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The corporate Matrix- whats wrong with this world- forwarded message

by Patrick Schmidt

>From Alchemyst Mystique https://www.facebook.com/alchemystique When are we gonna wake up to dead caterpillar matrix to see that : Drs are here to make us sick Banks are here to make us poor Governments are here to enslave us Schools are here to keep us ignorant Food makers are here to keep us starved Politicians are here to keep us disempowered Media is here to keep us misinformed Religions are here to keep us fearful and disconnected from source Scientists are here to keep the status quo … [View More]

12 years

Open compute hackathon

by Paul Ivanov

Hey gang, I just learned of this, and thought it might interest some of you, it's on June 18th, and they're taking applications until June 5th. Join OCP's second hardware hackathon! Hack on ideas and products to accelerate innovation across the scale of the computer landscape. http://upverter.com/hackathons/open-compute-gigaom-structure-2013/ best, -- _ / \ A* \^ - ,./ _.`\\ / \ / ,--.S \/ \ … [View More]

12 years

Wednesday Dinner

by Raymond Lai

Hello Friendly Sudo Room, I won't be coming to tonight's meeting (Life: the Great Distractor), but I am still interested in making food. Since we have lot's of pasta in the Sudo Kitchen (I can see it from the live camera feed, that is trained on the pantry), I'm going to suggest a pasta salad. If others can provide fresh tomatoes, fresh basil, and perhaps fresh mozzarella then we would have a feast indeed. I have garlic and an onion (or at least a part of an onion), and I can season olive … [View More]

12 years

Seattle's Feminist / Trans-positive Hackerspace

by William Budington

This just came across the wire. A fem/queer/trans positive hackerspace just opened in Seattle called the Seattle Attic! Check it out: http://www.seattleattic.com/ Perhaps we should open up some lines of west-coast communication and dialogue and invite them to visit our space. Sounds like an awesome place and somewhere I'd like to check out some day. Bill

