Tech Learning Collective

Technology education for radical organizers and revolutionary communities.

Events

In addition to our intensive courses, we also host satellite events such as workshops, skillshares, and demonstrations in collaboration with community centers, hackerspaces and hacklabs, and other venues across New York City. Our satellite workshops are a low-commitment way to get a feel for our more intensive courses as well as meet some of our teaching team.

Upcoming events

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    • March 30, 2020 8:00 PM (-0400) – March 30, 2020 9:00 PM
    • Remote
    • Status: CONFIRMED

    Free or donation-based!

    In light of recent events, Tech Learning Collective wants to do our part to help fight social isolation while encouraging people to keep participating in “social distancing,” so we’re inviting you to get a FREE crash course in cybersecurity fundamentals at this social virtual happy hour featuring clips from the… (read more)

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    • April 4, 2020 4:00 PM (-0400) – April 4, 2020 5:30 PM
    • Remote
    • Status: CONFIRMED

    Tickets:

    • Privacy Defender tickets are the recommended ticket type for those who can afford to help fund the digital security and online privacy advocacy communities with their financial resources, are attending the workshop with the support of their employers or other backers, or have other resources available to them. Purchasing tickets at this level makes it possible for us to offer reduced price tickets to those in need.
    • Reduced price workshop tickets help offset systemic biases prevalent in society and in the technology sector especially.

    Prices shown may exclude nominal handling fees.

    Thank you for purchasing a ticket to our upcoming “Clearing Away the Clouds: How Computer Networks, Servers, and the Internet Work” webinar. Please allow several minutes for delivery of your webinar access credentials to the email address associated with your payment processor account. Remember to check your spam folder, as well!

    If you still don’t receive your webinar access credentials after one hour, please contact us and we’ll help you get it sorted.

    Your order has been cancelled.

    This two-hour workshop is all about the basics of computer networking. If you’ve ever been curious about what happens “on the wire” when you’re browsing a Web site, or if you ever wanted to take a look “under the hood” of your Wi-Fi connection, this is the class for you!… (read more)

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    • April 5, 2020 4:00 PM (-0400) – April 5, 2020 5:30 PM
    • Remote
    • Status: CONFIRMED

    Tickets:

    • Privacy Defender tickets are the recommended ticket type for those who can afford to help fund the digital security and online privacy advocacy communities with their financial resources, are attending the workshop with the support of their employers or other backers, or have other resources available to them. Purchasing tickets at this level makes it possible for us to offer reduced price tickets to those in need.
    • Reduced price workshop tickets help offset systemic biases prevalent in society and in the technology sector especially.

    Prices shown may exclude nominal handling fees.

    Thank you for purchasing a ticket to our upcoming “Tor: What is it Good For? (Absolutely Everything!)” webinar. Please allow several minutes for delivery of your webinar access credentials to the email address associated with your payment processor account. Remember to check your spam folder, as well!

    If you still don’t receive your webinar access credentials after one hour, please contact us and we’ll help you get it sorted.

    Your order has been cancelled.

    Come learn how the free Tor Web Browser can be your gateway to the Dark Web while simultaneously keeping you safer and your personal info more private as you browse web sites big and small. In this deep dive workshop on Tor, the Tech Learning Collective’s cybersecurity trainers will show… (read more)

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    • April 7, 2020 5:00 PM (-0400) – April 7, 2020 6:30 PM
    • Remote
    • Status: CONFIRMED

    Tickets:

    • Privacy Defender tickets are the recommended ticket type for those who can afford to help fund the digital security and online privacy advocacy communities with their financial resources, are attending the workshop with the support of their employers or other backers, or have other resources available to them. Purchasing tickets at this level makes it possible for us to offer reduced price tickets to those in need.
    • Reduced price workshop tickets help offset systemic biases prevalent in society and in the technology sector especially.
    • The introductory discount price is offered for initial runs of new Tech Learning Collective webinar content. This discounted rate is our thank-you for helping us refine the webinar materials during the workshop’s early launch period.

    Prices shown may exclude nominal handling fees.

    Thank you for purchasing a ticket to our upcoming “File Sharing for Fun and Profit: How BitTorrent Works and What You Can Do With It” webinar. Please allow several minutes for delivery of your webinar access credentials to the email address associated with your payment processor account. Remember to check your spam folder, as well!

    If you still don’t receive your webinar access credentials after one hour, please contact us and we’ll help you get it sorted.

    Your order has been cancelled.

