This just came across the wire. A fem/queer/trans positive hackerspace
just opened in Seattle called the Seattle Attic! Check it out:
http://www.seattleattic.com/
Perhaps we should open up some lines of west-coast communication and
dialogue and invite them to visit our space. Sounds like an awesome
place and somewhere I'd like to check out some day.
Bill
hi all,
meeting tonight at 7pm. please add to the agenda here:
https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudoroommeeting
action items from last week:
- Bill will set up automatic reminders
- Sarah is willing to host a rave, perhaps weekly
- FUNDING
- Review existing funding options, re-categorize, organize - Len,
Matt, Marina, Jordan, Romy, Jenny
- Put your name next to specific projects that you are interested in
pay your dues,
marina
____________________________________________________________________________
full notes from last week (apologies for not putting it up on the wiki yet!)
*https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Minutes*<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Minutes>
Try this out this week: http://sudoroom.backchan.nl/conferences/view/1054
May 1 2013
Attending:
==Introductions==
Co-Facilitator:
Brief personal intros (< 20 sec per person)
- What is one thing you like to share with others?
- What is one current *frustration* you have? What is one current thing
that puts you *at ease*?
Icebreaker (10 min)
- Sudo Room Goals - next 6 months
*Share food / sudo mate if available.*
==Announcements==
Co-Facilitator: ?
- ===Consent Agenda===
- (< 3 minutes) Co-Facilitator: Mary
-
- *(Let's use this time to briefly review and consent to items that need
no more details or discussion)** ====> We're trying this out!*
-
- May 25th: Showing of Judi Bari film in the entire space. Rusty would
love help organizing it.
- Fabulous Friday Films: If you have access to a sound system, please
contact Vicky. Vicky can take full responsibility of the sound system and
can pick up and drop it off, etc.
- Bring ALL Dolby Surround Sound speakers to sudo room please
- Contact Matt and Sam about existing sound system
- Add to movie night https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Fabulous_Friday_Films
- PUBLIC SCHOOL:
- Thursdays at 6pm - Supper Club, open to all, pot-luck in common space
at 2141 Broadway!
- Fireworks submission deadline is 10th of each month - submit hacking
stuff:http://fireworksbayarea.com/contribute/
- SPECIAL "Keeping tidy" Friday before 11:30am - Landlord showing a
room to potential tenants
- ===Other Announcements=== Co-Facilitator: Mary
- (< 5 min) Co-Facilitator: ?
- *Sundays @ 7pm* - Cleaning of Natural Decay
- Who is available to lead this week? _____Marina______
- Subiir - Debut of second round,
- Hacker Happy Hour - Sam hosting 8D
- Footage for blog and wiki, get individual tutorials from folks!
- Hopefully get some interactive activities on (Sarah and Rusty have
volunteered)
- Screenwriting Workshop Sundays 5-7pm at Sudo Room :D
- http://sudoroom.org/calendar/
- Land Occupation - Occupy the Farm - Sat May 11th meet at Albany City
Hall at San Pablo and Marin Ave at 12 noon!
- http://occupythefarm.org/
-
- === ACTION ITEMS === Co-Facilitatory: Jordan
- (< 5 min) Co-Facilitator: ?☁→❄→☃→☀→☺→☂→☹→✝
-
- Follow-up on previous items--keeping it brief, okay to table if
necessary to next meeting:
-
- New Business:
-
- Blurb of short description to be used at different events - Tommy
- *"Sudoroom is a community-supported hackerspace that provides open
membership in a non-hierarchical, collaborative community working towards
social change. You can help make Sudoroom more affordable and more
accessible, and encourage more events like the one you're attending by
donating today."*
- For next agenda: discussion to share some of the ongoing initiatives
that are going on to bring money into sudo room
- *Matt* and *Jenny* will encourage Sudoers to think about and prepare
for this.
