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by Romy Ilano

Is there a list discussing Sudo room projects only? I'd like to filter out all these kick starter and non profit projects by people outside of sudoroom --- Romy Ilano Founder of Snowyla http://www.snowyla.com romy(a)snowyla.com

12 years, 11 months

Long Shot... but did anyone find a bracelet a few months ago at sudo room

by Andrew

A few months ago I lost a bracelet, it had a black strap with small dark stone in the center ( a black opal http://www.opal33.com/images/blackopalpic.jpg ). If anyone knows what I'm talking about, or happened to have found said bracelet that would be awesome. Thanks, Andrew -- --------- http://www.vagabondballroom.com

12 years, 11 months

Tabletop SEM Demo 6/17-6-27, Merritt College

by Jake

Hi - I just wanted to announce that Merritt Microscopy is having a hands-on demo of the Hitachi TM3000 Tabletop Scanning Electron Microscope, Mondays through Thursdays starting this week, June 17th to June 20 and next week, June 24 to June 27. The event is open to the general public, with absolutely no prior microscope experience needed, and whatever samples you wish to bring. Hence, if there are any fungi or anything else you've been wanting to get EM images of, this is a great opportunity to do so. Here's the poster I put together, and some maps giving the location of campus. We are on the second floor of the D building, in Room D243. http://www.scribd.com/doc/148359131/Hitachi-SEM-Demo http://goo.gl/maps/v8v4m http://www.merritt.edu/sites/default/files/campusmap2008.pdf (Note that the second map is oriented with South on the up side, which is the reverse orientation of other maps.) Peter __._,_.___ Reply via web post Reply to sender Reply to group Start a New Topic Messages in this topic (1) Recent Activity: * New Members 2 Visit Your Group Visit our website at http://bayareamushrooms.org/ Yahoo! Groups Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use • Send us Feedback . [IMAGE] __,_._,___

12 years, 11 months

Fwd: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

by Eddan Katz

> From: Jacob Appelbaum <jacob(a)appelbaum.net> > Date: June 17, 2013, 6:45:23 AM PDT > To: liberationtech <liberationtech(a)lists.stanford.edu> > Subject: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser! > Reply-To: liberationtech <liberationtech(a)lists.stanford.edu> > > Hi, > > I'm really excited to say that Tor Browser has had some really important > changes. Mike Perry has really outdone himself - from deterministic > builds that allow us to verify that he is honest to actually having > serious usability improvements. I really mean it - the new TBB is > actually awesome. It is blazing fast, it no longer has the sometimes > confusing Vidalia UI, it is now fast to start, it now has a really nice > splash screen, it has a setup wizard - you name it - nearly everything > that people found difficult has been removed, replaced or improved. > Hooray for Mike Perry and all that helped him! > > Here is Mike's email: > > https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2013-June/028440.html > > Here is the place to download it: > > https://people.torproject.org/~mikeperry/tbb-3.0alpha1-builds/official/ > > Please test it and please please tell us how we might improve it! > > All the best, > Jacob > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at companys(a)stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech

12 years, 11 months

It's June 17: 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, 11 months

Fwd: [OpenOakland Brigade] Know anyone using BitCoin?

by Marina Kukso

FYI. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: howard dyckoff <howarddy(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 2:41 PM Subject: [OpenOakland Brigade] Know anyone using BitCoin? To: Have you or someone you know had experiences with Bit Coin? Are you willing to share those experiences, even annonyously? I'm preparing an article for Oakland Local on the digital currency. I'm interested in : -- the ease of use -- places to use it -- concerns about security -- and if you'd recommend it for others. Howard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenOakland" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to openoakland+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to openoakland(a)googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/openoakland/CAGOPvtF4KgR-1ZoErvbQ8qt0nHDZ… . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

12 years, 11 months

Fwd: [lol-hackers] awesome mozilla paid fellowship

by Marina Kukso

this is relevant to our interests! - marina ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Praveen Sinha <dmhomee(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:02 PM Subject: [lol-hackers] awesome mozilla paid fellowship To: lol-hackers <lol-hackers(a)googlegroups.com>, Vera Yin <verayin(a)gmail.com> This joint knight foundation + mozilla fellowship looks really awesome and I almost want to apply myself. Stephany sent this over because they are encouraging under representated people to apply: http://mozillaopennews.org/fellowships/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lol-hackers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to lol-hackers+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to lol-hackers(a)googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lol-hackers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