    BitTorrent, the wildly popular but often maligned file sharing protocol, is now being used in everything from (legal!) video streaming sites to corporate software update servers, but you wouldn’t know that if you only listened to Big Media groups like the RIAA. In this beginner-friendly workshop, we’ll bust BitTorrent myths… (read more)

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    • March 29, 2020 6:30 PM (-0400) – March 29, 2020 8:00 PM
    • Remote
    • Status: CONFIRMED

    Tickets are no longer available for this event because the event has passed.

    This workshop is a combination “attack/defense” exercise focusing on Web-based social engineering attacks. Participants will practice both how to launch their own attacks as well as how to defend against them.… (read more)

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    • March 26, 2020 6:30 PM (-0400) – March 26, 2020 8:00 PM
    • Remote
    • Status: CONFIRMED

    Tickets are no longer available for this event because the event has passed.

    Come learn how the free Tor Web Browser can be your gateway to the Dark Web while simultaneously keeping you safer and your personal info more private as you browse web sites big and small. In this deep dive workshop on Tor, the Tech Learning Collective’s cybersecurity trainers will show… (read more)

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    • March 22, 2020 6:30 PM (-0400) – March 22, 2020 8:00 PM
    • Remote
    • Status: CONFIRMED

    Tickets are no longer available for this event because the event has passed.

    This beginner-friendly introduction to digital safety will cut through the fear, uncertainty, and doubt generated by the frenetic news cycle and the latest Internet privacy listicle, and offer an opportunity to ask the Tech Learning Collective’s cybersecurity trainers your most pressing online privacy and digital security questions.… (read more)

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    • March 21, 2020 6:30 PM (-0400) – March 21, 2020 8:00 PM
    • Remote
    • Status: CONFIRMED

    Tickets are no longer available for this event because the event has passed.

    This workshop is a practical introduction to creating, using, and administering virtual machine (VM) systems. Even if you’ve never heard of a virtual machine before, you probably already use the underlying technology. And you can get a lot out of using a virtual machine even if you aren’t a software… (read more)

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    • March 15, 2020 2:30 PM (-0400) – March 15, 2020 4:30 PM
    • Remote
    • Status: CONFIRMED

    Tickets are no longer available for this event because the event has passed.

    Come learn how the free Tor Web Browser can be your gateway to the Dark Web while simultaneously keeping you safer and your personal info more private as you browse web sites big and small. In this deep dive workshop on Tor, the Tech Learning Collective’s cybersecurity trainers will show… (read more)

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    • March 12, 2020 5:30 PM (-0400) – March 12, 2020 7:30 PM
    • Remote
    • Status: CONFIRMED

    Tickets are no longer available for this event because the event has passed.

    This workshop is a combination “attack/defense” exercise focusing on Web-based social engineering attacks. Participants will practice both how to launch their own attacks as well as how to defend against them.… (read more)

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    • March 9, 2020 7:00 PM (-0400) – March 9, 2020 8:30 PM
    • Remote
    • Status: CONFIRMED

    Tickets are no longer available for this event because the event has passed.

    This workshop is a practical introduction to creating, using, and administering virtual machine (VM) systems. Even if you’ve never heard of a virtual machine before, you probably already use the underlying technology. And you can get a lot out of using a virtual machine even if you aren’t a software… (read more)

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    • March 8, 2020 3:00 PM (-0400) – March 8, 2020 4:30 PM
    • Remote
    • Status: CONFIRMED

    Tickets are no longer available for this event because the event has passed.

    You have read about people who can talk to machines. Maybe you imagined secret chambers, hidden away behind locked doors, with dark rooms basking in blue from electric fires. Some of these people seemed friendly, others scary, but all of them were powerful. How did they learn to communicate with… (read more)

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    • March 7, 2020 7:30 PM (-0500) – March 7, 2020 9:00 PM
    • Remote
    • Status: CONFIRMED

    Tickets are no longer available for this event because the event has passed.

    Most individuals with access to a computer system have more power today than ever before, but rarely do they make use of it or even know how much power they truly have. In this beginner’s workshop, you’ll begin learning how to “speak with the machines.” By learning to communicate more… (read more)

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    • March 3, 2020 3:00 PM (-0500) – March 3, 2020 5:00 PM
    • Remote
    • Status: CONFIRMED

    Tickets are no longer available for this event because the event has passed.

    Learn the basics of securing digital infrastructure by taking a deep-dive into the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol, a fundamental component of safe administrative access to remote servers. Regardless of whether you rely on one or many thousands of servers to power your daily operations, securely managing those machines is essential… (read more)

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