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task #8222: Submission of Digital Freedom for Education and Youth - North West

Submitter:  Tim Dobson <tdobson>
Submitted:  Sun 01 Jun 2008 07:27:08 PM UTC
   
 
Should Start On:  Sun 01 Jun 2008 12:00:00 AM UTC Should be Finished on:  Wed 11 Jun 2008 12:00:00 AM UTC
Category:  Project Approval Priority:  * 5 - Normal
Status:  Done Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  Beuc Open/Closed:  Closed
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Sun 22 Jun 2008 06:48:04 AM UTC, comment #1: 

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 12:04:24AM +0100, Tim Dobson wrote:

> On Tuesday 03 June 2008 18:26:19 Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 12:31:25AM +0100, Tim Dobson wrote:
> > > I made an application to get GUG hosting:
> > > https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?8222
> > > If someone could move it forward a bit that would be great :)
>
> > If you get listed as a Free Software user group, we can approve the
> > project.
>
> We are now listed as a FSUG [1].
>
> Tim
>
> [1] http://www.gnu.org/gnu/fs-user-groups.html


Perfect!

I approved your project.
You'll receive a notification mail shortly.

Sylvain Beucler <Beuc>
Sun 01 Jun 2008 07:27:08 PM UTC, original submission:  

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While this item will be useful to track the registration process, approving or discarding the registration must be done using the specific Group Administration page, accessible only to site administrators, effectively logged as site administrators (superuser):



Registration Details


  • Name: Digital Freedom for Education and Youth - North West
  • System Name:  dfey-nw
  • Type: GUG
  • License: GNU General Public License v2 or later





Description:

"A community for young freedom lovers, but only in North West England so far..."

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.



Other Comments:

We have an IRC channels (#dfey-nw & #dfey) however, this is not an ideal method of communication when some people have limited connectivity and thus we wondered if it would be possible to have a mailing list to improve our ability to communicate.


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http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/fsuk-manchester/2008-05/msg00259.html


Tim Dobson <tdobson>

 

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