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by Mitch Altman

My friend Hilary, in Oakland, is looking for donations of OLPCs for a school in Tanzania. If you can help, please see below: WANTED: OLPC XO-1 laptops. These machines were introduced through a ”Give One Get One” offer by One Laptop Per Child <www.laptop.org> a few years ago. Please check your closets to find these wonderful learning tools now hiding there. The XO is a potent learning tool designed and built especially for children in developing countries, especially those living in some of the most remote environments. It’s about the size of a small textbook. It has built-in wireless and a unique screen that is readable under direct sunlight for children who go to school outdoors. It’s extremely durable, brilliantly functional, energy-efficient, and fun. We are collecting these laptops for a new school in a rural area of Tanzania <http://www.aiscs.org/projects.php>. If you have no further need for your machine, please contact AISCS info(a)aiscs.org or call us: 510-273-9044 to donate it, even if you are not sure it still works. Thanks, Mitch.

12 years, 3 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] Gittip spinoff seeks advice on democratic governance & bylaws for web applications

by yar

On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 6:08 PM, David Keenan <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Totally would love for us to work with them on this. Are they local? They are a distributed online group. The project mainly exists as: - an irc channel: freenode.#atunit - a website: https://www.atunit.org/ - an issue tracker: https://www.assembla.com/spaces/atunit/tickets

12 years, 3 months

Arduino For Total Newbies workshop

by Mitch Altman

I'm giving my very popular *Arduino For Total Newbies* workshop at Noisebridge! Saturday, 9-August, 1:00pm to 4:30pm You've probably heard lots about Arduino. But if you don't know what it is, or how you can use it to do all sorts of cool things, then this fun and easy workshop is for you. As an example project, we'll be creating a TV-B-Gone remote control out of an Arduino you can take home with you. All ages, all welcome! For more info, and to register: http://tiny.cc/ArduinoNoisebridge Mitch.

12 years, 3 months

pile of doors in sudoroom

by Jake

I guess there's a huge pile of doors in sudoroom, with a note that says "keep at least 25 of them here" or something. does "here" mean sudoroom? or can i move them downstairs into the library or something? I want to put the robot where they are. -jake

12 years, 3 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] Gittip spinoff seeks advice on democratic governance & bylaws for web applications

by yar

On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Rabbit <rabbitface(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Recently there was a controversy at Gittip which resulted in a project to > fork or rebuilding it with better governance structures and more focus on > the needs and safety of marginalized users. > > They're working on bylaws and legal structures for this, and would > appreciate advice or connections to people with advice. Talk to them in IRC > at #atunit, particularly @adrienneleigh, or send me resources to pass along. > > Sudoroom may be one of the largest users of this site when it launches, like > we are now with Gittip. Yes! I really hope that the Sudo community can put our weight behind this project. It is an extremely important one, and has AMAZING potential.

12 years, 3 months

floor cleaner available

by Patrik D'haeseleer

I'm planning to rent a Hard Surface Cleaner from Home Depot this evening (If I can figure out how to transport it), to clean the concrete floor in CCL: http://www6.homedepot.com/tool-truck-rental/Hard_Surface_Cleaner/L08992029/ Only $48/day, plus cleaning solution! I'm planning on renting it for a full day, so once we're done with the CCL floor, Sudo, BackSpace or FNB might want to borrow it to clean their concrete floors as well. Much easier than wet-mopping... Is there anyone who can help me get this thing from Home Depot in Oakland, between 6 and 7 this evening? Patrik

12 years, 3 months

me n' meetings -

by David Keenan

Hey everyone, I hope this wont seem weird to formally announce this, but I decided tonight that if I am gonna attend any meeting, I am going to attend the whole meeting all the way through to its initially-slated / official ending-time, or I will just not attend. I decided it is just too disrespectful to others to hop in and out of meetings before they are slated to be finished, even if it is for other, equally pressing omni business (which has, in every case I can think of, been the only reason I have ever felt compelled to do so.) Therefore I respectfully ask anyone that feels I personally need to step away to attend to something else or answer a query, or even wants a quick sidebar on somethin at a given merting, simply not ask but wait until the meeting is done - barring of course some sort of all-out emergency. By the same token, if a meeting runs over its running time, I may have to leave that meeting at some point thereafter - and I sincerely hope that no one at that extended meeting will be offended if I do so at that point - I encourage others to try this model with me, which I probably should have been following all along. Honestly, I am really not the best multitasker in the world (as I am sure this is already readily apparent to everyone anyhow), so I dont know why I tried to attempt otherwise. I hope this doesn't seem narcissistic or anything to announce publicly - as if its sooo important somehow - but I just want to make sure moving forward, that no one is offended if I have to defer talking to em (or otherwise engage with another matter) right away whilst I am still in a meeting, or have to leave a meeting that is running over. Love to all, David

