• Start a Computer Club: It is recommended to start a computer club in your living place. A computer club is a group of people gathering to do computer-related activities together.
• What is "Doing Computer": It can be anything on computers, such as programming, DIY shared computing infrastructure, art, music, open data science, and circuit-bending.
• Why Start a Computer Club: The political economy of computing is bad. By starting a computer club, you can make it better and bring it closer to you.
• Rules: Hang out in real life for trust and strength. Reject corporate sponsorship. The computer club is a collective project beholden only to its ethos and participants.
• Guidelines: Consider computing as political. Use the Recurse Center social rules. Be inspired by permaculture, small web, DIY culture, and the potential of computing. Try to host on personal computers. Be open to interdisciplinary computing and different computing histories and "skill levels".
• How to Start: Talk about computer excitement and the need for better political economy. Attend preexisting computing meetups. Connect with food coops. Join or start projects and find like-minded people. Talk to existing computer clubs.
• Similar Computer Clubs: Cyberia computer club, Chaos computer club, Bunk computer club, Deuxfleurs, LURK, Plover digital, SDF. Computer clubs are inspired by hackerspaces.
• Useful Tools: Personal and server computers, people doing computer, various chat platforms, love and trust, a git forge (like Forgejo), a physical tilde server, suitable locations, mob programming, a resource for collective computing infrastructure, and connections to other local projects.
• Next Steps: Go and find or make a computer club and share about it.