WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.000 I'm out front here. 00:05.000 --> 00:10.000 So hello and welcome to our talk. 00:10.000 --> 00:12.000 You're packing for freedom. 00:12.000 --> 00:15.000 The FSF is program competition. 00:15.000 --> 00:18.000 I'm Bonnie Mary and today I'm here with Sophia. 00:18.000 --> 00:20.000 Hello, I am Sophia. 00:20.000 --> 00:22.000 And I'm your packing for freedom alone. 00:22.000 --> 00:25.000 I am currently part of the youth packing for freedom jury. 00:25.000 --> 00:28.000 And I'm also currently working at the Free Software Foundation Europe. 00:28.000 --> 00:29.000 Yes. 00:29.000 --> 00:31.000 And so am I. I'm Bonnie Mary. 00:31.000 --> 00:34.000 And together with my colleague Alexander Sander. 00:34.000 --> 00:37.000 I'm taking care of the youth packing for freedom. 00:37.000 --> 00:41.000 Coviding competition for the software for the Free Software Foundation Europe. 00:41.000 --> 00:45.000 And I accompany this competition throughout the year. 00:45.000 --> 00:48.000 And yeah, I'm very happy to introduce it to you. 00:48.000 --> 00:51.000 So what is your packing for freedom actually? 00:51.000 --> 00:55.000 Well, youth packing for freedom is the programming competition obviously, 00:55.000 --> 00:57.000 but it is unique. 00:57.000 --> 01:01.000 So it's a programming competition like you have not seen before. 01:01.000 --> 01:03.000 How and why? 01:03.000 --> 01:09.000 Well, because you can design your own program and your own idea. 01:09.000 --> 01:11.000 So there are like many ideas. 01:11.000 --> 01:15.000 And you've probably noted some of you have done different projects. 01:15.000 --> 01:18.000 And all those ideas come together. 01:18.000 --> 01:22.000 And they are all realized under the hood of you packing for freedom. 01:22.000 --> 01:26.000 This is very unique and you won't find anything else like this. 01:26.000 --> 01:28.000 I'm very sorry to say already. 01:28.000 --> 01:31.000 Most of you in the room do not fit our age gap. 01:31.000 --> 01:34.000 It's been fought into 18 years. 01:34.000 --> 01:37.000 But please share this information. 01:37.000 --> 01:40.000 Share this information about this programming competition. 01:40.000 --> 01:46.000 With others around you, with people that you know that teach teenagers and all. 01:46.000 --> 01:49.000 So stay in the room to find out more what you're packing for freedom is. 01:49.000 --> 01:51.000 And then share it afterwards. 01:52.000 --> 01:55.000 The only condition in the end is between day. 01:55.000 --> 01:59.000 And you need to be eligible for the criteria to participate. 01:59.000 --> 02:02.000 The projects must be free software. 02:02.000 --> 02:05.000 So this is the only condition we have with free software. 02:05.000 --> 02:11.000 We mean everybody is allowed to use study share and improve the software in the end. 02:11.000 --> 02:15.000 Now I'm with the part where most people are like really. 02:15.000 --> 02:18.000 Okay, this is not interesting for me, but it is. 02:18.000 --> 02:21.000 As I said, please share the information with people. 02:21.000 --> 02:24.000 You know who fit our age gap between 14 to 18 years. 02:24.000 --> 02:26.000 They need to be firm Europe. 02:26.000 --> 02:30.000 So not use the Switzerland and Norway are also happy to participate. 02:30.000 --> 02:32.000 And also other European countries. 02:32.000 --> 02:35.000 And they do not need to hold citizenship. 02:35.000 --> 02:38.000 I just want to point this out very strongly. 02:38.000 --> 02:40.000 It's not about citizenship. 02:40.000 --> 02:42.000 It's about living in Europe. 02:42.000 --> 02:45.000 So you need to be somewhere in Europe. 02:45.000 --> 02:49.000 And that's basically the criteria of who can participate. 02:49.000 --> 02:55.000 Then I have to say that this competition is not possible without those who support us. 02:55.000 --> 02:58.000 If you are willing to support us as well. 02:58.000 --> 03:01.000 Please come to us, talk to us, switch out to us. 03:01.000 --> 03:05.000 So far, we have trucks, mugs, zoosa, msauce network, and color bar office. 