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Fwd: Marina, registration for Workshop Weekend, June 22 and 23, is now open!

by Marina Kukso

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Workshop Weekend Updates <updates(a)workshopweekend.net> Date: Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 8:07 PM Subject: Marina, registration for Workshop Weekend, June 22 and 23, is now open! To: marina.kukso(a)gmail.com Hi Marina, Workshop Weekend Oakland registration is now open! Join us on June 22 & 23 to solder, craft, program, build, make and explore. At Workshop Weekend, a flat $40 admission gets you as many workshops as you can handle! Register … [View More]

12 years

more on sudo kids - interest in after-school activities?

by Marina Kukso

hi all, ray and i are very happy doing sudo kids tuesday nights, but as i'm sure many of you can guess, the holy grail of child participation involves the dreaded "after school" hours which are characterized by terrible tv programming and many of us being at work. are there any sudoers who would be interested and/or available in doing lightly structured kids activities on a weekday in the 3-6PM range? tuesdays would be best, but really any weekday will do. - marina

12 years

Anyone going near San Jose soon?

by Marc Juul

The mesh networking group is buying a small piece of gear from Craiglist and it needs to be picked up in San Jose. Is anyone driving by San Jose next week and would you be willing to pick this up for us? -- Marc Juul

12 years

Oakland nighs live cleaned.

by Max Klein

Let it be known that ONL just played and the living room is fully cleaned by my inspection. Max

12 years

SudoRoom discussion on class portrayal in tv

by Romy Ilano

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIJENf-s6r4 http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=411 Class Dismissed How TV Frames the Working Class Narrated by *Ed Asner* Based on the forthcoming book by Pepi Leistyna, *Class Dismissed* navigates the steady stream of narrow working class representations from American television's beginnings to today's sitcoms, reality shows, police dramas, and daytime talk shows. Featuring interviews with media analysts and cultural historians, … [View More]

12 years

assume good faith - lessons for collaboration from the collective wisdom of wikipedia

by Marina Kukso

hi everyone, i love the perspective in these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_do_not_bite_the_newcomers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Etiquette and my own addendum: do your part to ensure that the space remains usable for everyone and remains a place where people feel welcome. i find these to be helpful perspectives to keep in mind as we all work together to ensure that sudo room continues to exist as a shared … [View More]

12 years

Do any of you want to write a political opinion email that a public officer has to read?

by Sonja Trauss

http://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2013/news20130605.aspx The federal transportation administration released new, slightly different guidelines for public transportation providers. Basically what they say is that the civil rights office of each Public Transit Agency has to make up some criteria to test whether proposed route changes or fare increases disproportionally affect minority riders. For instance, if a transit agency were to cancel a bus line (and replace it with nothing) where 35% of … [View More]the riders were black, but the overall ridership of the transit system was 12% black, then that service change would be have a disproportionate impact on black riders by 35-12=23% NOW, if the public wanted to sue the agency to stop the discontinuation of the bus line, but the agency's guidelines said the disproportionate impact had to be greater than, say, 25%, then the lawsuit would fail. The FTA mandates the creation of some guidelines, but doesn't say what should be in them. Another example would be fare increases. If a transit agency increases regular fare by 10%, but senior fares by 50%, and 21% of seniors are some certain race, as opposed to 6% of the general population being that race, that would be a disproportionate impact of 15%. The FTA notes that low-income people are not a protected class for the federal civil rights laws, but, (progressively) it encourages Transit Agencies to include low-income populations as a protected class in their guidelines because minorities are generally over represented in the lower incomes. In the fare raising example above therefore, if seniors are not disproportionately some particular race, but if they are disproportionally poor, a transit agency could create guidelines that would recognize that. So if 13% of the general transit population earns 200% or less of the national poverty level, but 20% of the senior population earns that or less, than that would be a disproportionate impact of 7%. If the transit agency prohibited disparate impacts of more than 5% (for instance) that change would be a no go. So, maybe stupidly, I submitted the following comment to officeofcivilrights(a)bart.gov and copied boardofdirectors(a)bart.gov: First of all, the policy needs more examples of how to find disparate impacts, like the example on pg 45 of FTA C 4702.1B, or the examples in appendix K. Second of all, the BART DIDB Policy should explicitly take into account the relative nature of the price of a fare (relative, that is, to the rider's overall income) and therefore the relative nature of a fare increase. For instance, if you earn $10/ hour, then a dollar is equivalent to 6 minutes. If you earn $30/ hour, than a dollar is 2 minutes. That means if fares increase by, say, $10/ month, (5% of a monthly BART bill of $200) and you earn $10/ hour, then your fare increase is equivalent to an hour of your time. If you earn $30/ hour, the fare increase is 20 minutes. Measured in dollars, the increases appear to be the same for the two riders, but measured in man-hours, the poorer rider is facing an increase that is 300% bigger than the fare increase for the less poor rider. That is a disparate impact, so the policy should reflect that. Thanks for your attn in this matter. The number of people submitting comments on this policy will be very small. Like under 30, maybe 10 people. There will be a couple of legal services attys, some law students, some BART staff members ... basically no one. So every letter will be read. If there is anyone in the organization that has the opinion you have, they will cite your letter many times in trying to get their (and your) opinion heard. That is why I write letters like this, just in case there is some staff member who has my same thought. :/ [View Less]

12 years

popcorn machine

by Jake

http://spaz.org/~jake/pix/popcorn.gif my friend is selling this popcorn machine. if you think sudoroom should have it, make an offer. it's like 2 or 3 feet tall but apparently it makes really good popcorn, continuously. -jake

12 years

Give us $$ for decent shelving

by Yardena Cohen

Sudoroom is a mess and one solution is more efficient use of vertical space in our closet. After some research I've concluded the ideal fit for Sudoroom's walk-in closet area are the 5-shelf 36x18x72 heavy duty units which are $67 at Home Depot. I believe these can be stacked (hacked) to turn, for example, three of them into two 36x18x108 towers. 36 inches is just the right width to reach from the wall to the edges of the doors. A hypothetical array of 8 towers would still leave a clear path … [View More]

12 years

I'm making a book on DIY electronics

by Romy Ilano

Does anyone have contributions? I'm making a book for sudoroom It has to be around sudoroom stuff.. This isn't for kick starter projects or instructables. It's for sudoroom No porn or sex toys might give it to kids Cheers --- Romy Ilano Founder of Snowyla http://www.snowyla.com romy(a)snowyla.com

12 years

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