[sudo-discuss] Ring in the New Year at Sudoroom Hardware and SoftWEAR Hack Night:

Hi Sudoers: Ring in the New Year at Sudoroom: here are some projects we’ll be working on tonight: -Telepresence monitor: we’ve now got two large candidate TVs to try to get working: 1) Patrik from CCL’s Samsung un48J5200AF 48” TV (“It has been having intermittent problems with the screen going black”) and the 55” 4K TV, Toshiba Model K550WDR1/55l621U (when power is applied It displays the splash screen with the logo, and then goes out.) It’d be great to get at least one of these TVs working so we can mount it to the rolling monitor stand and use it to telepresence people into Sudorooom via jitsi or Discord. -Chromebook Conversion: want a lightweight laptop you can experiment with Linux on? We have lots of Chromebooks retired by school districts that are convertible to Linux; you can have one to help build out a Chromebook and Linux hacking, distribution and support practice at Sudoroom. (See http://bit.ly/cbsave for more details.) -Donation Stations for Sudoroom and Free Store: we have some large PVC tubing we need to secure to a heavy base. I’ve also got some electronics we can use to trigger positive feedback celebratory and acknowledgment effects when someone donates, and other electronics to sound an alarm if someone tries to make off with it. *** And don’t forget Kent’s cleanup scheduled for Friday Jan 5 11-5: let’s get a head start on that tonight and purge some clutter. *** Hope to see you later, -Peter