03:05.000 --> 03:11.000 Who are there and who make this competition all possible with autumn and would not be. 03:11.000 --> 03:15.000 And now I'm handing over to my wonderful colleagues of year. 03:15.000 --> 03:17.000 Thank you very much. 03:17.000 --> 03:22.000 So now let's get into the nitty gritty of this wonderful competition, right? 03:22.000 --> 03:26.000 So you are someone who wants to join you in hacking for freedom or no someone. 03:26.000 --> 03:29.000 I want to get an idea of how this looks. 03:29.000 --> 03:32.000 So first of all, see everything. 03:32.000 --> 03:34.000 We need to register. 03:34.000 --> 03:37.000 So you can scan this to our call, take a picture, 03:37.000 --> 03:45.000 or you can also go to your hacking for freedom.org slash register to your hacking for freedom. 03:45.000 --> 03:51.000 Now the largest part of the competition is the programming phase, 03:51.000 --> 03:57.000 where the largest part is the programming phase, 03:57.000 --> 04:00.000 which runs from January until June. 04:00.000 --> 04:03.000 So the programming phase of these years, 04:03.000 --> 04:10.000 it has already started, but late registrations are possible throughout the whole programming phase. 04:10.000 --> 04:14.000 So if you are still doubting whether to join or not, don't worry. 04:14.000 --> 04:16.000 You can join at any time. 04:16.000 --> 04:19.000 You can join one day before the deadline and submit something, 04:19.000 --> 04:24.000 but we will heavily encourage everyone who is thinking about joining. 04:24.000 --> 04:30.000 To join, even if they still don't have a project idea or if there's still doubting what they're going to do 04:30.000 --> 04:34.000 if they even want to participate, because we also run monthly video calls, 04:34.000 --> 04:37.000 where we discuss certain topics. 04:37.000 --> 04:40.000 So for example, there's an introduction to get. 04:40.000 --> 04:43.000 There's an introduction to licensing. 04:43.000 --> 04:46.000 There's this kind of topics. 04:46.000 --> 04:53.000 And there's some time for questions where you can ask how these things work. 04:53.000 --> 04:55.000 So for example, where is free software? 04:55.000 --> 04:57.000 We give an introduction, where is free software? 04:57.000 --> 05:03.000 People can ask them the participants, their thoughts or any questions they might have. 05:03.000 --> 05:07.000 And they also have the opportunity to discuss their ideas with their peers, 05:07.000 --> 05:11.000 to meet new people, in breakout rooms and everything. 05:11.000 --> 05:15.000 Which is very nice when you're actually there thinking of ideas. 05:15.000 --> 05:19.000 And you can hear from others, give feedback, it's very nice. 05:19.000 --> 05:25.000 And moreover, we also support participants by providing information about how to stay motivated 05:25.000 --> 05:29.000 through the programming phase, how to manage your projects. 05:29.000 --> 05:32.000 Also, if you have any questions about licensing. 05:32.000 --> 05:39.000 So for example, I had a question about linking between AGPL and another license. 05:39.000 --> 05:45.000 So I sent an email and they quickly replied with the information I needed to clear up everything. 05:45.000 --> 05:52.000 And also, you can ask any general questions for things that go more in-depth into the technical details. 05:52.000 --> 05:57.000 We encourage people, so for example, if you have a mathematical project, 05:57.000 --> 06:02.000 then it's better to ask your math teacher than to contact us. 06:02.000 --> 06:07.000 Can only encourage us to ask yourself. 06:07.000 --> 06:08.000 Yeah. 06:08.000 --> 06:16.000 But the most important part of everything is to have fun, to enjoy programming, to enjoy playing with your ideas, 06:16.000 --> 06:23.000 get feedback from other people, learning every month in these calls, and that's the most wonderful part. 06:23.000 --> 06:26.000 And now I will give it back to Bonnie. 