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Fwd: [Noisebridge-discuss] Panic! Noisebridge will close down in July UNLESS YOU READ ALL OF THIS EMAIL (Part 1 of many)

by Naomi Most

Worth reading. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Danny O'Brien <danny(a)spesh.com> Date: Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:40 AM Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] Panic! Noisebridge will close down in July UNLESS YOU READ ALL OF THIS EMAIL (Part 1 of many) To: Noisebridge-Announce <noisebridge-announce(a)lists.noisebridge.net> Cc: Noisebridge Discuss <noisebridge-discuss(a)lists.noisebridge.net> Long email. Really really worth it. Go down to bit marked {}{}{}{} if you don't want Noisebridge to die. There are links down there. Helpful, useful, stop-Noisebridge-dying links. So, Noisebridge The Great, San Francisco's most awesome free-as-in-speech hackerspace, was packed tonight. There was the backend webdev with Ruby kids, the Light Patterns with LED and Arduinos gang were teaching up a storm, Gent Thaci from Kosovo (the world's second youngest country!) was giving a talk explaining how free software hackers are helping build a new nation, and how Noisebridge and other hackerspaces were inspiring him and his friends. Lots of people were plotting the fundraiser for this weekend, others were mopping and sweeping, somebody is building a huge mysterious thing out of wood, and oh my. We had the weekly meeting, and two things happened. One is that we consensed on making me the new treasurer. Then the old outgoing treasurer revealed we only have $7000 left in the bank. Our monthly expenses are $5000. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I AM MADE TREASURER. I am about to POUNCE on our accounts to explore out what's going on in intricate ultra-transparent detail (expect even longer bloody emails soon), but I already have a pretty good idea. Our income wobbles up and down because we rely a lot on random donations. Sometimes we pull in more donations, and sometimes we pull in less. We've been pulling in less for a few months now, and if that carries on, we're all done by July. As in, can't pay rent and have to shut down. I am not too keen on being the treasurer that managed to kill Noisebridge in less than three months, but I HAVE A PLAN. 1) Panic (see this mail) 2) Big fundraiser on Saturday! Come and party and donate! (I admit this was already happening and planned before I became treasurer, but still.) {{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{ SERIOUS BIT: 3) When I heard how screwed we were, I instantly ran across the space to the Ruby class and gave a little speech asking them to give money. Some of them signed up for monthly donations, many dropped some bucks in the donation bucket. People love us, and want to give us money! We need to ask people who love us for cash more often, and I will. But for now sporadic donations are not enough. We need to increase Noisebridge's regular, guaranteed monthly income so we don't dip so low. I figure that out of the thousand or so people who use Noisebridge, love Noisebridge, have a Noisebridge key they're waiting to use, or are just happy something like Noisebridge exists somewhere in the world, young and old, bazillionaire dotcommer or ingenious starving hacker, can pay $10 or maybe more a month to keep Noisebridge stable and regular. But it turns out it is actually really hard to pay us regularly. You can use Paypal, but some people do not like Paypal, and it needs a credit card. You can drop $10 in the box, but what hacker remembers that every month? What hacker remembers to pay their *own* bills every month? Also, what do you get for $10 a month? Sure, you get the world's craziest hackerspace, not-even-run by anarchist lunatics who built WikiLeaks and run one of the biggest Tor nodes and work for the EFF and construct X-Ray Lasers from spare parts and inspire SciFi books and start 3D printing companies and make kombucha and robots, and you get to come to it 24/7 and we'll give you a key, and share our software and our classrooms and teach you how to fix your laptop or use our woodshop or share our library or use the darkroom or cook some food or have a free shell account or throw a party or chase a robot or paint a picture or make a dress. But you could do that without paying $10 anyway, right? Well, maybe only until July, but yes, I agree you should get more. {}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{} So here is my deal as the All New Treasurer: If you send me your email, RIGHT NOW, to treasurer(a)noisebridge.net , and just pledge to me that you would like to pay $10 (or more) a month to Noisebridge, I promise: * I will sort out a way to get you to pay, even if it is sending one of my minions to your house to pick up $10 worth of quarters from your couch. Do not sweat about Paypal or stuff. We are going bust. We will find a way to help you donate in the easiest way possible. For now, I just need you to pledge. * If 200 people splurge $10 a month, and we can collect the money from them, we will be stable enough to keep going past July (our current burn rate is $2Kish). * If 300 or so people do this, we will slowly get back to our $15K reserve without support from companies or the government or charitable foundations (though I am hitting up other people of course). At that point, I will advocate we start spending your money on a COMPLETELY COOL RENOVATIONS OF NOISEBRIDGE. I will RAM THROUGH CONSENSUS that we should spend any money that is more than three months reserve on infrastructure improvements. Everyone loves me, so they will agree. If they do not, we will just keep the money around for emergencies like this. It will be like Kickstarter "stretch goal"! Only via a strangely formatted text-only email! * Everyone on my pledge list will be an Associate Member for the purposes of strange Noisebridge politics. But I insist they will get more! * As Treasurer, I solemnly declare that everyone on my list will be heretofore known as SAVIOURS OF NOISEBRIDGE. That will make them BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE IN THE HISTORY OF NOISEBRIDGE. When somebody asks you to move out of the way for a class, you can just say I AM A SAVIOUR. When someone needs you to wash dishes, just say EXCUSE ME I AM A SAVIOUR OF NOISEBRIDGE. Some people may have started Noisebridge and be all hoighty-toighty. BUT YOU WILL HAVE STOPPED NOISEBRIDGE STOPPING. And far more recently than them. YOU WILL BE THE BESTEST. * If you are another hackerspace, and you communally pledge $10, we will come and wash your dishes and try and fix your 3D printer. That is my once-in-a-lifetime offer. Send me mail at treasurer(a)noisebridge.net with how much you pledge, and I will add you to the saviour list. Go to this web form and add your name, I will add you to the saviour list: http://nburl.net/pledge Better still, go to this Paypal page, and sign up for $10 and I will INSTANTLY MAKE YOU A SAVIOUR: http://nburl.net/save Donate to Noisebridge via Causes.com, and THE SAME THING WILL HAPPEN: http://nburl.net/causes As newbie naive hubristic impatient Treasurer I will set up Amazon Payments, Square, Swipe, Dwolla and whatever the hell you want. I will work out a way to get your payment from China or Brazil, Kosovo or New York. But first I need you to pledge! I will let everyone know how many people pledge, and keep mailing long emails until we are saved. We have three months to save Noisebridge. Help me, only tenbucks monthly, you're my only hope. http://nburl.net/pledge d. PS Did I say to come to our fundraiser party? This Saturday, 3PM- late. Tutorials, music, raffles, art and more! https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Art PPS Pledge 10 bucks and I will also stop with the Star Wars puns. http://nburl.net/pledge _______________________________________________ Noisebridge-discuss mailing list Noisebridge-discuss(a)lists.noisebridge.net https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss -- Naomi Theora Most naomi(a)nthmost.com +1-415-728-7490 skype: nthmost http://twitter.com/nthmost

