Start a computer club in the place that you live (2023)

One of my fondest early memories of computing was going to my uncle’s computer club held at a school I think after hours. All they did the whole time was copy Commodore 64 games and it was awesome.

This whole site makes me happy. Thanks for sharing it :)

>The social rules are:

> No well-actually’s

> No feigned surprise

> No backseat driving

> No subtle -isms

referred to by the post link, i like it. The link is also cc0, which is the only license i'll put on something, really. This sounds like it would be challenging and rewarding and fun; but the only places a "group" can get together and have space is churches around here, so i'd have to travel like an hour to get someplace more amenable to "several computers running" even if laptops that are wall powered.

I have enough spare computing hardware that realistically i can provide equipment for quite a few people. lugging it around would be a pain.

Two other things i've been seriously contemplating is a hyper-local podcast http://adam.curry.com/html/HowtoStartAHyperLoca-16wQvxtGFbH0... and stand up either a static blog server or something "like a wiki" but just for managing information. I saw that johnny.decimal post earlier and maybe i can put something together that is like a "notes and data" blog but organized with johnny.decimal or one of the other alternatives for organization mentioned in that thread.

I should really get started.

Similar to computer clubs, I really liked doing coding days in various small communities in Tokyo (in Japanese they're called moku moku kai).

The Python minihackathon[0] group model was particularly great. You show up, write a line or two of what you're thinking of working on onto a whiteboard, and towards the end people go up and present what they worked on for a couple minutes.

It's usually "learning how to use this library" or something, but it's a great way to schedule some OSS work.

This is a bit different from a computer club, but if you have a space you can lock into and can get even 10 or so people together once every couple of weeks (or once a month), then it's a great way to be sure you _at least_ work on something 12 times a year.

[0]: https://pyhack.connpass.com/

I'd be interested if it existed...