All BIG HOLES at the Omni have been filled with drywall at this point, and
all we have to do is mud & tape it!
Last minute Sorry! But it all just got done today -
Come one, come all! Forward and spread widely!
::))
David
4799 Shattuck @ 48th!
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Alice Rosenthal
<beehappysolutions(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Sudo/ omni people have been expressing interest in using my scaffolding. I am done with it at my job site. I'm looking for 1-2 people to help dis assemble it and load it on my truck to transport to omni today starting around 1pm. It will take several hours. I can provide transportation for people from omni or Ashby Bart adjacent where I live. If you can help call or text me ( do not email please).
> If I get no helpers due to timing I could make start time later - say ; pm. But disassembling can be noisy and apt complex is senior ( some grumpy ol' farts.
>
> Alice 415-272-0596
Wow, thanks Alice! I hope we get a lot of volunteers! I am helping a
friend move today, at the same time, alas. :(
Hi all!
The Community Print Studio (owner of the printing press equipment in the
basement) has submitted a new membership proposal to the Omni:
http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/Print_Studio_Proposal
We'll discuss this at the meeting later today. If you can't make it, you
can add your thoughts to this thread or to the etherpad.
Cheers,
Jenny
http://jennyryan.nethttp://thepyre.orghttp://thevirtualcampfire.orghttp://technomadic.tumblr.com
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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
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let me know if anything below is objectionable/wrong/incorrect/false to
you. I don't plan to READ all of this tomorrow at the delegates meeting,
or add it as an official proposal, it's just for me to refer to when I
represent the Sudo's position as we discuss what to do about the TIL/CPS
split.
*<3<3<3 WARM FUZZIES FROM SUDO <3<3<3*
We affirm that printing & publishing resources are an essential part of a
thriving commons. WE LOVE PRINTING! Our nerdiness includes your nerdiness.
We don’t want to drive groups away by being impossible to please. We don’t
want to suffocate people with micromanagement. We are excited and grateful
that people want to do awesome stuff at the Omni!!!
*In the spirit of shared purpose, we offer our support in resolving all
concerns related to the onboarding of CPS.*
*==How about two separate proposals?==*
*TIL should probably reapply for member-collective status, or consider
non-member group status. Does TIL really need a separate voting delegate,
if they have a voting voice as part of CPS?
* we need to reconcile the different logics, premises, that people are
coming from to describe this problem.
* still excited to see a manifesto, but frustrated about asking for
forgiveness rather than permission.
*==Friendly amendment to CPS proposal: Temporary formative period==*
* jenny: we all need more time to figure shit out
* yar: but we should show them kindness and offer legitimacy while we do
figure shit out*
* yar says maybe we should consent to a temporary formative period. Along
the lines of TIL’s proposed"6 month review" thing, except with lots of
loving support and enthusiasm across the 6 months.
*==Actual CPS problems to work through==*
1) Clearly articulated community angle that benefits the commons. How does
your internal decision making process work?
* yar: they taught me a bunch of stuff for free just because i showed up
and was excited.
Scott vouches for two of the members who are core organizers of the CPS.
Laura and (other dude)’s values are perfectly aligned with the OMNI
mission. There are people internal to CPS that will actively strive to
serve the commons
2) How can each of the printmaking technologies represented serve the
commons? what are the advantages and disadvantages of each machine? (List
of all machines http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/Print_Studio) Lets
articulate how each technology can meet real community needs. By courting
the community’s interest and presenting a case for all our printing
technologies, we can bring in lots of enthusiasm, community involvement,
and financial contributions for the community print studio (rent +
maintenance + upgrades to equipment, etc).
+ can we add support for technologies like risograph + xerox for
zine-sters, and other HIGHLY populist mediums like linocut/woodblock? (The
sudo room already has a digital duplicator with 4 COLOR DRUMS in the
basement). Support for these old populist mainstays are ways to court the
broader print-making culture that already exists in the bay. Would
potentially increase ties with other bay area cultural powerhouses like
Rock Paper Scissors and Pens and Needles.
+ SUDO has discovered reasons to be enthusiastic about letterpress: matt:
“It’s actually easy to quickly make a flyer with letterpress. Letterpress
can be super useful for the community -- the point is that CPS is still
forming and hasn’t articulated a shared vision yet.” And we CAN articulate
that vision! E.g. the Sudo room’s CNC machine can cut image plates that can
be composed with type for the letterpress, thus incorporating custom
embossed images into letterpress printing, which is not only totally
badass, but also provides an opportunity for inter-collective
collaboration. Omni PR material is going to look soooooo good.
