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by Ryan Bethencourt

Hi All, I've been reading/following the whole evolution of bitcoins as currency and I'm still a bitcoin skeptic (I prefer potential rather than spent processing power :) ). So I was curious, has anyone in the past tried to create a virtual currency based on a resource value, like future usage of CPU time (i.e. $1 would equal an equivalent amount of electricity and hardware wear and tear for x number of CPU cycles, which could be exchanged either for the cycles, at a super computer bank or for other currencies)? To me it seems that bit coin is like a spent CPU resource rather than a future resource and by flipping the equation to future rather than past value a currency based on this type of commodity would be useful... any thoughts? R -- Ryan Bethencourt Tel: (415) 794 6463 ryan.bethencourt(a)gmail.com www.bamh1.com www.linkedin.com/in/bethencourt www.logos-press.com/books/biotechnology_business_development.php

13 years, 5 months

Microcontroller Newbie Night @ sudo room - Tomorrow night!

by Hol Gaskill

Hi Folks, Going to change things up a little bit for tomorrow's microcontroller night. I've finished for now with my active microcontroller projects (can it be???) so I'll be doing a few newbie-level projects/experiments myself. On the menu for tomorrow night: -DIY alarm clock w/ RGB LED output. -DIY motion detector w/light and maaaaybe camera -anything you want to bring and work on Of course for total newbies, we will begin with blinking an LED and move rapidly from there - it's easy with a little help! link to the face book: https://www.facebook.com/events/384770284968953/ Also[0] I will be skipping town for a few weeks. Would anyone like to take over hosting this event for the next three sessions? Only involves sending an email, creating a FB event and sending out a few seed invites to FB-enabled sudoers and whoever else you want, and of course welcoming people who arrive. The latter bit is of course the most involved, but if you are friendly and able to direct people to the soldering iron, wire pile, ac adapter bin etc it's a snap. Dates are May 21, June 4, and June 18. You can continue hosting if you get into the swing of it, or anyone can really. I just want it to exist at sudo room. Also[1] A few medium term group projects have been identified in and around the discussion at the last event. If you might like to get involved in these but cannot attend tomorrow night, I'll post some details to controllers(a)lists.sudoroom.org afterward. Hasn't been much traffic there yet, but stay tuned for project info. Hope to see y'all there! Hol

13 years, 5 months

3D Printing Comics Instructions - reinterpretation of the original Codex! now on the wiki

by Romy Ilano

my dear brothers and sisters, my sudoroom comrades. i have reinterpreted the genius codex of our forerunner jae they are now in an accessible comic book form on the wiki... let us now spread the good word of 3D Printing throughout this fair land... https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/3DPrinting#New_Interpretation_Comics_of_Jay_… [image: Inline image 1]

13 years, 5 months

reminder: this email list is Google-able

by Rabbit

Just a reminder that the archives of this list are indexed by Google. (For this reason I'm keeping pretty quiet here. Would anyone else like to have a list which is not indexed? How about "sudo-ephemeral"?) -Rabbit

13 years, 5 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] should we hire someone to clean up after events?

by mattsenate＠gmail.com

Cleaning is life. But even if each of us tried our best to clean up after ourselves, there will be aggregated filth, incrementally built, plus the cost of natural shuffling, displacement--such is the burden of use and optimization! I think we should: Communicate more clearly the necessary standards for common space. Provide all event holders with a checklist for set up and break down Clean up after ourselves and each other collaboratively Recognize that some additional amount of cleaning is required and therefore create good systems for cleaning natural, aggregate mess.* * my personal politics hope we can do this specific type of work without direct financial incentive. // Matt ----- Reply message ----- From: "Gregg Horton" <greggahorton(a)gmail.com> To: "Romy Ilano" <romy(a)snowyla.com> Cc: "sudo-discuss" <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org> Subject: [sudo-discuss] should we hire someone to clean up after events? Date: Sun, May 5, 2013 9:48 AM I think we should hire a fellow sudoer and use the cash as incentive. Whoever wishes to do it that month can. Or people can learn how to pick up after themselves. On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Romy Ilano <romy(a)snowyla.com> wrote: SudoRoom is a hackerspace. Our skillset is not cleaning, especially cleaning the big main room. - Should we put aside $30-60 every time a group holds an event in our space so that we can pay someone to clean up the common room? - Should we pay someone $30-60 once month to clean the common room for us? I brought this up because we are realistically not going to get a lot of members to clean the space. we are hackers. it is not our skillset. There is not going to be a magical day when a hackerspace finds that all of its members find cleaning to be a pleasurable act. We are good at starting projects, drinking beer, looking for new spaces, but we are definitely not great at cleaning. Our landlord G is also receptive to the idea of us hiring someone to clean up the common room after big events. I personally suck at cleaning, I'm into doing it, but I would rather spend my time hacking and working on projects. I spent a bit of time cleaning up the space Saturday morning, wiping down the tables int he main room and vacuuming to prepare the space for the today I learned. _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss

13 years, 5 months

Happy Cinco de Mayo and a Gene Roddenberry quote

by Ryan Bethencourt

Hi All, I thought I'd send over a little nerd love to all (in the quote below) and wish you a Happy CInco de Mayo! "Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. [...] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there." -- Gene Roddenberry<http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/43942.Gene_Roddenberry> Live long and Prosper! Ryan -- Ryan Bethencourt Tel: (415) 794 6463 ryan.bethencourt(a)gmail.com www.bamh1.com www.linkedin.com/in/bethencourt www.logos-press.com/books/biotechnology_business_development.php

