Chaitin School

We are a community of people interested in software engineering as a fun activity of leisure time as well as a craft to become skilled at.

• Fast and fun Django web development @ SPACE4 — Nov. 3, 2021

Programming is a fun skill we want to become better at. We value learning together rather than alone. We are a school because the etymological definition of school is “leisure time”. We are a school that is:

• not only for beginners
• not online
• not based on a teacher-student model
• not transaction-based

school < from Ancient Greek σχολεῖον (skholeîon), from σχολή (skholḗ, “spare time, leisure”, later, “conversations and the knowledge gained through them during free time; the places where these conversations took place”) — (from Wiktionary)

School used to mean leisure; then it came to be the things one gained when on leisure. Now it means death.

Let’s reclaim it.

• The university of the future — October 26, 2021

Join our Telegram group.

– Can I propose a workshop/meetup topic/idea?
– Naturally. Propose one here.

– What does Chaitin mean?
– Gregory John Chaitin is a computer scientist.