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by Mitch Altman

Hey All, I'm one of the organizers of a large, awesome conference that happens every two years: the HOPE conference (Hackers On Planet Earth). It's normally in New York City, but this year thousands of people will be attending totally online. 25-July through 2-August https://www.hope.net/ Would you or anyone you know like to give a talk or workshop or performance (or something else you think is cool?) for HOPE. It can be live, or pre-recorded, or a combination. It can be about one of your projects, ideas, musical pieces, art pieces, or about anything else you are excited about and would like to share. No presentation experience is necessary. And the project or topic doesn't need to be revolutionary. The only requirements are that you think it is awesome, and you'd like to share it. The deadline for submissions is Friday 28-June. I'm happy to answer any questions. Cheers, Mitch p.s. please pardon my cross-posting

6 years, 4 months

Now: https://meet.jit.si/AaronSwartzDay - #virtualhackathon with a focus on #RFTech and #emergencynetworks.

by danarauz＠gmail.com

For those interested there is a #virtualhackathon <https://twitter.com/hashtag/virtualhackathon?src=hashtag_click> with a focus on #RFTech <https://twitter.com/hashtag/RFTech?src=hashtag_click> and #emergencynetworks <https://twitter.com/hashtag/emergencynetworks?src=hashtag_click>. Was announced that it will start at 12:15pm PST. https://meet.jit.si/AaronSwartzDay Thanks!

6 years, 4 months

Sudoroom COVID questions from a researcher

by Jake

Please reply below and i'll collate our answers and send them back to Benjamin, we are borg resistance is futile ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 16:46:01 -0700 From: Benjamin Jameson-Ellsmore To: Jake <jake(a)spaz.org> Subject: Re: Sudo Room during COVID Hi Jake, Thanks for your response! That's actually just as interesting to me. I've got a whole bunch of questions on that note. If you'd like and if it's easier we could schedule a phone conversation. Otherwise, some of my questions are below: How was a decision reached to decide who gets to access the space? Do people manufacturing PPE or other crisis relief efforts have access, and why do or don't such people use the space? Did Sudo Room decide to close its doors along with the rest of Omni Commons, or was it a separate decision? How are the membership and Sudo Room frequenters doing during this crisis? Are Sudo Room folks engaged in PPE/ventilator/respirator etc. production from home? Is Sudo Mesh still operational? Is there any plan in the works to reopen? Is there any documentation of Sudo Room's decision making during COVID? Such as meeting notes? I noticed there's nothing on the wiki for 2020. Thanks so much for indulging me. Ben On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 4:14 PM Jake <jake(a)spaz.org> wrote: > Hi Ben, > > I can try to answer your questions but i haven't been going to sudoroom, i don't think almost anyone has been going. > > > On Mon, 1 Jun 2020, Benjamin Jameson-Ellsmore wrote: > >> Hi Jake, >> >> My name is Ben and I'm doing dissertation research on hackerspaces during the coronavirus outbreak. Naomi Most referred me to you saying you might be a good person to talk to about that as it pertains to Sudo Rooms and Omni Commons. Would you be willing to chat? Let me know! >> >> Thanks, >> >> -- >> Benjamin Jameson-Ellsmore >> Doctoral Candidate >> History of Art and Architecture >> University of California, Santa Barbara

6 years, 5 months

Invoice 2071 from Omni Commons

by Omni Commons

Dear Sudo Room, Here's your invoice! We appreciate your prompt payment. Thank you for stewarding the commons. Love and solidarity, Omni Commons ------------------------ Pledge Summary -------------------------- Invoice # : 2071 Invoice Date: 06/01/2020 Due Date: 06/25/2020 Terms: Net 25 Amount Due: $6,000.00 The complete version has been provided as an attachment to this email. ---------------------------------------------------------------------

6 years, 5 months

Share events on the Omni Calendar

by Roberto Martinez

Hello all, I hope everyone is well. I wanted to remind all collectives that if yall have an event, even if it is virtual, we want to encourage sharing it via the Omni's calendar. You can send the event info to commons(a)lists.omnicommons.org. En Solidaridad, Roberto

