[sudo-discuss] a warm place to hack

[Marc Juul]

On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 6:23 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:

> we are all starving for a warm place to hack, and sudoroom attendance is
> reduced for obvious reasons.
>
> what we need is a warm room to hack, and i propose the following:
>
> we tarp above the server balcony of sudoroom, and seal the whole thing
> like a room.  To enter from the steps you have to pull back a magnetically
> sealed thing or maybe we can make a hinged door thing, i don't know.
>
> all the heat from the servers (and people hacking in there) will be
> conserved and it will be social in addition to being warm.
> I have some lighting that might be appropriate, to help people feel like
> they're in the sun, as well as providing warmth.
>
> also it will be a nice chance to clean up that area and move things around
> and make it a hacking zone again.
>
> HOW CAN I HELP?
>
> if you have tarps or sail material or blankets or rope or anything you
> think could be used to close off the area, let's talk about it to see if it
> will work.  If you bring it in on your own I hope you install it too - it
> might take some carpentry or something to have places to attach it.
> I think the ceiling should be about 10' high, or whatever it takes to
> enclose the eastern shelves up there and securely seal to the wall.
>
> if you know what any of the stuff is upstairs, and think you can clean up
> or move things elsewhere, please do that.  We have a lot of printers and I
> don't know which ones are good or bad, and there are a lot of stereo
> systems and computers up there that maybe need to be put back into
> inventory, or put in the e-waste pile.
>
> also it's really dirty and dusty up there, so if you know where is a
> vacuum and/or brooms/dustpans please help get it clean up there.
>
> please write back if you think this is a good idea.
>

That area is not very large, especially with the servers. Only 4-5 people
would fit up there, and we do need a place for servers, printers,
laminators and that kinda stuff. If you want to clean stuff out maybe start
by removing the radio gear you dumped in the big wire rack. The mesh and
server area stuff is actually reasonably organized and being used, so I'd
like to not move that somewhere else and the servers should have _more_
room around them so people can actually get to them.

If you want a small heated space to hack in sudo then CCL is getting one of
these (and I'm pretty sure we don't need it):
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005EG3FFM?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00

We could also just get a bunch of these:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA08C14J2030

Which would solve the problem for anyone sitting down and anyone not
sitting down usually won't have a problem.

-- 
marc/juul
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