Hi everyone.
The Omni Commons, the building that sudo mesh co-owns with sudo room,
Counter Culture Labs, Food not Bombs and several other collectives just
had a private lender back out of a loan last minute and now it cannot
pay its $120k property taxes due tomorrow.
If anyone is willing to lend us $120k or a portion thereof, even if it's
for just three months until we to sort out another loan, please contact
me. This needs to happen before tomorrow at 4 pm pacific time.
The loan would be secured by the building as a second mortgage so it
should be fairly low risk.
--
marc/juul
Peter here is the sudomesh list, what's your hope for this connection? Do you
think it's a grant opportunity that Sudomesh should explore?
-jake
On Mon, 25 Dec 2023, Peter Mui via sudo-discuss wrote:
> “...The $14 million initially set aside for Oakland — a large chunk of the
> $24.5 million slated for Alameda County at large — is intended to build out
> the “last mile” of broadband connectivity, or tether parts of the city to the
> larger internet backbone built along major interstate highways.
>
> “...The issue hits close to home for high-school students in East Oakland,
> who said in interviews that everything from their post-pandemic education to
> FaceTimes calls with relatives to simple entertainment options were a
> nightmare of frozen screens, lagging videos and endless troubleshooting…”
>
> Article in the Mercury News about broadband deployment in East Oakland:
> https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/12/24/why-are-comcast-and-att-trying-to-bl…
>
> Do any suders / sudomeshers know Patrick Messac and/or the digital-equity
> advocacy group #OaklandUndivided?
>
> Seasons Greetings, -Peter
>
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Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2023 01:01:25 +0100 (CET)
From: w.napora(a)tuta.io
To: Info <info(a)sudoroom.org>
Subject: [sudo-info] Reticulum Network Stack
I found out you some time ago and love what you are doing. I have think to send and show you http://reticulum.network/ i don't know if you will use it but have think it could in some way help with your meshnetworks. If you will like it could you show it to other mesh networks? Would be cool to have one huge Reticulum network around the globe. I wish you all the best and good luck with your projects.
Waldemar
I propose that Sudoroom and Sudomesh take over the three (of four) basement
rooms being vacated by Village of Love, paying a combined $1500 for them.
In the past decade, Sudoroom has failed to scale its community to the size
required to pay for its current space. It's been perpetually in debt ever
since, never had any budget left over to invest in hacking, and had to ask
forgiveness from Omni many times, putting the building in greater jeopardy.
Besides its size, one of the nicest features of the current spot is natural
sunlight - but virtually all Sudo gatherings happen after dark. We are
paying for something we don't use.
Omni is coming under increasing community pressure over the fact that
majority-white collectives underpay for the biggest nicest spaces in the
building, while pushing more diverse collectives into less desirable
corners. This will be one way to make right.
Downsizing is good for us, good for omni, and good for the newer BIPOC-led
collectives that omni is trying to recruit.
If sudoers agree, maybe a good timeline would be to announce intention to
complete the move by February 1.
How can I set up internet at parents. What do I need purchase? Do sell or
provide nodes? Sorry tech illiterate here.
Kat
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I know that for people who built sudomesh and have been working on the
project this whole time, but who don't have time or availability to host
meetings or onboard new people, this may read as unwanted pressure, but I
agree with the principle of the idea.
There are a lot of people who want to see sudomesh and its projects prosper,
and effectively rejecting new energy and leaving it to people outside the
project to handle requests for more information is not a good way to do
things.
Can we just discuss what the options are together and try to move forward
somehow?
-jake
On Wed, 2 Aug 2023, Andrew R Gross wrote:
> Hey, two new guys came by tonight and expressed strong interest in
> Sudo-Mesh. I told them to come around on Tuesday and get to know people.
>
> I want to reiterate that I think the current posture of legacy members of
> this project is unproductive and demoralizing, because all requests to join
> are ignored, but any attempts to independently create a fork of the project
> are condemned. I once again think that one of the legacy members should
> agree to either hold an open event or agree to let others meet and talk
> about Sudo Mesh in their absence. But I will refrain from any further
> mischief out of respect for the wishes of the legacy members of this
> project.
>
> Cheers,
>
> *Andrew R Gross, (he/him)*
> 412.657.5332 - shrad.org <http://www.shrad.org>
>