[Noisebridge-discuss] Charging for classes at Noisebridge

[jim]

   (related topic, tho' something of an advertisement; 
consider it as one class model.)

   there is a tuesday and friday study group meeting 
in the turing classroom from 3 to 6 PM. as typical of 
study groups, there is no leader. those who show up 
should expect to lead and to follow and to read and 
to do solo or group exercises. one of us regularly 
repeats "the one who learns the most is the teacher" 
in hopes that more persons will stick their necks out 
and try to teach what they (believe) they know. 

   THE POINT: YOU CAN USE THIS DEDICATED NETWORK AND 
ITS HOSTS. 
   in the turning classroom are a couple of switches 
connected together, one of which is also connected to 
a router in the rack and storage room which is 
connected to a couple of 1U machines. 
   the purpose of this set up is to let people try 
out their system administration and networking skills. 
   Currently there is no gateway for this lab network, 
i.e. the "router" is working as a switch and hosting 
a dhcp server. we are deferring the routing feature 
until things stabilize, things such as the network 
address (192.168.173.0) and whether we want to bridge 
to the noisebridge LAN or to some other net, whatever 
that would be. 
   YOU CAN USE THIS STUFF if you like. Just be polite 
net citizens and remember that other people have 
expectations set up; if you want to change it, first 
let others using the systems know and coordinate with 
them before making changes. 
   MENTORS WELCOME: current participants are various 
stripes of stupid and ignorant and will benefit from 
any interest shown. 

   Money status so far: all equipment is owned by jim, 
a NB member; anthony has donated $40 to NB. various 
people have stopped by and chatted or taught or 
learned or <other>. Group policy seems to be to keep 
things this way (note one member occasionally nags 
others to donate to NB). 
   Attendance varies, committed members are few, we 
have done little to promote it, depending on the NB 
wiki listing and word of mouth. 
   ANOTHER POINT: It's something of a petri dish, 
whatever grows is welcome. How to sustain and nuture 
it is not clear. 



On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 11:57 -0700, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> On 7/17/10 11:46 AM, Sean Cusack wrote:
> > One other random, and slightly tangential question: It appears that
> > people are saying indirectly that if teachers are paid and students have
> > to pay the class is better. Do people seriously believe this is true?
> > Mitch turned me into an electronics nerd from a kick ass soldering class
> > (and a NB regular), and M. Shiloh now has me well on the way to become
> > an Arduino freak. I think these are 2 examples of stellar teachers and a
> > motivated student (me) getting a ton out of a free class.
> 
> So I routinely volunteer  (e.g. am not paid) to teach on network related
> workshops which either the students or the organizations bear some but
> not all of the costs for. said workshops would not happen if with the
> nearly as much frequency if all the money had to be raised by donor's.
> morever I do think that it help's focus the students and their
> organizations on maximizing the yeild on their experience as opposed to
> simply putting in an appearance.
> 
> As an individual on the other other it's up to me to make the most of
> the experiences I can have so yeah, I come to classes motivated, if I
> wasn't I wouldn't show up.
> 
> > 
> > 
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