12 years, 3 months

Legs for tables

by niki

Hello! I have been thinking about making some legs for turning those hollow core doors into tables when needed. I came across this recently: *http://www.thefloydleg.com/story-of-the-leg/ <http://www.thefloydleg.com/story-of-the-leg/>* and thought.. we could make something like that!! I only have some rudimentary soldering skills, but I'd really like to learn more heavy duty welding / metallurgy. Anyone here have experience with that at all? Anyone interested in working on a project like this with me? Not necessarily tomorrow, but in the not-too-distant future? xo N

12 years, 3 months

Fwd: [omnilogistics] Call for early birds! 7am caravan dump run tomorrow!

by David Keenan

If anyone can help - helllla early - this is muy importanto! thanks everybody! :) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Jenny Ryan* Date: Friday, July 25, 2014 Subject: [omnilogistics] Call for early birds! 7am caravan dump run tomorrow! To: omnilogistics Cc: Rikke Rasmussen, "J.C. Cooper" Thanks to everybody who helped load the truck tonight with all the Omni detritus! And extra thanks to David K (who spent hours literally demolishing the heavy wooden furniture) and Rikke (who brought her box truck and coordinated, somehow, everything fitting perfectly like a game of box truck tetris). But! We need to make the dump run _tomorrow morning_ as Rikke and JC have prior obligations to help with the Noisebridge Reboot [1] and need the truck empty by noon! We will be meeting at 7am outside of the Omni with an extra vehicle for a few folks who can help us unload the truck at the dump. Or you can meet us at the commercial waste dump, which is 3 blocks from the Coliseum BART stop. If you can meet at this time (7am tomorrow/today), please contact me before 6:30am. We'll be checking with the dump at 6am to ensure they will allow an un-dumping vehicle to enter the premises, or if they will voluntarily help with unloading. Love, Jenny http://jennyryan.net http://thepyre.org http://thevirtualcampfire.org http://technomadic.tumblr.com `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "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 ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`

12 years, 3 months

BLOCK OFF YELLOW ZONE & space behind asap?

by David Keenan

Can anyone at Omni block off the loading zone and the space behind it for the truck that's coming to remove the debris situation outside Omni on 48th? Can I also get all available hands to help load the truck up from at least 8pm on tonight? I know the OOC meeting will probably run late, but we need some bodies to help load up that truck. If we do not load up the truck, we risk getting cited for obstruction and that could be several hundred dollars at this point considering the amount of stuffs. I've arranged with J.C. & Ricky to bring their box truck to Omni in a couple hours so we can do a dump run. They will have to be remunerated. I don't know what it will be but it should be under $600 total. John had scheduled with Waste Management for bulky pickup (which was also going to be expensive due to the amount and type of stuff) but they flaked for 2 days, then said they can't take ceiling tiles, or broken-up furniture, or actually pretty much anything we have out there, so it will have to be hauled. Other options like a dumpster was explored but this was really expensive and we would not get it for days (at least $750 + cost of parking obstruction permit from city = over ~$1000). I don't anticipate the cost of hauling exceeding $600 but this will have to be assessed by Ricky, JC et al with the truck. Note the cost of disposal will mostly be on john but partly on OOC. That's because John doesn't think he should have to pay for e.g. the disposal of the ceiling tiles from the bookstore-cafe (that collective should pay for that), or actually, the extra 3 big wardrobes removed from CCL/Sudo room, or of our garbage that we did not put out on Tuesday, etc. The exact portion we are responsible for needs to be negotiated a bit with John (I don't think this will not be a big deal), but re: the wardrobes for example, as John expressed, since Sudo took 3 of them and we are keeping one in the ballroom (4 total), we are also responsible for the other 3 we don't need - it was a take them all or take none sort of deal (yar can perhaps speak better to this). So who is responsible for what on our side will need to be sorted out, I figure our responsibility is about 30%. We had probably 7-8 bags of garbage and many, many bags of ceiling tiles, the wardrobes were big and heavy, etc. David

12 years, 3 months

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