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OK so now our SudoRoom YouTube channel can post blog posts not only videos.

by Romy Ilano

https://www.youtube.com/@sudoroomhackerspace/community I added a small post to Peter's Fixit clinic article! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

2 years, 3 months

infrared solder rework station

by Jake

i created a wiki page for the infrared soldering station https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Infrared_rework_station -jake

2 years, 3 months

Renamed the SudoRoom YouTube channel to @sudoroomhackerspace

by Romy Ilano

https://youtube.com/@sudoroomhackerspace I did the deed! You can post images and polls etc on the youTube channel too fyi. WIll try to recopy the blog posts. If anyone wants to post anything on there just holler. ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

2 years, 3 months

Sudoroom/Omni featured in Craftsmanship.net

by Peter Mui

Hi sudoers: The article Jeff Greenwald was working on is now posted to Craftmanship.net; thanks to everyone who helped make his visit a great success. -Peter https://craftsmanship.net/sidebar/one-night-at-the-fixit-clinic-with-peter-…

2 years, 3 months

omni statement of solidarity with palestine

by Paige P

Hey Sudo Room, what do you think about this statement that was posted to consensus? The last two paragraphs were taken out by another editor but I prefer them left in. Solidarity for Palestinian Liberation We at Omni Commons demand an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, an end to the murder and genocide of Gazans, and all forms of apartheid, occupation and ethnic or religious supremacy. We demand full human rights for all people, including the right of return for Palestinians. Israel allows Jews from anywhere in the world to move there, and become full citizens. They give free plane rides and ten-day tours to young Jews age 18-25, full of Zionist propaganda. This trip is called “Birthright Israel” - it preys on ignorant and vulnerable Jewish youth by recruiting them for Israel’s settler colonial project. Young people who fall for this recruitment are then drafted into Israel’s occupation army. Even as war rages, Birthright is shamelessly continuing with all their Winter trips. Meanwhile, Palestinians’ freedom of movement has been restricted since the 1948 war, when Zionist terrorism drove hundreds of thousands to flee their homes. Many of these families, now millions of people, still live in refugee camps in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and the West Bank. The largest is Gaza, with almost 2 million refugees. Some elders still carry the keys to houses they left 75 years ago. If Israel was willing to recognize THEIR birthright, we’d have had peace 30 years ago. Time and again, Israel walked away from peace talks over this very issue. Instead, many Palestinians' property was simply given to Jewish immigrants, with no consent or compensation. This is stolen land. Jews have always been the minority in Palestine. It was true in 1923, it’s true in 2023. Israel maintains the illusion of a Jewish “majority” only by brutal suppression of Palestinian human rights. This is Zionism! All human rights should be respected, including Jews, but no government built on minority rule has any right to exist. We do not welcome Zionism at the Omni Commons. We are critical of anybody who accepted Birthright trips to apartheid Israel in their youth, including among our own organizers - but we also recognize that people can learn, grow and change. Peace and justice require us to forgive people for their mistakes. We acknowledge that a stand for Palestine has to be a stand against imperialism as a whole. Biden is sending billions of dollars to fund Israeli settler colonial projects to massacre the Palestinians while millions of us struggle to survive here on the streets. We believe in abolition. The abolition of open air prisons, caging indigenous Palestinians genocide. The abolition of the Zionist state. The abolition of US imperialism and greed for profit. Liberation must be fought for. We must fight to make each other free.

2 years, 3 months

Learning programming and Spanish

by Romy Ilano

There's an entire slack channel on Women Who Code of women from Latin America learning English through programming chats. I'm learning Spanish (Argentinian but Mexico is cool too) I mentioned this for Women & NonBinary nights... but would it be cool to suggest for SudoRoom in general? I am travelling to Buenos Aires at the end of the month and won't be able to be in a lot of the mondays and Tuesdays in November. I think this would be a cool initiative though - help SudoRoom's wings spread! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

2 years, 3 months

Bay Area makerspaces and arts co-ops meet up and list

by Jake

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 21:21:40 -0700 From: Dana S. <dsniezko(a)gmail.com> To: info(a)sudoroom.org Hey Sudo Room, I'd like to invite you to join a meetup and mailing list for Bay Area arts co-ops and makerspaces. We're trying to gather organizers from Bay Area makerspaces to build connections, share what's working and where we are struggling, and figure out how we might collaborate across spaces! Here's the link: https://groups.google.com/g/bay-area-makerspaces-arts-coops/about We had a casual chat this month in SF with representatives from Syzygy, Noisebridge, Maker Farm, the Box Shop, and Double Union in attendance. We're planning to do another one in early November, this time in the East Bay! The current meetup plan is for November 9, 6-8pm at Temescal Brewery, 4115 Telegraph Ave (near MacArthur Bart). - D