12 years

Meeting Tonight at 7PM: Add to Agenda

by Marina Kukso

hi all, meeting tonight at 7pm. please add to the agenda here: https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudoroommeeting action items from last week: - Bill will set up automatic reminders - Sarah is willing to host a rave, perhaps weekly - FUNDING - Review existing funding options, re-categorize, organize - Len, Matt, Marina, Jordan, Romy, Jenny - Put your name next to specific projects that you are interested in pay your dues, marina … [View More]____________________________________________________________________________ full notes from last week (apologies for not putting it up on the wiki yet!) *https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Minutes*<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Minutes> Try this out this week: http://sudoroom.backchan.nl/conferences/view/1054 May 1 2013 Attending: ==Introductions== Co-Facilitator: Brief personal intros (< 20 sec per person) - What is one thing you like to share with others? - What is one current *frustration* you have? What is one current thing that puts you *at ease*? Icebreaker (10 min) - Sudo Room Goals - next 6 months *Share food / sudo mate if available.* ==Announcements== Co-Facilitator: ? - ===Consent Agenda=== - (< 3 minutes) Co-Facilitator: Mary - - *(Let's use this time to briefly review and consent to items that need no more details or discussion)** ====> We're trying this out!* - - May 25th: Showing of Judi Bari film in the entire space. Rusty would love help organizing it. - Fabulous Friday Films: If you have access to a sound system, please contact Vicky. Vicky can take full responsibility of the sound system and can pick up and drop it off, etc. - Bring ALL Dolby Surround Sound speakers to sudo room please - Contact Matt and Sam about existing sound system - Add to movie night https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Fabulous_Friday_Films - PUBLIC SCHOOL: - Thursdays at 6pm - Supper Club, open to all, pot-luck in common space at 2141 Broadway! - Fireworks submission deadline is 10th of each month - submit hacking stuff:http://fireworksbayarea.com/contribute/ - SPECIAL "Keeping tidy" Friday before 11:30am - Landlord showing a room to potential tenants - ===Other Announcements=== Co-Facilitator: Mary - (< 5 min) Co-Facilitator: ? - *Sundays @ 7pm* - Cleaning of Natural Decay - Who is available to lead this week? _____Marina______ - Subiir - Debut of second round, - Hacker Happy Hour - Sam hosting 8D - Footage for blog and wiki, get individual tutorials from folks! - Hopefully get some interactive activities on (Sarah and Rusty have volunteered) - Screenwriting Workshop Sundays 5-7pm at Sudo Room :D - http://sudoroom.org/calendar/ - Land Occupation - Occupy the Farm - Sat May 11th meet at Albany City Hall at San Pablo and Marin Ave at 12 noon! - http://occupythefarm.org/ - - === ACTION ITEMS === Co-Facilitatory: Jordan - (< 5 min) Co-Facilitator: ?☁→❄→☃→☀→☺→☂→☹→✝ - - Follow-up on previous items--keeping it brief, okay to table if necessary to next meeting: - - New Business: - - Blurb of short description to be used at different events - Tommy - *"Sudoroom is a community-supported hackerspace that provides open membership in a non-hierarchical, collaborative community working towards social change. You can help make Sudoroom more affordable and more accessible, and encourage more events like the one you're attending by donating today."* - For next agenda: discussion to share some of the ongoing initiatives that are going on to bring money into sudo room - *Matt* and *Jenny* will encourage Sudoers to think about and prepare for this. - DONE, discussing in Fiscal Solvency section - sudo-fund mailing list http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-fund - Survey membership - *Matt* and *Bill* will do online and paper survey - Tabled to next week - *Vicky* has emailed the listserv asking people if they are interested in writing. The goal is to organize people to collaborate on writing marketing-type materials. - DONE. This sunday at 4pm is a meeting to work on this. - Sam - New video for blog and wiki (next happy hour? or