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Meetup 002 2025-12-29 We are not alone

Meetup 2 recap, there are so many friends!

Boston-Area Civic Tech Meetup Tue, Feb 17, 6:00 PM EST · Remnant Brewing Company, Bow Market Way, Union Square, Somerville, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 02143, United States We're joining in with Technologists for the Pu

What's that? A combo meetup with @publicgood.tech?? Feb 17 @ the Bow Market

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Heading to SIGCSE 2025? Stop by the GitHub Education booth at 105/107 to see how we're empowering the next generation of developers. Live demos, new resources and real-world coding experiences for your classroom. Looking forward to meeting you! sigcse2025.sigcse.org

It was so great to chat with @kellyann.bsky.social about @githubeducation.bsky.social and how we support the AMAZING next generation of developers. I feel so lucky to do what I do! As a bonus, I got to share how I used @github.com Spark to prototype Upload2USB for @internet-in-a-box.bsky.social. ❤️

You are so good at it! Thanks for all the things you make! <3

Support the open source projects you love this Valentine’s Day You can help provide much-needed support to the critical but often underfunded projects that keep your infrastructure running smoothly.

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OR they can create a grassroots bulletin board system where all content is shared with their classroom. Read more here: bit.ly/3WVeoNk and try it today with iiab.io!

Students can hand in homework easily and teachers can block students from cheating with @internet-in-a-box.bsky.social's NEW Upload2USB!

OR they can create a grassroots bulletin board system where all content is shared with their classroom. Read more here: bit.ly/3WVeoNk and try it today with iiab.io!

And if that wasn’t enough, they helped us QA the new @internet-in-a-box.bsky.social Upload2USB application. See here for more info: bit.ly/3CNtFsL.

Oaxacoders brought Ruben Rodriguez Perez to speak about free software, digital sovereignty, and his journey from fsf.org, to building Trisquel, to @archive.org. It was inspiring to be in a room with passionate coders and community organizers chatting about tech, information sharing, and privacy.

It has been years since I’ve coded something from the ‘ground up’. I’ve had so much fun rolling up my sleeves and building again. Even @martin.social would be impressed with my @github.com contribution graph. Learn more about our work: internet-in-a-box.org.

Even better is that we took a @raspberrypi.com
to Mexico and had ~25 students at the Nuevo Noh-Bec, Solidaridad Secondary School try it out! Many thanks to Manuel, Rosalba, Leydi, students, & KAANBAL.org. It’s SO simple and IT WORKS!

As part of @internet-in-a-box.bsky.social, we recently developed Upload2USB to bring about meaningful community exchange enabling students to share files and photos offline with teachers and each other! One line install of IIAB to get your own instance going: iiab.io

Even better is that we took a @raspberrypi.com to Mexico and had ~25 students at the Nuevo Noh-Bec, Solidaridad Secondary School try it out! Many thanks to Manuel, Rosalba, Leydi, students, & KAANBAL.org. It’s SO simple and IT WORKS!

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