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Torbay Trojans Training Sunday 10th July 2022

Next training session is on Sunday, 10am to 13:00 at Foxhole playing field.

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#Trojans,#Football,#Training,#AlwaysTrojan

Fixtures

Fixtures 2022 10/4 – Bristol – Home 17/4 – Somerset – Away 15/5 – Bristol – Home 29/5 – Cornwall – Home 5/6 – Somerset – Away 17/7 – Bristol – Away 24/7 – Somerset – Home 7/8 – Cornwall – Away

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Paignton Library STEM Group – July 2022

The July STEM group meeting will take place on Saturday 9/7/2022. As with previous events, this will be a mix of Science, Technology, and Engineering subjects along with discussions and a look at projects brought along to the event.

Due to talks / discussions not taking place at the June meeting, we are hoping these will take place at the July event instead.

Schedule (talk stream)

  • Talk on James Clerk Maxwell
  • Inside a computer This will lead to a discussion on computer hardware, right to repair and how our freedom to do what we want computers is being restricted, this includes making harder to install replacement / alternative operating systems

We can watch the video then have a discussion around this.

Schedule (projects stream)

As we are a bring you own projects group, then attendees can bring what they are working on, or perhaps carry on with what they are doing at Code Club for example.

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SplitVT

Virtual Terminal Splitter

One of the advantages of having good books on GNU / Linux, especially the command line, is the small gems you find out about.

For many people, the screen and or tmux commands are the 'go to' if users want to split a terminal window or console in to sections. This allows one screen to display several things at the same time.

The command 'splitvt' does just this, simply splits the screen horizontally so there is a top and bottom window. To switch between the sections users can use ctrl-w. To exit, type exit in each of the windows, and you return back to your normal terminal or console.

SPLIT VT

Granted, this lacks the many features that the other two offer, but sometimes this doesn't really matter. I still recommand learning tmux or screen.

If you want to learn more about this, please feel free to chat on the Tuxiversity IRC channel. We are still working on the main site but the chat works.

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Torbay Trojans Training Sunday 3rd July 2022

Next training session is on Sunday, 10am to 13:00 at Foxhole playing field.

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#Trojans,#Football,#Training,#AlwaysTrojan

Fixtures

Fixtures 2022 10/4 – Bristol – Home 17/4 – Somerset – Away 15/5 – Bristol – Home 29/5 – Cornwall – Home 5/6 – Somerset – Away 17/7 – Bristol – Away 24/7 – Somerset – Home 7/8 – Cornwall – Away

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Escape to Freedom – latest FSF video

The Free Software Foundation have released their latest video to promote software freedom.

This can be found here.

I need to watch on a better, but it looks good.

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#FreeSoftwareFroundation,#FSF.#Video,#EscapeToFreedom

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Stamp out spiking

Drink spiking is becoming a huge issue world wide. This is now not simply adding a drug to drinks, but has now included people being injected directly (which is also assault).

We need to stamp this out.

Dawn Dines, is leading this campaign and runs training courses for bar managers to help raise awareness and know what to do if this happens. Please see links below for lots of resources etc.

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#Drink,#Spiking,#Campaign,#StampOutSpiking,#Training

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Code Club 2/7/2022

Next code club is :- Saturday 2nd July 2022. 10am to 12:00 Paignton Library & Information Centre

So more of the same,

  • Scratch
  • HTML/CSS,
  • Python.
  • Hour Of code
  • Whatever else we can do during the session

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#CodeClub,#FreeCodeCamp,#Microbit,#Scratch,#Python,#WebDesign,#Lego,#Coding,#Education,#LookingForWork,#LegoWeDo, #Replit

  • The next Code Club will be on Saturday 2nd July 2022 @ Paignton Library,
  • Next STEM Group meeting is 9th July 2022.

Please contact Paignton Library for details and booking.

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Torbay Trojans Training Sunday 26th June 2022

Next training session is on Sunday, 10am to 13:00 at Foxhole playing field.

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#Trojans,#Football,#Training,#AlwaysTrojan

Fixtures

Fixtures 2022 10/4 – Bristol – Home 17/4 – Somerset – Away 15/5 – Bristol – Home 29/5 – Cornwall – Home 5/6 – Somerset – Away 17/7 – Bristol – Away 24/7 – Somerset – Home 7/8 – Cornwall – Away

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Global Beatles Day 25/6/2022

Global Beatles day falls on the 25th June each year. This coincides with the anniversary of the band appearing on the BBC One world programme as part of the worlds first global live broadcast.

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#Beatles,#Music,#Celebration,#GlobalBeatlesDay,#OneWorld,#BBC,#AllYouNeedIsLove,#25061967

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Code Club 18/6/2022 Write Up

Next code club is :- Saturday 2nd July 10am to 12:00 Paignton Library & Information Centre

So a busy session today. Before the session started, I set up a drinks station with a jug of water, bottle of juice along with some paper cups.

Today, attendees worked on Scratch, HTML / CSS, I also had two attendees complete Hour of code. I also helped an attendee with their laptop, in so far as connecting to a monitor as their laptop screen is not working. They left with an HDMI cable so they could at least use it at home connected to a TV or monitor.

I think hour of code is a really good icebreaker for sessions, esp as the theming for Minecraft, Starwars and Frozen should appeal to a wide range of users.

Lucy also dropped in with a notebook and a large lever arch file for the STEM group resources.

During the session the four netbooks were also charged. These will be used to help teach the GNU / Linux command shell and Shell scripting to who ever is interested, however this also links in with wider projects to help people who want to self host.

So some really good work today, people are already booked in for the next session. I am still working on getting the lego Mindstorms working.

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#CodeClub,#FreeCodeCamp,#Microbit,#Scratch,#Python,#WebDesign,#Lego,#Coding,#Education,#LookingForWork,#LegoWeDo, #Replit,#OpenToEmployment

  • The next Code Club will be on Saturday 2nd July 2022 @ Paignton Library,
  • Next STEM Group meeting is 9th July 2022.

Please contact Paignton Library for details and booking.

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