Hello everyone,
Little spoiler: if all goes well, there will be an illustrated
read-aloud book "Ada & Zangemann - a fairy tale about software,
skateboards, and ice cream" for children from ~5-6 years old about Free
Software before the end of the year. The book will first be available in
German, but I am already working on an English version.
In the book there will also be a link to a website with further
information about Free Software. The current draft can be found at
https://fsfe.org/activities/childrenbook/ (please do not share it yet).
An important component of this is the resource "How can children learn
programming". There is
https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/ProgrammingForChildren
as a first framework for this in the wiki. It would be very helpful if
you help to expand it, so that parents whose children are interested in
programming can get some help, and if possible with resources that don't
teach programming with non-free software.
Kind regards and have a nice Ada Lovelace Day,
Matthias
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Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290
Registered at Amtsgericht Hamburg, VR 17030 |(fsfe.org/support)
Contact (fsfe.org/about/kirschner) Weblog k7r.eu/blog.html
Hi all.
Today we launched Youth Hacking 4 Freedom: Coding Competition for teenagers
To inspire the younger generation to software freedom, the FSFE is
organising the coding competition ‘Youth Hacking 4 Freedom' (YH4F),
where teenagers from all around Europe have the chance to compete in a
fair and fun way.
To make this project a success we need your support, to help us reach
out to young people. Your contribution is valuable to make sure that
young people from your community and region are taking part and have the
chance to win an awesome prize and a trip to Brussels.
YH4F in a nutshell:
* Participants must be 14-18 years old and should register at YH4F
website [1].
* The opening event will be hosted on 10 October 2021.
* The registration is open until Sunday, 31 October 2021.
* Six winners will be awarded with cash prizes (2 x 4.096€, 2 x
2.048€, 2 x 1.024€) and a trip to Brussels.
* The competition takes place online. The Award Ceremony is in Brussels.
The YH4F competition includes an online opening day to welcome
everyone on board, in a kick-off event on Sunday 10 October, 5pm CET.
The FSFE will present the competition and answer open questions.
Please find more information on how to join at YH4F website [1].
## Coding
>From Monday 1 November 2021, a five-month coding phase starts and the
participants focus on coding until March 2022. Participants can bring
in all their imagination to the competition; they can code any type
of software they want, as long as it is Free Software. The software
project can be a stand-alone program written from scratch, or you can
modify and combine existing programs. Everything is welcome! The
participants will have the chance to briefly follow each other’s
work and exchange ideas.
## Evaluation
After the participants submit their programs, an evaluation phase is
carried out by Free Software experts. Our jury members [2] excel in
software development; among them are Neil McGovern, Executive
Director of the GNOME Foundation, and Claudia Müller-Birn, Professor
for Human-Centered Computing at the Freie Universität Berlin.
## Awards
The winners will be invited to receive their awards during a trip to
Brussels in June 2022. The 2-day trip includes the Award Ceremony and
social activities where the winners will have the chance to get to
know each other better.
We are dedicated to offering an inclusive environment in the YH4F, and
we would like to encourage people of all genders to join! We will
make sure that everyone will enjoy the process and will leave this
competition with added knowledge and a smile. The
YH4F is made possible thanks to the kind support of Reinhard
Wiesemann, Linuxhotel, and Vielrespektzentrum.
If you would like to help young people in your network spot this
opportunity, please share our call for registration [1] with a post on
your website, a mention in your Newsletter, or a social media post. In
YH4F website [1] you can find all related information, such as the
process, the eligibility criteria, and FAQs [3]. You can also use the
illustrations in our dedicated media package [4] when sharing the news
of the competition.
Let’s make sure that the people in your community who are interested in
taking part to the competition will have the chance to register! Your
contribution in sharing the news is greatly appreciated.
Thank you for your help! We are happy to answer any questions you might
have.
Best,
Alex
[1] http://yh4f.org/
[2] https://fsfe.org/activities/yh4f/jury.html
[3] https://fsfe.org/activities/yh4f/faq.html
[4] https://fsfe.org/activities/yh4f/media.html
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Alexander Sander - FSFE Policy Consultant
Free Software Foundation Europe
Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany |
Registered at Amtsgericht Hamburg, VR 17030 | (fsfe.org/join)
Hey all,
irregardless of the split in our community between privacy pragmatists
and privacy absolutists, I think we should take note of this step
Mozilla has taken, as I believe FSFE still has a Facebook page (last
active on September 21st as far as I can ascertain).
> Dear global community we’ve had the opportunity to interact with over the past several years here:
>
> We’re taking a break from Facebook.
>
> At Mozilla we champion platforms and technologies that are good for the web and good for the people that use it.
> We stand up for transparency and user control because they make the web healthier for us all.
>
> That’s why we are pressing pause on any Facebook activity. Mark Zuckerberg has just promised to improve Facebook’s settings and make them more protective, which is a start! Please do that! But we can’t help but think we’ve heard it before, so we’re still going to wait and see what materializes before we resume spending our ad dollars or time here.
>
> IN THE MEANTIME:
> If you need support for Firefox or want to tweet at us, you can find us here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/
> and https://twitter.com/mozilla
(Non-tracked link to the source:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180323091845/https://de-de.facebook.com/mozil…)
What do you guys think?
Best regards,
Jonke