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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.

12 years, 3 months

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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

12 years, 3 months

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

12 years, 3 months

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 > ** >

12 years, 3 months

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

12 years, 3 months

It's July 19: Pay your dues

by sudoroom.dues＠gmail.com

you have a number of ways to contribute: 1) online (via wepay): https://sudoroom.org/ 2) online (via gittip): https://www.gittip.com/sudoroom/ 3) in person (anytime): please drop cash or checks into the clear plastic box by the door that goes to the elevator 4) in person (at meetings): bring cash or checks to wed. meetings. and certainly i barely need to remind you of our *precarious month to month financial situation*. pay your dues!

12 years, 3 months

current balance & pay your dues

by Marina Kukso

hi everyone, it is july 19th and our current balance is $1,105.77*. in 13 days we will have to pay $1700 for rent and utilities. please pay your dues if you haven't yet. you have a number of ways to contribute: 1) online (via wepay): https://sudoroom.org/ 2) online (via gittip): https://www.gittip.com/sudoroom/ 3) in person (anytime): please drop cash or checks into the clear plastic box by the door that goes to the elevator 4) in person (at meetings): bring cash or checks to wed. meetings. - marina * this doesn't include 2 checks that i need to deposit. additionally, jenny, is there anything that needs to be transferred from the wepay or from the box in sudo?

12 years, 3 months

Legal Status

by William Budington

Hey all, I talked to Danny O'Brien (Noisebridge's financial functionary) yesterday about the sudoroom legal status. I know this has been an ongoing discussion so I'm going to summarize the options we've already looked into and present the new information Danny has brought to my attention. *Why do we need a legal status?* Over the past few months we've found various challenges to our normal operations since we don't have a legal status. We aren't able to sign up for services like Stripe without having a federal tax id. In addition, since we are formally under one person's name, he is liable if anything happens at sudoroom. Also, we aren't able to sign up for most banks -- only the Community Bank of the Bay will actually give us a bank account with our status as a DBA. And as we've seen, Community Bank of the Bay is not the most web-savvy organization, and so it's hard for us to actually check our balances. *What we've looked at* Our eventual goal has been to get 501(c)3 status for sudoroom. This is a status that would allow us to accept tax-deductible donations and be incorporated formally as a nonprofit. A lot of Hacker Spaces go this route, and it seems like a reasonable long-term goal. One of the problems we've been warned of is that it takes a long time to actually be granted 501(c)3 status - upwards of 2 years, which can as I understand be expedited to 10 months. Because of this delay, we've looked into some other options -- namely being umbrella'd under another organization's 501(c)3 status. This would involve 10% of our revenue going to said umbrella organization to cover costs of the books. I've been in contact with Danny at Noisebridge and Jenny has been in contact with (Steve?) at the School Factory and discussing if this is a possibility. It is certainly one way to go, but as for Noisebridge they've only umbrella'd Noisetor, and they didn't need a separate account for that. *What I've learned recently* Danny mentioned that his partner is looking into nonprofit status for a new feminist hacker space in SF, and has investigated these options as well as others. In order to have a certain degree of autonomy, it is probably in our interests to actually not go the umbrella route and pursue separate legal status altogether. He also mentioned that there's no reason why we couldn't incorporate as an LLC or other corporate status before pursuing 501c3 status, and that even if it takes a number of years to be granted non-profit status we can transition from an LLC without much of a problem. There's no real disadvantage to having LLC status in the meantime, as I understand it. The main advantage of nonprofit status is tax deduction, but that is usually superseded on most peoples taxes by the standard deduction. The main place where it does make a difference is when employers do matching donations for their employees, then it can make a difference. *The plan* It makes sense to me to pursue the options that would resolve our short-term problems without impeding the path to our long-term goals. It seems to me reasonable as a short-term goal to register as an LLC (Jenny tells me this can be done in an afternoon and with $50 with a drive to Sacramento), and as a longer term goal actually pursuing nonprofit, 501c3 status. *Disclaimer* There may be caveats to this plan and I'm not a lawyer. Bill

12 years, 3 months

Dinooooooo

by rusty lindgren

-- Cheers, Rusty Lindgren **

12 years, 3 months

impressed

by Romy Ilano

Wow! I'm pretty impressed that someone walked the plank and took financial risk to get SudoRoom going. That's a lot of trust ... especially for things as tumultuous and socially wacky as non heirarchical collectives. first penguins, you are honored!

12 years, 3 months

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