 Hi, I'm Bonnie Merring from the Free Software Foundation Europe, and I have five minutes to present you packing for freedom to you This is due to me because I'm a very last late approach and Yeah, it's a bit of my Pult, but I'm very happy the Boston people made this possible for me to present you packing for freedom coding competition to you so What's it all about? Well you packing for freedom is a programming competition for teenagers have a come to it the Eligibility criteria in a second basically You develop your own project in a period of six months and in those periods you work on this project By yourself or in a team you can always ask for help and they have no limitations to the project ideas We know this is quite a challenge and we are always happy to help with Coming up of a project idea and you can always approach us during this time The only Requirement is that it needs to be free software in the end So you need to publish it and they're free software license We always help with this as well. So if you have questions about licensing you can always approach us and Yeah, that's basically the idea of you packing for freedom and now I come to the Eligibility criterias and who can actually participate. I think not all of you are in this age area But you might know people who are our teachers. So feel free to share the information Yeah, people between 14 and 18 can't participate From Europe not just the you you don't need citizenship. You need to live here So also refugees are welcome to participate Sadly, we cannot help a part there in this case, but maybe the local hexpace can help out And you don't as I already said you don't need to have the European citizenship. So Be free to share this information as I now see a bit of older phrases than 14 and This is where they can register and you find all this information also on you packing for freedom dot org And now about the programming period it already started for this year But we will have the next year as well and we are still open for late registration So people can actually participate or join us during the whole time of the coding period Then they just don't have that much time as the others. So and we know that we take this a bit into account Yeah, and they are already around 90 people who have joined up for this year's coding competition so usually some of them drop out during the six months period and Yeah This is how the period looks like and during this time we have monthly calls So we try to give them some input about free software about how you actually work on projects there's an expert from our sherry who tells them more about the whole topic of get for example Which is quite a lot in possession or how to actually do licensing so we are always there We are approachable and in those monthly calls The teenagers also have the possibility to actually talk to each other in breakout rooms To chat with each other and to connect to other young people from all over Europe Who are actually also interested in programming and free software, which I heard from some participants from the last two Rounds that this is really Amazing thing because they are actually building friendships all across Europe and then they visit each other and they form teams and they collaborate so it's really the spirit of free software in it and Yeah, that's one of the things that we offer monthly calls every month We have this and we have of course also a lot of other communication channels where they can talk with each other and Yeah, as I already mentioned we help with legal and licensing question general question motivation You don't help with the programming, but they are always like it's free software So they in the spirit of free software It's helpful for them to ask others and they are welcome to get help if they need it from their teachers from some other resources, so it's not about they working on their own and If they are stuck they are stuck so we try to help as much as we can and It's mostly about the fun. It's mostly about this and this is very important for us And that's what we try to keep alive with them on flea meetings now for the prices so The this is really important for the youngsters and I know that So as much as there's fun involved and as much there's programming involved We also have some pretty much nice prices as I would say the first place can get four thousand euros the second place two thousand and Third to sixth place still get one thousand euros There's the there are three special prices that we award is for example for people from a war zone people from Who are really young and to participate? Yeah, and that's how the sherry then Gives out the prices and invalids project after the programming period and that's what I get and Yeah, you can follow us on social media That's basically it and I'm pretty much on time. I have one minute for question For questions if there is any question here's again the registration link and Yeah No questions perfect. I'm at the FSFE booth around there So if you want to approach me there and get more information get stickers get posters Come to building K level two