6 years, 5 months

Omni Newsletter - call for updates, thoughts, art, words

by Roberto Martinez

Hello fellow omninoms, how is everyone doing? We hope all of you are well and taking care of yourselves and your community during this covid-19 pandemic. What an intense couple of weeks we have lived, right? Full of uncertainties, but also full of hope. A lot has happened in the past several weeks, it feels like we are the center of a fast moving current, acting and reacting to the rapidly evolving threat we and our communities face. After all, covid-19 has done an excellent job at amplifying the ills of the capitalist system making its deadly presence ever more cruel within our most vulnerable communities. But at the Omni, we are lucky to be part of a community of caring, committed and skillful folks who are doing the groundwork to support and build efforts to aid those in need. There is a lot that has happened, direct actions, mutual aid efforts, mask making, food distribution, and more! In the spirit of community building and mutual-care, the communications working group is dusting off the printing press and bringing back Omni’s newsletter to share with each other all of the work we are doing, the feelings we are feeling, and maybe a collective vision for a better future. We are hoping to have the newsletter out by the end of the month, which is in about two weeks. Like newsletters of the past we want to feature the work of each collective. So we are asking each collective to submit 1-4 paragraphs providing an update of the work ya’ll are doing collectively or maybe feature the work of an individual member. Below are some suggestions of questions or topics you can touch on: - Updates from your collective - How is your collective responding to the covid-19 pandemic. - Reflections about the covid-19 pandemic. - What kind of world do yall imagine post covid-19? - Share anything that your collective needs help with, or needs. - Anything you want to share….poetry, paintings, photographs, recipes, anything. Additionally, we will be featuring upcoming events, meetings, or ongoing efforts from collectives, so please send those our way as well. *Please send your content to the communications working group email at comms(a)lists.omnicommons.org <comms(a)lists.omnicommons.org>, by Tuesday April 28th. * Like all the other working groups at the Omni, the communications working group needs more participation. If you are interested in joining please sign up to the communication working group email list at https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/comms. Thank you. With love and solidarity, The Communications Working Group

6 years, 5 months

Disaster.radio - Saw similar design ideas in this solar powered wifi weather station

by sunjam

I thought of Disaster.radio while looking into build instructions for this ESPHome[3] weather device[1], which costs $30.00 for the kit [4], plus this battery[2] and the 3D printed enclosure. Video of how it works [5]. What steps are needed to clarify the build process of disaster.radio even further? [1] https://www.pcbway.com/project/shareproject/W155288ASM1_Gerber_Solar_Powere… [2] https://smokewrap.com/mxjo-18650-imr-3000mah-35a-rechargeable-yellow-batter… [3] https://esphome.io/ [4] https://www.pcbway.com/project/gifts_detail/Solar_Powered_WiFi_Weather_Stat… [5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlrXk40D-pc&feature=emb_logo

6 years, 6 months

No longer able to access the list

by James Sundquist

Hi, I'm no longer able to login to the list. Let me know if anything else is needed on my end. If my account was deleted, could you please add me with sunjam(a)james.network Thanks!

6 years, 6 months

Invoice 2062 from Omni Commons

by Omni Commons

Dear Sudo Room, Here's your invoice! We appreciate your prompt payment. Thank you for stewarding the commons. Love and solidarity, Omni Commons ------------------------ Pledge Summary -------------------------- Invoice # : 2062 Invoice Date: 05/01/2020 Due Date: 05/25/2020 Terms: Net 25 Amount Due: $4,000.00 The complete version has been provided as an attachment to this email. ---------------------------------------------------------------------

