Should there be a faq on tours on the front page of our site with a fill out form?
We should also make a page “how SudoRoom is good and a potential site for educators “ - I’ll try to get on it!!!
SudoRoom overs a unique tactile experience and get kids and adults off screens and phones which parents are paying top dollar for nowadays 🤪🙈
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> On Jul 1, 2024, at 13:45, Jake Watters <typeinthenumber(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Ahlad!
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> Thanks for writing us! We would love to have you, that's what Sudoroom is here for. We will be having an open house event (as we do every week) this Tuesday evening at 7PM. We'll be there until midnight.
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> There is also a general meeting at the building this Tuesday so there will be even more people. You should have no trouble getting in, but just in case, our phone number is (IHA)CKA-TFUN or you can call me personally at i
f that helps.
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> You should check out our membership page at https://sudoroom.org/membership and join our discuss email list at https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/
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> see you soon!
> -jake
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> On Mon, 1 Jul 2024, Ahlad Reddy wrote:
> > Hello, my name is Ahlad. I am an Oakland resident and teach engineering and design at a local
> > public school. I’m looking for a makerspace to work on personal projects and build community
> > with others. I’m wondering if you offer any tours of the space for prospective members.
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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?
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
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
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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!
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
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
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
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
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
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!
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com