06:26.000 --> 06:34.000 Once the participants passed those six months and have the project ready and handed it in and submitted it for evaluation, 06:34.000 --> 06:36.000 the sureee will take a look at the project. 06:36.000 --> 06:38.000 We have many sureee members. 06:38.000 --> 06:42.000 That's due because we get a lot of variety in the projects as well. 06:42.000 --> 06:44.000 As you can imagine, if you come up with your own idea, 06:44.000 --> 06:45.000 we have hardware projects. 06:45.000 --> 06:48.000 We have projects that are more mathematically. 06:48.000 --> 06:54.000 We have projects that involve software and robots and everything. 06:54.000 --> 06:57.000 So it's like crazy variety. 06:57.000 --> 07:01.000 We need a lot of people that can look into this and that can evaluate it. 07:01.000 --> 07:06.000 So we have for example, also cryptidare, who is like heavily with cryptography, 07:06.000 --> 07:08.000 and who knows a lot about us. 07:08.000 --> 07:11.000 We have class knopper from the knopper system. 07:11.000 --> 07:17.000 And yeah, some people who are work of algorithms, as this is also getting more favorite with the kids. 07:17.000 --> 07:23.000 And so this is the sureee members and the group that is evaluating. 07:23.000 --> 07:25.000 They are all really kind. 07:25.000 --> 07:30.000 So don't worry, they won't be any mean people. 07:30.000 --> 07:34.000 And eventually, after they look at all the projects they evaluated, 07:34.000 --> 07:37.000 then we contact the winners in September. 07:37.000 --> 07:40.000 We also notified those who haven't won. 07:40.000 --> 07:42.000 And we notified them with feedback. 07:42.000 --> 07:47.000 I find it's very important because this also gives you feedback in for freedom. 07:47.000 --> 07:53.000 The value that we provide to feedback so I can improve on it. 07:53.000 --> 07:55.000 And I do have an example for this. 07:55.000 --> 07:59.000 So for example, the sureee takes into account eight criteria. 07:59.000 --> 08:01.000 One of them is documentation. 08:01.000 --> 08:05.000 Because we believe it's not only important that you have code that compiles, 08:05.000 --> 08:11.000 but also documentation that the idea is created, that the idea has an impact, et cetera. 08:11.000 --> 08:14.000 On all of those criteria, we provide the feedback. 08:14.000 --> 08:21.000 And once we had a participant who did a hardware project and documentation was lacking, 08:21.000 --> 08:26.000 nobody could rebuild, there's nobody had an idea of what he did in the end. 08:26.000 --> 08:28.000 And we provided the feedback. 08:28.000 --> 08:31.000 Oh, please think about documentation for the next time. 08:31.000 --> 08:32.000 It came back the next year. 08:32.000 --> 08:35.000 And the documentation was the most awesome thing I ever saw. 08:35.000 --> 08:39.000 It was like a full PDF with pictures of explanation on everything. 08:39.000 --> 08:41.000 And it was like really thorough. 08:41.000 --> 08:45.000 And you can really see how the teenagers take the feedback into account 08:45.000 --> 08:47.000 and how they profit by it. 08:47.000 --> 08:49.000 Also for later life. 08:49.000 --> 08:52.000 Because I'm sure there are some software developers among you. 08:52.000 --> 08:57.000 And you probably know how hard it is to keep up with documentation, 08:57.000 --> 09:00.000 but also how important it is. 09:00.000 --> 09:03.000 So just something that they can benefit from. 09:03.000 --> 09:05.000 And yeah, that's really nice. 09:05.000 --> 09:10.000 As well as when we contact the ones that are not among the winners. 09:10.000 --> 09:14.000 And yeah, giving them the feedback and getting in this interaction there as well. 09:14.000 --> 09:15.000 So it's benefit as well. 09:15.000 --> 09:20.000 But now for the most fun part that all of us think is the best thing about it. 09:20.000 --> 09:22.000 There are prizes. 