13 years, 2 months

Financial records (we'll get a system going soon)...

by Tommy York

Until then, thanks to Matt for running this to the bank. We'll figure out a system soon for aggregating images of all of our deposits and etc.

13 years, 2 months

Delegate voting

by Max Klein

Bonkers readers, I am unable to make the meeting tonight, but in doing so would like to kick off a trend to aid with any voting, be it official or straw-poll. Anthony Di Franco if in attendance may vote on my behalf, else If Jordan Cohen if in attendance may vote on my behalf. A note on format: By do-ocracy, I have created a format for declaring voting delegates. It occurs on your Wiki user page, as an ordered list. To prevent frivolity, you must make alliterating triplets describing each delegate. For example see: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/User:Maximilianklein#Delegates

13 years, 2 months

DIY cellphones

by J Clark

Sudoers, Following a related conversation earlier, here's info on a DIY cellphone: http://hlt.media.mit.edu/?p=2182 https://github.com/damellis/cellphone I'd love to follow any development that happens around here. Not a coder, but happy to test! j. P.S. from the "you knew it was coming" dept: How Hard Is It to 'De-Anonymize' Cellphone Data? http://j.mp/14oUhaC (Science Daily) "The proliferation of sensor-studded cellphones could lead to a wealth of data with socially useful applications -- in urban planning, epidemiology, operations research and emergency preparedness, among other things. Of course, before being released to researchers, the data would have to be stripped of identifying information. But how hard could it be to protect the identity of one unnamed cellphone user in a data set of hundreds of thousands or even millions? According to a paper appearing this week in Scientific Reports, harder than you might think."

13 years, 2 months

‘Hakitzu’ Teaches Kids to Code With Robot Warriors

by Ray Lai

Teaching. Coding. Robots in Arenas. Hell yeah! I've always been a proponent of utilizing games to teach. I haven't checked out the game, it sounds like it's on the right track. Ideas on how me might be able to do the same here at Sudo Room? http://mashable.com/2013/03/27/hakitzu/?utm_source=iphoneapp&utm_medium=rss… Raymond Lai Ice Cream Man Atomic Ice Cream Facebook.com/MotoAtomico

13 years, 2 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] [sudo-announce] Microcontroller Hacking begins in 48 hours!

