Hey Zach,
Really great to see your post! I posted a similar query to survey interest
in collaboration on ecological minded projects via the sudoroom
list, though it's not clear to me that it went through. I am also really
interested in just collecting people interested in ecological projects
which have an ecological focus without restricting what the kinds of
project participation will look like. The tasks you suggest already make
sense to me.
Hoping this email goes through to the sudo list (cc'ed here) as well. We
should start collecting inaturalist data en masse on birds now, since they
are next up to show up dead on the food chain. Pinnipeds might be next.
-Cere
On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 5:28 PM zach.dsmith27 <zach.dsmith27(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> TL;DR Have an interest in doing citizen science addressing climate change?
> help me figure out what we should do together!
> Hi All,
> My name is Zach Smith, and I'm writing to ask for all of your help in
> determining and hopefully executing a new phase of environmental justice
> projects to take place at Counter Culture Labs. My background is in
> biochemistry and analytical chemistry, and while I don't have a lot of
> experience, in general and certainly not in Counter-Culture Labs, I have a
> few ideas I think we could look into:
> 1. looking at bay water, both in context of how recent algae blooms have
> shifted the environmental health and what organisms have been able to
> survive in the bloom and how
> 2. looking at soil health in nearby farmland and other vulnerable
> agricultural spaces, and assessing options for helping improve soil health
> cost-effectively
> 3. looking at other crisis-affected environmental spaces and assessing
> both what the problem is and what the solution is (Focus on what the
> community cares about!!)
> This means, in general, my vision is for most of the science to be
> organized into three main components: analyzing pollutants in various
> environments (analytical chemistry), analyzing organisms and microorganisms
> that are surviving in critical-state environments (microbiology and various
> biological disciplines), and evaluating and possibly implementing efficient
> and robust solutions (interdisciplinary, probably with big parts molecular
> biology and mechanical/electrical engineering). If you have any experience
> in any of these fields or know someone who does, I would greatly appreciate
> any help or advice. If you do not, please feel free to get involved
> anyways, as all I am really looking for is an interest in the climate
> crisis and finding solutions!
> I will be sending along another email shortly to ask what times would work
> best to start up a recurring weekly meeting, but from what I understand
> from Patrik Fridays would work best for the lab schedule, however if enough
> of us can do another time then that is what we will do.
> I want this to be a project driven by all of ours mutual passion to
> address the climate crisis and the needs/wants of the community, so please
> be vocal! If you have any other ideas at all, I am nothing but ears (or
> eyes if it's via email), and if you don't right now feel free to brainstorm
> and come up with an idea down the line! I am so excited to start this
> journey with all of you and whoever else you know is interested, and I
> can't wait for what we will do together.
> Lastly, unless anyone has an input otherwise, I will begin our work by
> creating an experimental design to evaluate the pollutants and
> microorganisms in the algae blooms, which I hope to have finished in the
> next couple of weeks!
> Please email me if you have any questions you don't want to be a part of
> the group conversation, and I look forward to seeing your ideas!
>
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About a week ago there was an incident where Tom (Is he even a Sudo
member?) was has hanging out at Sudo room. Tom is coughing a lot all over
the place, he wears a mask but most of the time I see it dangling
around his neck. I have spoken to him in the past about this.
He props the door open to let himself in and out.
Dane came to CCL and spoke to me about Tom and his coughing. I went over
to Sudo with Dane and we asked Tom to go get medical attention and not to
come into the Omni coughing like that. Tom's response showed that he
really didn't give a fuck about our concerns for the health of the Omni
community. He continued with his internet activities and didn't leave.
3 days later I got sick and found that I had been infected with the COVID
SARS virus.
Of course I don't know where I got infected but I have had very little
contact with people outside of the Omni.
I would recommend Omni ban Tom permanently for not considering the health
and welfare of the Omni community. People have been banned from the Omni
for less reason than this.
CCL has a set of rules which would prohibit anyone to behave like Tom in
CCL space. We are set up to record temperatures, have people sign in and
state they have no symptoms, etc. Jake you need to not talk any more about
taking the lock off the door. It is in place for multiple reasons and this
is just one. Make the situation better for the community, not worse. I
don't want to have any more discussion, I'm busy healing up.
