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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I have contacted the mayor's scheduler
to let Jean Quan know that we will hold our press conference at
about 7pm, but have not yet heard confirmation. The current text
(as of 5:20) is cut and pasted below. Word count is currently 440
words, and could definitely use some additional editing.<br>
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none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Dear
citizens and guests of the city of Oakland,</span></b><br>
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<b id="internal-source-marker_0.08913468639366329" style="color:
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0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration:
none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">We
are an unincorporated association of technologists,
scientists, lawyers, artists, and community activists who are
interested in using technology to promote social justice in
our local community. We are Sudo Room, that’s s-u-d-o room.
Visit us at Sudoroom.org, join our mailing list at
hackerspaces.org, or ‘follow’ us on your favorite social media
platform.</span></b><br>
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0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span></b><br>
<b id="internal-source-marker_0.08913468639366329" style="color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-style:
normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal;
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0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration:
none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Makerspaces,
hackerspaces, open schools, open labs and the other
insiprational Do-It-Yourself (DIY) initiatives that seek to
steer our community’s creative potential into peer production,
problem-solving and democratic culture by bringing together
the tools and the passions of those who seek to help each
other, our neighbors, and the planet. </span><span
style="font-size: 19px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration:
none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> </span><span
style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration:
none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span></b><br>
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style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration:
none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span></b><br>
<b id="internal-source-marker_0.08913468639366329" style="color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-style:
normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal;
line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; "><span
style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration:
none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">You
see, we are an open, non-hierarchical collaborative community
and have not yet come to agreement on our tax structure or how
best to stimulate open knowledge innovation in our city – so
we don’t have a tax ID. We could only find one bank, down the
block, which would permit us to open an account with a copy of
our by-laws and meeting minutes or press releases as proof of
our existence, but without yet having obtained a tax ID.</span></b><br>
<b id="internal-source-marker_0.08913468639366329" style="color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-style:
normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal;
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text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; "><span
style="font-size: 19px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration:
none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span></b><br>
<b id="internal-source-marker_0.08913468639366329" style="color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-style:
normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal;
line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; "><span
style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration:
none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Henceforth,
let it be known that on this, the 7th tone of Ahau and Blue
Lunar Hand in the calendar of the Maya, the third day of the
month of August, 2012, in the calendar of Pope Gregory, Unix
time stamp </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family:
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baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">1344049200</span><span
style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration:
none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">, We,
the Sudo Room, do hereby declare our rightful and lawful
Intent to Exist. With this intent we shall steadfastly seek to
establish and make known our actuality, factuality and
reality, as acknowledged by our institutions.</span></b><br>
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text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
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style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
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none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span></b><br>
<b id="internal-source-marker_0.08913468639366329" style="color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-style:
normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal;
line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; "><span
style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration:
none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">We’re
in the middle of drafting our official documents on our wiki.
We’ve already agreed on a process by which to establish
ourselves with a minimum threshold compact. We’ve set as our
goal at least 23 members to commit to the Articles of
Association, but we hope more of you will join us. </span></b><br>
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rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-style:
normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal;
line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; "><span
style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration:
none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span></b><br>
<b id="internal-source-marker_0.08913468639366329" style="color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-style:
normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal;
line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; "><span
style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration:
none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">We’re
renting this space behind us as our first start. It is a
pseudo room for sure, in that it is not quite enough room for
our ambitious goals, but it is also a Sudo Room in the sense
of everyone getting a turn to meaningfully participate, like
the computer command granting temporary administrative access.</span></b><br>
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text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
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none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span></b><br>
<b id="internal-source-marker_0.08913468639366329" style="color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-style:
normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal;
line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; "><span
style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration:
none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">We
are also gathered here to answer a question was asked on our
sudo-nymous etherpad space as to: “How many hackers can you
fit in a Sudo Room?” We will now try to answer that question
by asking our crowd here about who is interested in joining us
and filling up these 100 sq. feet. Please announce your name
or sudo name on your way in.</span></b><br>
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normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal;
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text-align:center" height="35px" width="32px"><img
moz-do-not-send="true"
src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/documents/share/images/services/document-1.png"
alt="Document"></td>
<td style="padding: 0;" height="32px" valign="middle">I've
shared <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/12jHQi0oUMJGUgCbRxpziCGsHWPGYd01Z2vLjQu54xdI/edit?invite=CNqZuoMK">Sudo
Room Intent to Exist</a></td>
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<div style="font-size: 13px; background-color: #FFF; padding:
10px 7px 7px 7px;"><span style="color: #007825; font-weight:
bold;">Message from <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:tunabananas@gmail.com" style="color: #007825;
font-weight: bold;text-decoration: none;">tunabananas@gmail.com</a>:</span>
<span style="color: #000;">
<pre style="font-size: 13px;font-family: Arial, sans-serif;white-space: pre-wrap;white-space: -moz-pre-wrap !important;word-wrap: break-word;">Eddan ran into the Mayor this morning, and she expressed interest in our press conference this evening, which will take place at 7pm outside 2135. Bring yourself, your cameras and smartphones!
Attached is the doc link to the draft press release. Please hack away so we can send it off to her scheduler this afternoon!</pre>
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Click to open:
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href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/12jHQi0oUMJGUgCbRxpziCGsHWPGYd01Z2vLjQu54xdI/edit?invite=CNqZuoMK">Sudo
Room Intent to Exist</a></li>
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<span style="color: #898989;">Google Drive: create, share, and
keep all your stuff in one place.</span>
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href="https://drive.google.com"><img
moz-do-not-send="true" style="border: 0;margin-top:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/sudoroom">http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/sudoroom</a>
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