Hey Sudo Room!

Sorry for dropping the ball on organizing this - travel, conferences, and work got in the way. I and a small group (currently 3 people) plan on meeting at Sudo Room Sunday at 6:30 to have an informal study group for the Crypto I class. We will be talking about the current material, the problem set, and the assignment.

If you are taking the course now, please join us! If you are not, or are unsure if you want to continue, remember that the first problem set is due on Monday, so you still have time!!

If it goes well, or there is sufficient interest expressed on the list, we will consider making it a regular event and putting it on the calendar. April Glaser has kindly offered to help us with that, if we decide to do so.

Cryptographically yours,
Garrett

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:40 PM, max b <maxb.personal@gmail.com> wrote:
No I agree that the calendar looks good atm - thanks for your hard work! 

Just saying that I'm not sure we can really have a class without a sudoer bottom lining it.

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 3:07 PM, April Glaser <april.glaser@riseup.net> wrote:
Max,

I'm happy to help organize, sponsor, etc. I think most all of the ghost events are cleared. Feel free to email me off list if you'd like to discuss some calendar clearing tho :)

Was just trying to encourage and move things along.

Thanks! A

On 1/5/15 2:04 PM, max b wrote:
Can I just say that I'd really prefer if no one puts it on the calendar until a sudoroom member steps up and agrees to bottom line this? We already suffer from enough ghost events....

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 3:02 PM, April Glaser <april.glaser@riseup.net> wrote:
Hi Garrett!!

This is a great idea. And you all can def use Sudo for this - or we can reserve a private room at Omni. Happy to help put it on the calendar, etc (although I can't commit to the course).

Is there a day of the week/weekend daytime that you have in mind? Maybe we can put out a poll on the list for what day would work best for folks who are interested. I'm sure many would dig this.

Best, April

On 1/5/15 1:58 PM, zaki@manian.org wrote:
 I can commit to awareness building amongst the various cryto groups I'm a part of . It would be awesome if more bitcoin people did the course.

I'm fairly overloaded right now. I'd be most likely to participate on Friday or esp Sunday . 

It will be a great thing if something can come together.

I feel like not very many people realize that Dan Boneh's course is structured as pretty broad survey so you can dip in in the middle and get something out of it.

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 12:40 PM, max b <maxb.personal@gmail.com> wrote:
There was once a crypto study group maybe a year and a half ago at the old sudo. It was well attended for the first week or two, but attendance precipitously dropped off.

I'd be interested in a study group seeing as I've never actually finished all of this class before :-/

I'm sure that it would be fine to host this - I would imagine that the only requirement would be a sudoroom member who wants to bottom line this. Any takers? Also - we should check the calendar to try to find a time where we think we can get good turnout without overlapping with too many other events:

I think we'd want to try to avoid Wednesday and Thursday, but otherwise it looks pretty clear.

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Gregg Horton <greggahorton@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm definitely Interested.

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Garrett Robinson
<garrett.f.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Sudo!
>
> Yet another session of the excellent Coursera Crypto course has started as
> of today! [0] If you are interested in learning more about cryptography,
> this is a great place to start.
>
> Additionally, I and some others are interested in starting a weekly study
> group to discuss the course material and help each other with the
> assignments. We were thinking Sudo Room would be a good place to host it! So
> this email is meant to:
>
> 1. Gauge interest in such a study group from the sudo community
> 2. Make sure it's ok to host something like this at Sudo
>
> Is there anything we should do to host this at sudo in the most positive way
> possible for the space and community?
>
> Cheers,
> Garrett
>
> [0] https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto
>
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