Hey sudoers!

LOLspace, otherwise known as Liberating Ourselves Locally, a POC-led makerspace in East Oakland that started around the same time as sudo and is now a project of the hella rad Peacock Rebellion, recently purchased their building in Fruitvale in tandem with EastSide Arts Alliance, Sustaining Ourselves Locally (SOL, a QTPOC-led food justice collective & garden), Cycles of Change bike shop worker coop, and Shaolin Life, a community temple and martial arts studio - as well as several residential spaces on the second floor. This is a huge win and I'm so stoked!!

They're having a celebration on the afternoon of January 28th, and I thought it'd be rad if we could bring a gift on behalf of sudoroom :)

Some ideas I was considering:

* a sign or card drawn by the robot arm - and if card, signed by sudoers ^_^

* donating one of our sewing machines (they seem to be much more crafty than sudo)

* donating a bunch of those phablets we got? or were they eee pcs?

* some sweet outdoor lighting rig to make the sidewalk space more inviting and safe?

Also:

* a rooftop mesh node install! they're about a block from the houseless encampment that the City gave to The Village to build their first village of 2018 on. [this will happen, if they're down, regardless of a sudoroom gift]

Anyone interested in collaborating on this?

Other ideas, inspiration, do-ocratic gift-making welcome and encouraged :)

<3

Jenny

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