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DFEY: Digital Freedom in Education and Youth
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[edit] Introduction
Recently, an increasing number of teenagers and young people have been active within the Free Software world, in the North West of England. However, it has been noticed that, in general, people tend to pre-judge one based on age rather than abilities, achievements or what one has to say.
For one teenager, this meant that they usually were extremely unwilling to give the impression that they were younger than the average age on a mailing list to avoid their posts getting ignored or laughed off.
Young people are especially valuable when it comes to free software and GNU/Linux as they not only going to be free software advocates in the future, but will help push free software in their educational establishments.
Whilst it would be desirable to draw young people directly into GLUG's and FSUG's, this is somewhat difficult, simply because teenagers (usually) prefer to be in the company of other teenagers and many feel somewhat uncomfortable in environments where they are outnumbered by those who are much older than them and have been through several educational establishments and had industry experience.
DFEY hopes to work with Manchester Free Software, local GLUGs and similar organisations to help encourage and promote young people's involvement with the free software community creating a social space to make it more comfortable for young people to get involved with GLUGs and FSUGs.
[edit] Meetings
October Meeting - Notes and Recordings of the meeting
31st August Meeting - Notes and Recordings of the meeting
[edit] Projects
Getting free software into schools
(Suggest other things you think we should do, on the talk page)
[edit] Resources
Alternative Software List - A place to find a Free Software replacement for your applications.
List of Northwest Schools and details about their computer systems
Political Resources - A place to find information about political news regarding the privacy and freedom of young people in the UK.
(Suggestions of resources you think we should have, on the talk page)
[edit] Mailing List
There are two ways of contacting us: we have a mailing list, which also has a forum interface.
[edit] Forum (via Nabble)
Nabble, publicly archives our mailing list and provides a handy forum interface for those who aren't keen on mailing lists :)
[edit] Chat
There is also the chat room (#dfey irc.freenode.net).
[edit] Facebook
We also have a facebook group. Feel free to join it!
[edit] Other Groups
We have compiled a list of other groups and organisations active in the north-west of England which might be of interest to Young People interested in issues of Freedom.
