[sudo-discuss] UC Berkeley Student plan field trip to Sudo Room, ask for hackers to give them 'real' education

[mark burdett]

On 09/30/2013 05:53 PM, David Keenan wrote:
> I think this would be great, and am happy to help out in any way I can,
> ie I can help with the softwares / cryptoparty..

Neat. I am down to help w/ a) or b) if more peer instructors are needed.

--mark B.

> Dont want to do it alone tho so..erm - hey Matt, are you in?
>
>
>
> On Monday, September 30, 2013, Max Klein wrote:
>
>     Hell Holy Kopimists and Sudoers,
>
>     A group of self-organized students from UC Berkeley want to Visit
>     Sudo Room on October 14th 5pm to take theory into praxis. Their
>     student-run class is "Politics of Digital Piracy" .
>     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Program:University_of_California,_Berkeley/Politics_of_Digital_Piracy_(Fall_2013)
>     <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Program:University_of_California,_Berkeley/Politics_of_Digital_Piracy_%28Fall_2013%29>
>
>     They are asking if someone would like to take point on peer-teaching
>     one of the following topics to the insatiable and impressionable
>     minds of the hackcers-to-be.
>
>
>         As far as volunteers go, I think if would be cool if someone:
>         a.)  did a hands-on workshop setting up Thunderbird, enigmail,
>         and explain a bit about encryption/decryption, pgp and private
>         keys ect.
>
>         b.) setting up tor.  Despite its recent cracks, there have been
>         students that have expressed interest in using Tor.
>
>         c.) talk about the hack culture, and what kind of things
>         sudoroom does.
>
>         Let me know if you think this is doable.  Should be fun.  Also,
>         bringing a group from the Open Computing Facility as well.
>
>
>
>     Please reply all so that our organizer Angelica can be part of the
>     conversation or reply to her directly.
>
>     Gratutiously yours,
>     Max
>
>     ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>     From: *Angelica Tavella* <angelicatavella at gmail.com
>     <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'angelicatavella at gmail.com');>>
>     Date: 30 September 2013 08:32
>     Subject: Re: September updates
>     To: Max Klein <isalix at gmail.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
>     'isalix at gmail.com');>>
>     Cc: Matthew Senate <mattsenate at gmail.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
>     'mattsenate at gmail.com');>>
>
>
>     Great.
>     So here is a link to the class wiki page (yes, we're still using
>     your implementation of the WMF Education Program).
>     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Program:University_of_California,_Berkeley/Politics_of_Digital_Piracy_(Fall_2013)
>
>     The topics we have covered so far are copyright law, privacy and
>     surveillance, hack culture, and are moving on to peer to peer
>     networks this week.
>
>     The week of Oct 14 (the proposed evening), we will just be
>     presenting midterm projects, so I think the learning objective of
>     our trip to sudoroom could be related to any of our covered topics
>     so far.
>
>     As far as volunteers go, I think if would be cool if someone:
>     a.)  did a hands-on workshop setting up Thunderbird, enigmail, and
>     explain a bit about encryption/decryption, pgp and private keys ect.
>
>     b.) setting up tor.  Despite its recent cracks, there have been
>     students that have expressed interest in using Tor.
>
>     c.) talk about the hack culture, and what kind of things sudoroom does.
>
>     Let me know if you think this is doable.  Should be fun.  Also,
>     bringing a group from the Open Computing Facility as well.
>
>     -Ang

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