April Events!

On Tuesday, April the 19th from 7-9, Luke Lovett will teach a beginner's workshop on MaxMSP, a popular music software.

On Tuesday, April the 19th from 10-11, Louisa Berger and Luke Lovett will host "Snake Charmers: Learning Python." Come if you're interested in learning Python.

On Thursday, April the 21st from 8-10, Garrett Robinson, Louisa Berger, and Luke Lovett will teach a beginner's workshop for building websites. We will discuss the preliminaries (domain names, hosting) and begin talking about basic HTML/CSS. If you know anybody who wants to make a website for themselves, their work, or their organization, tell them to come!

FURTHERMORE, we want your input! One event we want to host is "5 minutes of fame," ideally a bi-weekly event for people to present works-in-progress, concepts that need collaborators, or just something really cool that you know about! Powerpoint presentations, musical performances, or any other medium you choose could be a possibility (we have a whiteboard and markers if you just want to kick it old-school). Inspired by http://5mof.net/

Other ideas: Python, Ruby, web frameworks, electronics, lock-picking, projecting a live conversation feed on the side of Mudd, running our own web server...

Desktop Background

Here's a big copy of the OHack logo, suitable for setting as your desktop background:

Let's see this on every computer in Oberlin! First Mudd, then... maybe the Science Center! King? Dorms have computer labs sometimes, right?

HACK THE CAMPUS

How to Write a Program

Louisa Berger and Ike McCreery are teaching an introductory workshop, How to Write a Program, tonight from 8 to 9 p.m. in the upstairs OCCS lab.  We'll be tackling the 3n+1 problem collaboratively.  It's a workshop aimed at CS150 students who would like to get a better sense for how to tackle a programming assignment.  Hopefully we will all leave with a better sense of the method behind the madness of programming.

OHack is OPen

When?

Monday:    4-6  (Louisa)

Tuesday:   8-10 (Luke)

Wednesday: 8-10 (Ike)

Thursday:  8-10 (Garrett)

Sunday:    8-10 (All)

  

Where?

The new OHack space is in the basement floor of Harkness Co-op. The door is to the right of the main door to the co-op, down some stairs behind a bike rack.

What?

Bring laptops, projects, ideas or just your homework.

OHack Events This Week!

Attention all hackers:

This week, we're trying to start up some new workshops, hopefully to be continuing regularly the same day/time each week. We hope that you can attend all of them that sound interesting to you. Here's the lineup:

Wednesday, November 3 (tomorrow!):
Web Design with Python - King 221 @ 7:00 pm
Discuss/learn/talk about web design and working with Python/Django to create powerful, interactive web sites and applications. Bring your laptop, if you have one!
Ask at the main desk or look for signs to find out the exact location.

Thursday, November 4:
Sound Hacking - Wilder TBA @ 7:00 pm
Discuss/learn/talk about sound, how we like it, how we hate it, and how we would like to destroy it.
Same deal... we're not sure where this will be exactly, but it should be easy to find out.

These are just some of the things that are starting up at OHack. If you have any ideas for workshops you'd like to see (especially ones that you'd like to run yourself!), reply to this email and let us know! This is a collaborative effort, after all.

In addition, the OHack room in Wilder (room 328, for those interested) is currently a mess. It's filled with all kinds of fantastic junk, including old computers, monitors, phone cables, copies of Windows 95..... yeah. It's actually quite magnificent to behold. You should behold it. If you're interested in seeing this treasure cove, then you should participate in the OHACK SPACE DEFRAGMENTATION PARTY on Saturday at 2:00!

More emails will come when more things happen. Until then, happy hacking!