Chaitin School of Software Engineering — in-person community in london, uk

About (in one sentence)

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.

What we do »

About (in one paragraph)

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

What we value »

Philosophy

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.