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SudoMesh over Oakland

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human beings visit SudoRoom along with small animals

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
Join a working group!

Regular Events

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

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
HardwareHackNight Tuesdays (7pm-11pm or even later)	Come hack on hardware. build stuff! take apart small robotic animals, electronics & make things. There's also a Multimediaspace downstairs with a silkscreen lab, sewing machines and more so you can make totally non sexist swimwear for women and men! and if you can't make it there physically, we have an ONLINE JITSI PORTAL
Meetings & Parties (Wednesdays 7:00p)	Every Wednesday at 7PM are official meetings of organization, bureaucracy and fun. They are hybrid, remote option is here ONLINE JITSI PORTAL We keep our agenda on an etherpad and then archive the meeting minutes. We're a California non-profit. See our Articles of Association.
Javascript study group (Thursdays 7:00p)	Learn, chat and hack on node.js, frontend, or whatever! Oakland is javascript city.

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

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LearningToLearn - How to learn effectively in an increasingly distraction crowded world?
Rust we have a Rust Salon going on!
Shaders Shaders learning group
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?
Fix-It Clinic for the right to repair, fixing all variety of old things and new things, and learning how things work!

XR Augmented reality, WebXR and virtual reality (basically all XR) at SudoRoom.
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.
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.

Older Projects

SudoRoom History
Chromebook Unlocking / Laptop De-branding putting new life into chromebooks soon to be EOL'd, and decorating/cleaning up our collection of Dell Latitudes
Computer keyboards campaign (April 2023, User:Invictvs) Donate keyboards to SudoRoom!
Working Groups Our big project of 2023 is to create working groups to make things run more creatively
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!

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.

Edit this list here: Cool Projects

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-*We're '''Sudo Room''', a ''free'' hackerspace located at '''[[Directions|4799 Shattuck]]''' in north Oakland, CA!
+[[Welcome|Welcome to '''Sudo Room''']], a ''free'' hackerspace located at '''[[Directions|4799 Shattuck]]''' in north Oakland, CA!
-*We're into '''technology''' and where it intersects with '''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've got tons of '''tools''' for you to use, from a '''3D printer''' to '''public computer terminals''', a '''big huge library''' and '''all kinds of gadgets'''!
-*We are exclusively '''volunteer-run''' and supported through '''[[Gittip|donations]]'''!! Learn more about [[Membership|membership]].
-*Our slogan is: '''''HACK THE PLANET!'''''
-* Check out [[Projects|some of the things we are working on]]!
-* Way more details: [[Welcome|Welcome]]
-== '''Upcoming Events''' ==
+Our slogan is: '''''HACK THE PLANET!'''''  Read more ''[[About|About Sudo Room's vision, values, mission, and code of conduct]]''.
-* '''CyberWizard Institute (v2)''' - August 1-15, 2015 http://cyber.wizard.institute ''Collaborative open free programming school. Drop-ins.''
+We use and share '''technology''' to promote '''social justice''', '''sustainability''', '''education''' and '''solidarity'''.
-{| class="wikitable" style=""
+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!''
-! colspan="2"| Weekly Events
-|-
+We are exclusively '''volunteer-run''' and supported through [https://sudoroom.org/membership donations]!
-| '''[[Fermentation]] Mondays
-(5-7p)'''
+== Get involved! ==
-|  collaboration & meet up - come learn Kombucha & other fermentations!
+* Email us at info [at] sudoroom [dot] org
-or help us build temperature, humidity and PH monitoring using Raspberry PI to record our brews.
+* Stop by any event on our [https://sudoroom.org/calendar/ calendar]
-|-
+* Join our [https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/ discussion email list]
-| '''[[HardwareHackNight]] Tuesdays
+* Follow us on Instagram: [https://www.instagram.com/sudo.room/ @sudo.room]
-(6-11p)'''
+* Check out [[Projects|some of the '''Cool Projects''' we are working on]], or look at our available [[Work Stations|tools and work stations]]
-| [[image:SudoRoom_hardware_hacknight.jpg|thumb|120px|A large animal will lead you through real life stuff, you digital wimps ;)]]
+* Join a [[Working_Groups|working group]]!
-Come hack on hardware. build stuff! take apart small robotic animals, electronics & make things
-|-
+== Regular Events ==
-| '''[[Meetings|Sudoroom Meetings]]
+{{:Recurring_Meetings}}
-(Wednesdays 7p)'''
+''Edit this list here: [[Recurring_Meetings]]''
-| Official meeting of organization, bureaucray and fun. We keep our agenda on an [https://pad.riseup.net/ etherpad] and then [[Meetings#Meeting_Notes_Archive|archive the meeting minutes]]. We're a California non-profit. See our [[Articles of Association]].
-|-
+== Work Stations ==
-| '''[https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Javascript Javascript study group]
+Check out the tools and [[Work Stations]] we have at Sudo Room and learn how to incorporate them into your next project
-(Thursdays 6:30p)'''
-| [[File:JavasScript Forest at SudoRoom.png|thumb|Sudoroom Javascript forest]] Learn, chat and hack on node.js, frontend, or whatever!
+== Active Projects ==
-Oakland is [http://oaklandwiki.org/Javascript javascript city].
+Get inspired! Here's what members are working on:
-|-
+{{:Projects}}
-! colspan="2" | Every other week
-|-
+''Edit this list here: [[Cool Projects]]''
-| '''[http://oaklandwiki.org/ Oakland Wiki]
-(Every other Thursday 7-8:30p)'''
-| Come edit Oakland's only open, publicly editable wiki! Oakland Wiki has been used as a platform for [http://oaklandwiki.org/Domain_Awareness_Center citizen journalism], sharing local [http://oaklandwiki.org/Resources resources] and [http://oaklandwiki.org/Oakland_Chicano_Moratorium history], and whatever else you can [http://oaklandwiki.org/tags/fun dream up].
-|-
-! colspan="2" | Monthly Events
-|-
-| '''[[Mesh]]
-(Last Tuesday of the month 7:30-10p)'''
-| [[image:510NetworkDishes.jpg|thumb|120px|the antenna that beamed wireless packets across Lake Merritt]]
-A group [[Mesh|working]] on bringing [http://peoplesopen.net/ free wifi] to the East Bay. We hack every week but Last Tuesday's is our open meeting for new folk!
-|-
-| '''[[Cryptoparty]]
-(Third Sundays 2-5p)'''
-| Learn & talk about encryption & cybersecurity. Learn how to use GPG, OTR, Tor, Tails, and other anti-surveillance technologies. (currently on hiatus but coming back soon)
-|}
-Categories of Wiki pages: {{Special:Categories}}