09:22.000 --> 09:26.000 So if you know anybody who is among this age gap. 09:26.000 --> 09:31.000 If they are among the winners, they can win up to 4,096 year. 09:31.000 --> 09:34.000 Second prize is then 248. 09:34.000 --> 09:36.000 The third is 1,024. 09:36.000 --> 09:38.000 And then we have three special prizes. 09:38.000 --> 09:42.000 Those special prizes are each year. 09:42.000 --> 09:45.000 Yeah, decided by the jury on what to give. 09:45.000 --> 09:48.000 So for example, if there are a lot of games, 09:48.000 --> 09:51.000 they won't hand out three prizes to games most likely. 09:51.000 --> 09:54.000 But then we do the best game, for example. 09:54.000 --> 09:56.000 So this can be a special prize. 09:56.000 --> 10:01.000 If there's some really young person, we can hand out the prize to the youngest participant. 10:01.000 --> 10:04.000 If there's somebody, once had one from the Ukraine, 10:04.000 --> 10:07.000 from a very son, they do have different problems. 10:07.000 --> 10:09.000 And we in daily life. 10:09.000 --> 10:13.000 And we handed out a special prize there because we said, 10:13.000 --> 10:15.000 this person really submitted something. 10:15.000 --> 10:21.000 And really went through the full six months despite all the things happening there. 10:21.000 --> 10:23.000 And we wanted to recognize this. 10:23.000 --> 10:27.000 And that's why the jury can also decide upon three special prizes. 10:27.000 --> 10:31.000 The projects that have one of our very different, 10:31.000 --> 10:33.000 very, very briefly go over them. 10:33.000 --> 10:35.000 And we have, for example, once a game, 10:35.000 --> 10:38.000 mentioned by a really young participant was just 14. 10:38.000 --> 10:40.000 We had an open radio. 10:40.000 --> 10:44.000 We had somebody who was like, 10:44.000 --> 10:47.000 oh, I work with microcontrollers. 10:47.000 --> 10:49.000 I want to have a graphical interface. 10:49.000 --> 10:51.000 And he programmed this by himself. 10:51.000 --> 10:53.000 And yeah, it was really challenging for him. 10:53.000 --> 10:56.000 He had different challenges throughout the six months. 10:56.000 --> 10:57.000 But he went through. 10:57.000 --> 10:58.000 And it looked really nice. 10:58.000 --> 10:59.000 And yeah, it was grounding. 10:59.000 --> 11:02.000 So yeah, this was really cool. 11:02.000 --> 11:06.000 And we had once somebody who did a robot that was like, 11:06.000 --> 11:09.000 that you could control for microcontroller, 11:09.000 --> 11:11.000 for somebody in a wheelchair. 11:11.000 --> 11:14.000 And this can bring them water, or, for example, 11:14.000 --> 11:17.000 can carry the plates through the dishwasher. 11:17.000 --> 11:19.000 And also, it's like, also, 11:19.000 --> 11:23.000 persons that taste the detergent or the teenagers face around 11:23.000 --> 11:25.000 and that they want to solve. 11:25.000 --> 11:28.000 Want to follow their interest, obviously. 11:28.000 --> 11:29.000 Yeah. 11:29.000 --> 11:32.000 So then, in the end, when they are invited, 11:32.000 --> 11:35.000 or among the six winners, they are invited to Brussels. 11:35.000 --> 11:38.000 And there's, what's our money taking place? 11:38.000 --> 11:39.000 It's an October. 11:39.000 --> 11:40.000 It's a full week. 11:40.000 --> 11:43.000 And there's networking, meeting new people. 11:43.000 --> 11:45.000 We have a workshop where you can solve there. 11:45.000 --> 11:47.000 And think around with LEDs. 11:47.000 --> 11:48.000 So three fun. 11:48.000 --> 11:50.000 And then we have the ceremony and dinner. 11:50.000 --> 11:53.000 And don't forget, we have loads of food. 11:53.000 --> 11:55.000 During this whole ceremony, there's loads of food. 11:55.000 --> 11:57.000 And nobody will stay hungry in the end. 11:57.000 --> 11:58.000 Yeah. 11:58.000 --> 12:01.000 I always find that this is very important. 