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Neel Shah
neel at neelfirst.com
Fri Jun 15 23:47:44 CEST 2012
Hello, my name is Neel. I am an electrical engineer by training, and
currently practice as an independent consultant in Berkeley. I am
interested in community outreach in East Bay and generally not being
around other engineers. I have never been part of a hackerspace before and
I am interested in observing and participating in this incarnation of
democratizing technology.
I've been told I have a knack for teaching and I would love to lead some
workshops or classes on electronics design, assembly, and troubleshooting.
As luck would have it I am out of the country until the end of the month;
however I will swing by a Sudoroom meeting when I return. I easily tire of
extolling my superior virtues and enlightened perspective, so I will
instead link to my one-time effort here <http://neelfirst.com/about/>:
Cheers,
Neel
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Anthony Di Franco <di.franco at gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi all. Awesome people inspire others to be awesome. Transgenerationally,
> intrasocially. Thus, sudoroom, I hope and expect.
>
> I'm Anthony, a *flâneur*, *i.e.* a stroller, loafer, kinetic, impassioned amateur
> detective, investigator of my environment. What happens when one sticks a
> funnel in one's head and grinds up most of wikipedia and other quality
> lateral internet communication and dumps it in? This. I've got a decent
> tweet archive going @dfko_0 where you can eavesdrop on this process. I
> formally studied systems, control, and statistics a while ago, and have
> worked on some such things from time to time, and kept up with the fields,
> more or less.
>
> I've been reading and thinking a lot, and writing a little here and there,
> about currency systems, including timebanks over the last many years and
> some others of you seem to be interested in that for sudoroom purposes so
> that might be useful. Also about currency systems in much broader
> historical / political / psychological / religious contexts, the result so
> far of which meandering was this project, which sells things which you
> should buy: 3sovereigns.com
>
> I miss the meetings sometimes.
>
> Here's the end of a Robert Frost poem<http://www.etymonline.com/poems/tramps.htm>that's kind of a propos to this email / moment in human history:
>
> Nothing on either side was said.
> They knew they had but to stay their stay
> And all their logic would fill my head:
> As that I had no right to play
> With what was another man's work for gain.
> My right might be love but theirs was need.
> And where the two exist in twain
> Theirs was the better right—agreed.
>
> But yield who will to their separation,
> My object in living is to unite
> My avocation and my vocation
> As my two eyes make one in sight.
> Only where love and need are one,
> And the work is play for mortal stakes,
> Is the deed ever really done
> For Heaven and the future's sakes.
>
> On Jun 12, 2012 6:45 PM, "Jenny Ryan" <jenny at thepyre.org> wrote:
>
>> Reading these introductions has me so excited to be part of such an
>> interesting and diverse, nascent community. Y'all are some wonderful
>> people! <3
>>
>> My background is in cultural anthropology, and my past ethnographic work
>> has explored online social networking practices, neotribalism and the
>> global psychedelic trance scene, the legal and ethical dimensions of
>> problematic youth-generated online content, 21st century digital literacy
>> skills, and post-human anthropology. Links to publications, if anyone is
>> interested in those subjects, can be found here:
>> http://jennyryan.net/bio/curriculum-vitae/
>>
>> My dissertation research turned open source project of primary focus is The
>> Pyre <http://thepyre.org>, rooted in my desire to create tools for
>> autonomous / resilient / permacultural communities to document and share
>> their own stories and DIY/DIT practices. I see hackerspaces as prime
>> laboratories for creating and forking the first iteration of the project -
>> namely, tagging and tracking objects, people and projects and developing a
>> social platform for facilitating matchmaking, autodocumentation and
>> transparency. Something of a dating site for geeks who prefer making
>> projects to making babies. For the longer view of that project, see the
>> link above :)
>>
>> In my free time, which is much of the time as of late, I enjoy writing
>> poetry, dancing in the forest or the desert with beautiful freaks, reading
>> science fiction, contributing to our little urban homestead in West
>> Oakland, making websites for my superhero friends (see http://eddan.com;), and acting as a connector of aligned humans, groups and projects.
>>
>> Sorry for the long-windedness. Expect it. ;)
>>
>> Jenny Ryan
>> Cyberanthropologist / Web Weaver
>> 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
>> ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:20 PM, rachel lyra hospodar <
>> rachelyra at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello sudo list!
