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
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
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Date: Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 5:31 PM
Subject: [P2P-F] Fwd:Invitation to sign up for a course on collaborative
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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
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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!
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?
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
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!
As documented on the wiki, I'm going to teach statistics through doodles.
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned#July_20:_Statistics_through_doodl…
With the help of some doodles on paper (or possibly the floor),
I'll will explain the purpose and meaning of various measures of the
relationships between different variables (specifically covariance,
variance, correlation and least-squares regression).
This class assumes literally no knowledge of math, not even basic
arithmetic. But I'll try to skip things that people already know
as not to bore everyone.
For the symbolically inclined, I can relate the doodles to the symbols
you might have seen in an introductory statistics course.
I've done this a few times, so I have enough of a mental script that
I'd like to video it and put it on the website. I'll bring a camera.
It would be awesome if someone could bring a tripod or if someone
held my camera for part of the session. Or we could make a
tripod-alternative out of some wood, a small tripod from the closet
and some duct tape.
Tom
