Activities
When the Club started, most of the activities were centered around our local, back then at the Foyer, rue Notre-Dame, downtown Luxembourg. It was mostly introduction courses to computer and programming. Gradually, our activities shifted online, with BBSing first and then internet.I. Club
While giving us the space to meet physically, the club was also used for fun computing activities that most people don't do at home :-).
1-Building machine
Building machines is great fun. It allows to learn how a computer works, in a completely safe environment. We usually take "retired" machines and beef them up. The challenge is to use those machines to the best of their capacities. Building your machine is a fantastic opportunity to see how a computer works, and what you can do to boost it to the maximum. You'd be surprised to see what you can do with so called "old" machines !The challenge is two fold:
- Use all the parts to build the most powerful possible machine
- Find a suitable operating system for the resulting machine and install it.
Once you have those machines up and running, you'd better use them for something. That's when the second part comes in:
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2-Network
As the name implies, simply connecting all the machines together. The goal is very simple: play Doom in collaborative mode on the club network. Even those of us who never play with computers had to recognize (we've done it already in the past) that it is a great fun. Doom is of course just an exemple. Any collaborative game or endeavor will do![Top]
II. Online
As explained in the history of the Club, we have been shifting more and more towards online activities. Combined with the difficulty to find a time slot that suits everybody, it has led us very early to dematerialize the club, and do most activities in cyberspace.
1-Course
Our first dematerialized course experiment was a PHP course by eMail. It went reasonably well, and building on that, we have continued with others ( bash scripting, etc). However, we have found since a better way than email. See for example our 5 min Html course or the mastodon posting with bash.[Top]
2-Mastodon
What can I say ? Mastodon is a fantastic way to keep in touch very easily, with the information pushed to you and voluntarily limited to 400 characters, something we all appreciate in those times of information overload. You can
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2-Facebook
Facebook
, because we felt we had to. Not too keen on it considering the privacy issues, but it's there.[Top]
3-Web/RSS
This category is a bit of a catch-all :-) As you can imagine, there is always something to do to make your presence online more interesting for the members - and the world at large. This includes finding interesting links for our page, information for our daily RSS feed, things to post or to share, but also more generally maintain the web site, extend it, or simply make it better. Here all help is welcome, from sharing the odd link to programming a new interface in PHP or whatever the latest language craze is today !We provide email support for all kind of projects, from programming to arduino building to gemini capsule.
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