New subject: TONIGHT! Fwd: 9/21 - great hybrid event at SudoRoom do go! Common Tools for Common Socio-Environmental Problems! (hybrid)

14 Sep 2024

https://lu.ma/wd747lxq

Folks there's a great event on September 21st - do go! it looks like it's
going to be awesome!!!!!

*Common Tools for Common Socio-Environmental Problems
<https://sudoroom.org/announcing-a-hybrid-skill-sharing-event-common-tools-for-common-socio-environmental-problems-9-21/>*

*An hybrid event for skill-sharing and knowledge exchange*

How can we help each other make sense and respond to pressing
socio-technical-and-environmental problems?

Looking in our past and present we can find collaborative tools,
approaches, and sociocultural practices to answer this question. Join us
for an evening of presentations, skill-sharing workshops, and artistic
performances at Sudoroom, your friendly neighborhood hackerspace!

*!!! Donations will be requested to help support the community space and
the artists !!!*

*Format:*

Hybrid with in-person and online presentations

*ABSTRACTS*

*Paths to assistive technology: Repair & DIY, Right to Repair, and Reverse
Engineering*

by *Liz Henry*

*There is a lot of  home-grown wisdom in disabled communities about
adapting or making "assistive tech" - things like wheelchair modifications,
small devices that make life easier. And there are inventors---often
disabled inventors---creating super complicated devices as well. There are
also books, papers, and research with plans for DIY assistive tech.
Grassroots Open Assistive Tech aims to collect, preserve, and propagate
that info and encourage the use of open licensing to make ecosystems for
building & sharing so that more people can get the adaptive equipment they
need!*

*Community Digital Territories: Baobáxia*

*by  Vince - Casa de Cultura Tainã / Rede Mocambos*

*“The idea comes from the Baobab, an African tree that lives for thousands
of years and symbolically represents the collective memory of the
territory. Baobáxia is the union of baobabs with galaxies. Galaxies of
memories of community territories, on the Baobab Route, on the Path of the
Stars..” Baobab is a network of mucuas, computers with free software,
GNU/Linux, operating on the community network through the local Wi-Fi, even
without internet. The mucuas host different galaxies of knowledge and
digital applications such as collections, maps, blogs. All mocambolas can
share their knowledge in the form of audio, videos, articles, documents,
images, maps and soon much more. The knowledge of each mucua can be
synchronized with the others, over the internet or on the local network
through mobile mucuas. A mucua can be a very robust computer, like Madiba,
which is located at the Community Data Center of the Tainã Cultural Center,
or even a simple USB stick. This way, knowledge is maintained in our
territories and shared on our networks. Baobáxia is created by Rede
Mocambos, a collaboration between quilombolas, indigenous peoples,
Nartisans, and artists from all over Brazil and beyond.*

*The WBSW (Wheelchair Battery Spot Welder)*

*by Criptastic Hacker*

*An eco-soluton to reporposing batteries for useful projects! Every year,
many thousands of large lead-acid batteries from wheelchairs are discarded
to landfill because they don't offer enough torque for the motors to push a
human across city blocks, or even around the house. However, these
batteries still have a lot of instantaneous JUICE to create--- sparks! *

*This project repurposes my old wheelchair batteries into a fully
functional portable spot welder.  With spot welding, you can repurpose EVEN
MOAR by taking recycled laptop and car Li-ion and LifePo cells and creating
new packs from them -- for your DIY projects like robots, outdoor sound
systems, and so much moar!  *

*It's reporposing batteries to repurpose batteries. And since the materials
used in batteries are some of the most toxic to our planet and have major
health and worker rights issues around the materials mining for them,
getting the most life out of them possible - and de-investing from that
industry - is very good for both people and the planet.*

*Resisting Contextual Collapse: How an Internet of Places (iPlaces) can
help Field Stations and Marine Labs Operationalize FAIR and CARE Principles
for Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice*

by Erin Robinson & Neil Davies

*Research stations help scientists gather data at source and witness the
resilience and fragility of our planet firsthand. Despite their role in
understanding the complex physical, biogeochemical, ecological, social, and
economic interactions that constitute place, station contributions and
those of the local community often remain unrecognized. Metadata describing
the samples/data they help originate is too easily stripped or lost as
value is added downstream. To fight this “contextual collapse,” we present
a new publishing platform (iPlaces) that empowers investigators to publish
descriptions of their field projects (marker papers) in a station journal,
providing each project with a landing page and a digital object identifier.
Through the familiar manuscript review process (with the station director
acting as editor), iPlaces introduces a way to layer ethical, legal,
social, and scientific metadata to field research. Part of a collaborative
ecosystem, iPlaces links and leverages a suite of online services (e.g.,
GEOME, ORCID, DataCite, iSamples, Local Contexts), promoting their uptake
in place-based research. In this talk, I will focus on our recent work with
Local Contexts, where iPlaces enables a station to issue ‘notices’ for a
proposed project, thus initiating dialogue with local communities and
combatting “parachute science”. Communities can then issue ‘labels’, a form
of social metadata (e.g., Prior Informed Consent), to projects and their
downstream field samples/data, helping to operationalize CARE as well as
FAIR data principles. As data and samples move downstream, value-added
products are linked automatically through the global open science
infrastructure, ensuring the connection back to place (the station and its
associated communities). iPlaces thus positions stations as crucial
partners connecting nature and communities to the global research
enterprise, supporting scientific discovery and environmental stewardship
in the service of people, places, and planet. *

*Community Science Air Quality Monitoring for Environmental Justice *

by José Ramon Becerra Vera

*Open hardware and community science provide populations overburdened by
pollution with the tools, knowledge, and data to advocate for environmental
justice. Communities are often the first to notice pollution in their homes
and neighborhoods. Yet, they are frequently excluded from scientific
research that follows initial reports of smells, tastes, and health
symptoms. This disconnect misses the opportunity to teach communities about
pollution while neglecting local experiences that could help understand
exposure, identify toxic sources and high concentrations, and contribute to
environmental science. Implementing open technologies like DIY air monitors
in community science can teach and empower participants as experts in
instrumentation, data, and analysis and enable communities to explore
research questions shaped by their unique experiences. Open hardware allows
pollution-affected communities to harness their lived experiences, newly
developed expertise and collected environmental data to drive meaningful
environmental justice efforts.*

*Air Quality*

by Eseibio Halliday aka "The Revolutionary Eseibio The Automatic"

*Rap song written by Eseibio will be performed live to close the event.*

After all the presentations, we will continue on with a free-form
skill-sharing / hacking session until it is time to catch the last train
home. Join us!

*Who:*

- Valerie (trust framework for science-community collaborations), Oregon
State University (*TBD*)

- Jose (air quality / open hardware), Purdue University

- Vince (community digital territories *Baobáxia), Casa Tainã *Rede Mocambos

- Erin (community data / open data), Metadata Game Changers REMOTE

- Liz Henry (diy wheelchair stuff), Grassroots Open Assistive Tech

- Criptastic Hacker (Build a spot welder from an old wheelchair battery)
REMOTE

- Masi (Cybersecurity for the Environment / How we moved from the Fidonet
Era, Mascanc.net <http://mascanc.net/>) REMOTE

- Eseibio Halliday (environmentally conscious rap artist)

- LF (host)

*Organization:*

SEEKCommons project

Sudoroom community members

*Romy Mimi Ilano*

*romy.ilano(a)gmail.com &lt;romy.ilano(a)gmail.com&gt;*