2 years, 3 months

sparcstation progress

by Jake

last night I played with the Sparcstation 5 that Phil got working, and tried to get it on The Internet it's plugged into ethernet, and i wanted to get it an IP address and all that...but first i had to figure out why it didn't have a MAC address. Its ethernet port is "le0" (in linux we're used to eth0) and something online said do this: # ifconfig le0 plumb but then its MAC address was 0:0:0:0:0:0 which was not gonna work. Trying to set it from ifconfig like this didn't work: # ifconfig le0 hw ether 1:2:3:4:5:6 bad address so I had to reboot and type a bunch of stuff into the "ok" prompt it boots up to, like it says here https://gist.github.com/amdprophet/e010803d581d676003a90ba36da8a269 after a reboot it started saying the MAC address I entered upon boot (before the "ok" prompt) and actually it was trying to network boot, or access something on the network - i had to press STOP and A to interrupt that, and get the "ok" prompt, where i typed "boot disk" to boot up from disk. Then I set the IP address and gateway route manually and was able to ping and telnet sites by IP address, on the internet!!!! but DNS didn't work. I put this in /etc/resolv.conf: domain jackpumpkin nameserver 8.8.8.8 nameserver 8.8.4.4 and then nslookup worked! But other commands line ping and telnet and the web browser still couldn't resolve DNS names. I went home, but Marc says: what does /etc/nsswitch.conf say? You might have to do: cp /etc/nsswitch.dns /etc/nsswitch.conf if the .conf does not exist Apparently this OS ships with a bunch of example config files with different extensions instead of .conf, and you copy the one you want to .conf and then edit to your liking. That's probably how we should set up the networking, rather than typing ifconfig commands each time. also don't forget to run "bash" in the terminal so you're not stuck in an annoying minimalist shell here's the wiki page i made - if you don't have an account, request one! https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Sparcstation#sparcstation_5 -jake

2 years, 3 months

I can't make it tonight - can other people edit this Meetup for hardware hack night?

by Romy Ilano

https://www.meetup.com/sudoroom/events/296830134/ I can't make it to this event tonight - can other people make it to this meetup or edit it? for hadrware hack night? We made it so more people could also edi the Omni meetup.com - ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

2 years, 3 months

[omni-consensus] Urgent - Hellman Grant Reallocation Issue for Consensus - Part 1: $ for Gen Ops (fwd)

by Jake

I mentioned in the sudoroom meeting last night that Omni is basically out of money - we had a huge drop in events bookings because of the boycott (and our non-response to it) and that was about 50% of our income. We also lost a couple of tenants and have made zero progress getting new tenants. (For context, TANC and their fellow printshop collective proposed joining us in June, and if CLP had not blocked them we would have had another two tenants with $1300/mo more income per month. CLP never paid us anything) Did you know that Omni has a bunch of rooms available for rent? I think the groups are preferred to be nonprofit (we can offer 501(c)3 umbrella financial sponsorship!) but we'll take what we can get. The sooner we get rooms filled - not only will it be money we can pay bills with, but also it will look better on paper as we're trying to find a new lender, as our present mortgage holder's agreement ends in DECEMBER and they can foreclose on us if we don't have a new lender (or $900K) -jake ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2023 16:43:12 -0700 From: Sarah Lockhart <sarah.ee.el(a)gmail.com> To: consensus <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org> Subject: [omni-consensus] Urgent - Hellman Grant Reallocation Issue for Consensus - Part 1: $ for Gen Ops Hi there -- as I've mentioned in quite a few communications recently, Omni is in dire need of funds for general operating expenses: mortgage, utilities, insurance. I am humbly proposing that Omni re-allocate $7000 of grant money so that Omni can pay its bills this month. See spreadsheet for details <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15qDtnI8P8d3kcuOb_4ZCqNZTVelKTl7I9yd…> *The Version That Takes Up More Space* Omni is currently sitting on about $35k of grant money restricted for "Capacity Building". This money is in the Unify CU Savings Account. I am hoping that Omni can decide to allocate more of the grant to reimburse the general ops account for expenses that weren't paid out of the grant money, but would still be considered Capacity Building expenses. If Omni were to do the legwork and liquidate the savings accounts at other banks (Self Help CU and Beneficial) -- that would free up about $6000. However, Omni is also looking at having to pay approximately $20k in property taxes in December. I would advise holding these other funds that are in other banks at least until then. Here is the spreadsheet showing the current state of grant funds and allocations <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15qDtnI8P8d3kcuOb_4ZCqNZTVelKTl7I9yd…>, which has a column for what has already been paid out, and another column for what contractors have billed Omni for but have not been paid yet. This should be considered as "spent" in my humble opinion. The spreadsheet also includes a bit at the bottom showing the detailed expenses the grant could be "re-allocated to cover" - which would thus mean putting more money into the general ops account to be used to pay general operating expenses. When the $50k grant was received, it was understood (by Omni and the funder) that some of the expenses the grant would cover had already been paid out of general funds. When Omni approved the grant budget this summer, there were a number of expenses that grant money was allocated to which had already been paid. Thus the money was "returned to the general fund" to "reimburse" the general ops account. Respectfully submitted, Sarah L

2 years, 3 months

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