Date/Time
Date(s) - 2024/08/26
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location
Sudo Room
Categories
- Sign up at https://lu.ma/cin107ny
In this women and nonbinary workshop we’ll be working with open-source AI to stage a small debate between Octavia Butler and other figures based on her famous essay “A Few Rules for Predicting the Future” that she wrote for Essence in 2000.
No worries if you missed the past 2 workshops! We meet you as you are, and you can start wherever you want and go at your own pace.
This is an in-person, non remote face to face meetup with a de-emphasis on screens. We will be whiteboarding and helping each person go through the steps on their computer.
Hack on What you Want
Since this is screen-free with no long PowerPoints or talking by a speaker, this frees up the meeting for everyone to work on whatever they want and participate at will!
The SudoRoom has hardware of all types: analog audio, soldering tools, a lasercutter, and more! So this isn’t just a software workshop.
Cool links
- “A few rules for Predicting the Future” – Octavia Butler Essence Magazine 2000
- Black Matters: the world of Afrofuturism – Dorothy Lazard at the Oakland Public Library on the OMCA exhibit on Afrofuturism
- Truth is Change – the Evolution of Octavia Butler’s Cover Art
- We have a bunch of tools on our wiki such as the Big Red Laser Cutter https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Big_red_laser_cutter
About
The Sudo Room, creative community and hackerspace at Omni Commons, invites all Women/NB people for “WNB Coding/Hacking Night”: bring your computer and a coding project and have fun! We can help each other if you have coding/hacking-related questions/bugs or just keep company while hacking! If you are a beginner, we can help you get started (even if you’ve never coded before!). And if you’re an intermediate programmer looking for a challenge, we can help you find problems to work on.
No computer? No problem: we can provide one for the night. Coders/Hackers of all abilities are welcome! All coding languages are welcome! Bringing a WNB friend is highly recommended. Join in person if you’re in Oakland or online anywhere else in the world!
The idea is also to be a safe space for WNB in the tech world, besides promoting empowerment, also to provide emotional support for those facing challenges in a work environment, tech job search or anything else related.
Every Monday from 7pm to 9pm Pacific Time
Sudo Room at Omni Commons
4799 Shattuck Avenue – Oakland