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do you know any cool folks in hackerspace in dense, cultured, walkable urban cities around the world?

by Romy Ilano

https://x.com/sudoroom/status/1806752419071791260 we'd like to connect with #hackerspace <https://x.com/hashtag/hackerspace?src=hashtag_click> in dense urban world cities with great culture - know some folks in Tokyo, Berlin. Any folks in London or Paris? Beijing? Going forward I'd like to concentrate any "remote" efforts on reaching folks who are - not in their houses - part of a cool hackerspace - in a world city with public transportation such as Mexico City, Tokyo, London, paris. Do you know any? ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 2 months

BBQ invitation July 14th

by July Tenenbaum

Come listen to a fundraiser pitch about bike locks for Oakland Community bike shops and have some good food. And please pass this on to whomever you know might be interested![image: Screen Shot 2024-06-27 at 4.21.07 PM.png]

1 year, 2 months

starting a shaders workshop at women and non binary night and beyond in late july

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Shaders I have created a wiki page for it. ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 2 months

ongoing Rust Salon is a success

by Romy Ilano

we started the let's learn Rust! series at the women and non binary night but it became such a hit that people came during tuesday's hardware hack night and now there is a coed (co binary :P ) Rust salon group ongoing. The construct of the meetups are simple: - no laptops opened - no videos - no presentations - print if possible - people talk face to face Let's keep this going! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 2 months

Community Meeting with CAST

by William Myers

Hi Everyone! CAST (Community Art Stabilization Trust) is offering to have a meeting to talk to the larger OMNI community, the meeting will likely be tomorrow at 6pm. You will be able to ask questions, and understand who they are and what their mission is. Is anyone at SUDO interested in showing up to meet them? William

1 year, 2 months

notes from our learning to learn series

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/learning-how-to-learn-series/ ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 2 months

do we have a stash of chalk?

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/face-to-face-learning-with-rust/ I had so much fun learning RUST during our women and non binary night with the chalkboard. totally no painful associations with work, job interview whiteboarding, etc. Do we have a big stash of extra chalk? Just checking ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 2 months

Greet people for Hardware and SoftWEAR Hack Night /Fixit Clinic?

by Peter Mui

Hi Sudoers: I arrived for Hardware and SoftWEAR Hack Night / Fixit Clinic at 8PM last week and there were a bunch of people waiting outside with repairs. Can someone try to arrive early say, 7:30 or so to greet people and let them into Sudoroom or the Media Lab and get them started on their projects? Extra Credit: 1) confirm that the VOIP phone number 442-252-8386 is working by dialing it 2) put out the sandwich sign on the sidewalk Many thanks, -Peter

1 year, 2 months

blog post - successful learning rust for women & nonbinary event!

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/face-to-face-learning-with-rust/ Our RUST learning experiment started out well during the Women and Non Binary night. People have been suggesting we try something unique, and there are so many RUST enthusiasts around me, and so few “getting women into RUST” workshops out there, that we decided to try it out. A big potential stinker was that I wanted to learn with an offline mode on, as I am suffering from a massive case of internet addiction. I want to use technology effectively and for food, and the mass of information and distractions is seriously getting in the way of me learning new stuff. So for this meetup as part of the “Learning how to Learn” experiment, I suggested we do this meetup with: - *No* presentation slides - *No* online videos - *No *hybrid/remote element - *No* laptops open (if possible) with people doing face to face - People should be able to whiteboard what they learned - No social media during the event <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Rust-2.jpg> I wasn’t sure what to expect, and wasn’t sure people would show up but people did! Nobody present was currently programming in RUST, but they knew a lot of people who did. We went through printouts of a Gentle Introduction to RUST and actually had fun comparing RUST to different programming languages. One person worked a lot in C, another in python, and it was fun going over the computer science concepts like memory management and garbage collection as a way to get to know RUST. Also, in a world where there’s a lot of pressure to mint programmers out to make commercially viable products, it was fun just to look at a programming language intellectually before making a commercially viable widget. It feels like even in school people are being pressured to make monetizable stuff without stopping to smell the flowers. Working with paper printouts and no laptops worked out surprisingly well. We used the internet sparingly, through a laptop only checked by one person, and talked things out slowly before jumping online. The chalkboard had a weird psychological effect of making things fun and spontaneous for some reason. At this point in history it is completely dissociated from work, school, or even in-person coding interviews. It’s like doing leetcode with crayons on construction paper, and was very freeing! Also, being forced to write the concepts and code on a chalkboard forces you to really repeat and check if you understand what you’re studying. Of course there were also the people. We spent a lot of time talking about our experiences in other programming languages, and describing horrific concurrency bugs in other languages that would cause people to run screaming and yelling to Rust. One girl had a lady friend who wrote a bash script application that was really crazy large that existed just to catch bugs in her original programming bash code. It was also a nice way to talk about the importance of pointers, and understanding how they worked. This series is going well and also enabled us to connect better with each other in person. Sometimes when you’re in person or online, having that laptop with all those infinite distractions keeps you away from the mission. We look forward to continuing this focused and exciting session going forward. Since SudoRoom has such a hardware hackerspace focus, some people were even investigating doing independent hacker projects of embedded RUST. It’s looking good so far! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 2 months

Wednesday night laptop night

by Juliana Tenenbaum

Hey all A small group of us will be meeting to further explore laptops for all on Wednesday, starting at 8. All are invited but we are especially prioritizing this as time space for femme presenting and NB people. -July

1 year, 2 months

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