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This may be useful to those in this discussion found this on Calyx site https://calyxinstitute.org/. with gratitude and appreciation, Melissa 2024 also marks four years since we launched our first grant program at Calyx. This year, Calyx funded [1]Sunset Spark’s work to develop a multi-purpose curriculum focused on privacy, internet infrastructure, and the role of the public and private sectors in our digital world. As a nonprofit organization offering free education in science and technology in the heart of Brooklyn, Sunset Spark equips children and young people from diverse backgrounds with digital literacy and skills they need to enhance self-protection in today’s digital life. This curriculum aims to close the gap in digital inequality and assist K-8 school teachers in recentering technology education on privacy and freedom topics – concerns that are timely and relevant to students and their families. Learning from this and our previous work, we are coming back in 2025 with an even bigger and more refined grant program to support passionate people and projects in the internet freedom ecosystem. On 2024-12-05 10:26, Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss wrote: Hi Carmen So are the first few steps here? Clearly you are reaching out to people which is a good thing, build a team and a team of contacts. How do we market this, What you said here " The idea that free software is an ethical imperative is really important to me, and I don't want to encourage anyone to use non-free software or give the impression I endorse it. " How would this apply to social media, we know that platforms such as Instagram and TikTok are popular with the target age groups, however do we need to embrace that to reach the audience but mirror content on platforms such as Mastodon, PixelFed and Loops ( [2]https://loops.video/ ) and peertube, for the latter can we make use of the existing fsf peertub account. or we add 'extra' content on the more freedom respecting platforms. We need to hook people over I guess. How do we factor in the sort of platforms young people use, vs the platforms the rest of us use, social media vs forums / mailing lists for example, or use matrix over irc as it probably looks more like what young people are used to, matrix is or can be encrypted for example. It does look nicer, mobile friendly and share a qr code to join a room (so like discord). Paul On 05/12/2024 00:17, Carmen Maris via libreplanet-discuss wrote: Hi Aaron, Down the road, a project like that could be really interesting once I'm more established. However, for the first year or so I need to work with what I can do with more or less just me and a very small budget. I'm already expecting to do an awful amount. Although there are definitely issues with GitHub, privacy, and consuming open source technologies for closed source gain, I was just looking at some of the learning materials on GitHub and I think there may be funding or technical support available from Microsoft to create such a project.Obviously we need to make sure that the objective is learning code, not learning to use GitHub, and promoting open source software, not maximizing profit to the determent of society. I'd be very cautious about this, to be honest. The idea that free software is an ethical imperative is really important to me, and I don't want to encourage anyone to use non-free software or give the impression I endorse it. am connected to both the education and engineering departments at UMass in Massachusetts, USA and will put feelers out for potential collaborators. Do you have a website/other documents with more info on the framework? Thank you! I don't have anything I can give you immediately (what I have contains a lot of sensitive information), but you're very welcome to pass my e-mail address along. I'm delighted to answer questions. It might help to know I'm taking a really broad approach to who belongs in free software. I don't just want to attract future programmers (although they're very important!!). It's also important for me to bring in teens that might be interested in learning other skills like technical writing or UX design, as well as young people in general that are just interested in how technology affects them and society. There are many ways to be interested in technology, and they're all valuable. I want my community to be a welcoming place for people who love computers in all sorts of unique ways. - Carmen Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2024 11:23:24 -0500 From: Aaron E-J <[3][email protected]> To: [4][email protected] Subject: Re: Introducing a new project for teenagers in free software (and how you can help!) Message-ID: <[5][email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" I have thought that the idea of working on open source projects as learning tools would be a great win-win-win opportunity to advance education.I am coming in the context of the college level, but I think we need to start students down the path towards free software as early as possible.The name for the project I was thinking of is called "World Piece" or "World Pieces" and it is a play on the notion of breaking learning goals into code tasks.Basically how I was thinking this would work is, given a topic to be learnt, there is some auto-curation of open source git repositories with open tasks to be completed.Although there are definitely issues with GitHub, privacy, and consuming open source technologies for closed source gain, I was just looking at some of the learning materials on GitHub and I think there may be funding or technical support available from Microsoft to create such a project.Obviously we need to make sure that the objective is learning code, not learning to use GitHub, and promoting open source software, not maximizing profit to the determent of society.However, I think the general concept of integrating open project issues into learning tasks is a far more efficacious means of teaching than having students work on meaningless one-off homework that has no larger purpose.There could even be the chance to get industry funding for students to earn money based on completion of sponsored tasks, although again, we need to be careful to not turn this into an exploitative means of getting cheap labor. I am connected to both the education and engineering departments at UMass in Massachusetts, USA and will put feelers out for potential collaborators.Do you have a website/other documents with more info on the framework?Do you think my idea and yours can be melded into some sort of larger plan? Aaron E-J The Other Realm [6]http://otherrealm.org [7]http://theotherrealm.org (Blog) _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [8][email protected] [9]https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discus s _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [10][email protected] [11]https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discu ss -- Ask me how I can support you and your organizations in becoming more conscious tech users and move to freedom friendly tools and platforms References 1. https://www.sunsetspark.org/ 2. https://loops.video/ 3. mailto:[email protected] 4. mailto:[email protected] 5. mailto:[email protected] 6. http://otherrealm.org/ 7. http://theotherrealm.org/ 8. mailto:[email protected] 9. https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss 10. mailto:[email protected] 11. https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
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