 There are a lot of interesting talks, also as a speaker, especially if you had more or less something similar last year, we gave a shorter interval this time, 15 minutes, to try to accommodate as many as possible, because we had a lot of submissions, and we tried to actually highlight the open source and real time communication, so not really focused on just your past year. And as your presentation is approaching and you're going to be the next, it's the best to stay in this area. Okay, so I'll introduce the next presentation, kids and schools and instant messaging. I see a lot of people that likely have kids or any school or getting there, so that should be interesting, because we know somehow we want to give them enough of liberty, but also we don't want to go aside, so hopefully with this presentation we'll see some, what other experiences. Okay, I think we are ready to start. Thank you for coming and we are going to... Okay, hi. My name is Nick and with me are Philip and Neil, so we'll introduce themselves in a moment. This presentation is not very technical and not very pedagogic, but its main goal is to raise awareness for some facts that we gathered when we worked with children and with schools concerning instant messaging and social networks. So, who starts with the next slide? So, first I'm going to tell you something about the Tech-It's-File. We are probably the only free software youth organization and we're based in Germany, but we're working internationally, like here at the 4STEM. A very important thing about the Tech-It's-File is that the Tech-It's-File is run by children, so the children do all work, so we are doing technical workshops around FOSS. For example, we did the Frog Labs at the Frostcon in Bonn in the west of Germany and our goal is to build up a FOSS community among children and to connect children, schools and FOSS projects. So, now something about me. I'm Neil Svedek, I'm 13 years old and I'm from Dune in Germany. It's in the west of Germany, like Bonn. I'm a student at the Stiftisches Gymnasium Dune and my interests are to organize events, video and audio editing, go swimming, I'm playing the piano and I do Wing Chun. My goal is to create a FOSS community for children and to help children share their opinion. I'm Philipp Stahl, I'm 14 years old and I'm from Berg-Schleppbach in Germany and I'm a student at Niklaus-Kusannus-Gymnasium in Berg-Schleppbach. My interests are programming video games and playing lacrosse and accordion and my personal goal is to connect children with FOSS projects. Yeah, I'm Nick, I'm a bit out of range for the children do the work part. I still do all the work, but yeah. I'm a system administrator and live in Bonn and TechEd's was founded to bring the FOSS community to children and I hope that we will really be able to establish a huge community of that children and adults apart as well. So this interesting world is open to more and more students that way. So now to the topic of our presentation. We conducted the school survey among around 360 students in January. The students were between 10 and 15 years old. The results in the presentation are just preliminary. The survey will continue throughout February. So what were our goals? Our goals were to find out what software and features are used by the youth, to find out what young users think about the terms of use of priority services, to find out what young users think about free software and also to get hard numbers supporting theories of free software evangelists. But what did we expect before? So we expected that most children would not be interested in free alternatives to the services. And yeah, we thought that they won't care about the data. And we think that children should participate more in free software. Now some results are out of scope. We are just telling you these results for completeness, but they're not a core topic of our talk today. And the most of the children use WhatsApp and YouTube. Then the half use Instagram and Snapchat. And Twitter with 14% is growing a bit and Facebook with 12% is dying. And the most students use instant messaging to stay in contact. And the half user to stay informed about school and homework. The terms of use, we asked if the students knew the terms of use of the services they use. And 31% said they wouldn't care, 12% didn't understand them, 40% skimmed them and 17% read them carefully. And our conclusion was that too few young people are informed about the terms of use. And proven by the results we present later is that young users certainly care about their data, but are elaborate, are disturbed by legal text. And we asked the students what they are bothered by and they said the half were bothered by the operators seeing their content. About 80% were bothered by their contents being sold to advertisers and their content being analyzed. And one third were bothered, two thirds were bothered about automatic data collection and their contents being shown to strangers. So our conclusion is that most young people actually care a lot about their data. So another thing about how services spread, our question to that topic was how did you hear about the services you use? So 68% heard about the instant messaging services they use through friends or schoolmates. The half heard about the instant messaging services by their parents or other family members and only 6% heard about instant messaging services through advertisements. So our conclusion is that peer groups have the biggest impact on software use. Advertisements are nearly unimportant in comparison. We think that software doesn't need a huge marketing capital, they just have to be open to young people and it will spread nearly from a loan. So our next core topic is what features are used. Our question was how often the students use some features. So text messages and sharing photos privately are used quite often, we expected that before. But public status posts and audio and video calls are used less often and sharing photos publicly and video messages are used very rarely. So our conclusion here is that text messages and as in Kronos content sharing are the most important things at an instant messaging service. We think that audio messaging and some other fancy features are important too. But we think that it should be enough for the first to make text messages and as in Kronos content able to be in that services. So now we get to a very important point to instant messaging and social media use in school. Our question here was if the class of the student has a group chat and the complete 100% answered with yes. So conclusion here is that instant messaging services are an important part of education. For example you can use instant messaging services like a class community but