Hey Everyone,<div><br>Does everyone want to do a fund-raiser/linux install athon with RoShamboMedia, so that we can have laptops for checking-in-checking out for sudoroom classes?(see specs inline) </div><div><br>These are actually nice laptops, but they aren't worth a whole lot(maybe 200 complete tops), so theft wouldn't be a big issue. </div>
<div><br></div><div>This would be a great deal for teaching classes and etc. for everyone at sudo.</div><div><br></div><div>Let me know and thanks,</div><div><br>Rusty<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
From: <b class="gmail_sendername">rusty lindgren</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rustylindgren@gmail.com">rustylindgren@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:05 PM<br>Subject: Re: [sudo-discuss] programming classes for kids -- need input on a venue!<br>
To: Max Ogden <<a href="mailto:max@maxogden.com">max@maxogden.com</a>><br><br><br>Max/ Marina: <div><br></div><div>For whatever purpose we need laptops, I asked around today, and I can get a single lot of thinkpads for about 50 bucks each if we buy a lot of 10, they are dual core 12" screens(no hard drives)...</div>
<div><div><br></div><div>we can get these too: </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/WD-Western-Digital-SSD-D0015SI-5000-SiliconDrive-III-SATA-15GB-2-5-Industrial-/200899701870?pt=US_Solid_State_Drives&hash=item2ec68e2c6e" target="_blank">http://www.ebay.com/itm/WD-Western-Digital-SSD-D0015SI-5000-SiliconDrive-III-SATA-15GB-2-5-Industrial-/200899701870?pt=US_Solid_State_Drives&hash=item2ec68e2c6e</a></div>
<div><br>Maybe it's time for a roshambo sudo fundraiser to get laptops? </div><div><br><div>-Rusty<div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Max Ogden <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:max@maxogden.com" target="_blank">max@maxogden.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">very cool, thanks Dan! Malonga sounds ideal, as does LOLSpace. if computers are in short supply at the venue I also have a crazy plan worked out involving raspberry pis that could work as well...</div><div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Daniel Finlay <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:namelessdan@gmail.com" target="_blank">namelessdan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">I'll throw this by my supervisors as a possible event to host at the computer lab at Malonga Recreation Center, which is downtown, and I believe is going unused on Saturdays right now. <div>
<br></div><div>-Dan</div><div><div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Feb 26, 2013, at 12:04 PM, Marina Kukso <<a href="mailto:marina.kukso@gmail.com" target="_blank">marina.kukso@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>Agreed that free school is a great avenue to pursue as well.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, Rusty, let's talk about computer donations. This is a goal of mine for sudo.</div>
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<div>Additionally, at Oak Wiki this weekend we worked on this, which I hope can be useful: <a href="http://oaklandwiki.org/Free_Computer_Access_in_Oakland" target="_blank">http://oaklandwiki.org/Free_Computer_Access_in_Oakland</a></div>
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<br></div><div>Finally, if neither Sudo nor free school nor LOL are available or ideal, I encourage you to reach out to libraries and rec centers. I can help with contacts there.</div><div><br></div><div>This idea is at the intersection of a lot of what we've been talking about in the extended sudo community...maybe it could even be a way that we begin to engage <a href="http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Bay_Area_Consortium_of_Hackerspaces" target="_blank">BACH</a>.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Marina</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:57 AM, William Budington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bill@inputoutput.io" target="_blank">bill@inputoutput.io</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Our working relationship with the freeschool that just moved into one of<br>
the big rooms is quite good. They've offered us to basically just use<br>
their space whenever we want and they don't have an event going on.<br>
This seems right up their alley too - maybe we can book their space for<br>
a joint sudoroom freeschool event?<br>
<br>
Sounds like a great event! Maybe we should have a pre-event to install<br>
all the necessary software (ide / editors) on the computers first?<br>
<br>
Bill<br>
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On 02/26/2013 11:51 AM, Max Ogden wrote:<br>
> sudoers!<br>
><br>
> I have been meaning to start teaching programming classes to kids for free<br>
> -- a la <a href="http://coderdojo.com/" target="_blank">http://coderdojo.com/</a> (the founder is a friend of mine -- I<br>
> actually toured him around oakland last year on my tandem bicycle which is<br>
> when this crazy idea was born)<br>
><br>
> The only thing keeping me from doing it is having access to a venue that:<br>
><br>
> - is near public transportation<br>
> - is preferably between downtown and fruitvale somewhere (e.g. centrally<br>
> located) as to not make the trip too far for people living on extreme ends<br>
> of the city<br>
><br>
> and a plus would a place that already has 10+ working computers set up that<br>
> random kids would be allowed to use on saturday afternoons (e.g. a software<br>
> company office). usually coder dojos expect kids to bring their own laptops<br>
> but I'd like to be able to offer computers for kids to use since<br>
><br>
> after a venue is figured out I will organize mentors to help teach and<br>
> sponsors to buy food every week, in addition to organizing the curriculum<br>
><br>
> we could do it at sudoroom except I'm concerned about how hectic it gets on<br>
> the weekend and how a buncha kids would be distracted the whole time -- but<br>
> I could totally be wrong on this one. maybe sudoroom will expand into one<br>
> of the bigger rooms soon?<br>
><br>
> max<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
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