- DONE, discussing in Fiscal Solvency section
- sudo-fund mailing list http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-fund
- Survey membership
- *Matt* and *Bill* will do online and paper survey
- Tabled to next week
- *Vicky* has emailed the listserv asking people if they are interested
in writing. The goal is to organize people to collaborate on writing
marketing-type materials.
- DONE. This sunday at 4pm is a meeting to work on this.
- Sam - New video for blog and wiki (next happy hour? or meeting, happy
hour and wiki/blog workshop in one!)
- Can it be like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0S-HOOp_VY
- Would like to have an event where people collaboratively create videos
and learn how to do videos. Possibly next Friday. Please coordinate with
*Sam*.
- This is happening!!!!!!!!!11111
- *Rusty* and *Ryan* will follow up with Dan on printing t-shirts.
- Come to Rusty and Ryan about logos / designs / etc
- Need to also follow up with Dan about helping him
- Prep space for friday screenings: Audio, lighting, etc.
- SDR (software defined radio) Meetup - when / where?
- Cheap TV tuners that operate on a wide spectrum
- It WILL be fun.
- Find BILLLLLLLLLLLLL after the mtg
-
- Old Business:
-
- *Matt* will follow up with *Max*: Installing Linux on a second laptop
for rock paper scissors collective (first was bad :()
- *Ryan* B will bring in a laptop?(coordinate with *Wolf**y* on getting
laptop)
- DELIVERED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- WHO WANTS TO RUN AN ETHERNET CABLE? - Matt will help
- [Postponed] Talk to *Danny O'Brien*, intro from *JC* to *Jordan*,
invite him to come to a future sudo meeting to share insight!
- Straight to the source--but out of the country :( Will be back later
this month and Jordan will follow up then.
- Continues to be postponed
- [Skipping this week as it will be Art Mumur and we have a movie
screening] Add Hacky Happer Hour to the calendar - *Romy* hosted Hacker
Happy Hour
- *[Postponed** until someone throws Romy a massive love bomb**] **Romy* to
lead diagram for Articles of Association amendment
- *Romy* to work with *Troy* to turn the articles into a flow diagram.
Diagrams and drawings of sudo room members being passed around.
- [*Postponed** until ?*] Add articles to github (gitorious!!!!!!!? -
https://gitorious.org/+sudo-room) - *Yardena* is going to put these
articles up
- *[Vicky will do this] **Vicky* - follow up with Public School about
Oakland Nights Live.
- Marina will follow up with Vicky
- Bill will talk with them about this regardless on Friday for "Captial
and Crisis" putting on thinking caps
- ... and "theorizing"
- *[**Sharing Sketch Tomorrow for Supper w/ Public School**] **Jenny* -
Set expectations for sudo events, make this available to internal & external
- -Ensure doors are closed
- -Trash and recycling
- -Running the dishwasher
- -Putting furniture back where it belongs
- -Vacuum!
- Jenny will discuss with Public School this Thurs.
- *[Postponed until necessary] **Eddan* - Reference letter from George
- *[Postponed** until necessary**] Jenny* sync with *Troy* on library -
Not yet but they will
- Set up date for label-printing organizing of stuff event - *Jenny*!1 -*
troy*
- still need to set a date
==Fiscal Solvency== (20 min) Exchequer: Tommy && Co-facilitator: Marina
- Financial Planning
- Fund-raising efforts?
- https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Funding_Ideas
- Food
- Sudo Mate - *Max** & Ray*
- Iced, carbonated, DELICIOUS mate soda beverage (exquisite, yum!)
- Sudo Beer (Subiir) - *Morten* & *Marc*
- Sudo Gravy (marinara sauce) - *Ray** - Last week's $40 went to Sudo
Room rent. Sold all 4 pints (all that was left after dinner) Yay!*
- Sudo Lunch / Grab-n-go option - ? [DOES NOT YET EXIST]
- suggestion by *Marc*
- Rusty's "Savior Bars"!
