great opportunity to learn from a great group of trainers some of whom have some fantastic experiences to share. On the other hand, this course is a perfect chance for existing trainers to experiment with this online learning tool and community. You can dip a toe in the water while working with familiar subject matter. To sign up visit the course home page, click on Start Course on the left of the column. You will need to sign up for p2pu.org. If you have any questions you can find me on @mickfuzz on twitter or email me on – mickfuzz at clearerchannel.org _______________________________________________ P2P Foundation - Mailing list http://www.p2pfoundation.net https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation

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Re: [sudo-discuss] sudo-discuss Digest, Vol 9, Issue 14

by Romy Ilano

Rad!! TGIF! --- Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com On Jul 19, 2013, at 10:09, sudo-discuss-request(a)lists.sudoroom.org wrote: > Send sudo-discuss mailing list submissions to > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > sudo-discuss-request(a)lists.sudoroom.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > sudo-discuss-owner(a)lists.sudoroom.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of sudo-discuss digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Dinooooooo (rusty lindgren) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 10:09:52 -0700 > From: rusty lindgren <rustylindgren(a)gmail.com> > To: kh92(a)tmw.com > Cc: "sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org" > <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org> > Subject: [sudo-discuss] Dinooooooo > Message-ID: > <CADf_g6=OV_PyQqLUTy_mMZrg8CTYWnSseHV0xaa6TwTzPCgeaw(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > -- > Cheers, > > Rusty Lindgren > ** >

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Oakland Wiki Editathon Tomorrow 7/20 at Peralta Hacienda in Fruitvale

by Marina Kukso

Hi everyone, Please join Oakland Wiki <http://oaklandwiki.org> tomorrow (Saturday July 20th) from 10:00 am 4:00 pm for an editathon<http://oaklandwiki.org/Peralta_Hacienda_Editathon>at the Peralta Hacienda Historical Park<http://oaklandwiki.org/Peralta_Hacienda_Historical_Park>(2465 34th Avenue) in Fruitvale <http://oaklandwiki.org/Fruitvale_District>. Peralta Hacienda is a six-acre community park and one of the most significant historical sites in the East Bay. It was the first European settlement after the establishment of Mission San Jose and as such is the birthplace of Oakland. Come edit with us and check out the park! Best, Marina

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