Just a heads up I got the IG account info with Andrew and started posting
stuff today! So make sure to follow the account if you're into that kind of
social media
https://www.instagram.com/sudo.room/
I'll at least try to post about omni commons fundraiser very often.
If anyone got the Twitter account info I can do that too
--
julianaferreira(a)gmail.com
Hi everyone,
You're getting this email either because 1) you're on the sudoroom discuss
email list, or 2) because I BCC'd you directly.
Tonight I'll be hosting Sudoroom for those who want to come hack on whatever in
person, or through telepresence (see the last link in this email)
ALSO NOW FEATURING: SoftWEAR hacking too: most Tuesday evenings the sewing area
at Omni Commons (in the basement) is also active so bring your fabric and
textile projects and technical repairs; we've got heavy duty and serger sewing
machines available. You’re also welcome to bring your own machine to have it
checked out and tuned up for tip-top operation or to just sew alongside others.
Remember that Omni Commons and Sudoroom policy is presently that EVERYONE MUST
WEAR A MASK AT ALL TIMES INSIDE THE BUILDING. (if you want to eat something
you should go outside)
in the past few weeks, we've had about 5-15 people over the course of the
evening, not including remote participants who logged in through telepresence
Jenny put it on the Omni calendar:
https://omnicommons.org/blog/events/hardware-hack-night-3-2022-03-01/
Here it is on the sudoroom page:
https://sudoroom.org/events/hardware-hack-night-2022-02-15/
that says 7PM but I try to be there earlier.
if you get to the door (at the corner of 48th and shattuck) and you can't get
in, call me or someone else who's there to let you in! Email me if you don't
have my phone number. Actually a great way to get our attention is to join the
video chat link at the end of this email!
We don't always hear the doorbell and I don't answer it anyway!
You should get on this sudoroom discuss mailinglist! click here:
https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/
and you should donate monthly to sudoroom, monthly, by signing up here:
https://sudoroom.org/humans
and if you want to make a one-time donation, you can go here:
https://sudoroom.org/donate
if you can't make it in person: join the jitsi videochat with the room, and
chat with each other as well as a giant TV screen/speakerphone on the wall:
https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles
(don't worry if you're the only one in the "room", others will join eventually,
and if the camera is pointed at the floor, just yell until someone comes and
talks to you and then ask them to aim it back up into the room)
see you soon!
-jake
The Sunday preparation event went great!
Cassady helped shuck batteries (outside since it was a dangerous job)
Matt donated some bike lights I think
Alex designed a battery holder from PVC tubing
Michael heroically sorted through a giant pile of LED remote controllers,
tested them and soldered battery connectors to them
Alessandra wired up EIGHT little xmas light strings to batteries
Peter and Alex built TEN battery packs and wired them up
Marco tested the addressible lights and labeled them (we have tons!)
I did stuff too.
Who is available to help with the event on Wednesday? We're going to need a
lot of volunteers, apparently our instagram post got picked up by East Bay Bike
Party which has 16,000 members.....
-jake
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2022 14:39:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jake <jake(a)spaz.org>
To: sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org
Cc: "Marco (glowingkitty)" <marco(a)glowingkitty.com>,
Peter Mui <pmui(a)sbcglobal.net>
Subject: help prepare bike lights tomorrow (sunday) at 1PM!
we will be preparing for this event TOMORROW SUNDAY AT 1PM
who's available to come meet up and help prepare lights and materials?
we're going to look through the many LEDs we have in sudoroom, and figure out a
way to make battery packs for people using these A123 cells i have a bunch of.
do you have rolls of LED lights that you want to donate? We are going to
solicit donations for Omni and get people to join sudoroom.
we need help making this event happen! Both tomorrow and on Wednesday at 5
-jake
On Saturday, Jake wrote:
OK the event is set for Weds Sep 7 2022 from 5PM-11PM
We are going to meet tomorrow at 1pm (Sunday) in Sudoroom to prepare materials
so that Wednesday goes smoothly (in case anyone shows up)
Here is the text I sent to the East Bay Bike Party facebook group:
FREE: Light Up Your Ride for the Bike Party!