13 years, 5 months

How to get in ? Elevator off, stairs locked

by Romy Ilano

Hi is anyone in the front? I'm here for the kopimism service at 1! The elevator is off and the stairs are locked --- Romy Ilano Founder of Snowyla http://www.snowyla.com romy(a)snowyla.com

13 years, 5 months

should we hire someone to clean up after events?

by Romy Ilano

SudoRoom is a hackerspace. Our skillset is not cleaning, especially cleaning the big main room. *- Should we put aside $30-60 every time a group holds an event in our space so that we can pay someone to clean up the common room?* *- Should we pay someone $30-60 once month to clean the common room for us? * I brought this up because we are realistically not going to get a lot of members to clean the space. we are hackers. it is not our skillset. There is not going to be a magical day when a hackerspace finds that all of its members find cleaning to be a pleasurable act. We are good at starting projects, drinking beer, looking for new spaces, but we are definitely not great at cleaning. Our landlord G is also receptive to the idea of us hiring someone to clean up the common room after big events. I personally suck at cleaning, I'm into doing it, but I would rather spend my time hacking and working on projects. I spent a bit of time cleaning up the space Saturday morning, wiping down the tables int he main room and vacuuming to prepare the space for the today I learned.

13 years, 5 months

article I found intersting

by Troy Massey

The Call of Our Times Submitted by blietaer <http://www.lietaer.com/author/gael1088/> on September 3, 2010 – 1:38 amNo Comment<http://www.lietaer.com/2010/09/callofourtimes/#respond> <http://www.lietaer.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/trees.jpg>Humanity is at a critical juncture. As Paul Hawken succinctly put it in his *memorable address<http://globalmindshift.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/the-unforgettable-commencem…> * to Portland University’s graduate class in May of 2009, “civilization needs a new operating system,” and fast. Why? Because many of the socio-economic rules under which we operate were created under a worldview that failed to recognize that the earth is a living system and that every form of life has its unique and valuable place and purpose in sustaining the larger web of life. By ignoring the conditions that support the health of our ecosystems and communities, we have inadvertently fouled our nest, and jeopardized the future of our children. We are now awakening to the fact that the ways of thinking, strategies and systems that made the industrial age possible, have also fueled the myriad crises that are now upon us: great financial instability, the breakdown of community, growing disparities of wealth, resource wars, alarming rates of species extinction and ecosystem depletion, and accelerating symptoms of climate change. As our food, energy, health, education, economic and financial systems show increasing signs of failing us, we are being collectively called to harness our creativity and resources to take a major evolutionary leap. *Transitioning from our self-destructive ways to life-affirming understandings, lifestyles and systems is indeed the great work of our times.** * The Great Work * <http://www.lietaer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/great-work.jpg>* How do we turn things around? How can we reverse the downward spiral in which much of our world has been caught? The good news is that a fast growing movement of communities, businesses, not-for-profits, and governments around the world is hard at work on this very question. Many experiments are under way on all continents, and there are already many success stories and inspiring new models to point to. Neither creativity nor good intentions are lacking, so why is it that so many change makers around the world often feel that they are swimming upstream? Is there a better and more effective way to harness and direct all the creativity and energy unleashed by our current predicament? My answer is ‘yes,’ but only if we start paying attention to a piece of the puzzle that is currently not on our radar: our monetary system. Re-inventing our monetary system For the growing movement of communities, organizations and governments working to turn things around, the most daunting challenge often revolves around money: How do we find the money needed to transform our energy, food and health infrastructures, to eradicate unemployment and create green jobs, clean up the environment, and ensure that people have proper access to housing, education and meaningful work? Have you ever wondered why cash shortage so bottlenecks our best efforts and initiatives when we actually live in a world where there is neither a shortage of things needing to get done, nor a shortage of people wanting to do them? The answer to this question has to do with the monopoly of the kind of money system we use, which is the * <http://www.lietaer.com/2010/09/2010/09/what-is-the-problem-with-our-current…> *source of the scarcity which so many people experience, and the* ** root cause of a great number of our problems<http://www.lietaer.com/2010/09/2010/09/what-is-the-problem-with-our-current…> *. Our money system was designed a long time ago and is now out of date. It is particularly ill equipped to help us solve the pervasive socio-economic and ecological challenges facing us today. In a *bird’s eye view <http://www.lietaer.com/birdseyeview/>* of both my work and this website, I explain why the transformation of our money system is critical to resolving the challenges of our times and many of the issues you care about. I also explain that monetary diversity is just as important to human survival as bio-diversity is to the fate of the earth. A number of pioneering governments, businesses and communities around the world have successfully experimented with new monetary systems for years, and with great results. We have at our disposal all the monetary tools we need to reduce poverty, clean up the environment, and provide access to meaningful work, housing and health care. It is now time to use them on a larger scale. A world of sustainable abundance is actually possible, but only if we are willing to upgrade our monetary system so that we can begin to leverage true human wealth, which is our energy and creativity. Will you please join me in making sure that we do not miss this opportunity? Your own future, the future of your children, and of this extraordinary planet is at stake. *Bernard Lietaer* http://www.lietaer.com/2010/09/callofourtimes ** **

13 years, 5 months

california-based companies that use open access content?

by Marina Kukso

do any of you know of any california-based companies that use open access content? if you know of any that use open access content exclusively, that would be even better. i imagine there are biotech startups that are in this situation, but i don't know any specifics... any help or directions you could point me in would be really appreciated. thanks, marina

13 years, 5 months

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