12:01.000 --> 12:05.000 So please let others know if you know somebody who's 12:05.000 --> 12:09.000 eligible or if you know it, each a youth club, 12:09.000 --> 12:10.000 hex space in your town. 12:10.000 --> 12:12.000 Share the news about you checking for freedom. 12:12.000 --> 12:15.000 It's a really fun and cool program and competition. 12:15.000 --> 12:19.000 And we are happy to have teenagers participating. 12:19.000 --> 12:20.000 Yeah. 12:20.000 --> 12:22.000 You can also follow us on Maserdan. 12:22.000 --> 12:25.000 And, of course, you can support us as we are charity. 12:25.000 --> 12:29.000 And rely on support from the public to stay in the penant. 12:29.000 --> 12:30.000 Yes. 12:30.000 --> 12:31.000 Thank you very much. 12:31.000 --> 12:32.000 We have two minutes. 12:32.000 --> 12:33.000 And. 12:34.000 --> 12:35.000 Sorry seconds. 12:39.000 --> 12:40.000 Thank you very much. 12:40.000 --> 12:41.000 Do you have any questions? 12:44.000 --> 12:45.000 Hi. 12:45.000 --> 12:46.000 Thank you for the presentation. 12:46.000 --> 12:48.000 I was wondering if you have any regulations 12:48.000 --> 12:50.000 regarding vape coding? 12:50.000 --> 12:51.000 Yes, we do. 12:51.000 --> 12:52.000 So. 12:53.000 --> 12:58.000 We will not follow up on like if they are doing vape coding. 12:58.000 --> 13:01.000 We accept the project, but if they are selected 13:01.000 --> 13:04.000 on the short list, so the show will draw up a short list, 13:04.000 --> 13:07.000 based on the eight criteria and say those 12 projects 13:07.000 --> 13:09.000 are really amazing. 13:09.000 --> 13:11.000 And they will do interviews. 13:11.000 --> 13:16.000 And be expect that you will know what the project does. 13:16.000 --> 13:18.000 Like in detail. 13:18.000 --> 13:19.000 So you can use it. 13:19.000 --> 13:21.000 You can understand what it does. 13:21.000 --> 13:22.000 Then fine. 13:22.000 --> 13:23.000 Yeah. 13:23.000 --> 13:24.000 And we also. 13:24.000 --> 13:27.000 Like we encourage everybody to get air free help. 13:27.000 --> 13:30.000 They can because in free software, we believe in community 13:30.000 --> 13:34.000 and we believe that it's important to reach out to others 13:34.000 --> 13:37.000 and to ask for help if you don't know something. 13:37.000 --> 13:38.000 Yes. 13:38.000 --> 13:40.000 I hope this answers the question. 13:40.000 --> 13:43.000 Thank you for this presentation. 13:43.000 --> 13:45.000 How do you deal with languages? 13:45.000 --> 13:49.000 Because you can't expect everybody to speak English, I guess. 13:49.000 --> 13:54.000 We do expect that people will have a bit of understanding of English. 13:54.000 --> 13:58.000 We try our best in the interviews to match with the language 13:58.000 --> 14:01.000 because we have this broad jury. 14:01.000 --> 14:06.000 We have several people who speak several other languages in this jury as well. 14:06.000 --> 14:11.000 So we have French, we have Portuguese and Spanish obviously. 14:11.000 --> 14:14.000 And other languages as well. 14:14.000 --> 14:17.000 So we try our best to match them. 14:17.000 --> 14:21.000 And yeah, otherwise we are also happy to take this into account. 14:21.000 --> 14:23.000 It's not that we will not follow through. 14:23.000 --> 14:26.000 And we mainly communicate with the teenagers through email. 14:26.000 --> 14:28.000 And we have the monthly calls. 14:28.000 --> 14:30.000 But we are also happy to have there. 14:30.000 --> 14:34.000 And if there is a language barrier, we are more than happy to help out. 14:34.000 --> 14:38.000 However, it is a European by programming competition. 14:38.000 --> 14:43.000 And we cannot speak all the languages that are around there. 14:43.000 --> 14:45.000 Sadly, I would love to. 14:45.000 --> 14:47.000 Do we have any more questions? 14:47.000 --> 14:50.000 We also have only 10 seconds left. 14:50.000 --> 14:51.000 Yes. 14:51.000 --> 14:53.000 I think that's it then. 14:53.000 --> 14:54.000 Thank you very much. 14:54.000 --> 14:58.000 You can find us in the closing case if you have more questions.