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<blockquote>''Sudo Room is an open, non-hierarchical, collaborative community of humans, including tech developers, citizen scientists, activists, artists--and all combinations in between and beyond!--who are interested in and working towards social change. Our goal is to create the first inclusive, dedicated hackerspace in downtown Oakland, to share ideas and projects in citizen science, digital citizenship and literacy, environmental sustainability, community engagement, and self-government. Sudo Room is committed to access, empowerment, transparency, and public/social good. Sudoers have a great diversity of interests and we emphasize respect and solidarity among ourselves and with others.''</blockquote>
[[Welcome|Welcome to '''Sudo Room''']], a ''free'' hackerspace located at '''[[Directions|4799 Shattuck]]''' in north Oakland, CA!


Want to learn more about Sudo Room? Check out our [[Welcome|FAQ]] or read about [[Access]]. You are welcome to drop by (we try to be open as much as possible), or attend our weekly meetings to learn more about the space, meet awesome people, and participate in our emergent community.<br><br>
Our slogan is: '''''HACK THE PLANET!''''' Read more ''[[About|About Sudo Room's vision, values, mission, and code of conduct]]''.  
<blockquote><big>''Our weekly planning meetings take place every '''Wednesday''' from '''7-9pm''' at [https://maps.google.com/maps?q=2141+Broadway+St,+oakland,+ca 2141 Broadway St., Oakland, CA] (near 19th St BART).''</big></blockquote><br>Can't attend? Read our [http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=2&music=6&url=http://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Minutes Meeting Minutes]. <br><br>


==Goals==
We use and share '''technology''' to promote '''social justice''', '''sustainability''', '''education''' and '''solidarity'''.
[[Sudo_room/methodology|Read and Inform a potential methodology for Sudo Room.]]
* To found a creative community hacker space in the East Bay, specifically in Oakland, CA.
* Establish a platform and space committed to:
** Citizen science
** Democratic Culture
** Access to Knowledge
** Freedom to Connect
** Non-technical (humanities, social science, the environment/ environmental justice, arts, crafts, all the squishy stuff!) and technical knowledge (including transitions and bridges between the two) --
*** the useful arts & sciences?
*** information, data, knowledge, wisdom?
*** memes, genes, bits, and atoms?
*** Non-technical knowledge includes but is not limited to expertise in fields or disciplines that can be largely independent of technology. Also includes non-academic realms of knowledge.
** Digital/Online Citizenship - Netizen Rights & Freedoms
** Doing stuff to make our community openly accessible.
**: ''...to do something more with digital and network technology''
** Environmental sustainability
** Education and mentorship
** Community engagement
** Public access
* To become a center for active hacking projects but also a destination where speakers on the areas listed above may be hosted, and where folks may go for skill sharing classes


For examples, check out our list of potential [[Sudo room/projects|projects]] or read about ones we've shared on [http://sudoroom.org/category/projects/ our website].
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!''


===Approaches===
We are exclusively '''volunteer-run''' and supported through [https://sudoroom.org/membership donations]!
* Build a community and group of members, grow our ideas together, and [[Sudo room/open a space|open a space]] before the end of 2012.
* Create online presence and communications infrastructure
** Utilize our [http://sudoroom.org/ website and blog] more effectively!
** Beg our artsy friends to fulfill our [[sudo room/design needs|design needs]].
** Make a video for [[Sudo room/funding opportunities#Crowd-funding|crowd-funding opportunities]]
* Hold weekly meetup / salon.
* Collect membership dues to start building a budget as a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_association Voluntary <nowiki>[</nowiki>membership<nowiki>]</nowiki> Association].
* Apply to relevant [[sudo room/funding opportunities|grants, fellowships, and various funding opportunities]].


==Events==
== Get involved! ==
===2012 State of the Room===
* Email us at info [at] sudoroom [dot] org
[[State of the Room]]
* 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]
* Follow us on Instagram: [https://www.instagram.com/sudo.room/ @sudo.room]
* Check out [[Projects|some of the '''Cool Projects''' we are working on]], or look at our available [[Work Stations|tools and work stations]]


==Sudo Room '''to-do'''==
== Regular Events ==
===Projects===
{{:Recurring_Meetings}}
<blockquote><big>''Read (and contribute to) our active '''[[projects]]'''.''</big></blockquote>
''Edit this list here: [[Recurring_Meetings]]''
*Fix the templates on/from: http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Sudo_room
*Work on [[SudoSuite]] (software tools for decision-making, budgeting, membership, etc;)
*Browse and contribute to our [[Projects|Active Projects]]
*[[3D fabrication]] for hacking, community and profit. (brainstorm page)
*Read (and contribute to) our [[Sudo room/projects|list of proposed projects]] to see (and inform) what kinds of projects we will be able to do in this space! You can also see projects we've featured on [http://sudoroom.org/category/projects/ our website].


===Donations===
== Work Stations ==
====Electronics Donations====
Check out the tools and [[Work Stations]] we have at Sudo Room and learn how to incorporate them into your next project
* Sudo Room is reviewing its policy on electronics donations, and will be compiling a list of recyclable goods/costs before Wednesday, Dec. 5th. so that we can form a policy around material electronics donations, and other electronics in the space.
* This is still under advisement until our next meeting where it will be an agenda item, and then there may be temporary action or continued advisement. 
===Wishlist===
[[Wishlist|Stuff sudoroom needs]]


=='''Current Critical Momentum''' (''merge with "Projects"'')==
== Active Projects ==
We are now:
Get inspired! Here's what members are working on:
* '''Working on the space [[infrastructure]].'''
{{:Projects}}
* '''Forging a [[Sudo_room/Compact|Compact]].'''
* '''Resolving [[Sudo_room/Conflicts|Conflicts]].'''
We made headway with:
* How we make [[Sudo_room/decisions|decisions]].
* Developing our [[Sudo_room/Governance_Structure|Governance Structure]]
* How we create [[Sudo_room/income|income]].
* How we define [[Sudo_room/membership|membership]].
* We have a [[Sudo_room/room|room]], are seeking more room?


====Next Steps====
''Edit this list here: [[Cool Projects]]''
As per discussions and polling, we are moving toward these steps:
* August 10th - [[Sudo room/banking|Get bank account]]
* August 24th - Expand membership, get a sense of paying members
* August 31st - Get first payment
* September 3rd - Rent for Space
 
====Research====
* Conduct [[Sudo_room/research|research on other hackerspaces]], exploring their models of community, governance and funding.
* Create a list of [[open knowledge ecosystem|open knowledge ecosystem]] organizations in the Bay Area.
* Examine potential [[Sudo room/Tax Structure Research|tax structures]]
 
 
 
'''''Needs to be Updated'''''
 
==Mood Board==
* [http://pinterest.com/wrought/sudo-room-mood-board/ Mood at pinterest.com]
 
==Our friends==
*[[Noisebridge]]
*[[Ace Monster Toys]]
*[[HackerDojo]]
*[[BioCurious]]
*[[Tech Liminal]]
*[[Mothership HackerMoms]]
*[[LOLspace|LOLspace (Oakland Makerspace)]]
*[[The Crucible]]
*[[Coyote Counter Collective]]
*[[The Holdout]]
*Your group / space?
==Contact==
* [[Getting there|Here]] is a map with directions.
* Join our mailing list! It can be found [http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/sudoroom here]. Many thanks to hackerspaces.org for our initial email list!
* [[Users|list of users]]

Revision as of 15:46, 20 November 2022

SudoMesh over Oakland
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human beings visit SudoRoom along with small animals
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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!

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:

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