[sudo-discuss] Omni Media Lab: Initial Convergence

[Jenny Ryan]

My apologies - I meant to suggest the afternoon of Saturday, May 12th or,
alternatively, the Friday evening before. I've updated the Doodle.

Also created an email list, y'all should receive a direct invite shortly
(minus the general lists I'm cc'ing):
https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/medialab

Jenny

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"Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories."
-Laurie Anderson

"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
 -Hannah Arendt

"To define is to kill. To suggest is to create."
-Stéphane Mallarmé

"Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon."
--Dave Sim, "Cerebus the Aardvark"
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On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 4:11 AM, Jenny Ryan <tunabananas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Let's have a meetup to discuss visions, values, and available resources to
> build out a community media lab in Omni's basement!
>
> Tonight, the Omni consensed on Art Bison Design Coop's move to the
> basement and transition to becoming a community screenprinting studio!
> Perhaps an ABDC member could speak to what that might entail for the
> basement and what would be needed wrt renovations/improvements?
>
> Afterwards, we initiated a conversation about ongoing ideas over the past
> many months to build out a truly inter-collective community media lab for
> creating rad propaganda, zines, banners etc:
>
> * Over the past 9 months, there have been many discussions about, and a
>> good deal of work put into, the basement area formerly known as Material
>> Print Machine as a potential inter-collective media lab for printing,
>> copying, button-making, screenprinting, banner-making, zine-making,
>> newspapers etc. Interested folks who've discussed the idea and/or worked on
>> cleaning and clearing out that space include Jenny, Robb, Abe, Julian,
>> Needa Bee, Marcus, and others I'm probably forgetting right now.
>> ** The structure that seems most fitting is that of a working group, open
>> to anyone to join and help steward and maintain the resources we already
>> have available. The idea would be to lock valuable materials / supplies in
>> a cabinet and host workshops, media-making sessions and offer access based
>> on sliding-scale donations to cover materials/supplies/maintenance costs.
>>
> ** For more info on the resources we already have available as well as a
>> proposed layout, see: https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Basement#Media_Lab
>>
>
> Continued discussion in the meeting notes at https://pad.riseup.net/p/
> omninom ... maybe not mentioned: the lighting ballasts need to be
> replaced. There are some interim lighting solution tee'd up beneath the
> bench dat robb built.
>
> *I'd like to propose an initial meetup of folks interested in working on
> this project for the afternoon of Saturday, May 19th or, alternatively, the
> Friday evening before it. Here is a Doodle for all y'all busy-ass folks:
> https://doodle.com/poll/ag7er35pqkac5b2a
> <https://doodle.com/poll/ag7er35pqkac5b2a>*
>
> An initial agenda draft lives here: https://peoplesopen.net/pad/p/
> omnimedialab - please add to it as you see fit! and invite people whom
> you think may be interested...
>
> <3
> Jenny
>
> Help open a professional kitchen at the Omni Commons in Oakland!
> https://omnicommons.org/kitchen
>
> `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
> "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories."
> -Laurie Anderson
>
> "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
>  -Hannah Arendt
>
> "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create."
> -Stéphane Mallarmé
>
> "Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon."
> --Dave Sim, "Cerebus the Aardvark"
> ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
>
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