Welcome!

We are so happy to see all the interest in QueerCoded so far, the response from the community has been overwhelmingly positive and far bigger than we anticipated at first.

Thanks so much to all for your support!

Details here are subject to change as we host events and learn to support the community that we are all collectively building.

Discord

If you have not already joined the discord, you can do so with this link:

https://discord.gg/F63q6cE396

This discord guild is a bridge to the matrix server hosted by Cyberia, a hackerspace and technology community based in Minneapolis / St Paul. QueerCoded is a workshop series by Cyberia designed to build community in tech for queer people in the Twin Cities area.

We have our own QueerCoded section on the discord guild for your convenience. We are here to provide resources, mentorship, and a friendly community to learn with.

If you are curious about matrix, check out https://cyberia.club/matrix

To get started using the Discord, please head over to https://discord.com/channels/989934101853241354/1358919211077865553 and select as many roles as you'd like by leaving Emoji reactions 🤠 👽. This will help us notify you and organize the workshop!

Channels:

• #roles
  • Opt in to one or more roles to recieve updates
• #quick-start-guide
  • Contains the same address, workshop dates, rules, and information on how to prepare that are listed below.
• #queer-coded
  • General chatter about the workshop series.
• #help-requests
  • Get help with your project, get past problems and share knowledge to help others.

Enjoy!

Here's the information from the #quick-start-guide:

QueerCoded Workshop

Hosted @ Queermunity

3036 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55408

• April 19th, 1-3pm
• ~May 3rd, 1-3pm (TBD)
• Tentative plan: twice a month

The event itself will be held as a workshop. This means there will be no formal classes and no lectures. You are encouraged to collaborate, ask for help, work with mentors, and share your knowledge, but ultimately your learning will be up to you. We are working on making something akin to guided projects for newcomers who might need a prompt and some direction to get started and get inspired.

The workshop is here to help you learn, but more than anything it's about cultivating a kind, non-competitive, and accepting community, so please be respectful and patient with the volunteers who show up to share their knowledge as well as attendees who want to collaborate or learn.

WorkShop Structure / Syllabus

We have conceived this workshop as a way to bring folks together first and foremost.

It's "drop-in" friendly, you don't have to attend every week, there is not a rigidly structured curriculum.

At the same time:

1. this is a volunteer effort
2. learning computer programming takes time and persistence

We are here to answer questions, provide direction, community, resources, kinship, etc. But we aren't going to lecture and we aren't going to make sure you do your homework.

So, we depend on you to bring your own motivation and learn on your own time or with the community outside of the workshop hours.

We anticipate that some folks will come to the workshop with ideas and goals; that's great! The more concrete and specific your goal is, the better job we can do helping you navigate towards it.

Also, we expect that many people will just want to gain exposure to computer programming and don't quite know what they want to build yet; that's cool too! Yall are in a process of discovery and we are here for it. We may give you assignments to work on, and encourage the group to collaborate to make cool things together!

Kinda like a Textbook (specifically for web platform stuff):

QueerCoded/how-do-websites-on-the-internet-work

Group Project:

QueerCoded/group-project-queermunity-calendar

Preparing For The Workshop

• Please apply any pending updates to your computer.

• Make sure you have at least a small amount of disk space available (at least 1GB).

• If you are having trouble clearing disk space and getting OS updates to complete successfully, don't worry, we can try to help.

If you want to get a head start, check out the following pages:

• Setup - get setup with basic tools that will be used at the workshop to write code in your language of choice

• Python_QuickStart - A basic guide to installing the tools to write your first line of Python

• JavaScript_QuickStart - A basic guide to installing the tools to write your first line of javascript

• Go_QuickStart - A basic guide to installing the tools to write your first line of go (golang)

If possible, follow these guides on the machine you will bring to the workshop.

What To Bring

• laptop computer if possible
  • we can't guarantee you will have a workstation to yourself unless you bring your own
  • If you have a lightweight desktop, and you can bring the whole setup (pc, monitor, keyboard, mouse), it's ok, but not recommended.
• face mask
  • QueerCoded will require masks for in-person workshops, it's a good idea to reduce airborne infection risk!
  • Please bring your favorite mask, but if you don't have one, we will be providing vertical strap KN95 masks at Queermunity.
• water bottle
  • having your own large water container is recommended!! Stay hydrated 🌊 😀

What Not To Bring

• food
  • Queermunity serves food. they do not allow outside food.