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Establish first Public Code Club venue #21

Open andytgeezer opened 10 years ago

andytgeezer commented 10 years ago

In order to get us started, I think it would make sense to establish a "public" code club, where people could drop in with their kids. They could leave them to learn with our volunteers. Perhaps a charge of a dollar for a session would cover our costs.

This would keep us fresh and provide a place where we could centre ourselves in the summer, rather than spreading ourselves around summer camps.

At the same time, we'll still be running Code Clubs at local schools. But over time, we expect volunteers to fill up the work at schools and our job should only be to run the single central public Code Club as a flagship demo.

lewtds commented 10 years ago

It's a well-known fact that trust is a luxury in Vietnam. And that applies to parents with their kids as well. If we have a venue then it has to be safe and kids-friendly. Also, parents are likely to be reluctant to bring their child if there are not already a certain number of children in the venue.

andytgeezer commented 10 years ago

I think that we start this the way we started the meetup group. Trust is something that we earn. The first meetups were very awkward affairs with nobody knowing anyone and everyone being a little uncomfortable. But we pushed through it and I earned the trust. Trust is meant to be a luxury I think, and it's something you earn, not something that should be given away.

We already know a small number of kids who want to learn. If we can set up a club that runs for about an hour a week, I bet the word would spread.

andytgeezer commented 10 years ago

How about, during your weekly TDD groups at Community Space, you have a one hour drop-in session where parents can bring their kids with laptops to come and code for an hour?

lewtds commented 10 years ago

We would be very happy to offer that. But it's just that one does not think of Community Space as the kid-friendliest place ever. It's a 12m2 room on the attic floor of a typical Hanoiian house rented by a company. Right now I'm thinking of the Domino English center (you remember them from public speaking, right?). They have a cozy appartment on Vu Pham Ham.

andytgeezer commented 10 years ago

I think Domino would be awesome actually. I'll ask Giang if you like, but you probably know her better right?

lewtds commented 10 years ago

I'll ask Trang, the founder. Since you're leaving, work should be gradually handed over to the Vietnamese, right? ;)

andytgeezer commented 10 years ago

Definitely. You guys can take it from here.

lewtds commented 10 years ago

Trang was supportive of the idea but concerned that the venue might be too hot for the kids. She gave me reference to an English center named "Trung tâm tiếng Anh trẻ em", managed by Thu Huong Phung.

Last week there was also a new member who brought it forward that she can ask for a place at her friend's English center (#30). I'm expecting to talk with her again today.

andytgeezer commented 10 years ago

I've enquired with Codelovers and Bravebits. Also looking into a few other avenues...

andytgeezer commented 10 years ago

I think it would be awesome to work side by side with IT companies, who could provide space and people to train kids, perhaps in the evenings.

andytgeezer commented 10 years ago

I think that strategically, our plan over summer should be to focus on setting up "public" code clubs, rather than school clubs. I think it would be an excellent experience for the team to go into IT companies and work with IT professionals to get kids inspired to code.

When summer is over, we'll have raised awareness of the club among people who may be tempted to help us out in schools.

Already, we've had a company, Geekpolis (http://geekpolis.com/) who have agreed to let us use their offices for half a day. Can we run a session here?

I think we should look at other IT companies too. Anyone know any companies who will let us use their place?

andytgeezer commented 10 years ago

Codelovers have said they are happy to let us use their venue when we want to. Now it's down to the team to work out a good time to do this

andytgeezer commented 10 years ago

Codelovers have said that they would be happy for us to use their venue any time. I think this is a great opportunity for us. We now need to set up a suitable time and put the word out. Lets talk about this this Sunday and start soon! We already have at least one query (on facebook) for a club that kids can drop in to. Let's not waste any time setting this up as summer will be over before we know it!

On 18 May 2014 09:40, Trung Ngo notifications@github.com wrote:

Trang was supportive of the idea but concerned that the venue might be too hot for the kids. She gave me reference to an English center named "Trung tâm tiếng Anh trẻ em", managed by Thu Huong Phung https://www.facebook.com/thuhuong.phung.18?fref=ts.

Last week there was also a new member who brought it forward that she can ask for a place at her friend's English center. I'm expecting to talk with her again today.

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