12 years, 11 months

workshop weekend

by Hilary Naylor

Hello everyone, Marina and I invite you to participate in Workshop Weekend! We're teaching “Computer Dissection Laboratory” on Sunday, June 23rd at 1:00pm. Workshop Weekend is a weekend-long event of short, 1 to 3 hour long workshops in subjects from exploring electronics to decorating cake with gumpaste flowers, and from 3D printing to learning to program and make ice cream with liquid nitrogen! It's a festival of learning with more than 20 hands-on workshops to choose from, all taking place June 22-23 in downtown Oakland -- pay $40 and take as many workshops as you like! The weekend is a family-friendly gathering for kids and adults alike, bringing together arts, crafts and making workshops, all taught by the bay area’s best instructors. Use our coupon code to get $10 off admission: HILARY613 Here’s a list of the workshops being offered: Hands-on Genetic Engineering Learn DIY Doll-making Taste Hacking Computer Dissection Arduino Automation Basics Hands-on Nutrition Make a Speaker from Scratch DIY Coffee Roasting Hands-on Anatomy Build a Beetlebot Robot Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream Arduino Programming ...and many more! Register by going to http://workshopweekend.net/oakland/catalog We hope to see you there! Hilary and Marina --- Hilary Naylor www.a2zed.us Oakland CA

12 years, 11 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] [OpenOakland Brigade] [OpenOakland] Community Wireless Networks Across America

by Tony Barreca

There's an active Mesh Network project in Oakland once again, the central locus of which is at Sudoroom. On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 3:05 AM, howard dyckoff <howarddy(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Most of the Mesh network activity was previously confined to SF. > > I think there was some activity in North Oakland 2-3 years back. > > If I recall correctly, the cells have to be within half a mile or a third > of a mile of each other.... pls verify, I'm sure the range has increased > gradually. > > And I think the min cost of a local neighborhood transmitter and antennae > was between $500 and $1000 a few years ago. I hope that pricing is better > now. > > The problem, I think , is that the areas most in need of this have fewer > and less successful neighborhood associations and fewer households that > could afford to setup mesh nodes. > > That's unfortunate since this could provide really inexpensive internet > access for everyone. > > I am sure "Business Improvement Districts" could be involved, but there > are few of them operating in East and West Oakland. We'd need a big > grant to cover those areas -- or a lot of neighborhood organizing. > > And we'd have to plan for some of the equipment being stolen. As an > example, the new library at 81st Ave, where we held an event earlier this > year, had many of its computers stolen a few weeks after it opened. > > But I don't want to be too negative here. I would definitely support this > effort. > > > > > On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Eddie Tejeda <eddie(a)codeforamerica.org>wrote: > >> Hey everyone! >> >> Checkout this cool project by Preston Rhea, from Open Technology >> Institute at the New America Foundation. He's thinking that Oakland will be >> one of the pilot cities. There are existing local mesh network projects in >> the area, right? People know how those projects are doing? This could be a >> collaborative opportunity. >> >> >> http://crowdhitch.millennialtrain.co/campaign/detail/1330 >> >> >> The project is to spread locally-managed community wireless mesh >>> networks around the country. I'll teach local technologists and community >>> organizers how to use regular Wi-Fi routers and free, open source software >>> to build their own community Internet infrastructure. >> >> >> >>> >>> The project will use Commotion <http://commotionwireless.net/>, a free, >>> open source software project designed to make it easy for anyone to set up >>> their own mesh network. We'll share tools and methods for participatory >>> technology pedagogy, and the routers that we set up together will remain >>> with the locals to seed their own mesh networks. With these seeds spread, >>> people in each city can continue to grow locally-managed Internet networks >>> and spur innovation on a shared platform accessible to any resident. >> >> >> -- >> Eddie A. Tejeda >> @eddietejeda >> 2012 Fellow, Code for America >> http://codeforamerica.org >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "OpenOakland" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to openoakland+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to openoakland(a)googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/openoakland/CAALX_7Y--m8x0%3DnuHdvQWAOCRJ… >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "OpenOakland" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to openoakland+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to openoakland(a)googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/openoakland/CAGOPvtFSs8JtEGTapLhZfmK%3DxZ… > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Tony Barreca LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tonybarreca Skype: tonybarreca Twitter: tbarreca Mobile: (510) 710-5864

