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Emacs Conf 2020
EmacsConf 2020 | November 28 and 29, 2020 | Online Conference
The Call for Proposals for EmacsConf 2020 is now open, until September 30, 2020.
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Keeping Children Safe in Education 2020
The Statutory guidance comes in to force on 1st September 2020. This can be downloaded below.
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Mozilla Thunderbird 78.2
Mozilla Thunderbird 78.2 Released with More OpenPGP Improvements
This is most welcome, integrated support for OpenPGP eliminates the need for Enigmail as a plugin.
You can read the full article here.
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Looking for work
I am in Torbay, Devon and looking for employment. At present I am involved in running codeclub remotely with Paignton Library. My main job tasks for code club would include
• Leading Code Club sessions for children and young people aged 9-13. Providing, help, encouragement and advice as needed • Helping Paignton library run a Virtual Code Club during the Covid19 lock down. I have created plan for safe Code Club return • Use of : Scratch, Python and HTML / CSS materials plus Free Code Camp to teach Responsive Web Design, Hour of Code Activities. • Maintain a safe environment, sign attendees in / out • Involved in library IT suite software update and reporting technical issues as appropriate
I have set up a dedicated blog so that information on further tasks, further learning. This has been done using my own initiative. This also brings the information to both adults and children and young people.
I would like to run similar activities on a paid basis By doing so, hopefully give people access to some of the many online learning opportunities that exist, and provide a safe space for peer support, either in a physical room or remotely.
While code club is IT based, there are courses for a very wide range of subjects so being able to bring self / distance learners together could be a good thing and allow sharing of experiences which helps others, keep going.
With support, this idea could potentially be successful as there does seem to be a desire for people to learn.
If reading this, you feel it is vague then this is intentional as ideas need to be flexible, adaptable and discussed to make them work really well.
Happy to be contacted to discuss further. But I am really passionate about what I am doing now, just need help taking it further.
I still intend to be running code club as normal but this idea to help the many others out there.
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Science Forums Review
With the new academic year about to start, people of all ages are starting the next stage of their education either compulsory education, college or university.
Regardless of what or how we are studying, we usually need support or to ask questions from time to time, if you are studying Science then Science forums [1] is a web based, Science discussion platform, that offers a wide range of discussion subjects. The level of which can be from secondary school, up to PhD and beyond. So even if you have a general interest you can still ask questions.
The forum offers a very wide range of discussion topics from Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Biochemistry, Engineering, Medical Science, Psychology, Computer Science as well as sections for Amateur Science, homework help and home experiments.
This is a friendly, helpful and informative place to discuss, learn and expand understanding of subjects.
Sign-up is free You will need to agree to the guidelines along with any other policies.
Information * Website : Science forums * Twitter : @ScienceForums
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Chiefs vs Worcester
Rugby Fixture
The next Exeter Chiefs game is on Sunday 30th August, Sandy Park, kick off 15.00 vs 10th place Worcester. Exeter are at the Top of the Premiership having won their last two fixtures.
Looks like the BBC will be covering the game.
Scores
#rugby,#Union,#premiership,#Exeter,#Worcester,#result.
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Google removing fediverse apps
Google is apparently taking down all/most fediverse apps from google play on the grounds that that some servers in the fediverse engage in hate speech. At least three apps I know of anyway and I'd imagine the others will follow soon under the exact same reasoning.} Seems to be the case with Husky, Fedilab, and “subway” tooter.
this is a scary precedent if google play is going to ban any apps that can in any way be used to access content with hate speech. So what about a forum client, do they take that down just because there is a forum somewhere on the internet posting hate speech?
You can read more in the original post here along with comments here
I have permission to copy the post content here to help spread the word. So I have copied part of this and linked to the full post on qoto.
-My comment-
This is really not good, the fediverse is decentralised and does not work in the same way as centralised services.
Users have the power to block individual fediverse servers and or users, if they object to any content being served.
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Exeter Chiefs vs Bristol Bears
Exeter Chiefs are currently top of the Premiership, tonight they take on second place Bristol Bears.
19:45 away to Bristol, so a short trip up the M5 :)
Details here
I will update this post with the score after the game.
Game preview
Final score was Bristol 22-25 Exeter with a ½ time score Bristol 3 – Exeter 15.
#rugby,#Union,#premiership,#Exeter,#Bristol,#result.
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Royal Astronomical Society talks Aug 2020
I attended a really interesting talk on Searching for Earth 2.0 with the RAS last week.
A recording is up on their Youtube Channel.
They have a few other talks coming up that may be of interest:-
Tomorrow 26/8: Lockdown Learning: online preschool level space session
Thurdsay 27/8: RAS Quilt Project – Online Stitching Session
Further details can be found here
Related but not connected with the RAS
#RAS,#astrononmy,#public,#lectures,#virtual,#scienceforums, #discourse.
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Virtual Code Club August 2020
The Paignton Library virtual code club is still running, please feel free to share what you are working on in Scratch with our Scratch studio
This is a newly created studio for these completed projects.
To keep people safe this studio is also invite only you will therefore need to contact the library, provide your scratch user name and I can invite you in.
Please contact [Paignton Library and information centre](https://www.torbaylibraries.org.uk/web/arena/paigntonlibrary
Related profiles :-
Both Repl.it and FreeCodeCamp have excellent features, to share code, ask for help and help others.
I have been looking in to the Repl.it teams feature at the moment, early days as I think I will wait till the forum feature is up as this seems integral to the teams feature.
Stay safe on the forums.
For advice on e-safety please see ThinkUKnow
#scratch,#studio, #education, #school, #home, #activities, #virtual, #codeclub,
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