[SGVLUG] Coder's Corner Help Needed at SCALE

[Stan Slonkosky]

If it's okay, I'll post the call for volunteers to the PCC Engineering Club
and Computer Science clubs' Facebook pages in case some PCC students might
be interested. I regularly go to the Engineering Club meetings and on
Friday I mentioned that SCALE was coming up in a few weeks. That club meets
on Fridays from noon to 1 p.m., but I have to leave at 12:45 in order to be
at my 1 p.m. class on time. The Computer Science club meets on Thursdays at
noon, but I am unable to attend any of their meetings because I have a
class then. I did, however, sign up for both clubs so I get informed as to
what they're up to in case they have activities at other times I'd like to
attend. I am a music major, something I never would have thought of doing
40+ years ago when I first attended college.

On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Braddock Gaskill <braddock at braddock.com>
wrote:

> Hi folks,
> The One Laptop Per Child community is attempting to run a Coder's Corner
> at their expo booth at SCALE this year to teach people of all ages to
> code.  They need a lot of help manning the booth.
>
> Anyone interested in helping out, please contact Caryl Bigenho (CC'ed
> cbigenho at hotmail.com).  You may remember Caryl from the great
> presentation on Open Source in Education and OLPC she gave to the LUG last
> spring (video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08EEQogGnu8 ).
>
> They have several free conference passes for volunteers.
>
>
> Details from Caryl:
>
> "I was hoping you might see if any of the members of the group would be
> interested in helping with the "Coders' Corner" booth at SCaLE 13X. It is
> only 3 weeks away and so far, I have just 2 people signed up to help me...
> and one is my husband!
>
> The purpose of the booth is to have a place where people of all ages and
> experience, who aren't coders, can have a chance to try it and see what the
> excitement is all about.  We will be able to have several XO computers
> that people can use to learn, mainly via Scratch and Python. We may also
> have some other laptops so they can try some of the Google Hour Of Code
> activities
>
> The exhibit hall is open 3 days this year which makes covering all the
> hours extra challenging. We will have several full conference passes so
> people will be able to attend sessions and the fun evening events. They'll
> also get a t-shirt and all the other swag that registered attendees receive.
>
> One other perk is that we will probably have room to advertise SGVLUG in
> the booth. I plan to also have some OLPC and SugarLabs things there too.
> "
>
> -braddock
>



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Stan Slonkosky
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