When is this shit going down? Sounds awesome.<div><br></div><div>-Jehan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 7:08 PM, adam scislowicz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adam.scislowicz@gmail.com" target="_blank">adam.scislowicz@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Love it. Sorry I haven't been more involved thus far. I am nearly out of the woods on my end :D<br><br>You all rock<br>
Warm Regards,<br>Adam<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Eddan Katz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eddan@oaklandlocal.com" target="_blank">eddan@oaklandlocal.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>PS: Thanks to Jenny, Evan, Victoria, Patrik, and everyone else who helped out.<br><br>sent from <a href="tel:%2B1%28415%29%20728-5800" value="+14157285800" target="_blank">+1(415) 728-5800</a></div>
<div><div><div><br>On Aug 3, 2012, at 6:55 PM, Eddan Katz <<a href="mailto:eddan@oaklandlocal.com" target="_blank">eddan@oaklandlocal.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>The current and penultimate draft reads as following and will be delivered by Tracy Jacobs<div>
:<div><br></div><div><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Dear citizens and guests of the city of Oakland,</span><br>
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">We
are an unincorporated association of technologists, scientists,
lawyers, artists, and community activists interested in enabling openly
accessible technology to promote social justice right here in our local
community. We are Sudo Room (that’s s-u-d-o room.) Visit us at
<a href="http://Sudoroom.org" target="_blank">Sudoroom.org</a>, join our mailing list at <a href="http://hackerspaces.org" target="_blank">hackerspaces.org</a>, or ‘follow’ us
on your favorite social media platform.</span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><br>
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Makerspaces,
hackerspaces, open schools, open labs and other inspirational
Do-It-Yourself (DIY) initiatives are steering our community’s creative
potential into peer production, problem-solving and democratic culture
by bringing together the tools and passions of our want to help each
other, our neighbors, and the planet. </span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><br>
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Sudo
Room is a part of this movement. We hope you will join us. We began to
work together last December. We’ve so far held several successful events
and are now having a presence at Art Murmur. We meet here at 7pm on
Mondays.</span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Our
next step is to “officially exist”, which is tough without a Tax ID.
This “recognized existence” would allow us to have such benefits as a
bank account. Up until this point, though, we have found only find one
bank which would permit us to open an account just based on establishing
proof of our being here, now... in other words, yes, “existing”.</span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><br>
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">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 1344049200, 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.</span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><br>
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">We
shall continue drafting our documents publicly on our wiki. We’ve
already agreed on a process by which to establish ourselves with a
minimum threshold compact. And we’re renting this space you see behind
us as our first. (It is a pseudo room for sure, but it is also a Sudo
Room in the sense that everyone can meaningfully participate).</span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><br>
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">And
in celebration of this existence, we are also gathered here to answer a
question asked on our sudo-nymous etherpad space as to: “How many
hackers can you fit in a Sudo Room?”</span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><br>
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">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-- and
please announce your name or “sudo-name” on your way in. The first 50
people will also get a ticket to see Ghostbusters next door at the
Paramount in about an hour.</span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><br>
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Thank you.</span></div><div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px"><br>
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<br></div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 3, 2012, at 5:45 PM, aestetix aestetix wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">Only one nitpick. I would suggest having a mention of Emperor Norton :)<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Eddan Katz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eddan@oaklandlocal.com" target="_blank">eddan@oaklandlocal.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>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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>>><br>
<span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span>
<b style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:medium;white-space:normal;font-family:Times;word-spacing:0px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Dear
citizens and guests of the city of Oakland,</span></b><br>
<b style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:medium;white-space:normal;font-family:Times;word-spacing:0px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span></b><br>
<b style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:medium;white-space:normal;font-family:Times;word-spacing:0px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">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 <a href="http://Sudoroom.org" target="_blank">Sudoroom.org</a>, join our mailing list at
<a href="http://hackerspaces.org/" target="_blank">hackerspaces.org</a>, or ‘follow’ us on your favorite social media
platform.</span></b><br>
<b style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:medium;white-space:normal;font-family:Times;word-spacing:0px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span></b><br>
<b style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:medium;white-space:normal;font-family:Times;word-spacing:0px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">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="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:19px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"> </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span></b><br>
<b style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:medium;white-space:normal;font-family:Times;word-spacing:0px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span></b><br>
<b style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:medium;white-space:normal;font-family:Times;word-spacing:0px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">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 style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:medium;white-space:normal;font-family:Times;word-spacing:0px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:19px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span></b><br>
<b style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:medium;white-space:normal;font-family:Times;word-spacing:0px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">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="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Courier New';font-weight:bold">1344049200</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">, 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>
<b style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:medium;white-space:normal;font-family:Times;word-spacing:0px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span></b><br>
<b style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:medium;white-space:normal;font-family:Times;word-spacing:0px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">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>
<b style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:medium;white-space:normal;font-family:Times;word-spacing:0px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span></b><br>
<b style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:medium;white-space:normal;font-family:Times;word-spacing:0px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">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>
<b style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:medium;white-space:normal;font-family:Times;word-spacing:0px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span></b><br>
<b style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:medium;white-space:normal;font-family:Times;word-spacing:0px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">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>
<b style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:medium;white-space:normal;font-family:Times;word-spacing:0px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span></b><br>
<b style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:medium;white-space:normal;font-family:Times;word-spacing:0px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Thank
you. </span></b><br><div><div>
<u></u><u></u><br>
<br>
On 8/3/12 12:19 PM, Jenny Ryan (Google Drive) wrote:<br>
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<div style="max-width:650px;background-color:#d1e4f0;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;padding:5px">
<div style="min-height:36px;font-size:14px;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:4px">
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<td style="padding:0;padding-right:5px;text-align:center" height="35px" width="32px"><img alt="Document"></td>
<td style="padding:0" height="32px" valign="middle">I've
shared <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/12jHQi0oUMJGUgCbRxpziCGsHWPGYd01Z2vLjQu54xdI/edit?invite=CNqZuoMK" target="_blank">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 href="mailto:tunabananas@gmail.com" style="color:#007825;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">tunabananas@gmail.com</a>:</span>
<span>
<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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Room Intent to Exist</a></li>
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keep all your stuff in one place.</span>
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