>>>
>>> I am excited to participate in this community as it is forming. I moved
>>> to Oakland last fall after a decade in SF, where i also have been a
>>> regular at Noisebridge for a few years. I have been trying to balance
>>> the importance of contributing to that community effort with my desires
>>> to put down roots in the community where i now live, and am excited to
>>> work towards helping people in Oakland learn to make things. I see this
>>> as integral work to healing the environment and ending discrimination.
>>>
>>> I make a line of reconstructed garments, and sell them through a
>>> cooperative storefront that I co-founded in North Oakland this past fall
>>> called Coyote Counter Collective. We have a garment construction/studio
>>> space integrated with the storefront, and are excited to do craft
>>> classes & workshops in our space... If anyone wants to talk more about
>>> that I would love to! I am also looking to be part of a cooperative
>>> laser cutter purchase if anyone is interested in talking about that.
>>>
>>> I also work in garment-embedded electronics and other microcontroller
>>> based pursuits, and am generally interested in the intersection of
>>> disciplines.
>>>
>>> R.
>>>
>>> On 6/11/2012 11:33 PM, Troy Massey wrote:
>>> > Hello all :)
>>> >
>>> > My name is Troy Massey and I love words;
>>> > more specifically language as a system.
>>> >
>>> > i am trained as an offset printer, did graphic design
>>> > in school, learned Information Design for 2 years on a daily
>>> > basis, i enjoyed building model rockets and launching them
>>> > to take photos of the earth, take apart radios and fix them,
>>> > make model cars, but alas :( ...
>>> >
>>> > the only experience i have really ever had with creating a computer
>>> > system was math programs with BASIC, command prompting
>>> > DOS Shell and using computers like any other person.
>>> >
>>> > I have taken a few Banking classes and dropped the
>>> > psuedo (no pun intended) science "Economics" classes
>>> > i took in college, to instead investigate the reality for myself
>>> > and saw quite a different picture: one of burgeoing oppportunity
>>> > to create connections and ties between community members
>>> > and build the better world we all have a hand in.
>>> >
>>> > I also read Every issue of FastCompany and INC. from cover
>>> > to cover (1998-2001).
>>> >
>>> > In my spare time I talk to cute girls(yes over 18 for all U creepy
>>> > minded folks ;) on the phone, Draw out new inventions that pop into my
>>> > head, write poetry (im broaching about 1,200 poems, read only
>>> Non.Fiction.
>>> >
>>> > i am currently going for a Ph.D. in Communication,
>>> > a Ph.D. in sustainable economics( not offered except as
>>> > a managerial degree by some business college in the
>>> > midwest, but im looking at Everet's Contextual Economics
>>> > program) a masters in English.
>>> >
>>> > All in all life is Quite intetsting i must say
>>> > defendingly deliquency happens
>>> > when one hides from their truth
>>> > or runs away
>>> > I like challanges
>>> > direct affect is worked at
>>> > conveyed
>>> > back to mind advancement via
>>> > enaged word enchantment
>>> > see yall Wendnesday :)
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Live
>>> > Love
>>> > Learn
>>> > Laugh
>>> > Let go
>>> >
>>> > On Jun 11, 2012, at 8:19 PM, Anca | Tech Liminal <anca at techliminal.com
>>> > <mailto:anca at techliminal.com>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Hello SudoRoomers!
>>> >>
>>> >> I'm Anca, and I run Tech Liminal, where SudoRoom has been gestating
>>> >> for the last few months. I'm pretty excited to see a hacker space
>>> >> open in my neighborhood (I live about 1/2 mile away from TL and the
>>> >> new SudoRoom space).
>>> >>
>>> >> I like to make stuff and experiment with technology solutions that can
>>> >> make us better humans. I help to organize the make:SF meetup, as
>>> >> well as Workshop Weekend and other geeky things going on in Oakland,
>>> >> like Code for Oakland. I love pinball and cooking and generally
>>> >> finding out how stuff works.
>>> >>
>>> >> I'm mainly a software developer by trade, though I'm good at talking
>>> >> to non-techies which means that I can make a living talking or coding.
>>> >> :)
>>> >>
>>> >> I'd like to invite the SudoRoom community to continue coming by Tech
>>> >> Liminal's Open Hack night on Wednesday for the making and sharing of
>>> >> creative things.
>>> >>
>>> >> See you soon,
>>> >>
>>> >> Anca.
