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      2 title: "Weeknote for 2025-W28"
      3 description: "I want to start a computer club"
      4 date: 2025-07-13T19:58:17-07:00
      5 draft: false
      6 categories:
      7 - Weeknotes
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      9 
     10 Microsoft will stop supporting Windows 10 after October this year. This has
     11 been well-publicized in some corners of the internet, but I suspect that not
     12 enough folks know that their computers will soon become security hazards (as
     13 newly discovered exploits fail to get patched), and upgrading them to Windows
     14 11 won't be possible due to hardware limitations.
     15 
     16 These are perfectly good computers destined to either become unsafe for their
     17 owners or toxic e-waste. The [End of 10](https://endof10.org/) campaign aims to
     18 help these folks upgrade their computers to free and safe (but unfamiliar)
     19 operating systems, but people are going to need help.
     20 
     21 I'd be starting late, but I'm interested in supporting any neighbors who are
     22 interested in making the switch. In addition to Microsoft's looming deadline, a
     23 few other things have come across my feed in the past couple months that are
     24 inspiring me:
     25 
     26 - [You should start a computer club in the place that you
     27 live](https://startacomputer.club/) is a galvanizing manifesto that got these
     28 ideas rolling for me.
     29 
     30 - [Minimum viable organizations](https://kim.town/minimum-viable-organisation)
     31 is about lefty political organizations specifically, but some of the thoughts
     32 here are relevant to my experience with other sorts of volunteer organizations.
     33 I don't agree with everything written here (I don't think it's possible, as
     34 some statements seem self-contradictory), but I like a lot of it.
     35 
     36 - The authors of [How to Start a School With Your
     37 Friends](https://prigoose.substack.com/p/how-to-start-a-university) provide a
     38 template for peer-based learning embedded in community contexts. As much as I'd
     39 love to help my neighbors become comfortable with computers, I would love even
     40 more to learn new things from them!
     41 
     42 These are all just the disorganized thoughts of one person. I'm planning to
     43 contact my neighborhood library branch next to see if they would host a
     44 computer club, or connect me with similar efforts nearby. I also plan to chat
     45 about this with organizers and volunteers the next time I help at a FixIt
     46 Clinic. This probably won't go anywhere but it's worth trying.