Fwd: CoderDojo and Raspberry Pi Join Forces

[Eugene McDonough]

I was just notified of this over night. Again for what was setup as a grassroots community lead movement this is just one more example of how things should not be done.

What are your views?

Regards

Eugene

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New CoderDojo.com Article:

Today I am excited to share the news  that the CoderDojo Foundation will be joining forces with the Raspberry Pi Foundation team in a merger that will give many more young people the opportunity to learn how to code and create. This merger will support the Foundation in becoming a stronger, more sustainable and resilient organisation advancing our mission.

Since our creation more than four years ago, our core function has been to support the global CoderDojo movement and the community. This merger will further enable and accelerate our work, ensuring that the CoderDojo community, Mentors and Ninjas have access to the best possible support, including access to the world’s best educational materials and resources.

The CoderDojo movement is powered by more than 9,000 volunteers all across the world, like you, that are encouraging and supporting young people to learn at their local Dojo. With this extra support we will be able to reach and benefit even more young people globally by investing more time in resource development, community supports and growth strategies to make it easier for our volunteers to start and keep running a Dojo in their community.

 

What does this mean for you, the community?

Firstly, be assured nothing about the core ethos of CoderDojo is changing. That’s what makes the movement so unique and special and we are very protective of this. The Open source element of CoderDojo is a fundamental value of the movement and the main reason why the concept has grown so rapidly. The CoderDojo charter agreed to by all Champions when starting their Dojo and the published statement of values CoderDojo ECHO are not changing. These are in place to maintain that all Dojos remain free for all attendees and are an inclusive and creative environment.  

Does this mean that I have to use everything Raspberry Pi at my Dojo?

Absolutely not! As you know, CoderDojo is and will always remain 100% content, software and hardware neutral! This is a shared value with the Raspberry Pi Foundation, both Code Club and their recently launched educator magazine Hello World are hardware- and platform-agnostic too!

What does this mean for the Foundation?

We will remain an independent charity based in Ireland, but will in future work closely alongside and with the support of the Raspberry Pi Foundation to achieve our goals. Philip, the CEO of the Raspberry Pi Foundation will join the board of the CoderDojo Foundation, while CoderDojo’s Co-Founders, Bill and James,  will become members of the Raspberry Pi Foundation. In practical terms, this merger will see our two organisations working closely together to advance our shared goals. It will enable us to leverage assets and capabilities ultimately driving further value for the CoderDojo Community.

“CoderDojo is one of the most important global movements to help young people learn how to get creative with technology. I’ve seen first hand the enormous impact that CoderDojo has had already, and I am thrilled that we’re joining forces to bring the power of computing and digital making to even more young people.”

Philip Colligan, Chief Executive, Raspberry Pi Foundation.

 

Many Dojos are already familiar with and are also a part of the Raspberry Pi community as educators, tinkerers and enthusiasts. Finding an organisation with which the CoderDojo core values and ethos align so deeply, is a once in lifetime opportunity. We are really excited about working together on this to help further support and spread the CoderDojo movement with our amazing Community members. Together, we will form the world’s leading movement to get kids involved with coding and digital making. Code Club and CoderDojo together will reach 185,000 young people in more than 100 countries all over the planet.

“This merger vastly propels the foundation’s founding vision of supporting CoderDojo how best possible and the mission of providing the opportunity of learning to code to young people. Together we will better serve CoderDojo and the incredible impact it has on young people all around the world”

James Whelton, CoderDojo Co-Founder

“The Raspberry Pi Foundation is 100% aligned with the purpose of getting young people learning to code and CoderDojo has been a partner for many years, we see that together we can rock the world”

Bill Liao CoderDojo Co-founder

 

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[Liam Friel]

I think it is reasonably obvious that this is implicit acknowledgement that we have reached "peak dojo", and that by including the dojo foundation into the larger RPi foundation this will be obfuscated. 

I look on the activities of the dojo foundation with what might be characterised as "benign indifference". I don't wish them ill but nor do I view the various manoeuverings as being especially significant. It does not impact at all on what we do and have been doing, week after week, for the last 5 years or more years, in our dojo.

While freely acknowledging that this is partially (or even entirely) our responsibility, there is not now and never has been in my view an active dojo community that we (in our local dojo) are connected to. To be honest most of us don't have the additional time in any case to engage with such a thing, should it actually exist.  Which I doubt . We do our 3 hours on a Saturday. We do some prep between sessions. That's all we have time for and can commit to now.

So it doesn't bother me particularly that the dojo foundation will disappear into the RPi foundation over time.  

This is my personal view an does not represent the views of other volunteers at our dojo. As an aside I would just point out that we had a session today. Apart from myself only one other volunteer was even aware of this announcement. Its just not something that would be high up their agenda. 

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[John Harrington]

[Dave Welch]

I have to echo Eugene's concerns - while I am thrilled with the RPi and CoderDojo movements collaborating, this is an open-source movement and should have been at least open to debate/discussion before the fact.  We have Slack, Zen, email, and this forum for the sole purpose of communicating and interacting with the larger movement.

I can appreciate the Foundation's efforts and their workload, but I have to say this should lead to some soul-searching and review of our core values at the Foundation level.  

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[John Harrington]

[John Harrington]

Liam, nailed it for me, exactly how I feel, in the whole, thanks, I love efficiency 😊.