- Some exchange model that is advantageous for some reason
- *Eddie's "Dope" Popcorn*
- "Just do it"
- Schwag
- 3D printed stuff
- magnets - *Jordan*
- bike mounting accessories (easy to print, can adapt to any device
mounting!) -hol
- jewelry
- on-demand
- other objects
- other 3D printers
- 3d printed exoskeleton
- DIY handheld 3D printer pen based on a hot glue gun Cheap as hell
- "Captain crunch whistles" - Le Oficial Ray (Rey?)
- Bike bevereage holders
- T-shirts - *Dan Finlay** (already an action item)*
- Buttons (moar)
- Dependent upon logo
- LED cubes - hol??????????
- Membership dues
- sliding-scale, voluntary (current)
- *better* *advertisement*
- --> Scrounging for MOAR
- Flyers, put things around the area, galleries, cafes, etc.
- Could be extremely effective
- Could do a bike-about
- better price-]points (concrete options beyond general $60 discussion)
- will be informed by member survey (already an action item)
- Do we accept *BITCOIN????????????*
- Automatic reminders
- Repair Services
- Fix-it clinic style (especially electronics, etc)?
- Could also do custom bike stuff, bike repair!
- Specifically could get $ from burners
- Not necessarily easy while in our current, less-developed state
- Donated equipment
- Repair and sell, e.g. on Ebay - suggestion by *Eddan*
- Re-use and sell or sell as services
- Similar potential to http://spokeland.org/
- DIY ISP ++
- a la http://ranchwifi.com/
- Laci Videmsky has offered to host a workshop on how to do this, like
he and his business partner did with Ranch Wifi
- Kits
- electronics - (i won't be at the meeting tonight but if we come up
with a few and order the components in bulk and package individually
together, we can sell at events - Hol)
- Home PCs for cheapz
- Art kits
- Writing kits
- Kits of kits :D ^.^ ^.^
- Kits of 3D printers that create other kits
- Non-profit status
- Tax-deductable Donations as a 501(c)3
- Noisebridge and School Factory have offered to provide fiscal
sponsorship
- School Factory has a lot more experience than NB in fiscal sponsorship
- Grants
- Regular events
- Raves
- Speaker events - of particular relevance to our projects
- Covers? No covers?
- NOTES
- Len - from a business standpoint there are two different funding
mechanisms at play here
- One is internal funding, the other is coming from external sources
- You can also look at things as "products" or "not products" the
technology may or may not be there.
- Examine the who / what / where / when / why, and the time / effort
involved -- you can cross most of it out
- Jenny
- Added speaker events section
- In particular, UC Berkeley wifi groups are excited about sudo, would
possibly be interested in speaking here
- Tommy
- We would want to do some of these things regardless of whether or not
they brought in income
- Sam
- Art Murmur membership could provide us space to sell things.
- Eddie
- Internet security, in NY times two days ago - information security as
a service we could offer.
- *Second** Wed - budget** *(2nd & 3rd - collect dues, 4th - assess
where we're at)
- Pay your dues!
- Review and consensus process:
- Fiscal Solvency Spreadsheet -
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlKk2X9KKqlFdFZJUy12ZUhDUmx2N3…
- Rent: $1500; Utilities: $220; Services: $50
- Target membership contribution: $88 per member (based on approx. 30
people)
- now we're collecting target of $60
- some give more
- sense of urgency: Still working on month-to-month
- Add to action items
==Amendments to the Articles of Association== Co-Facilitator: Matt
?
==Conflict Resolution== Co-Facilitator: Matt
?
==Additional Items== (per item) Co-Facilitator: Ryan
- Space / New Space / The Search Continues (15 min)
- Priorities / values
- Historical / Previous requirements for any potential space are listed
here: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Sudo_room/open_a_space
- Please note that those are from last year and is in need of updates.
