Dear Sudoroom members and leaders,
For the past 2.5 years I’ve been a Sudoroom “member” (I say this in
quotations because I’ve been paying dues and attending but have never been
endorsed as a full fledged member), but I’d like to make a proposal that
Sudoroom become an Apartheid Free Community!
I am writing as a member of SURJ Bay Area’s Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
As a racial justice organization, SURJ believes it is our moral obligation
to demand an end to Israel’s system of apartheid, …
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its increasing violent seizure of land in the West Bank. All this is paid
for by our tax dollars, with the U.S. directly funding the Israeli
government to the tune of $35 billion a year.
We invite Sudoroom to join us to support the Palestinian people’s human
rights, lives, and lands by taking the pledge to become an Apartheid-Free
Community.
Apartheid is a crime against humanity. As defined by the United Nations
<https://legal.un.org/avl/ha/cspca/cspca.html>, apartheid includes:
• Acts such as murder, torture, inhuman treatment, and arbitrary arrest of
members of a racial group
• Deliberate imposition upon the subjugated racial group of living
conditions calculated to cause its physical destruction
• Legislative measures that discriminate in the political, social,
economic, and cultural fields
We could fill pages with examples of how Israel’s treatment of Palestinians
meets this criteria—from arrests and imprisonment without charges to the
destruction of Gaza by bombing homes, hospitals, and schools and cutting
off food, water, electricity and medical supplies. Palestinians are
subjected to entirely different laws and judicial systems, without freedom
of movement and economic opportunities.
Inspired by the anti-apartheid movement that helped topple the white
supremacist regime in South Africa, the Apartheid-Free Communities Campaign
is bringing communities together to end apartheid in Israel/Palestine. We
encourage Sudoroom to join the over 500 organizations across the globe,
including cities, schools, faith-based communities, labor unions,
businesses, and organizations, in taking the pledge to become an
Apartheid-Free Community.
Signing the Pledge makes a difference! It reflects public support to our
elected officials when we press them to divest from Israeli violence. It
reduces harm to Palestinian and Arab members of our community. It
challenges the official narratives and expands the public consciousness
around Palestine. We ask that you sign this pledge, and take actions, in
whatever way makes sense to Sudoroom, to be part of this effort.
Be sure to let me know if you have any questions and how I can support your
Sudoroom in signing the Pledge and joining this campaign.
In Solidarity,
Lo
P.S. We have materials including buttons, posters, and pamphlets you can
use to increase awareness and build support. Plus the Apartheid-Free
Communities website <https://apartheid-free.org/about/> is full of great
resources and educational materials.
--
*Lo *
*(Laura Wesely)*
*Pronouns: She/They <https://www.mypronouns.org/>*
*There is no neutral body from which our bodies deviate. Society has
written deep into each strand of tissue of every living person on earth.
What it writes into the heart muscles of five star generals is distinct
from what it writes in the pancreatic tissue and intestinal tracts of Black
single mothers in Detroit, of Mexicana migrants in Fresno, but no body
stands outside the consequences of injustice and inequality*
*― *Aurora Levins Morales
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Hi Sudoers:
We’ve got two events coming up later this week:
- Fri Jun 27 7PM-9PM: Sudo Room is hosting Denise Wong, Senior Statewide
Membership Organizer, and at least seven others (Denny, Hoang, Jeffrey,
Jennifer, Jorja, Kevin, and Matt) from Asian Pacific Environmental
Network (https://www.apenaction.org/) for a meet-and-greet, tour of Omni
Commons, and an informal clean-up and cull of our laptop cabinet: please
help us give them a warm welcome.
(Is anyone willing to tidy up Sudo Room …
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pretty please?)
- Sat Jun 28 1PM-3PM: Thinkpads4All.org (a great bunch of high schoolers
and college students) is holding a computer repair workshop at the Tarea
Hall Pittman South Branch, Berkeley Public Library:
https://berkeleypubliclibrary.libnet.info/event/13755420
Thinkpads4All brings laptops and disassembly tools to guide participants
through taking a laptop apart – to change the battery, to upgrade
memory, to replace the hard drive, etc. I’ve been attending their
workshops to field general questions about tech repair.
You’re welcome to attend just to participate in the Thinkpads4All
workshop (and tell your friends too); you’re also welcome to join me in
hanging out and fielding questions, or to bring your own laptop or other
tech to work on. (Long term: we’re talking with the Thinkpads4All team
about incorporating more of a Sudo Room-like component to their future
workshops, e.g. inviting people to bring their own broken laptops,
helping with software migration (e.g. Windows 10 end of support is this
October), and converting laptops and Chromebooks to Linux.)
Let me know you’re coming by registering at
https://bit.ly/inpersoncoachsignup
Hopefully see you at either (or both!) , -Peter
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Have any projects with crafting / technical projects around Juneteenth?
Or PRIDE?
This would be super rad! I don't have time to stop in would love to gather
other folks' ideas!
rock on!
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
https://sudoroom.org/blog/
Do you guys have any blog updates for the blog?
sorry I have a crazy new schedule! I'm so happy to drop in today
We have a lot of cool projects ahead!
