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DFEY – Digital Freedom in Education and Youth – is a group founded to encourage the use of free (as in liberty) software by young people and in schools.
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[edit] Meetings
- Past
- South East IRC Meeting, January 2010
- London, October 2009 (Cancelled)
- London, August 2009 (Young Rewired State 2009)
- Manchester, August 2009
- London, July 2009 (2morro 2009)
- Manchester, April 2009
- Manchester, January 2009
- Manchester, October 2008
- Manchester, August 2008
[edit] Initiatives
Please add anything that you feel may be useful initiatives for the group to undertake.
- Getting free software in to schools
- Reaching out to the community – reaching out "techies" isolated from the rest of the community.
- OpenLAN Party – project to set up a LAN party using entirely free open source software.
- The Open Rights Group - Protecting digital freedoms
[edit] Resources
Please add any useful resources, either as links to other pages, or to other websites.
- Alternative software – free and open source alternatives to proprietary software packages.
- Schools in the north west – a list of schools in the north west, with information about what IT equipment and software they use.
- Schools in the south east – as above, but in the south east.
- Schools in the south west – as above, but in the south west.
- Political resources – places to find information and resources regarding privacy and freedom of young people in the UK.
- Press resources – images and text for use by the media.
- Related groups in the north west – there are several other free software organisations in the north west.
- Related groups in the south east – as above, but in the south east.
- Related groups in the south west – as above, but in the south west.
Useful websites
- Open source schools - Set up by BECTA
- cdrom with Free software for students
- Schoolsforge
- Open Ed
- Growing Up Free - An initiative set up to help promote FLOSS and Linux world-wide. DFEY is listed on their wiki pages here and here.
If you are looking to get involved with Open source projects then the following links may be helpful.
[edit] Communicate
- IRC
- DFEY - #dfey on freenode (Web chat)
- North West - #dfey-nw on freenode (Web chat)
- South East - #dfey-se on freenode (Web chat)
- South West - #dfey-sw on freenode (Web chat)
- DFEY <team@dfey.org> (Ben, Tim, and Robert)
- North West <team@nw.dfey.org> (Ben and Tim)
- South East <team-se@dfey.org> (Isabell and Robert)
- South West <team-sw@dfey.org> (Sam)
- Dogfish (VPS) <dogfishteam@dfey.org> (Ben, Robert, and Tim)
- Mailing lists
- DFEY Discussion (Information • Mailman Archives)
- North West Discussion (Information • Nabble Archives • Mailman Archives)
- North West Administration (Information • Mailman Archives)
- South East Discussion (Information • Mailman Archives)
- South West Discussion (Information • Mailman Archives)
- Social networking
- DFEY Identi.ca Group
- North West Facebook Group
- North West Identi.ca Group
- South East Facebook Group
- South East Identi.ca Group
[edit] Internal
- Dogfish – virtual private server used for group services and as a shared shell server, kindly provided free of charge by BitFolk.
- Website - development and organisation of content for the main website.
- Logo competition - archive of the logo competition held between April and July 2009.