- Strategy
- Use http://hackerspaces.crowdmap.com/ (ask Romy or Matt for admin
access)
- Tweet any space details *@sudoroom*
- Email *info(a)sudoroom.org*
- Craigslist posting looking for friends
- Report-back, Feedback from Art Murmur
- piano went outside and people played it!
- we need to do more to be on the street
- create a holder for sudo mate to stand outside.
- outdoor signage is very effective - this should be part of the art
murmur set up.
- saturday sign-making
- flyer for art murmur
- make it a BACH event - "come to sudo room"
- be a part of the saturday stroll
-
==Action Items== Scribe: Matt
- Bill will set up automatic remindres
- Sarah is willing to host a rave, perhaps weekly
- FUNDING
- Review existing funding options, re-categorize, organize - *Len, Matt,
Marina, Jordan, Romy, Jenny*
- Put your name next to specific projects that you are interested in
- === Meeting Brief for Announce List ===
- *Scribe:** Make a succinct highlights message based on the meeting
minutes*
==Post-Meeting Teamups / Discussion== Co-Facilitators: YOU! & ?
- Advertising - briefly with Ryan
- Bill for software radio
Relevant event, Saturday night at 2141.
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From: DZ Brazil <dzbrazil(a)yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, May 14, 2013 at 7:03 PM
Subject: {BayAreaPublicSchool} **WE ARE NOT MACHINES** // Chinese Workers
Struggle Against Foxconn // FRI MAY 17 in SF & SAT MAY 18 in OAKLAND : *
To: "bayareapublicschool(a)googlegroups.com" <
bayareapublicschool(a)googlegroups.com>
Dear Friends :
There will be a presentation on Foxconn workers' struggles in China at CIIS
this coming Friday (details below),
followed by a Bay Area Public School presentation on these struggles by a
member of the Gongchao collective the next night
Saturday, May 18 at 8PM
Details are on the Public School site here :
http://www.thepublicschool.org/node/34332
Hope to see you at one or both of these events !
Love & solidarity -- David Brazil
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*From:* Andrej Grubacic <agrubacic(a)ciis.edu>
*To:* ANDREJ GRUBACIC <agrubacic(a)ciis.edu>
*Sent:* Sunday, May 12, 2013 5:54 PM
*Subject:* This Friday: * "We Are Not Machines!" Foxconn Workers Struggle
in China* Bay Area Tour!
*Anthropology & Social Change* is pleased to invite you to:
**"We Are Not Machines!" Foxconn Workers Struggle in China**
* California Institute of Integral Studies*
* May 17, 2013 at 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm*
* 1453 Mission St San Francisco, CA 94103*
* Room 304 *
As the world's largest contract manufacturer,
Foxconn employs more than one million people in China
alone. Foxconn workers are the iSlaves who face
horrendous conditions while producing communication tools
like iPhones and iPads for Apple. In 2012, a series of
worker suicides shook the Chinese Foxconn factories and
drew world-wide attention. Management promised to improve
conditions and increase wages, but the situation has not
changed much since: Foxconn accelerated the relocation of
factories to the Chinese hinterland, employs student
interns as "cheap" labor, covers up work accidents, and
still relies on its militaristic management regime.
However, Foxconn workers are far from being passive
victims. They have used everyday forms of resistance
against the rhythm of the assembly line and have been
able to stage strikes in various Foxconn factories around
China.
In this talk, a member of the gongchao.org
<http://www.gongchao.org/> collective will share
their research and activity around the struggles of
Chinese migrant workers and will use words, photos, and
films to present the situation at Foxconn. The
discussion will focus on ways to support the iSlaves of
Foxconn and relate their struggles to our own.