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
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Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:40:57 -0700
From: Open Healthware <openhealthware(a)oshwa.org>
To: members(a)sudoroom.org, Alicia Seidle <alicia(a)oshwa.org>
Subject: [sudo-members] Invitation to Attend OSHWA's Open Healthware Conference in New York City!
Hi Sudo Room folks!
I'm reaching out on behalf of the Open Source Hardware Association
<http://www.oshwa.org/> to invite you to our upcoming Open Source
Healthware Conference <https://…
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August 1&2, in New York City and online. I recently attended an event at
Sudo Room and loved the space and people working there together. I thought
this invitation might align with the work you all do.
The goal of the conference is to share how people are using and developing
open source technology in the medical and health field. It is the first
event of this kind we are running and we would love to have you and your
ideas present. We are currently having a call for speakers
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1BOHmQ6A0VacOBBc_j4wUIYqUaqB2TM3rL0ItqySO7N…>
open
until June 23 if you are interested in both attending *and *sharing your
work! To attend, you can reserve free tickets to the conference here
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/open-healthware-conference-tickets-13151375949…>
and
are welcome and encouraged to share the event within your networks.
For the past year OSHWA has been hosting strategy session workshops on the
Open Healthware ecosystem in order to identify challenges and
opportunities. We are hoping to work with the community to design a process
to certify open source hardware in the medical field. If you're interested
in attending these sessions prior to the conference, you can find out more
here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDa4gpVXZ5EAelwR0cxqFzhIPcV0wGN7G…>
or
in the attached fliers.
*If you need travel assistance for the conference**, you can apply for up
to $1000 in flight reimbursements, hotel accommodations, and per diem
expenses. You can apply for these travel funding **here*
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe_AT4RNUc9vZ-RU_BXhosoFnCHtETuo2P…>
*. *
Check out our website at healthware.oshwa.org for more info!
Hope to see you there and please do not hesitate to reach out with any
questions
Looking forward to hearing from you,
*Herine Palacios*
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Hi Sudoers:
Our friends and fellow fixers at Thinkpads4All.org (a great bunch of
high schoolers and college students) are holding computer repair
workshops the next two Saturdays at libraries in Oakland and Berkeley:
-Saturday, June 21, 2025 2:30pm – 5:00pm 81st Avenue Branch, Oakland
Public Library
https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/67cb854e596bfd2f001864d4
-Saturday, June 28 1:00pm - 3:00pm Tarea Hall Pittman South Branch,
Berkeley Public Library
https://…
[View More]berkeleypubliclibrary.libnet.info/event/13755420
Thinkpads4All brings laptops and disassembly tools to guide participants
through taking a laptop apart – to change the battery, to upgrade
memory, to replace the hard drive, etc. I’ve been attending their
workshops to field general questions about tech repair.
You’re welcome to attend just to participate in the Thinkpads4All
workshop (and tell your friends too); you’re also welcome to join me in
hanging out and fielding questions, or to bring your own laptop or other
tech to work on. (Long term: we’re talking with the Thinkpads4All team
about incorporating more of a Sudo Room-like component to their future
workshops, e.g. inviting people to bring their own broken laptops,
helping with software migration (e.g. Windows 10 end of support is this
October), and converting laptops and Chromebooks to Linux.)
IMO these library-based tech events are an important component of Sudo
Room outreach; to raise awareness and recruit new members.
Let me know you’re coming by registering at
https://bit.ly/inpersoncoachsignup
Hopefully see you there , -Peter
Peter Mui @ Fixit Clinic
www.fixitclinic.org – Neighbors helping neighbors in always there
self-care collaborative repair
+1 408 647 5790
fixitclinic(a)gmail.com
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There is an ICE protest at fruitvale tonight at 6pm so I will either be
late to tonight's meetup or not able to make it depending on how things
go.
This brought up a project I was interested in building, a stingray
detector. The instructions I found online require either a RTL-SDR v3 or a
HackRF One. Before I buy one online, I was wondering if anyone has one
they'd be willing to loan to this project?
--
Patrick Clawson
Hi Sudoers:
Wednesday evening from 5:30 to 7 we’re holding a Fixit Clinic Repair
Advice Session at the Oakland Tool Lending Library / Temescal Branch at
52nd and Telegraph (just a few blocks away from Omni Commons):
https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/67e5bdb9f97aac3d000a7333
These Temescal Library Fixit Clinics are an important Sudo Room outreach
activity for raising neighborhood awareness of Sudo Room / Omni Commons
and recruiting new members as we work alongside neighbors …
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stuff. Even if you can’t make it right at the start you’re welcome to
drop in anytime and hang out with us. And you’re most welcome to bring
your own things to work on too.
Here are the items pre-registered as of today, no doubt they’ll be
walk-ins too: (This is a live Google Sheet so you can see new items as
more people register.) http://bit.ly/itemcheckins
Please sign up at https://bit.ly/inpersoncoachsignup so I know you’re
coming.
Hope to see you there, -Peter
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