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...On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Daniel Finlay <namelessdan@gmail.com> wrote: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.-DanOn Feb 26, 2013, at 12:04 PM, Marina Kukso <marina.kukso@gmail.com> wrote:Hi everyone,Agreed that free school is a great avenue to pursue as well.Also, Rusty, let's talk about computer donations. This is a goal of mine for sudo.Additionally, at Oak Wiki this weekend we worked on this, which I hope can be useful: http://oaklandwiki.org/Free_Computer_Access_in_OaklandFinally, 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.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 BACH.Marina_______________________________________________On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:57 AM, William Budington <bill@inputoutput.io> wrote:
Our working relationship with the freeschool that just moved into one of
the big rooms is quite good. They've offered us to basically just use
their space whenever we want and they don't have an event going on.
This seems right up their alley too - maybe we can book their space for
a joint sudoroom freeschool event?
Sounds like a great event! Maybe we should have a pre-event to install
all the necessary software (ide / editors) on the computers first?
Bill
On 02/26/2013 11:51 AM, Max Ogden wrote:
> sudoers!
>
> I have been meaning to start teaching programming classes to kids for free
> -- a la http://coderdojo.com/ (the founder is a friend of mine -- I
> actually toured him around oakland last year on my tandem bicycle which is
> when this crazy idea was born)
>
> The only thing keeping me from doing it is having access to a venue that:
>
> - is near public transportation
> - is preferably between downtown and fruitvale somewhere (e.g. centrally
> located) as to not make the trip too far for people living on extreme ends
> of the city
>
> and a plus would a place that already has 10+ working computers set up that
> random kids would be allowed to use on saturday afternoons (e.g. a software
> company office). usually coder dojos expect kids to bring their own laptops
> but I'd like to be able to offer computers for kids to use since
>
> after a venue is figured out I will organize mentors to help teach and
> sponsors to buy food every week, in addition to organizing the curriculum
>
> we could do it at sudoroom except I'm concerned about how hectic it gets on
> the weekend and how a buncha kids would be distracted the whole time -- but
> I could totally be wrong on this one. maybe sudoroom will expand into one
> of the bigger rooms soon?
>
> max
>
>
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