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Author: Eamon Caddigan <eamon.caddigan@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2025 20:01:40 -0700
Add weeknote for 2025-W28
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+title: "Weeknote for 2025-W28"
+description: "I want to start a computer club"
+date: 2025-07-13T19:58:17-07:00
+draft: false
+categories:
+- Weeknotes
+---
+
+Microsoft will stop supporting Windows 10 after October this year. This has
+been well-publicized in some corners of the internet, but I suspect that not
+enough folks know that their computers will soon become security hazards (as
+newly discovered exploits fail to get patched), and upgrading them to Windows
+11 won't be possible due to hardware limitations.
+
+These are perfectly good computers destined to either become unsafe for their
+owners or toxic e-waste. The [End of 10](https://endof10.org/) campaign aims to
+help these folks upgrade their computers to free and safe (but unfamiliar)
+operating systems, but people are going to need help.
+
+I'd be starting late, but I'm interested in supporting any neighbors who are
+interested in making the switch. In addition to Microsoft's looming deadline, a
+few other things have come across my feed in the past couple months that are
+inspiring me:
+
+- [You should start a computer club in the place that you
+live](https://startacomputer.club/) is a galvanizing manifesto that got these
+ideas rolling for me.
+
+- [Minimum viable organizations](https://kim.town/minimum-viable-organisation)
+is about lefty political organizations specifically, but some of the thoughts
+here are relevant to my experience with other sorts of volunteer organizations.
+I don't agree with everything written here (I don't think it's possible, as
+some statements seem self-contradictory), but I like a lot of it.
+
+- The authors of [How to Start a School With Your
+Friends](https://prigoose.substack.com/p/how-to-start-a-university) provide a
+template for peer-based learning embedded in community contexts. As much as I'd
+love to help my neighbors become comfortable with computers, I would love even
+more to learn new things from them!
+
+These are all just the disorganized thoughts of one person. I'm planning to
+contact my neighborhood library branch next to see if they would host a
+computer club, or connect me with similar efforts nearby. I also plan to chat
+about this with organizers and volunteers the next time I help at a FixIt
+Clinic. This probably won't go anywhere but it's worth trying.