meeting, happy hour and wiki/blog workshop in one!) - Can it be like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0S-HOOp_VY - Would like to have an event where people collaboratively create videos and learn how to do videos. Possibly next Friday. Please coordinate with *Sam*. - This is happening!!!!!!!!!11111 - *Rusty* and *Ryan* will follow up with Dan on printing t-shirts. - Come to Rusty and Ryan about logos / designs / etc - Need to also follow up with Dan about helping him - Prep space for friday screenings: Audio, lighting, etc. - SDR (software defined radio) Meetup - when / where? - Cheap TV tuners that operate on a wide spectrum - It WILL be fun. - Find BILLLLLLLLLLLLL after the mtg - - Old Business: - - *Matt* will follow up with *Max*: Installing Linux on a second laptop for rock paper scissors collective (first was bad :() - *Ryan* B will bring in a laptop?(coordinate with *Wolf**y* on getting laptop) - DELIVERED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - WHO WANTS TO RUN AN ETHERNET CABLE? - Matt will help - [Postponed] Talk to *Danny O'Brien*, intro from *JC* to *Jordan*, invite him to come to a future sudo meeting to share insight! - Straight to the source--but out of the country :( Will be back later this month and Jordan will follow up then. - Continues to be postponed - [Skipping this week as it will be Art Mumur and we have a movie screening] Add Hacky Happer Hour to the calendar - *Romy* hosted Hacker Happy Hour - *[Postponed** until someone throws Romy a massive love bomb**] **Romy* to lead diagram for Articles of Association amendment - *Romy* to work with *Troy* to turn the articles into a flow diagram. Diagrams and drawings of sudo room members being passed around. - [*Postponed** until ?*] Add articles to github (gitorious!!!!!!!? - https://gitorious.org/+sudo-room) - *Yardena* is going to put these articles up - *[Vicky will do this] **Vicky* - follow up with Public School about Oakland Nights Live. - Marina will follow up with Vicky - Bill will talk with them about this regardless on Friday for "Captial and Crisis" putting on thinking caps - ... and "theorizing" - *[**Sharing Sketch Tomorrow for Supper w/ Public School**] **Jenny* - Set expectations for sudo events, make this available to internal & external - -Ensure doors are closed - -Trash and recycling - -Running the dishwasher - -Putting furniture back where it belongs - -Vacuum! - Jenny will discuss with Public School this Thurs. - *[Postponed until necessary] **Eddan* - Reference letter from George - *[Postponed** until necessary**] Jenny* sync with *Troy* on library - Not yet but they will - Set up date for label-printing organizing of stuff event - *Jenny*!1 -* troy* - still need to set a date ==Fiscal Solvency== (20 min) Exchequer: Tommy && Co-facilitator: Marina - Financial Planning - Fund-raising efforts? - https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Funding_Ideas - Food - Sudo Mate - *Max** & Ray* - Iced, carbonated, DELICIOUS mate soda beverage (exquisite, yum!) - Sudo Beer (Subiir) - *Morten* & *Marc* - Sudo Gravy (marinara sauce) - *Ray** - Last week's $40 went to Sudo Room rent. Sold all 4 pints (all that was left after dinner) Yay!* - Sudo Lunch / Grab-n-go option - ? [DOES NOT YET EXIST] - suggestion by *Marc* - Rusty's "Savior Bars"! - Some exchange model that is advantageous for some reason - *Eddie's "Dope" Popcorn* - "Just do it" - Schwag - 3D printed stuff - magnets - *Jordan* - bike mounting accessories (easy to print, can adapt to any device mounting!) -hol - jewelry - on-demand - other objects - other 3D printers - 3d printed exoskeleton - DIY handheld 3D printer pen based on a hot glue gun Cheap as hell - "Captain crunch whistles" - Le Oficial Ray (Rey?) - Bike bevereage holders - T-shirts - *Dan Finlay** (already an action item)* - Buttons (moar) - Dependent upon logo - LED cubes - hol?????????? - Membership dues - sliding-scale, voluntary (current) - *better* *advertisement* - --> Scrounging for MOAR - Flyers, put things around the area, galleries, cafes, etc. - Could be extremely effective - Could do a bike-about - better price-]points (concrete options beyond general $60 discussion) - will be informed by member survey (already an action item) - Do we accept *BITCOIN????????????