3) Consider space needs and possible alternatives that address noise &
ventilation.
+ Offset press is the really noisy thing, the rest of the equipment can
stay where it is. Can we put the offset in one of the offices? It’s so
close! Let’s move it to a super optimal location that balances all needs!
* yar: most of the empty space in the CPS layout is due to the offset,
which needs access on all sides. if we could find another place for just
the offset, then everything else could in theory condense into a smaller
area. emji & joel were talking about putting it in a library room. so where
else could the offset go? if we put it in the middle of sudoroom it'd still
take up less space than the robot...
* tangents about possible uses of the omnidance space upstairs
* jenny: maybe one of the CPS members should bottom-line a working group
for scheduling in the basement?
4) decision making structure and how do members relate to one another?
* how do we get in touch? is there a printing-press-collective email list?
so the other night, we made a universal robot gripper using coffee* and a
birthday balloon, and the top of a shampoo bottle, and some other stuff.
search google for "universal robot gripper" and you'll see what i mean.
here are pictures:
http://spaz.org/~jake/robot/gripper/
it works decently well, as you can see.. but it could use improvement. I
am going to try to add a blower to inflate the balloon a little bit when
it's trying to grab something.
of course we will put this on the end of the robot arm, so it can pick
stuff up.
I think we should try again with a larger balloon.. and thicker wouldn't
hurt.
So if you have a few balloons laying around, preferably thick-skinned and
larger than a tennisball when deflated, please bring them to the robot.
you can put them on top of the control box, or the robot itself, if i'm
not around.
Also, if you have a coffee grinder (or know of one at sudoroom) i'd like
to use it to grind some coffee more finely than we did with my little
one.. when it's not finely ground enough, it's hard for it to re-shape to
grab stuff.
i'm going to try to use one of those motorized mattress inflators as a
pump, but if you have something like that that you think would work, bring
it. Especially if it runs off of 120VAC (plugs into the wall) and is not
crazy loud.
-jake
* only decaf coffee was used for this experiment
by running ~/yasnac/src/fakedisk.py on the 3d printer computer, it is now
possible to save files from the YASNAC robot controller to the computer's
disk.
I used this function to save the program which wrote SUDOROOM on a piece
of paper. It looks like this:
http://spaz.org/~jake/pix/sudoroom-sharpie.jpg
here is the program itself:
https://github.com/jerkey/yasnac/blob/master/src/SUDOROOM.JBI
note that it is text but it's in "DOS" format, which means each line ends
with 0x0D 0x0A which is /r/n
it needs to be that way to upload it to the YASNAC too, otherwise i have
no idea what will happen, it could explode.
-jake
Tried sending this to the list w/ attachments but they were too large - let
me know if you have trouble viewing anything!
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Friends,
After lengthy discussions with the Heath Inspector and Plumber, La Commune
has put together renovation plans for the Cafe / Bookstore.
These plans have already been signed off on by John. We will give anything
that we are planning of getting rid of to any of the other collectives,
should they have a use / need for it. Everything else will be taken to the
dump / urban ore.
Just wanted to send this out to the list in case there are any major
concerns.
We hope to start demo tomorrow.
Plans are here:
https://drive.google.com/#folders/0B-AL95NlI75qNXByOVFST3pqelU
xo
La Commune!
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Scott Nanos" <scott.nanos(a)gmail.com>
Date: Oct 1, 2014 12:21 PM
Subject: HALP!
To: "Jenny Ryan" <tunabananas(a)gmail.com>, "yar" <yardenack(a)gmail.com>, "Ron
Gruesbeck" <rongruesbeck(a)gmail.com>
Cc:
Can one of you forward this to sudo discuss plz!?
Does anyone use ubuntu studio and/or Ardour + JACK?
I am making music demos for optikallusion's OMNI fundraiser video. The
tracks sound amazing in Ardour, but when I export the track to a .wav file
it can't play in any media players...
This has sucked a serious amount of productive hours from me and will
continue to do so until I will (someday) be released- can anyone help me
with this? Back channel me if so!!!
Thanks and xo
Scott
dear friends :
i am working on the landlines for the omni -- does anyone know where the phone jacks & other infrastructure are in the building ?
if so, please backchannel me -- & thanks !
love -- david (brazil)
