Schedule

Date: Friday November 06th, 2026

Suggestions for the new PC schedule!

Hello! We (Izzy / May) have been doing a little bit of knocking heads together recently about how the Monday sessions are running.

We've been thinking about how we can make the group more resilient (esp considering the situation with SET), how we can keep it welcoming to new people and people who aren't deeply familiar with tech, and how we can emphasise the Permacomputing aspects of PC Club.

We'll be running a little session on Monday (the 9th) about it, and want anyone who's interested to put their ideas in! Our initial suggestions are:-

Week 1 - Small breakout groups based on things people want to talk about (like we've done before).
Week 2 - Show and tell of projects/things people are working on (similar to the tech crits), all together or in groups.
Week 3 - Group discussion on an existing technology, how much it follows permacomputing principles, and how it could be done differently (e.g. ffmpeg, the web, CDNs, LoRa, instagram).
Week 4 - Workshop if someone wants to run one, otherwise breakout groups. Workshops should ideally be about different, practical, technological (or not!) ways of solving a problem (Eg listening to music, keeping in touch with people, organising a community), rather than about how to use a single technology.

Facilitators

Like some other groups do, we think it'd be useful to have a couple of rotating roles to keep things running smoothly. People would volunteer at the start of each meeting to do the role the next week. These could be:-

Someone to introduce the club and what we're about at the start, set out the plan for the session, and make sure any club announcements happen.
Someone to welcome any new people, ask them about what brings them to permacomputing, and what they're interested in.