* - Automatic reminders - Repair Services - Fix-it clinic style (especially electronics, etc)? - Could also do custom bike stuff, bike repair! - Specifically could get $ from burners - Not necessarily easy while in our current, less-developed state - Donated equipment - Repair and sell, e.g. on Ebay - suggestion by *Eddan* - Re-use and sell or sell as services - Similar potential to http://spokeland.org/ - DIY ISP ++ - a la http://ranchwifi.com/ - Laci Videmsky has offered to host a workshop on how to do this, like he and his business partner did with Ranch Wifi - Kits - electronics - (i won't be at the meeting tonight but if we come up with a few and order the components in bulk and package individually together, we can sell at events - Hol) - Home PCs for cheapz - Art kits - Writing kits - Kits of kits :D ^.^ ^.^ - Kits of 3D printers that create other kits - Non-profit status - Tax-deductable Donations as a 501(c)3 - Noisebridge and School Factory have offered to provide fiscal sponsorship - School Factory has a lot more experience than NB in fiscal sponsorship - Grants - Regular events - Raves - Speaker events - of particular relevance to our projects - Covers? No covers? - NOTES - Len - from a business standpoint there are two different funding mechanisms at play here - One is internal funding, the other is coming from external sources - You can also look at things as "products" or "not products" the technology may or may not be there. - Examine the who / what / where / when / why, and the time / effort involved -- you can cross most of it out - Jenny - Added speaker events section - In particular, UC Berkeley wifi groups are excited about sudo, would possibly be interested in speaking here - Tommy - We would want to do some of these things regardless of whether or not they brought in income - Sam - Art Murmur membership could provide us space to sell things. - Eddie - Internet security, in NY times two days ago - information security as a service we could offer. - *Second** Wed - budget** *(2nd & 3rd - collect dues, 4th - assess where we're at) - Pay your dues! - Review and consensus process: - Fiscal Solvency Spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlKk2X9KKqlFdFZJUy12ZUhDUmx2N3… - Rent: $1500; Utilities: $220; Services: $50 - Target membership contribution: $88 per member (based on approx. 30 people) - now we're collecting target of $60 - some give more - sense of urgency: Still working on month-to-month - Add to action items ==Amendments to the Articles of Association== Co-Facilitator: Matt ? ==Conflict Resolution== Co-Facilitator: Matt ? ==Additional Items== (per item) Co-Facilitator: Ryan - Space / New Space / The Search Continues (15 min) - Priorities / values - Historical / Previous requirements for any potential space are listed here: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Sudo_room/open_a_space - Please note that those are from last year and is in need of updates. - Strategy - Use http://hackerspaces.crowdmap.com/ (ask Romy or Matt for admin access) - Tweet any space details *@sudoroom* - Email *info(a)sudoroom.org* - Craigslist posting looking for friends - Report-back, Feedback from Art Murmur - piano went outside and people played it! - we need to do more to be on the street - create a holder for sudo mate to stand outside. - outdoor signage is very effective - this should be part of the art murmur set up. - saturday sign-making - flyer for art murmur - make it a BACH event - "come to sudo room" - be a part of the saturday stroll - ==Action Items== Scribe: Matt - Bill will set up automatic remindres - Sarah is willing to host a rave, perhaps weekly - FUNDING - Review existing funding options, re-categorize, organize - *Len, Matt, Marina, Jordan, Romy, Jenny* - Put your name next to specific projects that you are interested in - === Meeting Brief for Announce List === - *Scribe:** Make a succinct highlights message based on the meeting minutes* ==Post-Meeting Teamups / Discussion== Co-Facilitators: YOU! & ? - Advertising - briefly with Ryan - Bill for software radio [View Less]

