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In-Person Computer Networking Classes

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Last updated August 29, 2019 by Meitar M

We have held a few in-person classes on network concepts for our friends and neighbors who showed interest. If you would like to organize or participate in another of these sessions, please join us in the #meetings channel on our Slack to help coordinate more of these. You might be asking yourself, “What do these classes look like?” The following video provides a good example of a typical NYC Mesh networking class and was recorded in December 2018:

This NYC Mesh Networking 101 class was generously taught by Zach Giles. You can download the slides of Zach’s presentation from Google.

Other community-run in-person classes

We are fortunate to be in New York City, one of the most populous and technically savvy cities in the world. This means there are numerous other organizations that also provide free or extremely low-cost computer networking classes specifically for NYC residents and community members.

Tech Learning Collective

The Tech Learning Collective (TLC) is an educational initiative run by radical queer and femme technologists offering unparalleled, low-cost computer classes primarily to marginalized groups and individuals who are politically engaged. They regularly host free, by-donation, and low-cost workshops on computer networking topics that provide the foundations necessary to understand any internetworking scenario. View the TLC event calendar to find out when they are hosting their next workshop.

The Tech Learning Collective is also an EFF Electronic Frontier Alliance member and may be of particular interest to women, gender non-conforming/non-binary people, and queer people, who may be more likely to find other technology groups less comfortable places to learn. TLC’s trainers, the majority of whom are genderqueer and femme, also contribute to the NYC Mesh Docs and assist community members with their NYC Mesh installations and connections, especially when a community member prefers to communicate about “technical topics” with knowledgeable people who are not men.

Additionally, the Tech Learning Collective offers a four-week NET101 Course with sliding scale tuition that is available exclusively to community activists and local organizers working on non-commercial projects. The course covers the majority of the material in NYC Mesh’s own “Networking 101” course (linked above), as well as providing more detail on the topics of Ethernet, network security considerations, and SoHo router configuration.

This is an unofficial copy of the NYC Mesh Docs website published and maintained by fabacab on GitHub. There are likely differences, possibly many, between this copy and the official Docs site, but the author prefers this version over the official version. This copy remains here so long as there are major differences between the two copies so that you can read the version that you prefer.