Sudoroom

SudoMesh over Oakland

Welcome to Sudo Room, a free hackerspace located at 4799 Shattuck in north Oakland, CA!

Our slogan is: HACK THE PLANET! Read more About Sudo Room's vision, values, mission, and code of conduct.

We use and share technology to promote social justice, sustainability, education and solidarity.

We strive to be an open, transparent, horizontal and welcoming community where all are supported and free to learn, create, gather, collaborate, work, play and more!

We are exclusively volunteer-run and supported through donations!

Get involved!

• Email us at info [at] sudoroom [dot] org
• Stop by any event on our calendar
• Join our discussion email list
• Follow us on Instagram: @sudo.room
• Check out some of the Cool Projects we are working on, or look at our available tools and work stations

Regular Events

For the most recently-updated list of upcoming events, see: Sudo Room Calendar and Omni Commons Global Calendar

Weekly Events

Women / NonBinary Coding nights Mondays (7pm - 9pm or even later)	The Sudo Room, a creative community and hackerspace at Omni Commons, invites all Women/NB people for “Coding Owls – A WNB Coding Night”: bring your computer and a coding project and have fun! We can help each other if you have coding related questions/bugs or just keep company while hacking! and if you can't make it there physically, we have an ONLINE JITSI PORTAL
Hardware and SoftWEAR Project Night & Fixit Clinic Tuesdays (8pm - 11pm or even later)	Tinker and toil, fiddle and play, hack away at hardware and electronics, affect flair or repairs on textiles and fabric. The Hardware and SoftWEAR Project Night runs alongside the Fixit Clinic, come join a plethora of creative, kind, smart, and knowledgeable nerds as we fix and make things! If you can't make it physically, you can join us virtually in our online Jitsi video conference
Radio Wednesdays Wednesdays (7pm - 9pm)	Wednesdays are for p2p decentralized communications for emergency preparedness and anti-surveillance! We talk ham and Meshtastic and other protocols. See also: https://leftyrad.io & https://bayme.sh

Once or Twice a Month

<ON HIATUS> Darkmode Last Sunday of each month (6pm - 8pm)	Enter the world of audio visuals, light projections and TouchDesigner workshops.
Smorgasbord 1st and 3rd Thursdays (7pm - 9pm)	Every other Thursday, we meet up to work on LLM hacking (see CommunityInfra), wiki editing (for any and all wiki!), and stitch 'n bitch (fabric arts and chat).
Meetings 2nd Thursday (7pm) and last Sunday (4pm)	Sudo Room's official meetings are twice a month (second Thursday at 7pm, and last Sunday at 4pm). We meet in a hybrid format, in-person at Sudo Room and remote using our online Jitsi video conference We keep our agenda on an etherpad and then archive the meeting minutes. We're a California non-profit. See our Articles of Association.
SudoParty 4th Thursdays (7pm - midnight)	$ sudo party --hard

Edit this list here: Recurring_Meetings

Work Stations

Check out the tools and Work Stations we have at Sudo Room and learn how to incorporate them into your next project

Active Projects

Get inspired! Here's what members are working on:

Current Projects

• Working Groups Our big project of 2026 is to create working groups to make things run more creatively

• Fix-It Clinic for the right to repair, fixing all variety of old things and new things, and learning how things work!

• MemberMatters migration We are trialling MemberMatters to manage membership, access, and payment.

• Chromebook Unlocking / Laptop De-branding putting new life into chromebooks soon to be EOL'd, and decorating/cleaning up our collection of Dell Latitudes

• Light Projector Art (April 2022, User:Romyilano)
  Projection Mapping uses everyday video projectors, but instead of projecting on a flat screen, light is mapped onto any surface, turning common objects of any 3D shape into interactive displays.

• 3D Printing at SudoRoom (ongoing as of April 2022, multiple contributors)
  There are a set of maintained 3D printers that members use to create cool objects.

Older Projects

• SudoRoom History
• Computer keyboards campaign (April 2023, User:Invictvs) Donate keyboards to SudoRoom!
• Hack-o-mat (ongoing as of January 2023) we're rebooting the sudoroom hack-o-mat, with this refresh adding more art and zines as well as fashion!
• Feminist Swimwear
• Learning Blender We'd like to learn blender in conjunction with the (now defunct) Blender nights at Noisebridge
• Juggling Club starting up a juggling club held at the Tuesday hardware hack nights!
• XR Augmented reality, WebXR and virtual reality (basically all XR) at SudoRoom.
• SudoMesh or the people's network the balcony above SudoRoom has been renovated and SudoMesh is active and going again! Or is it the people's network now?
• Community Data Center Who needs corporate "hyper-scale" data centers, when you can have hyper-local? For us, by us!
• ArtificialIntelligence all the AI buzzwords in one bucket - no seriously, we have had some fun non cheesy projects around AI.
• AppropriateTechnology
• LearningToLearn - How to learn effectively in an increasingly distraction crowded world?
• Rust we have a Rust Salon going on!
• Hammond Organ (ongoing as of March 2022, User:kent, multiple contributors)
  First brought to Omni in 2015. Ongoing restoration of a Hammond organ and Leslie speaker.
• Shaders Shaders learning group

Edit this list here: Cool Projects