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I offer this Freedom Software experience once a week, usually on Wednesdays. It's a bit quieter with fewer people on Wednesdays compared to Fridays. I guess more kids and guardians and everyone else too feels more leeway on Fridays, huh? On Wednesdays the inside space is shared with a poetry group of two which is occasionally joined by one or two others, usually me for a few minutes, sporadically: it's great for learning and chatting. There's a dance section but they only seem to come together and focus before a festival or some other event where they will perform. But this space (a safe space for everyone 居場所) and time isn't really intended for a school classroom sort of approach, I don't think. It's just a place and time where people can get together and having a couple of themes and time slots decided ahead of time makes it easier to come together? The town's Social Welfare office 社協 is one of the main backers or organizers (I'm still don't know much about how it's organized) so certain people are in charge and try to make sure people sign in and put their names by the time-slot they took part in...

You can see hot it would be hard to teach the use of Freedom Software, or programming racket in a serious way here. On the other side of the table with the old PC running GNU/LInux Debian are four people having a great time around the ping pong table. One guy was really good and athletic and helping the three elementary school girls keep the ball going back and forth: not very concerned if the ball hit the table, the floor, or the ceiling just as long as they got the ball to each other past the net somehow. Outside are dozens of kids and other playing dodgeball or on the trampoline (2 at a time!!).. or just running around as some moms(and other guardians) watch and official facilitators also watch participate. But it's freedom exposure..
#YoruGakkou #夜学校 #自由ソフト #FreeSoftwareEducation #TuxType #TuxPaint #LibreOfficeWriter
#MimataNightSchool #三股夜学校 #FreeNightSchool

This was my last Friday night, for a while, at the Free NIght school for my Freedom Software timeslot. I had forgotten I was supposed to be off this night but it was good that I went anyway: it was fun! And I got to see how an older participant (not a pre-school or early elementary school child!) tries this GNU/Linxu Debian Gnome system. I started him out by pushing the Logo (?Super?) key and pointing to the Libre-Office software as the equivalent of well-know proprietary applications. He opened up Writer.. Since I use SKK which is very different of other Japanese IME (Input Methods) so it was good to notice I should rush to change it to Mozc when offering a taste of the Freedom Software experience. This computer's Tux-Type comes with a font that is confusing. The "j" looks like an "i" and "g" looked like a "q". I only figure it out by remembering the lesson was for the keys in the row that only has "j" and "q"... Tux-paint seems to be a hit for all ages. If I remember to pull this laptop out to see if I can do anything about Tux-Type's font I should upload the image "LOVE" somewhere...
This time slot is just to show people what they can do after the bring in a computers so I can put the same operating system and application on their hard drive. I can't set aside the time and patience, or take the risk, of setting up a dual-boot machine with a proprietary system so my conditions are some old computer that can lose all it's data. They either backed up the data or don't care. I think it's easiest for us all to ease into this without any shocks misunderstandings if we start out thinking the PCs will be toys, educational toys, serious games and get started that way. None of us yet seems to have the time to dedicate to replacing work, local business documents and such, with Freedom Software: this would be nice eventually though...
#YoruGakkou #夜学校 #自由ソフト #FreeSoftwareEducation #TuxType #TuxPaint #LibreOfficeWriter

Ready for Anything at
#MimataNightSchool #三股よる学校　 #GCompris #FreeSoftwareEducation #FreeNightSchool #自由ソフト

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html#four-freedoms

Cellphone photo, cropped (and rushed into a post) with a cell phone as if using a prorprietary site and app for Instant Gratification. The cropped cellphone photo shows an old PC (32bit Macbook) with G-Compris on te screen with the Puzzles choice menu displayed. Around the PC are books and clear folders of copied print-outs. The books are a several children's picture books and a non-competitive games book _Fun Stuff_ by Karl Rohnke. The children's book _The Sun is So Quiet_ by Nikki Giovanni is open to the title page showing a bright yellow sky a soft blue ocean and an African American boy. Under _The Sun is So Quet_ is_Thump, Quack, Moo_ and _Yertle The Turtle_.. The A4 copies are for the first two lesson based on _English Through Pictures_ with GDM (the Graded Direct Method)

🧵 Culture shift time!!
From admiring killing to admiring creating... Killing (people) is bad, Writing (programs) is good!!!

> To be admired
> If you write a successful, useful free program, the users will admire you. That feels very good.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fs-motives.en.html

#FreeSoftwareEducation

@bsmall2@writing.exchange

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> Additionally, by increasing the number of classes we provide technical training, we started to provide classes in robotics and computation to young people. The Eyüpsultan municipality is now increasing the opportunities for students to further develop their personalities, abilities, goals, and self-discovery. It introduces young people to technology and encourages them to produce new technologies.
#FreeSoftwareEducation

It is now possible to host a Gimkit game with the librekit frontend!