Wanna trick out your bike with LED lights for the Friday Sept. 9 ride?
Sudoroom Hackerspace (at Omni Commons) is having an LED lighting workshop in
time for the next Bike Party!
Bring your bike, your curiosity and your enthusiasm to Omni Common’s Bike
Mutation Station, and we’ll help you get your bike lighting super snazzy for
the ride: we’ve got helpers, workspace, soldering and hot glue, and surplus LED
tape and strings that we can help help you attach to your bike.
If you’re got spare LED light strings or tape, even broken ones or “scraps”, or
even just simple bike safety lights you want to fix or install, bring them to
the event to use or to share!
This is a family-friendly activity, biking families are heartily invited.
WHAT: Sudoroom’s Bike Mutation Station - Light Up Your Ride
WHEN; Weds Sep 7 2022 from 5PM-11PM
WHERE: Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland, CA 94609
HOW: Bring your bike and any parts / lights you may already have.
COST: Free, although donations to the Omni Commons gofundme are gladly
accepted: https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-the-omni
our goal for this event is to pull lots more people into the Omni and sudoroom
to grow our community! and we're going to have to put in a bunch of work to
make it happen but i think it will be fun
-jake
On Thu, 1 Sep 2022, Yardena Cohen wrote:
> This sounds great! Thank you Jake for the initiative! I'm copying
> Omni's events list so they are aware of this plan. It would be helpful
> if the dates and times could be settled soon-ish since we are talking
> about highly shared and multiuse spaces.
>
> It would also be really helpful if Sudoers could use this opportunity
> to help fix up the entrance hall. Currently there is still a large
> pile of trash that nobody is sure what to do with, and a broken pew
> that could use repair to make it safe to sit on again.
>
> There will be a play rehearsal in the disco room on Wednesday and
> Thursday nights from 6-10pm but they should be ok, we've had busy
> events during their rehearsals before.
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 2:23 PM Jake via sudo-discuss
> <sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> wrote:
>>
>> Peter and I want to host an event at sudoroom (and partially in the entrance
>> hall or ballroom/stage, since there will be a bunch of bikes and we'll need
>> space)
>> where we will invite East Bay Bike Party facebook group members/instagram
>> followers to come and add LED lights to their bicycles.
>>
>> The next EBBP ride is Friday September 9th in 8 days. I'm thinking this
>> event
>> should be wednesday or thursday. We will need help from whoever's
>> available!
>>
>> I want to have a pre-event preparation day with volunteers from this list,
>> to
>> go through the many LED supplies we have in sudoroom, and stuff we'll bring
>> from
>> home, so that when the event happens, we have lights, batteries, and
>> switches/LED controllers labeled and ready to wire up and hot glue in place.
>>
>> That pre-event preparation can be anytime people want to meet up, including
>> multiple days, so reply here if you're interested and available to meet up
>> at
>> sudoroom Tomorrow, Saturday, Sunday, or Wednesday afternoon, to prepare for
>> this event. Don't worry if you aren't good with electronics, I'll show you
>> what we need to do!
>>
>> Of course you'll be able to decorate your own bike too, but we want to focus
>> on
>> hosting new people from the EBBP community so that they can learn about
>> sudoroom and the omni, and hopefully DONATE and join us.
>>
>> So it's a community-building and expanding exercise. Who is available when?
>>
>> Also if you have rolls of LED tape or LED christmas lights that you want to
>> donate, now's the time!
>>
>> thank you
>> -jake
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Hacksters.
If you ain't already heard there's a massive fish dieoff going on around
all over the bay due to oxygen getting sucked out of the water from a
combination of wastewater effluent and water that's too-goddam-warm. From
those who have been monitoring things like this during their entire
lifetime, they say they have never seen anything this horrible. Parts of
Lake Merritt look like a fish graveyard. Lots of large fish, skates,
sturgeon (the redwoods of the waters) washed up all over the bay.