>>> >>
>>> >> -=-=-=-=-
>>> >> *Anca Mosoiu | Tech Liminal*
>>> >> anca at techliminal.com <mailto:anca at techliminal.com>
>>> >> M: (510) 220-6660
>>> >> W: http://techliminal.com | T: @techliminal | F:
>>> >> facebook.com/techliminal <http://facebook.com/techliminal>
>>> >>
>>> >> On Jun 11, 2012, at 8:15 PM, Patrik D'haeseleer wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>> Hi Tracy!
>>> >>>
>>> >>> That sounds like a very interesting background. I was joking with
>>> >>> Jenny last week that we have about a month left to come up with some
>>> >>> really cool artwork to put in the "box office" window, in time for
>>> >>> the next First Friday / Art Murmur.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Maybe a kinetic sculpture attached to the window with suction cups?
>>> >>> We could even do something triggered by changes in the light from
>>> >>> people walking by...
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Patrik
>>> >>>
>>> >>> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Tracy Jacobs <kinetical at comcast.net
>>> >>> <mailto:kinetical at comcast.net>> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Hi SudoRoomers,
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Thanks for such a fun meeting last week, and especially to Matt
>>> >>> for the great eats! This week meeting at Tech Liminal again?
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I have never introduced myself on the list either till now, I'm
>>> >>> Tracy Jacobs, kinetic sculptor/ geek/dogwalker, I am working on
>>> >>> making a kinetic sculpture kit with an animal theme, that is very
>>> >>> accessible to girls. I have a sculpture mfa specializing in
>>> >>> metals and casting, but got interested in electronics and
>>> >>> kinetics about six years ago. I learned all the engineering I
>>> >>> know from the Crucible kinetics department and the internet. I
>>> >>> have been a member of Noisebridge previously, and also Ace
>>> >>> Monster Toys.
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I am psyched that you all want to create a hackerspace community
>>> >>> in my neighborhood, I live near Lake Merrit/Glenview. I approve
>>> >>> 100% of the space that has been rented after seeing it last week,
>>> >>> I think the location is phenomenal, the space that can be used is
>>> >>> substantial, the rent will be minimal when divided up into 20+
>>> >>> members, and I think if we can have a few events/classes there a
>>> >>> lot more people will get interested in participating.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I like the orientation of the people in your group, and hope that
>>> >>> I can be of some contribution. I can see that you're all really
>>> >>> interested in setting a model for a more sustainable economy and
>>> >>> lifestyle, and I think that's great.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I am interested in learning more about Cad software, to improve
>>> >>> my mechanical abilities at the moment. Can anyone teach that or
>>> >>> is anyone else interested in studying together?
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Things I am capable of teaching are:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Sculpture and basic design principles/processes
>>> >>> moldmaking
>>> >>> microcontrollers for kinetic sculpture
>>> >>> welding
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Let me know if there is any interest in that.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I would also like to host a meeting of the SfMicrocontroller club
>>> >>> there at the new space.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Nice meeting you all, see you again soon!
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Tracy
>>> >>> On Jun 10, 2012, at 7:17 PM, Eddan Katz wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>>> confirmation. you're finally on the mailing list!
>>> >>>> which actually reminds me that I had wanted to suggest a round
>>> >>>> of introductions for folks on the list, as we do at Wed.
>>> >>>> meetings. it would be great to hear from people who haven't been
>>> >>>> able to come to an RL event.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> having suggested it, let me throw my hat in the ring to start:
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> i'm the self-appointed exchequer of sudo room. what that means
>>> >>>> is still unclear, but no one has yet said anything about this
>>> >>>> assertion of authority.
>>> >>>> i follow internet and society issues generally, and have been
>>> >>>> involved in policy advocacy in particular. i'm most interested
>>> >>>> in social movement brokerage, which i think is a way of hacking
>>> >>>> community values.
>>> >>>> i'm excited to be a part of the coming together of sudo room, in
>>> >>>> part to see how the issues play out on a local level. i also
>>> >>>> think this is a great group of people. and i'm glad to be within
>>> >>>> biking distance - i live in the grand lake area.
>>> >>>> i have a daughter Eva, who is almost 4 years old (jul. 29) and
>>> >>>> my wife Julie is an epidemiologist.
>>> >>>> my favorite movie is 'until the end of the world,' i've been
>>> >>>> listening to a lot of 'penguin cafe orchestra' lately, and
>>> >>>> thinking about digital currency.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> On 6/9/12 5:48 PM, Timon of Proximal Development wrote:
>>> >>>>> Self-naming join-message body.
>>> >>>>>
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