*On gongchao.org <http://gongchao.org/>*
**
Gongchao.org <http://gongchao.org/>
<http://Gongchao.org/<http://gongchao.org/>>
was formed in
September 2008 as a project for the research and
documentation of labor unrest and social movements in
China from the perspective of class struggle, migration,
and gender. The website offers a selection of analytical
texts and workers' stories in English and German. Among
the gongchao.org <http://gongchao.org/> publications are:
Unrest in China (2007), supplement to the wildcat-
magazine; Dagongmei- Women Workers from China's
World-Market Factories tell their Stories (2008), edited
by Pun Ngai and Li Wanwei; The Take-off of the 2nd
Generation- Gender, Migration, and Class Composition in
China (2010), edited by Pun Ngai, Ching Kwan Lee et al,;
and iSlaves - Exploitation and Resistance at China's
Foxconn-Factories (2013), edited by Pun Ngai et al. (all
published in German, with some parts translated into
English). Besides writing and translating articles and
books, gongchao.org <http://gongchao.org/> participates
in inquiries and interview projects in China and sets up
talks and discussions on Workers' Struggles in China in
Eastern as well as Western Europe and beyond.
For more information and background readings, check
out: http://islavetour.wordpress.com/ and
http://www.gongchao.org/.
* BAY AREA TOUR DATES & LOCATIONS*
• California Institute of Integral Studies
May 17, 2013 at 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
1453 Mission St San Francisco, CA 94103
http://www.ciis.edu/
• Bay Area Public School
May 18, 2013 at 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
2141 Broadway, 2nd Floor, Oakland CA 94612
http://thepublicschool.org/bay-area
*THANKS TO:*
IWW International Solidarity Commission, Silvia Federici
& George Caffentzis, Manny Ness, Bluestockings, The
Brecht Forum, 16 Beaver, The Wooden
Shoe, 2640, Georgetown Solidarity Committee, Teaching
Assistants Association at UW-Madison, Center for the
Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures at UW- Madison, Food
Chain Workers Alliance, UCLA Downtown Labor Center, The
Wildcat, Powell’s Bookstore
(Chicago), Trumbullplex, California Institute of Integral
Studies, Bay Area Public School, the New York,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, DC, Detroit, Chicago, Madison,
Seattle, Bay Area, and Los Angeles branches of the
Industrial Workers of the World, and many more.
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Ran into a new guy here doing 3D printing!
Making Tuesdays a 3D printing night, the same as the micro controllers night.
I'm printing arduino cases on the 3D printer so these dovetail nicely!
Sent from my iPad
Hi, I'm Curious John Love Cosmos! Some of you know me from sudo already but
I haven't made an intro to the list. Greetings! :-)
An acquaintance has a bunch of old hardware from his workplace he'd like to
donate if anyone can facilitate that. Here's a list:
57x 1U Polywell servers (P4 or core2duo)
9x 1U low power servers (cyrix CPU)
15x 1U extended chassis server (P4 or core2duo)
1x 1U KVM; rack mount sliding fold-out monitor/keyboard
9x 2U HP proliant SCSI server (quad core)
5x 1U HP proliant SAS server (quad core)
1x 1U Dell server
1x tall tower PC
1x wooden desk
Also has a couple boxes of misc; hard drives, VESA wall mount, cables, etc.
Let me know if you'd like me to put you in touch to coordinate
pickup/drop-off!
-@curiousjohn
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Are you going to Maker Faire on Saturday?
I need someone to transport sudomate to the noisebridge booth at maker
faire, as they have ordered and are paying for 20L of it. I unfortunately
wont be going myself.
Max
So right about now, Sudo Room court is in full effect* ...
For those who weren't paying close attention to the news about the Oakland Police Department this past week, let me try to condense and read in between the lines. In case there was any doubt as to the unprecedented mess they/we are in: Two police chiefs resigned; Oakland made first in the country for robberies; news came out that only one person is in charge of coordinating burglary response; and the long-awaited police reform report was pulled from publication. (Raw footage of Fri. press conference - http://news.yahoo.com/video/raw-video-oakland-officials-address-221600024.h…)
Our police chief friend Howard "It's Unconscionable" Jordan of LockPickGate (http://oaklandwiki.org/Lockpickgate) announced his retirement suddenly on Wednesday, the same day that the Wasserman-Bratton Report was supposed to come out. Since he's three years short of being eligible for the top pension (75% of salary) for life, he claimed undisclosed medical reasons and getting to spend time with his family (where he lives somewhere other than Oakland). Anthony Toribio was named interim chief on Wednesday, and announced his resignation on Friday. Sean Whent is our new interim police chief as of Friday (https://local.nixle.com/alert/4999940/?sub_id=894092).