there has to be free alternatives to services like WhatsApp for a class community. We ask them if they heard about free software and two-thirds have heard about it but only 30% use it. And the most could imagine to contribute with the software they use and one-third certainly would. So our conclusion is that first projects with a young target group should make sure to be open to them. But that 80% could imagine to contribute to the server that doesn't mean that they would. But even if the third would do it that would be very good. Issues with class and school group chats. Peer pressure makes the use of instant messaging obligatory and the services that are currently in use have privacy issues. And young users mostly aren't able to accept the terms of use legally but they are forced to do so. So teachers are uninformed, strengthen of the use of insecure proprietary apps. What we wish communities to do is to watch out for youth using your or similar non-free software and remove legal obstacles from the terms of use if you have any. And be open for exchange with kids and adolescents. And keep an eye on development tools, terms of use, github, gitlab.com and so on discriminate against minors. And we invite you about our talk too young to your role later. Yeah, there's this about the terms of use and legal text. Wait, let me elaborate on this a bit more because I think we have some time left. No, that's the wrong. So the point here is why we decided to tell this to a room full of developers because I think some of what you heard might not be new to you or might not look very interesting on the first glance. The important point here being that there are many kinds of applications that children or students in general use. And there always are obstacles that are harder to overcome for children than for adults. And we really wish development communities to be open to that, to think about whether young users are a target group of the application. And to also realize that young users might want to contribute. We actually see that happen in our workshops. We really see that happen that we use some tool for programming, some educational IDE or something. And during the workshop some kids get around and say, hey, there's a bug or this feature is not as good as I imagine it to be. And we did produce patches for software projects during workshops with children. There are legal obstacles and also some pedagogical obstacles. And if you have the resources to do, please try to find out whether it is possible for a minor to contribute to your project. Here's a hint, there's a very successful development platform for Git repositories that bluntly locks out all children. Please keep that in mind when you choose your tools or when you design your contribution ways. Okay, now to some practical stuff. In Germany we are experimenting with a software called MoVim. Some of you might have heard about it. Who of you has heard about MoVim? Okay, it's a free software. We're a web client for Jabba and it is really advanced. It does not only feature chat but also microblogging and all the stuff that everyone likes about or dislikes about social networks. Also working audio video calls through XMPP in the browser. And we are experimenting with this to make it a solution for schools. There will be a toolkit surrounding MoVim and a hosted service. And we want to say, hey, here if you want to use social networking in your class or with your students, if you are a student or a teacher or whatever, here's a free software alternative and it is made for use in education. And it can also be used privately by the children. That's very important. So, yeah, okay. I'm not really sure whether I am allowed to show the slide but I think some fundraising is okay. Please, I will remove it before I am thrown out. But if you want, please take a photo of this slide. It's both about contributing or staying informed about the topic of Miners and Open Source. And if you want to help us and help us do more of such trips and give talks at conferences and communicate with others, you are very welcome to do that. Okay. I will close this in three seconds. Thanks to Tarend, the sponsor who allowed us to travel to Fostem, especially the children who never have enough money to do such trips. If you all know that, it's hard for adults as well. So, if you can, please clap your hands for Tarend, the sponsor who helped our kids get here. Okay. So, are there questions? We still have some minutes left for discussion. What do you want to know? What do you have to say? Also, after the talk, please do use the feedback feature. Be kind but critical both towards the children and towards me. And if you have questions, you can leave it there and maybe we will publish the answer somewhere. Okay. The question was whether there are special legal obstacles when running a platform that has Miners as a target group. Yes, there are depending on the legislation in the USA. There's copper which regulates stuff like that and really makes something like that hard. It's also the reason why services like that huge Git platform try to lock out Miners. It depends on the legislation in Germany. Miners are able to accept legal terms if there are no negative legal consequences for them. No data sharing, no giving away copyrights, all that stuff. If you do not have that and there are no negative legal consequences, then in Germany and I can only speak for German legislation, this is safe. You also have to make sure that the platform is safe for children, but that's another thing. The question was because the use of Facebook is declining and why we are establishing a service like Facebook then. I don't think that the feature set of Facebook or what it looks like is the most important thing why its use is declining. There was a lot of negative propaganda because of Facebook's terms of use. Everyone knows that. Only a few young people or even adult people know that WhatsApp is the same and everything is just the same basically. But it has that encryption thing they make advertising for. So I don't think it's the features of Facebook that make its use decline. And the second part of the question was, what was it? It's very hard. The children in our organization like to use it and they post actively. It's very hard because there's this peer group thing. You need to start with a small community and then they have to carry over it. We see some children start using it, but we need the schools supporting it in some way. We should discuss this later. Maybe a huge part of it does fit better in the legal deaf room later. So everyone who is interested in the legal side. This will not be a talk by a lawyer, but all the legal stuff will be discussed in the legal deaf room. Thank you for listening.