Group: LibrePlanet Ham
About us (me?)
Currently I work under a community interest company that help locals (and not so locals) with their tech. My aims is to promote only free software and open hardware. --amunizp (fsf#12735) 18:38, 23 August 2014 (EDT)
How to Join
Just show up and say hi. We are in South West london between Richmond upon Thames and Kingston upon Thames. Send me a message. User:Amunizp or you can also reach me on GnuSocial @andresinmp
Next events
We meet every Tuesday evenings. From 7.30 pm. details in Richmond MakerLabs Ask for Andres. ICS file if you save this txt file as an ICS to put it on your calenders.
Previous event
We had a coder dojo session in the Ham Youth Centre today. This coincided with Software freedom day.
Short note about Coder Dojo: normally focused for young people in this case between 8 to 14 years of age. It is to introduce them into coding. In this case there was some HTML, scratch and python.
I'll give an overview on my experiences:
- In UK if you are going to do any type of volunteering with under age children even if the parents or teachers are present you need to get a Disclosure and barring service Check or DBS for short.
- DBS normally cost money and it involves giving your details so that they can check your background. But if you plan to get the check for promoting science, technology, engineering and mathematics you can do it via STEMNET for free. Software falls in at least two of those categories so cool.
- Today was chaos. Seems that this is what it is supposed to be. We attempted to divide in groups. Some wanted to do Python, others scratch and others HTML. Some had their laptops and others did not. WIFI was available but not trustworthy. We had a USB going round with installers and some documentation for windows machines and mac machines. I loaned my netbook with trisquel installed to do some python.
| Note | Ham Group |
|---|---|
| Region | Europe |
| Area | United Kingdom |
| Mailing list | http://labs.richmond.ml/listinfo.cgi/maker-richmond.ml |
| Website | http://richmond.ml/ |
| Available language(s) | English |
| Contact | Amunizp |
| Members | 0 |
| Description | Libre Software and open hardware |
| Current status | Active |