12 years, 11 months

Sudo kids hit pop record with the writers group

by Romy Ilano

Wouldn't it be cute if the writers group could write a hit album with Sudo kids radio like all the top 40 pop factories do with their manufactured stars? It's Sudo room additive music engineering !!! --- Romy Ilano Founder of Snowyla http://www.snowyla.com romy(a)snowyla.com Begin forwarded message: > From: Romy Ilano <romy.ilano(a)gmail.com> > Date: June 16, 2013, 3:00:32 PDT > To: Romy Ilano <romy(a)snowyla.com> > Subject: How Much Does It Cost To Make A Hit Song? : Planet Money : NPR > > http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/07/05/137530847/how-much-does-it-cost-t… > > How Much Does It Cost To Make A Hit Song? > > > Courtesy Universal > Getting a song on the pop charts takes big money. > > Def Jam started paying for Rihanna's recent single, "Man Down," more than a year ago. In March of 2010, the label held a writing camp in L.A. to create the songs for Rihanna's album, Loud. > > At a writing camp, a record label hires the best music writers in the country and drops them into the nicest recording studios in town for about two weeks. It's a temporary version of the old music-industry hit factories, where writers and producers cranked out pop songs. > > "It's like an all-star game," says Ray Daniels, who was at the writing camp for Rihanna. > > Daniels manages a songwriting team of two brothers, Timothy and Theron Thomas, who work under the name Rock City. "You got all the best people, you're gonna make the best records," he says. > > > Notes > > These are rough estimates based on interviews with industry insiders. The figures have not been confirmed by Rihanna’s label, Def Jam. > Here's who shows up at a writing camp: songwriters with no music, and producers toting music tracks with no words. > > The Thomas brothers knew producer Shama "Sham" Joseph, but they had never heard his Caribbean-flavored track that became "Man Down." > > According to Daniels, the brothers listened to the track and said, "Let's give Rihanna a one-drop! Like, a response to 'I shot the sheriff!" > > They wrote the lyrics to "Man Down" in about 12 minutes, Daniels says. > > To get that twelve minutes of inspiration from a top songwriting team is expensive — even before you take into account the fee for the songwriters. > > At a typical writing camp, the label might rent out 10 studios, at a total cost of about $25,000 a day, Daniels says. > > The writing camp for Rihanna's album "had to cost at least 200 grand," Daniels says. "It was at least forty guys out there. I was shocked at how much money they were spending! But, guess what? They got the whole album out of that one camp." > > A writing camp is like a reality show, where top chefs who have never met are forced to cook together. At the end, Rihanna shows up like the celebrity judge and picks her favorites. > > Her new album has 11 songs on it. So figure that the writing camp cost about $18,000 per song. > > The songwriter and the producer each got a fee for their services. Rock City got $15,000 for Man Down, and the producer got around $20,000, according to Daniels. > > That's about $53,000.00 spent on the song so far— before Rihanna even steps into the studio with her vocal producer. > > The vocal producer's job is to make sure Rihanna sings the song right. > > Makeba Riddick didn't produce Rihanna's vocals on "Man Down," but she's one of the industry's top producers, and has worked with the singer on many songs, including the two number one hits in 2010: "Rude Boy" and "Love the Way You Lie." > > When Riddick works with a singer, she'll say, "I need you to belt this out, I need you to scream this, as if you're on one end of the block and you're trying to talk to somebody three blocks away." > > Or maybe: "Sing with your lips a little more closed, a little more pursed together, so we can get that low, melancholy sound." > > Not only that, the vocal producer has to deal with the artist's rider. The rider is whatever the artist needs to get them in the mood to get into the booth and sing. > > "They'll have strobe lights, incense burning, doves flying around the studio," she says. (Yes, Riddick has had doves circling her head while she's working.) > > Rihanna is "very focused" Riddick says. So no doves. > > Riddick's fee starts at $10,000 to $15,000 per song, she says. > > The last step is mixing and mastering the song, which costs another $10,000 to $15,000, according to Daniels. > > So, our rough tally to create one pop song comes to: > > The cost of the writing camp, plus fees for the songwriter, producer, vocal producer and the mix comes to $78,000. > > But it's not a hit until everybody hears it. How much does that cost? > > About $1 million, according to Daniels, Riddick and other industry insiders. > > "The reason it costs so much," Daniels says, "is because I need everything to click at once. You want them to turn on the radio and hear Rihanna, turn on BET and see Rihanna, walk down the street and see a poster of Rihanna, look on Billboard, the iTunes chart, I want you to see Rihanna first. All of that costs." > > That's what a hit song is: It's everywhere you look. To get it there, the label pays. > > Every song is different. Some songs have a momentum all their own, some songs just break out out of the blue. But the record industry depends on hits for sales. Having hits is the business plan. The majority of songs that are hits — that chart high, that sell big, that blast out of cars in the summertime— cost a million bucks to get them heard and played and bought. > > Daniels breaks down the expenses roughly into thirds: a third for marketing, a third to fly the artist everywhere, and a third for radio. > > "Marketing and radio are totally different," he says. "Marketing is street teams, commercials and ads." > > Radio is? > > "Radio you're talking about . . ." he pauses. "Treating the radio guys nice." > > 'Treating the radio guys nice' is a very fuzzy cost. It can mean taking the program directors of major market stations to nice dinners. It can mean flying your artist in to do a free show at a station in order to generate more spots on a radio playlist. > > Former program director Paul Porter, who co-founded the media watchdog group Industry Ears, says it's not that record labels pay outright for a song. They pay to establish relationships so that when they are pushing a record, they will come first. > > Porter says shortly after he started working as a programmer for BET about 10 years ago, he received $40,000.00 in hundred-dollar bills in a Fed-Ex envelope. > > Current program directors told me this isn't happening anymore. They say their playlists are made through market research on what their listeners want to hear. > > In any case, to return to our approximate tally: After $78,000 to make the song, and another $1 million to roll it out, Rihanna's "Man Down" gets added to radio playlists across the country, gets a banner ad on iTunes ... and may still not be a hit. > > As it happens, "Man Down" has not sold that well, and radio play has been minimal. > > But Def Jam makes up the shortfall by releasing other singles. And only then— if the label recoups what it spent on the album — will Rihanna herself get paid. > > > > --- > > Romy Ilano > Founder of Snowyla > http://www.snowyla.com > romy(a)snowyla.com

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