#librekit #gimkit #softwarefreedom #freesoftware #freesoftwareeducation

A screenshot of my desktop with two librekit tabs open, one hosting a game and the other joining it

librekit now has in-game chat functionality, which is powered by IRC! 🎉

#librekit #gimkit #irc #softwarefreedom #freesoftware #freesoftwareeducation

A screenshot of my entire desktop, showing a Gimkit tab and librekit tab open side-by-side in Chromium. The librekit tabs shows a question with answers from the Gimkit game, as well as a chat box, which is powered by IRC.

Mobilizonに慣れていないので、思うように上のページの引用にちゃんとリンクを付けていないところがある。Tux Paintについての大切なページへのリンクが思うように上のMobilizon投稿に入らなかったみたい：
> ... 開発者でない人や子供といた誰もが情報技術に影響を与えたり、改善することが現実にできるのだということを学んだことでした。
> .. anyone, even non programmers or children, can actually influence and improve information technology when software freedom is granted.
https://www.gnu.org/education/edu-software-tuxpaint.html

#TuxPaint #FreeSoftwareEducation #PC救い隊 #PC解放運動
@mimata_free_wednesday
@sakko3105

> ..in.. digital learning environments, to sharpen tools.. mean[s] to know not just how the tool works but what the tool means with respect to the place of the human in the world. This will be explored by considering the five Ws: what free software education is, who it is for, when and where it takes place, and why our active role as digital makers, not just passive users, is central to the meaning of free software education.
https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2022/spring/the-need-for-free-software-education-now
#FreeSoftwareEducation #GretaGoetz #FSF #孔子

A screenshot from the wiktionary page linked from the page linked in this Mastodon post. The screenshot shows the saying from Confucius used to compare learning Free Software to the sharpening of tools by workers who wish to work well. The image shows a table where each Chinese character is below a list of possible English translations. Below the character and translations rows is an English translation of the proverb "If a workman wished to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools."
As an alternative translation, I've been thinking of something like "If workers want to work well, They start by making tools sharp." A discussion of Lao Tzu translations sent me toward a gender-free translation:
> Although the leading figure is nearly always described as male ("the sage", "the wise man", "the truly good man" etc), and indeed may well have been intended to refer to a man, the original Chinese does not differentiate and could equally well be taken to refer to a woman. Ursula K Le Guin solves this ambiguity admirably by keeping her translation gender free.
https://www.wussu.com/laotzu/notes.html

Screenshot of a Japanese translation of the proverb by Confucius mentioned in the page linked in this Mastodon Post. the table has two one-cell rows. The top cell is blue and has the original Chinese. The bottom cell is white and has a Japanese translation with Furigana readings for the Kanji characters. The key part of the passage, the proverb "If workers want to work well, They sharpen their tools beforehand", in Japanese is:
"工(こう)、其の事を善くせんと欲せば、必ず先ず其の器を利にす。"

The need for free software education now, by @Greta @fsf

https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2022/spring/the-need-for-free-software-education-now

"[...] Why free software education?

The free software movement encourages us to find ways to leave digital traces on terms that respect collective understanding and contributory practices. [...] the person learning about free software becomes skilled in identifying, valuing, relating to, and championing the human place in a technical world."
#FreeSoftwareEducation

In her article "The need for free software education now", @Greta asks us to discuss our responses to "What does digital freedom mean to your own learning process?" Participate by replying with the tag #FreeSoftwareEducation and read/share https://u.fsf.org/3tv

In her article "The need for free software education now", @Greta asks us to discuss our responses to "How does free software teach the power of sharing?" Participate by replying with the tag #FreeSoftwareEducation and read/share https://u.fsf.org/3tv

In her article "The need for free software education now", @Greta asks us to discuss our responses to "What does digital freedom mean to your own learning process?" Participate by replying with the tag #FreeSoftwareEducation and read/share #FreeSoftwareEducation

Have you checked out "The need for free software education now" by @Greta (PhD, U. of Belgrade), which was featured in the latest Free Software Bulletin? Check it out at https://u.fsf.org/3tv and tag your thoughts and responses with #FreeSoftwareEducation.

Have you checked out Greta Goetz's (PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Belgrade) article "The need for free software education now", which was featured in the latest Free Software Bulletin? Check it out at https://u.fsf.org/3tv and tag your thoughts and responses with #FreeSoftwareEducation.

Have you checked out Greta Goetz's (PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Belgrade) article "The need for free software education now", which was featured in the latest Free Software Bulletin? Check it out and tag your thoughts and responses with #FreeSoftwareEducation.

#FreeSoftwareEducation

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