If you want to see some visuals of the horror, here's some places to look:
https://www.instagram.com/stories/biodiversiphile/2917398642823053646/https://www.instagram.com/stories/damontighe/2917219146041116213/https://twitter.com/hashtag/LakeMerritt?src=hashtag_click
So. What do?
Hacker action:
The red tide algal bloom that was created due to the wastewater, etc seems
to be receding in Lake Merritt, and what few fish are left are congregating
in regions of Lake Merritt where there is a source of mechanical
oxygenation. So now is a good opportunity to head over there with a pump
and a battery/solar panel and bubble in some air around the fish.
Anyone want to meet over there today?
we will be preparing for this event TOMORROW SUNDAY AT 1PM
who's available to come meet up and help prepare lights and materials?
we're going to look through the many LEDs we have in sudoroom, and figure out a
way to make battery packs for people using these A123 cells i have a bunch of.
do you have rolls of LED lights that you want to donate? We are going to
solicit donations for Omni and get people to join sudoroom.
we need help making this event happen! Both tomorrow and on Wednesday at 5
-jake
On Saturday, Jake wrote:
OK the event is set for Weds Sep 7 2022 from 5PM-11PM
We are going to meet tomorrow at 1pm (Sunday) in Sudoroom to prepare materials
so that Wednesday goes smoothly (in case anyone shows up)
Here is the text I sent to the East Bay Bike Party facebook group:
FREE: Light Up Your Ride for the Bike Party!
Wanna trick out your bike with LED lights for the Friday Sept. 9 ride?
Sudoroom Hackerspace (at Omni Commons) is having an LED lighting workshop in
time for the next Bike Party!
Bring your bike, your curiosity and your enthusiasm to Omni Common’s Bike
Mutation Station, and we’ll help you get your bike lighting super snazzy for
the ride: we’ve got helpers, workspace, soldering and hot glue, and surplus LED
tape and strings that we can help help you attach to your bike.
If you’re got spare LED light strings or tape, even broken ones or “scraps”, or
even just simple bike safety lights you want to fix or install, bring them to
the event to use or to share!
This is a family-friendly activity, biking families are heartily invited.
WHAT: Sudoroom’s Bike Mutation Station - Light Up Your Ride
WHEN; Weds Sep 7 2022 from 5PM-11PM
WHERE: Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland, CA 94609
HOW: Bring your bike and any parts / lights you may already have.
COST: Free, although donations to the Omni Commons gofundme are gladly
accepted: https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-the-omni
our goal for this event is to pull lots more people into the Omni and sudoroom
to grow our community! and we're going to have to put in a bunch of work to
make it happen but i think it will be fun
-jake
On Thu, 1 Sep 2022, Yardena Cohen wrote:
> This sounds great! Thank you Jake for the initiative! I'm copying
> Omni's events list so they are aware of this plan. It would be helpful
> if the dates and times could be settled soon-ish since we are talking
> about highly shared and multiuse spaces.
>
> It would also be really helpful if Sudoers could use this opportunity
> to help fix up the entrance hall. Currently there is still a large
> pile of trash that nobody is sure what to do with, and a broken pew
> that could use repair to make it safe to sit on again.
>
> There will be a play rehearsal in the disco room on Wednesday and
> Thursday nights from 6-10pm but they should be ok, we've had busy
> events during their rehearsals before.
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 2:23 PM Jake via sudo-discuss
> <sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> wrote:
>>
>> Peter and I want to host an event at sudoroom (and partially in the entrance
>> hall or ballroom/stage, since there will be a bunch of bikes and we'll need
>> space)
>> where we will invite East Bay Bike Party facebook group members/instagram
>> followers to come and add LED lights to their bicycles.
>>
>> The next EBBP ride is Friday September 9th in 8 days. I'm thinking this
>> event
>> should be wednesday or thursday. We will need help from whoever's
>> available!
>>
>> I want to have a pre-event preparation day with volunteers from this list,
>> to
>> go through the many LED supplies we have in sudoroom, and stuff we'll bring
>> from
>> home, so that when the event happens, we have lights, batteries, and
>> switches/LED controllers labeled and ready to wire up and hot glue in place.