Thomas Frazier, who was appointed the Compliance Director by the federal court who fell short of a federal takeover of the OPD, had just announced the re-opening of investigations into police misconduct, including ones related to Occupy Oakland, the week before. Part of the deal the federal judge struck was that the Compliance Director has important authority over the OPD, including the ability to recommend the firing of police chiefs. (http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/frazier-to-reexamine-police-misconduc…). Frazier was the one who delivered the scathing report about the OPD response to Occupy about a year and a half ago (http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/cityadministrator/documents/webcon…).
The press conference for the release of the Bratton Report, which was supposed to come out on Wed., was cancelled and turned into a press conference for Jordan's early retirement. While the full report didn't come out, the six-page summary was posted by local CBS News (http://cbssanfran.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/bratton_group_report_051813.p…). When Oakland hired the Bratton Group to do the report, there was significant protest among Oakland communities because of Bratton's support for "stop and frisk" policing (euphemism for racial profiling) and "zero tolerance" policies. He's generally known as the top cop that brought LA & NY crime rates down significantly during his tenure there. Robert Wasserman ran the community meetings because of the community backlash against Bratton (http://oaklandlocal.com/article/wasserman-lays-out-general-plan-crime-preve…).
So is there anything that Sudo Room can do? Anything other than what other groups are already doing in trying to bring accountability to the OPD? A couple things in the Bratton Report (reprinted at OccupyOakland.org at http://occupyoakland.org/2013/05/bratton-group-report-may-8-2013/) come to mind. I think folks on this could have a lot of productive things to say about the Compstat Process, a computerized crime tracking system, which Bratton points to as key to improving crime response. The effectiveness of Compstat and how it can be optimally used and the drawbacks in how it is being suggested to be used has not really been discussed anywhere, as far as I can tell.
There is also reference to significantly increasing camera surveillance all over Oakland - getting more info about that will be very useful. Makes me think that now would be the ideal time to finally get our surveillance tours going - identifying surveillance cameras around downtown and taking people on tours pointing them out as they walk around. Before posting such a list on Oakland Wiki or something, we would want to narrow down those listed to ones that are aimed at public areas (or private ones that also capture public space).
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*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70lH373A1NU
Hi All,
I recently came across a definition of Hackers and Makers and wanted to
share the concept with the Sudo Community.
Hacking can be defined as: Finding ways be make something perform a
function it was not indented to.
While Making can be defined as: Building new things.
The basic idea being that Hackers take existing things and get them to do
the unexpected, while Makers build new things. Makers can hack and Hackers
can make.
I like these definitions. Thoughts?
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Andrew Lowe
Cell: 831-332-2507
http://roshambomedia.com
http://www.instructables.com/id/1x1x1-LED-Cube/
"In the course of history, it becomes necessary to create something new to
advance the state of humanity.
The wheel, agriculture, and electricity were all transformative inventions
that seem downright simple today. But without them, we'd be munching our
nuts and half-rotted carcasses in the dark. Even the simplest project can
transform the world.
With that, we bring to you the 1x1x1 LED cube. Beauty in simplicity.
Absolute control over the fundamentals of microcontroller programming.
Saying "Let there be" and making it so like the PG chapters of Genesis.
As Antoine de Saint-Exupery skillfully points out, "Perfection is Achieved
Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to
Take Away"
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Andrew Lowe
Cell: 831-332-2507
http://roshambomedia.com
