Benedict Suska

As part of the schul-frei project of Teckids e.V. we curate free software and offer it to educational institutions. Besides the general equipment of schools with free software, an equal involvement of students in the development is for us important. One of the solutions presented by the project schul-frei is AlekSIS, a web-based school information system that is being developed jointly by Teckids e.V. and students of the Katharineum in Lübeck. The django-based platform provides data structures that can be used by separately developed apps. The special feature of this project compared to other information systems is that apps can be developed that cover specific application areas of a school. AlekSIS is a framework for apps that can be developed together with students in computer science classes, for example, because the development of such apps with python is easy to follow. Since AlekSIS is just a part of the free software curation, it can be excellently combined with other services or network accounts that are used in school. In our talk we will show, how this framework concretely looks like and how people can contribute to this project or use this system, for example at schools.

Other people: Dominik George Xithrius Tom Teichler Jonathan Weth

We are convinced that young people can make an important contribution to the Free Software community. They see many things from a different perspective than adults, which is worth looking at more closely, because new ideas and points of view can be integrated into the development of free software. Since most children and young people are already in contact with the digital world at school, we want to involve young people in the development of software. In our presentation, we will show how we include the youth into the free software community with the schul-frei project. It shows educational establishments the advantages of free software and presents solutions they could use. The goals of the project are not to offer only software. It allows for example students and teachers to develop apps together for their school, which can be integrated into the running system we present.

Teckids e.V. is a German association which provides a legal frame for three technological projects. We manage the project called "schul-frei", which aims to bring digitisation with free software to schools. We especially value the participation of youth in these projects, because they are the people which are affected by digitisation the most. Our educational concept is also based around the idea that young people should be judged by their abilities, not by age. They should learn to take responsibility and be independent. An example of this would be the AlekSIS project. It is (mostly) developed by adolescents from Teckids e.V. and from the school Katharineum zu Luebeck, where it is actively used. AlekSIS is a web-based school information system which can be used to manage and/or publish organisational subjects of educational institutions. It is also part of the schul-frei canon and uses the EUPL. We also present and provide support for solutions such as Moodle or BigBlueButton for E-Learning and debianedu/skolelinux with Nextcloud for school networks on our website https://schul-frei.org/en/index.html We set up comprehensive platforms for schools, education and youth institutions in time for the increased demand for online teaching. This has contributed to the fact that more education providers are interested in these solutions and that the various projects are gaining in reach

In der digitalen Bildungslandschaft findet ein wahres Ringen um Platz in den Klassen- und Kinderzimmern statt; Anbieter, besonders kommerzielle Unternehmen, wetteifern um Zuschläge für ihre Lösungen. Gleichzeitig gibt es eine riesige Auswahl an freien Lösungen, die wegen des fehlenden Marketingkapitals vergleichsweise unsichtbar sind und oft nur schwer auszuwählen und aufzufinden sind. Das schul-frei-Projekt präsentiert und supportet daher für jede Anforderung ein hochwertiges freies Produkt und motiviert zur Integration vorhandener freier Komponenten zu wettbewerbsfähigen Gesamtsystemen.

Other people: Dominik George