>>
>> That pre-event preparation can be anytime people want to meet up, including
>> multiple days, so reply here if you're interested and available to meet up
>> at
>> sudoroom Tomorrow, Saturday, Sunday, or Wednesday afternoon, to prepare for
>> this event. Don't worry if you aren't good with electronics, I'll show you
>> what we need to do!
>>
>> Of course you'll be able to decorate your own bike too, but we want to focus
>> on
>> hosting new people from the EBBP community so that they can learn about
>> sudoroom and the omni, and hopefully DONATE and join us.
>>
>> So it's a community-building and expanding exercise. Who is available when?
>>
>> Also if you have rolls of LED tape or LED christmas lights that you want to
>> donate, now's the time!
>>
>> thank you
>> -jake
>> _______________________________________________
>> sudo-discuss mailing list -- sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org
>> To unsubscribe send an email to sudo-discuss-leave(a)sudoroom.org
>> More options at
>> https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/
Peter and I want to host an event at sudoroom (and partially in the entrance
hall or ballroom/stage, since there will be a bunch of bikes and we'll need space)
where we will invite East Bay Bike Party facebook group members/instagram
followers to come and add LED lights to their bicycles.
The next EBBP ride is Friday September 9th in 8 days. I'm thinking this event
should be wednesday or thursday. We will need help from whoever's available!
I want to have a pre-event preparation day with volunteers from this list, to
go through the many LED supplies we have in sudoroom, and stuff we'll bring from
home, so that when the event happens, we have lights, batteries, and
switches/LED controllers labeled and ready to wire up and hot glue in place.
That pre-event preparation can be anytime people want to meet up, including
multiple days, so reply here if you're interested and available to meet up at
sudoroom Tomorrow, Saturday, Sunday, or Wednesday afternoon, to prepare for
this event. Don't worry if you aren't good with electronics, I'll show you
what we need to do!
Of course you'll be able to decorate your own bike too, but we want to focus on
hosting new people from the EBBP community so that they can learn about
sudoroom and the omni, and hopefully DONATE and join us.
So it's a community-building and expanding exercise. Who is available when?
Also if you have rolls of LED tape or LED christmas lights that you want to
donate, now's the time!
thank you
-jake
*Hey Sudo! *
Tonight about a dozen people met face-to-face to lay out Sudo Room’s plan
help save this hackerspace and Omni Commons. Below is a summary of the
situation with bulleted action items. If you want to help, just email me
and say, “I’d like to help ____” and I’ll point you in the right direction.
*Where we are*
The Omni Commons building was bought with money from an anonymous donor who
will begin foreclosure proceedings on our building unless we pay them $900k
by December 1st. Sudo Room is receiving ~$1,000 per month that it pays to
Omni, which is half of our obligation of $2k /mo. That $1000 comes from 49
paying members.
*What we’re going to do*
Money - Our target is to generate $3000 on a monthly basis by November 1st.
Ⓐ Renew or upgrade your membership. ** If all current members paid
$60 /mo our financial goal would be complete. **
Ⓐ Call a current or past member from our member list to let them
know what’s happening and ask them to renew or upgrade their monthly
donation.
Labor - We need hands.
Ⓐ Volunteer to host/Co-host an event.
Ⓐ Make or share a piece of promotional art on Instagram.
Ⓐ Volunteer to do 4 hours of work for the Omni funding working group.
Ⓐ Volunteer to help one day with the Omni facilities and building
maintenance working group
Ⓐ Volunteer to help setup, run, or clean up after a scheduled event
Influence - We’d like to call on influencers to boost Omni’s fund raiser
and drive traffic to Sudo Room’s upcoming events.
Ⓐ Suggest influencers to the Sudo media working group that you think
you could reach out to who might signal boost us. Do not reach out to them
until you’ve talked to someone in the media working group.
*This is not a comprehensive list of all you can do. *But it’s a starting
point. If you want to help but don’t know which of these to do, just email
me and say, *“I wanna help.”*
Cheers!
*Andrew R Gross, (he/him)*
412.657.5332 - shrad.org <http://www.shrad.org>
