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Creating community at our 2025 Sri Lanka Global Clubs Partner meetup

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The Global Clubs Partner network brings together 52 partners from 45 countries, all working together to positively impact their local communities and open up opportunities for the next generation.

Last month, our Global Clubs Partners came together in Sri Lanka for our annual meetup, celebrating collaboration and community. Hosted alongside the second-ever Coolest Projects Sri Lanka, the gathering brought partners from across the world to share ideas, learn together, and build connections that will carry into the year ahead.

A group of educators at a conference.

Building connections across the network

The in-person meetups are all about strengthening the sense of community among Global Clubs Partners. Ellie Proffitt from the RPF Global Partners team shared why coming together is so important:

“It was wonderful to hear everyone’s experiences and connect over our shared mission. Everyone was so keen to learn from each other, and being able to do that face to face made it even more valuable.”

The Sri Lanka meetup gave partners the space to get to know one another, learn from each other’s experiences, and think together about future goals for their clubs.

Educators collaborate together during a workshop.

Exploring together

The agenda combined presentations, workshops, and plenty of time for discussion. It began with the Raspberry Pi Foundation team giving a presentation on our mission and strategy for partner work and beyond. Afterwards, each organisation introduced themselves and partners showcased their activities and successes. Together we explored how to build and sustain Code Club communities, experimented with creative ways to use AI in clubs, and got hands-on with unplugged activities that make computing accessible in low-tech settings. Partners also shared approaches to adapting content for their local contexts, and finished by developing their own vision and strategy for the next 12 months.

The variety of sessions meant there was something for everyone, whether partners were looking for new teaching ideas, strategic guidance, or inspiration from peers.

“There were so many interesting topics, I wish we had more time to go more in depth. I love being able to speak with other organisations doing similar work. Having the Raspberry Pi Foundation facilitate the connections is an asset.” – Global Partner

Educators collaborate together during a workshop.

Inspiring moments at Coolest Projects Sri Lanka

As part of the meetup, partners had the chance to attend Coolest Projects Sri Lanka 2025, where young people showcased their incredible tech creations. Seeing children proudly present projects ranging from apps to hardware builds was a highlight for many.

“We have picked the top 100 [Coolest Projects] entries and they are here today exhibiting that to all our visitors joining from various parts of the world and we are happy to have representatives from the global Raspberry Pi Foundation family also.” – Prabhath, Code Club mentor and founder of STEMUp Educational Foundation

Educators at Coolest Projects Sri Lanka.

Looking ahead

The team left Sri Lanka with deeper connections, renewed energy, and a shared commitment to making computing education accessible to all.

“I feel part of something bigger — a worldwide movement where kids everywhere are learning to create with technology, not just consume it. Being a Global Partner means we can learn from what’s working in other countries, adapt those ideas for us, and also contribute our own innovations back to the network.” – Global Partner 

Could your organisation become a Global Clubs Partner?

You can find out how your organisation could join our Global Clubs Partner network on the Code Club website, or contact us directly with your questions or ideas about a partnership.

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Arduino UNO Q Combines Qualcomm Dragonwing QRB2210 and STM32 MCU

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Qualcomm Technologies has announced its plan to acquire Arduino, marking a major development in the embedded and maker ecosystems. The acquisition aims to combine Qualcomm’s edge computing and AI expertise with Arduino’s large developer community and open hardware approach. As part of the announcement, both companies introduced the Arduino UNO Q, a new dual-processor development […]

Cosmic Beta DE setup performed via native CashyOS 082825 Calamares installer

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Just select Cosmic during initial run of CashyOS 082825 Calamares installer and proceed with installation of Cosmic Beta DE utilizing native CachyOS repositories . Finally make sure that Cosmic Beta has been installed in the same way how we may install KDE Plasma 6.4.5 via original Cachyos ISO as of 08282025 . I have to notice that the only CachyOS provides a straightforward setup of Cosmic Beta DE vs an others clones of Arch Linux, say Garuda Mokka or Manjaro Linux for instance .

[$] Progress on defeating lifetime-end pointer zapping

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Paul McKenney gave a remote presentation at

Kangrejos 2025 following up on the
talk he gave last year about the
lifetime-end-pointer-zapping problem: certain common patterns for multithreaded code are
technically undefined behavior, and changes to the C and C++ specifications
will be needed to correct that. Those changes could also impact code that uses
unsafe Rust, such as the kernel’s Rust bindings. Progress on the problem has been slow,
but McKenney believes that a solution is near at hand.