by hol＠gaskill.com

Hi Steve, I put that project up on the etherpad. Last night we did 2-axis control of a webcam using hobby servos controlled by an arduino with pointing instructions sent via serial and we have a few industrial servos used for HVAC that I would like to experiment with at some point for dish pointing. They are there next to the dishes if you want to check them out and pull the datasheets, run on 24V ac or dc with an odd way of sending the signal. Personally I am trying (and failing somewhat) to focus on CNC and brewing/process control so it might be a while before I can help with a detailed project, but I would like to figure out how to drive those servos. What kind of pointing accuracy do you need? My guess is that these will not cut it, but that doesn't mean we can't put something together. Still have not had a second rocket meetup either now that I think of it... Cheers, Hol Mar 27, 2013 03:07:49 PM, steveberl(a)gmail.com wrote: I notice on the etherpad that someone is interested in a 2 axis control for a radio dish. I'm interested in that also. In particular I want to mount a house satellite TV dish sized antenna on a 2 axis mount for radio astronomy use. It requires smooth and precise, but slow movement. >Who is it that is interested in this project? Can you get in contact with me? >-steve > >On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 5:43 PM, hol(a)gaskill.com> wrote: > >Howdy folks, > > We are two days away from the beginning of the second microcontroller project hacking night at sudo room. As someone suggested, I created a facebookpage for the event. Please invite people you think might be interested! I previously ordered 10 ATMega328p chips and crystals, and will have them available at cost ($5) for those just starting out who want a basic controller. > > Event Link: > https://www.facebook.com/events/502675869769339/ > > Also, there is an etherpad to jot down projects you intend to work on in case anyone out there is interested in collaborating: > https://pad.riseup.net/p/microbotics > This will be an ongoing document, and is intended to provide a subsystem-level view of project elements in order to encourage people to join together to work on individual elements or principles where interests overlap in a way that permits a limited scope of collaboration, without having to commit to recurring work on an entire project. > > We had some interesting projects last time and I expect even more this time, hopefully with a few people from the last event returning to show what they've done with their projects since then. Personally I will try to go back and forth between 50% working on 2-3 projects, 30% getting newbies started on their controller builds, and 20% snacking/shooting the shit. Looking forward to seeing y'all! > > Cheers, > Hol > _______________________________________________ > sudo-announce mailing list > sudo-announce(a)lists.sudoroom.org > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-announce > > > >-- >-steve

13 years, 2 months

sudo room bank account info

by Matthew Senate

attached is a statement as of today (after a deposit this morning) Total funds: 2,286.35 // Matt

13 years, 2 months

Off grid energy panels that we don't see in the cool Silicon Valley tech talks

by Romy Ilano

I'm seeing very smart conversations about off grid alternative energy infrastructure and systems here Is there a way to easily show me in a chart what the off grid alternatives are that are not discussed in the cool Silicon Valley greentech scene? And I hope nobody bashes greentech too much... It's become such a dirty word in the investment community because its returns are not quick and easy like mobile social networks There are a lot of great biofuels panels I worked on where the idea of off grid wasn't presented because its not a viable business model. I think the lesbian biofuels reclaimed cooking oil gas station in Berkeley I met a fee years ago was neat but it was hard to make people see it as relevant in a deal flow So I feel my education is incomplete as are other Americans --- Romy Ilano Founder of Snowyla http://www.snowyla.com romy(a)snowyla.com

13 years, 2 months

Please help pay dues / our rent (we're going to be short), plus seeking materials for a (physical) drop box.

by Tommy York

As Marina mentioned in her email, we're *short rent* and need to *collect dues* from everyone to cover it. I understand that meeting attendance hasn't been as high as active membership in general, but if you've missed out on paying dues in the last month, can do so, and can make it tonight, come! One thing I thought might make a significant different in collecting rent and dues is having a (physical) drop box installed on the wall in Sudoroom, so that people could safely drop off checks at any time of the day. I suppose this would be much like the mailbox, but mayhaps with keys distributed to the ~5 checksigners, so that checks could even be dropped off in this physical box after receiving them in the mail. I'm broke until I get my first paycheck from my new work in ~2.5 weeks, and don't really have a lot of things, so I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas about a potential lockable dropbox to install on the wall / somewhere at Sudoroom. If all else fails, I'll check out urban ore before the meeting. tl;dr: pay rent. - tommy ----------------- Thomas Riley York (杨德民) 510.926.0510 http://www.linkedin.com/in/tommyyork

13 years, 2 months

Meeting Tonight Promptly at 7PM + Pay Your Dues!

by Marina Kukso

hi everyone, we will be starting promptly at 7PM tonight. during this meeting we hope to finalize an amendment to the articles of association (please see below). also, this is the *final week of the month and we are still short for april rent*. please bring your checkbooks, cash, etc. this evening or pay via wepay on sudoroom.org. If you have items for the agenda, the blank pad is here: https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudoroom* *(can someone please add the meeting agenda template?) thanks, marina ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 6:39 AM Subject: [sudo-discuss] UPDATE/REMINDER: Amending Articles of Association on 3/27! To: sudo-announce(a)lists.sudoroom.org, sudo-discuss < sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org> We were supposed to finally vote to update the Articles of Association on 3/20, but the wiki went down on 3/18 and stayed down until this past weekend! We didn't feel comfortable voting without the diff in front of us, and knowing that the full week of "online-consentability" was not fulfilled. But now the wiki is back up - thanks to all the people who worked hard to fix it! This message serves as your reminder. You have an extra few days to review the diff online, to make up for lost time: https://sudoroom.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Articles_of_Association%2FCo… Hope to see you at the 3/27 meeting and finally make this happen! _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss

13 years, 2 months

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