Though I need to add to that I do hugely appreciate the help from the foundation when I specifically ask for any.

Regards,

John.

 

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New CoderDojo.com Article:

Today I am excited to share the news  that the CoderDojo Foundation will be joining forces with the Raspberry Pi Foundation team in a merger that will give many more young people the opportunity to learn how to code and create. This merger will support the Foundation in becoming a stronger, more sustainable and resilient organisation advancing our mission.

Since our creation more than four years ago, our core function has been to support the global CoderDojo movement and the community. This merger will further enable and accelerate our work, ensuring that the CoderDojo community, Mentors and Ninjas have access to the best possible support, including access to the world’s best educational materials and resources.

The CoderDojo movement is powered by more than 9,000 volunteers all across the world, like you, that are encouraging and supporting young people to learn at their local Dojo. With this extra support we will be able to reach and benefit even more young people globally by investing more time in resource development, community supports and growth strategies to make it easier for our volunteers to start and keep running a Dojo in their community.

 

What does this mean for you, the community?

Firstly, be assured nothing about the core ethos of CoderDojo is changing. That’s what makes the movement so unique and special and we are very protective of this. The Open source element of CoderDojo is a fundamental value of the movement and the main reason why the concept has grown so rapidly. The CoderDojo charter agreed to by all Champions when starting their Dojo and the published statement of values CoderDojo ECHO are not changing. These are in place to maintain that all Dojos remain free for all attendees and are an inclusive and creative environment.  

Does this mean that I have to use everything Raspberry Pi at my Dojo?

Absolutely not! As you know, CoderDojo is and will always remain 100% content, software and hardware neutral! This is a shared value with the Raspberry Pi Foundation, both Code Club and their recently launched educator magazine Hello World are hardware- and platform-agnostic too!

What does this mean for the Foundation?

We will remain an independent charity based in Ireland, but will in future work closely alongside and with the support of the Raspberry Pi Foundation to achieve our goals. Philip, the CEO of the Raspberry Pi Foundation will join the board of the CoderDojo Foundation, while CoderDojo’s Co-Founders, Bill and James,  will become members of the Raspberry Pi Foundation. In practical terms, this merger will see our two organisations working closely together to advance our shared goals. It will enable us to leverage assets and capabilities ultimately driving further value for the CoderDojo Community.

“CoderDojo is one of the most important global movements to help young people learn how to get creative with technology. I’ve seen first hand the enormous impact that CoderDojo has had already, and I am thrilled that we’re joining forces to bring the power of computing and digital making to even more young people.”

Philip Colligan, Chief Executive, Raspberry Pi Foundation.

 

Many Dojos are already familiar with and are also a part of the Raspberry Pi community as educators, tinkerers and enthusiasts. Finding an organisation with which the CoderDojo core values and ethos align so deeply, is a once in lifetime opportunity. We are really excited about working together on this to help further support and spread the CoderDojo movement with our amazing Community members. Together, we will form the world’s leading movement to get kids involved with coding and digital making. Code Club and CoderDojo together will reach 185,000 young people in more than 100 countries all over the planet.

“This merger vastly propels the foundation’s founding vision of supporting CoderDojo how best possible and the mission of providing the opportunity of learning to code to young people. Together we will better serve CoderDojo and the incredible impact it has on young people all around the world”

James Whelton, CoderDojo Co-Founder

“The Raspberry Pi Foundation is 100% aligned with the purpose of getting young people learning to code and CoderDojo has been a partner for many years, we see that together we can rock the world”

Bill Liao CoderDojo Co-founder

 

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View Spanish Blogpost here. 

View Dutch Blogpost here.

View French Blogpost here.

 

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[John Harrington]

Dave, I am surprised that anyone sees this as a surprise, particularly after the last round of discussion regarding the community. It was obvious what was eventually going to happen in one way or another, but more so how.

I would not drop all of this at the door of the operational door of the foundation, looking farther up is probably more appropriate.

Regards,

John.

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[Margaret Kennedy]

Echo here too.

 

When I saw it first I didn't really know how to take it - Felt disappointed but not exactly sure why. Hence my delay in responding to Eugene's email. 

 

And I agree with Liam too. 

 

I suppose the organisation must evolve to grow and survive. Could it continue to do it alone? Perhaps - However I think at face value it looks like a good partnership and I hope it is immensely successful for us all and all our CoderDojos. Grass roots like ourselves can make valuable inputs too though and should not be overlooked. I too am grateful for the support I receive from the CoderDojo Foundation and others when I ask for it. 

 

Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2017 at 2:54 AM
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To: "CoderDojo Organizers" <coderd...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [CoderDojo-Org] Fwd: CoderDojo and Raspberry Pi Join Forces

I have to echo Eugene's concerns - while I am thrilled with the RPi and CoderDojo movements collaborating, this is an open-source movement and should have been at least open to debate/discussion before the fact.  We have Slack, Zen, email, and this forum for the sole purpose of communicating and interacting with the larger movement.

 

I can appreciate the Foundation's efforts and their workload, but I have to say this should lead to some soul-searching and review of our core values at the Foundation level.  

On Saturday, May 27, 2017 at 1:21:45 PM UTC-5, John Harrington wrote:

 

 

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