Hi all,
It's nice to hear about FS coding initiatives around Europe!
While I agree it's nice to get some of the codeweek.eu events free-software-minded, I believe that the coding week wasn't meant to be ethical in this way in the first place. Starting with the website (they use proprietary stuff like google maps) that promotes the idea that anyone and anything is welcome to join (including those promoting proprietary software and the idea that kids should be proprietary-software-dependent), trying to make look the event free software-ish doesn't help much. I agree that whoever attends a free software event in the coding week will benefit, but overall the week with proprietary software events (e.g. [1]) will just make free software look like a yet another legitimate option, thus completely bypassing the very essence of the free software movement.
I see others might disagree, but things fail when not built on solid grounds. The coding week doesn't seem to have solid grounds, at least free-software-wise. The week is there because of competitiveness, markets, leadership, entrepreneurship, and economy growth [2], and it's not there to form a society based on the ideals of emancipation and solidarity.