6 years, 6 months

Fwd: [omni-consensus] Candidates Statements

by Jenny Ryan

Apologies that my own statement is lackluster at best >_< but, i think y'all know me by now. should we use our loomio account to poll the membership? anyone wanna create a way for members to weigh in on this proposal? Jenny Ryan 315.292.4656 | jennyryan.net ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: MaryAnn Tenuto-Sanchez <enapoyo(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 11:09 AM Subject: [omni-consensus] Candidates Statements To: <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org> Dear Omni Comrades, Roberto Martinez has withdrawn as a candidate for President of the Omni Commons. The remaining candidates and their statements are below. Delegates should forward these statements to your collective’s internal mailing list and seek your collective’s counsel on how to vote. The vote will take place at the Thursday, April 23, 2020 Omni Commons Delegates Assembly/Executive Board meeting. Thanks to everyone for your cooperation, Mary Ann Tenuto-Sánchez CANDIDATES *PRESIDENT * *John Torok - *Candidate Statement of John Hayakawa Torok for Presidency of the Board of Directors, Omni Commons Hi! My name is John and I am a Wage Slave and a Debt Peon. (Hi John!) I participate in the Omni member collective, the Global Women’s Strike. I am also a recovering Catholic, a recovering lawyer, and a recovering academic. While I am an expensively educated and highly indebted activist, I identify as a worker and a member of the working class. I have been active in the community including helping start up the Asian American Bar Association of New York over thirty years ago. While a graduate student at Columbia Law School I became severely emotionally depressed and following expulsion transferred into Berkeley’s Ethnic Studies Ph.D. program where I completed a dissertation on immigration policy enforcement during the Cold War. During the last financial depression I was hired by the California Employment Development Department and right away became a union shop steward with a strong focus on grievances by fellow workers living with disabilities who sought reasonable accommodations. California Unemployment Insurance is thus my state day job. I now serve on the EDD Director’s Statewide Disability Advisory Committee. I agree that state worker and anarchist is a contradiction in terms. However I participated in Occupy Oakland and identify increasingly with anarchist philosophy. There I became familiar with and known to many Oakland activists and organizations. Previously, I was involved in communes, collectives and cooperatives on and off over thirty five years. I lived in housing collectives in Santa Cruz and Brooklyn, NY over a dozen years. I participated in both a Santa Cruz and the Park Slope food coops. My short organizing jobs have been in small self-governing collectives. Lastly, while still in New York I served 10 years on the board of directors of the Asian and Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Inc. as it transformed from a grass-roots ACT-UP-like formation to something akin to an Asian American Gay Men’s Health Crisis. In Occupy Oakland from 2011 I was active in the Queer People of Color/People of Color and Labor Solidarity Committees. Informed and inspired by the Occupy moment, I have helped start up and run three social justice grass roots Bay Area organizations since 2012, the Oakland Privacy (Working Group), the Oakland Livable Wage Assembly, and most recently the Bay Area Poor People’s Campaign Steering Committee. I am and have always been very excited about the utopian experiment that is the Omni Commons. I am thrilled for the opportunity to learn from and collaborate with all the Omni Commons collectives and their members to build a sound basis for a long-term sustainable future for this critical Oakland cultural and revolutionary community. I am eager, willing and able to use my organizing and union leadership and legal trainings, and with your help, to make our Omni Commons a domestic and international model for what we utopians can both imagine and make happen in the real world. Thank you for your support. John Torok, Union Shop Steward, EDD San Francisco Building SEIU Local 1000 District Labor Council 743 (San Francisco) SEIU 1000 Delegate to Alameda and San Francisco County Labor Councils, AFL-CIO Member and Labor Representative, Alameda County Workforce Development Board 510-480-6153 *TREASURER * *Jenny Ryan - *Hi, I'm Jenny, and I've been both the Omni Secretary and Omni Treasurer since.. actually, I don't remember. Since ~2015. Last year, I petitioned to be paid for this gig (which often encompasses dozens of hours per fiscal quarter - keep in mind we are also the fiscal sponsor of 6 other groups), and for transparency can report I received $1,945 from Omni in 2019. I very much want other officers to take on these roles - but to be honest, we've never taken these 'official' positions very seriously. At most, they are needed for signatures. All decision are still made by the delegates. Very little responsibility is required, other than reflecting the decisions of the board - aka, the delegates. Officer roles and responsibilities were expounded upon in Laura's proposal, passed in 2019, to facilitate more responsibilities in these roles. But no greater power in comparison to the spokescouncil. I am totally fine with continuing to be Omni's treasurer and upholding those responsibilities - but I seriously urge others to consider working with me and other board members to step up right now and support the board if you're able! I am happy to train _anyone_ interested in joining the finance team, for instance. You can find my work here: https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Finances and my credentials at https://jennyryan.net Much love, and I look forward to building the new world with you all, Jenny Ryan *Nonprofit Bookkeeping and Technology Consulting* 315.292.4656 | jennyryan.net *SECRETARY* *Robb Benson - *If elected Secretary of Omni Commons, I intend to begin creating summarized minutes of the delegates meeting notes for approval at the following delegates meeting and transparently report, to the best of my ability, the substantive decisions and actions of the working groups. Additionally, I’ll commit myself to furthering my understanding of our reporting duties to external entities, in particular, with regards to activities and events of the commons working group *Mai Sutton - **My motto when it comes to collective decision-making is "Easy things should be easy, hard things should be doable." I'm involved in several non-hierarchical organizations, have facilitated hundreds of meetings, and have been a community organizer for nearly a decade. I previously worked at the **Electronic Frontier Foundation* <https://www.eff.org/>* (EFF) and **Shareable* <https://www.shareable.net/>* as a policy analyst and writer, and have since been a self-employed doing this work. I'm also the Digital Commons Fellow with the **Commons Network* <https://www.commonsnetwork.org/>*, an EU-based advocacy organization for the commons. * *I've been involved with Sudo Mesh since October 2017 as a contributor and steward of the project. Sudo Mesh has also long been a pillar organization of Omni. Several of its members contribute their time and expertise to maintain the building and its wireless network. We are currently applying to become an official Omni member collective. * *I'm running for Secretary because I want to ensure that Omni complies with its legal obligations as a 501c(3) corporation and its internal governance process. I only started to attend the Omni delegates meetings in early March and the collective I'm a part of isn't even an Omni member yet. Despite that, I decided to run for Secretary. I deeply care about Omni as a community resource and space for art and radical organizing. I recognized that there were several core Omni delegates that have been involved for a long time and seemed to be burning out. I thought it would be helpful for others like myself to step up. * *I plan on attending the Omni delegates meeting regularly anyway. If I can help Omni out by putting my name on the official filings, and be there to organize board meeting agendas and elections then I would be happy to do so. * Thanks for facilitating this process! Mai _______________________________________________ consensus mailing list consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/consensus

6 years, 6 months

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