Hello!
This is Christine Hodges. You may or may not know me from the circles I
move in: I'm a former tech worker, hackerspace user, meetup.com
participant, effective altruism/rationality community adjacent, member of
First Church Berkeley UCC.
So I got a new job teaching technology at an elementary school in Oakland.
I'd like to give my 230+ Transitional Kindergarten through 5th grade
students great, hands-on learning opportunities with electronics and
coding: a STEAM education (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math). I
have a plan to introduce electronics concepts, bring in physical computing,
then tie that to software coding later in the school year. But I want
students to have hands-on experiences first. This requires stuff like LEDs,
batteries, electronic building blocks, etc.
Thus I started a series of DonorsChoose.org projects to fundraise for these
class materials.
And guess what: some anonymous donors will match every donation so it cuts
the cost in half! Yay! I think this matching will be available all this
week, maybe longer, but I don't know.
And now I'm asking you if you could please chip in while I have this
matching offer. A $10 donation becomes $20. $100 becomes $200!
3 projects posted, many minds educated...
1) The #1 priority project is the basic electronics components and only
needs $339 to be fully funded:
https://www.donorschoose.org/project/intro-to-circuits/4347772/
2) Electronic building blocks gets students creating at a higher level of
abstraction - needs $221
https://www.donorschoose.org/project/electronic-building-blocks/4348639/
3) Makey Makey devices bridge hardware to software - needs $385
https://www.donorschoose.org/project/from-circuits-to-coding-with-makey-mak…
Thanks so much for your participation! Feel free to pass this along to
potentially interested people.
Christine
Dear Sudoers,
Please join me and noffle this Sunday afternoon at the space to learn about and use Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB). SSB is a peer-to-peer network and protocol for decentralized social media sharing and other applications. We will:
- Answer questions about SSB
- Show what the network has to offer
- Help you install SSB software on your computer and get connected to the network
- Troubleshoot any problems.
@ Sudo Room
12pm-6pm, Sunday, August 11, 2019.
SSB Gathering ID: %8kwkn1hB75LP9Pr67HjU03KwzTDChJju7oCbpVUgfFM=.sha256
Sincerely,
~cel (Charles E. Lehner)
Hi Sudoroom,
I'm Chris, and I'm helping out with Pybay 2019. We're having a maker event the night of August 17 and I thought of SudoRoom. Pybay is a community-driven python conference in San Francisco, August 17 - 18. This year keynote speakers include Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google, and Raymond Hettinger, cPython core dev. Other notable speakers include Bryan Siepert from Adafruit and Rachel Thomas, cofounder of fast.ai.
The maker event will let people showcase their homemade hardware/IOT projects. I'm interested in talking with any members who would like a table. The robot arm and sudo mesh projects both looked really interesting. Also, I do have some free tickets for nonprofits. So if either People's Open Network or Sudoroom are interested in having a table as a group, I would have a few free tickets available.
Sincerely,
Chris Matthews
makers(a)pybay.com
Pybay 2019: https://pybay.com/
Maker Event: https://pybay.com/events/
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One of the things that makes PyBay such a fun conference is the hallway track, where casual sharing with another amazing developer inspires novelty solutions to problems, useful open-source contributions, or a new friendship.
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