On Fri, 26 May 2017 11:08:49 +0100
James Harris  wrote:

> "We’ve got some great news to share today: the Raspberry Pi
> Foundation is joining forces with the CoderDojo Foundation, in a
> merger that will give many more young people all over the world new
> opportunities to learn how to be creative with technology."
> 
> https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-and-coderdojo-join-forces/
> 
> Good thing? Bad thing? AISI it depends on what kind of "merger" they
> mean.
> 
> "In technical terms, the Raspberry Pi Foundation is becoming a
> corporate member of the CoderDojo Foundation (which is a bit like
> being a shareholder, but without any financial interest). I will also
> join the board of the CoderDojo Foundation as a director. The merger
> is subject to approval by Irish regulators."
> 
> It sounds as though the Foundation will maintain its independence 
> despite merging with another organisation.

I think it's a bad thing because even if many CoderDojos are good the
CoderDojo Foundation is evil.

I don't like the CoderDojo Foundation because they do not allow mentors
to criticize the Koran or the terror of the Islamic State in their own
private time outside the CoderDojo. I did this and was banned from
CoderDojo Lund and also from starting new CoderDojos in poor areas of
my town, where I live myself, by CoderDojo Foundation. This was because
some Islamic State official falsely accused me of being
islamophobic and racist, which is very false. I was serving in local
CoderDojos for many years before that. I e.g. predicted in January 2016
that the Islamic State would attack children and thought we at
CoderDojo should increase the security. I was accused of being
exclusive.

This comment (above) was censored from raspberrypi.org, and this shows
they can't handle free speech.

For more info about this case, see:
https://politikmobil.wordpress.com/2016/08/20/coderdojo-foundation-does-not-all
ow-mentors-to-link-to-critique-of-the-quran-in-a-private-discussion/

I also have a recording of the last phone call from the CoderDojo
Foundation:
https://youtu.be/fXdqEEOmU4E (52 min)

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