12 years

Fwd: {BayAreaPublicSchool} **WE ARE NOT MACHINES** // Chinese Workers Struggle Against Foxconn // FRI MAY 17 in SF & SAT MAY 18 in OAKLAND : *

by Jenny Ryan

Relevant event, Saturday night at 2141. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: DZ Brazil <dzbrazil(a)yahoo.com> Date: Tue, May 14, 2013 at 7:03 PM Subject: {BayAreaPublicSchool} **WE ARE NOT MACHINES** // Chinese Workers Struggle Against Foxconn // FRI MAY 17 in SF & SAT MAY 18 in OAKLAND : * To: "bayareapublicschool(a)googlegroups.com" < bayareapublicschool(a)googlegroups.com> Dear Friends : There will be a presentation on Foxconn workers' struggles in China at CIIS … [View More]this coming Friday (details below), followed by a Bay Area Public School presentation on these struggles by a member of the Gongchao collective the next night Saturday, May 18 at 8PM Details are on the Public School site here : http://www.thepublicschool.org/node/34332 Hope to see you at one or both of these events ! Love & solidarity -- David Brazil ----- Forwarded Message ----- *From:* Andrej Grubacic <agrubacic(a)ciis.edu> *To:* ANDREJ GRUBACIC <agrubacic(a)ciis.edu> *Sent:* Sunday, May 12, 2013 5:54 PM *Subject:* This Friday: * "We Are Not Machines!" Foxconn Workers Struggle in China* Bay Area Tour! *Anthropology & Social Change* is pleased to invite you to: **"We Are Not Machines!" Foxconn Workers Struggle in China** * California Institute of Integral Studies* * May 17, 2013 at 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm* * 1453 Mission St San Francisco, CA 94103* * Room 304 * As the world's largest contract manufacturer, Foxconn employs more than one million people in China alone. Foxconn workers are the iSlaves who face horrendous conditions while producing communication tools like iPhones and iPads for Apple. In 2012, a series of worker suicides shook the Chinese Foxconn factories and drew world-wide attention. Management promised to improve conditions and increase wages, but the situation has not changed much since: Foxconn accelerated the relocation of factories to the Chinese hinterland, employs student interns as "cheap" labor, covers up work accidents, and still relies on its militaristic management regime. However, Foxconn workers are far from being passive victims. They have used everyday forms of resistance against the rhythm of the assembly line and have been able to stage strikes in various Foxconn factories around China. In this talk, a member of the gongchao.org <http://www.gongchao.org/> collective will share their research and activity around the struggles of Chinese migrant workers and will use words, photos, and films to present the situation at Foxconn. The discussion will focus on ways to support the iSlaves of Foxconn and relate their struggles to our own. *On gongchao.org <http://gongchao.org/>* ** Gongchao.org <http://gongchao.org/> <http://Gongchao.org/<http://gongchao.org/>> was formed in September 2008 as a project for the research and documentation of labor unrest and social movements in China from the perspective of class struggle, migration, and gender. The website offers a selection of analytical texts and workers' stories in English and German. Among the gongchao.org <http://gongchao.org/> publications are: Unrest in China (2007), supplement to the wildcat- magazine; Dagongmei- Women Workers from China's World-Market Factories tell their Stories (2008), edited by Pun Ngai and Li Wanwei; The Take-off of the 2nd Generation- Gender, Migration, and Class Composition in China (2010), edited by Pun Ngai, Ching Kwan Lee et al,; and iSlaves - Exploitation and Resistance at China's Foxconn-Factories (2013), edited by Pun Ngai et al. (all published in German, with some parts translated into English). Besides writing and translating articles and books, gongchao.org <http://gongchao.org/> participates in inquiries and interview projects in China and sets up talks and discussions on Workers' Struggles in China in Eastern as well as Western Europe and beyond. For more information and background readings, check out: http://islavetour.wordpress.com/ and http://www.gongchao.org/. * BAY AREA TOUR DATES & LOCATIONS* • California Institute of Integral Studies May 17, 2013 at 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm 1453 Mission St San Francisco, CA 94103 http://www.ciis.edu/ • Bay Area Public School May 18, 2013 at 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm 2141 Broadway, 2nd Floor, Oakland CA 94612 http://thepublicschool.org/bay-area *THANKS TO:* IWW International Solidarity Commission, Silvia Federici & George Caffentzis, Manny Ness, Bluestockings, The Brecht Forum, 16 Beaver, The Wooden Shoe, 2640, Georgetown Solidarity Committee, Teaching Assistants Association at UW-Madison, Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures at UW- Madison, Food Chain Workers Alliance, UCLA Downtown Labor Center, The Wildcat, Powell’s Bookstore (Chicago), Trumbullplex, California Institute of Integral Studies, Bay Area Public School, the New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, DC, Detroit, Chicago, Madison, Seattle, Bay Area, and Los Angeles branches of the Industrial Workers of the World, and many more. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to the Bay Area Public School email list To post to this group, send email to bayareapublicschool(a)googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bayareapublicschool+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/bayareapublicschool?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BayAreaPublicSchool" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bayareapublicschool+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. [View Less]

12 years

3D printing night Tuesdays during micro controller nights

by Romy Snowyla

Ran into a new guy here doing 3D printing! Making Tuesdays a 3D printing night, the same as the micro controllers night. I'm printing arduino cases on the 3D printer so these dovetail nicely! Sent from my iPad

12 years

microcontroller night?

by rusty lindgren

Is that tonight? Or is that, bi-monthly, and I missed it until next week? lmk, Rusty

12 years

Intro and hardware donation!

by John Love

Hi, I'm Curious John Love Cosmos! Some of you know me from sudo already but I haven't made an intro to the list. Greetings! :-) An acquaintance has a bunch of old hardware from his workplace he'd like to donate if anyone can facilitate that. Here's a list: 57x 1U Polywell servers (P4 or core2duo) 9x 1U low power servers (cyrix CPU) 15x 1U extended chassis server (P4 or core2duo) 1x 1U KVM; rack mount sliding fold-out monitor/keyboard 9x 2U HP proliant SCSI server (quad core) 5x 1U HP proliant … [View More]

12 years

Who's going to Maker Faire? Can you Carry Cargo for sudo-profit?

by Max Klein

Are you going to Maker Faire on Saturday? I need someone to transport sudomate to the noisebridge booth at maker faire, as they have ordered and are paying for 20L of it. I unfortunately wont be going myself. Max

12 years

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