The organisers have agreed to let us have a booth, run demonstrations of KDE Edu software and run workshops for teachers, students, etc.

We have to submit our proposals and a machine-translated version of the rules follow:

EduCode is the first edition of an annual international conference dedicated to education, practice and research in digital-related fields. It is the result of a collaboration between different key digital players in Belgium.

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• Inform - August 27th will be devoted to the organization of exhibitions, round tables and conferences open to the general public.
• Training - On 28 August, workshops will be held for teachers and children to exchange ideas and demonstrate their skills.
• Reflect - August 29 will be devoted to organizing conferences and research presentations.

*Call for papers*

(download)

Poster" format for the day of August 27th.

The posters will be displayed during the day of August 27th and will have to be registered in one of the following themes:

• Report of pedagogical experience conducted with a class or presentation of innovative tools.
• Building a resource, content or tool.

The posters will respect the available format. They will describe at a minimum the context, description and contribution of the experience, tool, resource or content. Posters should be anonymized and reviewed by a member of the scientific committee.

Workshop" format for the day of August 28.

Contributions must fall within one of the following themes:

• Report of pedagogical experience conducted with a class or presentation of innovative tools. The workshop will be presented in 45 minutes and reproduced at least twice during the day.
• Building a resource, content or tool. The workshop will be presented in 90 minutes and reproduced at least twice during the day.

Contributions (2 pages) will follow the available format. They will describe at a minimum the context, description and contribution of the experience, tool, resource or content. Contributions must be anonymized and will be reviewed by at least two members of the Scientific Committee.

Articles" format (in French or English) for the day of August 29.

Contributions should relate high-quality research and address a research question related to one of the following topics:

• Computer education
• Teaching Computer Thinking
• Digital education/culture
• Digital literacy
• Learning analytics (Analytique de l'apprentissage)
• Competency repositories and curricula
• Teacher training
• Offline teaching
• Evaluation
  
  Contributions, in the form of a short article (up to 5 pages), will respect the available format.

They must be anonymised and will be reviewed by at least three members of the Scientific Committee. On August 29, the articles will be presented in 30 minutes. The proceedings of the symposium will be freely published.

I think the "Poster" submission refers to demonstrations and "Workshop"... well, is for workshops. In both cases the topic would probably be "Building a resource, content or tool", for which things like GCompris is ideal, since it allows teachers to create games for the platform. At our booth and in the demonstration it looks like we will be able to show other applications, such as KAlgebra, Kalzium, Minuet, etc.

EDIT: Just realised there is an English version. I am not clever man.

Nice that they agreed.

I still need to read the rules carefully to decide what to propose.
About what you said about GCompris allowing teachers to create games for the platform, it's not so straight forward yet. Activities need to be coded, and even if it's relatively easy coding, very few teachers are up to do that.
However we do plan in the future to have most activities customizable easily again, once we have the administration part done. But that is far from ready, so it's way too early to do something on this topic.

So for now I think I would also aim for the workshop format on presentation of innovative tools.

About what you said about GCompris allowing teachers to create games for the platform, it's not so straight forward yet.

What about changing the contents of existing games? Can that be done? Say, changing the images of the cards in the memory game...

That can not be done yet without recompiling the software, and this is exactly part of the features we want to provide on the administration tool.

So it is something worth mentioning but as a feature that will be available in future versions, correct?

Yes it can eventually be mentioned quickly as something that is planned in the future, but better focus mostly on what is already available.

Progress today: Filled in a form requesting a booth at the event.

@apol and @timotheegiet: Would you like to sign up for a workshop each on KAlgebra and GCompris? The form to do so is here.

Is there anybody else I should approach that may be interested?

Thanks paulb for the booth request.
I think doing demo on the booth is the best thing to do for GCompris.

About the workshops on 28th, I'm still not sure if I won't have something conflicting for this date...
Also I see as requirement for the workshops. "Tout le matériel pédagogique fourni sera librement et immédiatement réutilisable, adaptable et redistribuable", but since we sell the full version of GCompris on proprietary operating systems, it may be a little ambiguous for this.

In T8122#145011, @timotheegiet wrote:

Thanks paulb for the booth request.
I think doing demo on the booth is the best thing to do for GCompris.

We'll have several things we want to demo in the booth: GCompris and other KDE Edu applications.

About the workshops on 28th, I'm still not sure if I won't have something conflicting for this date...

If you want, we can prepare it together and, if you can't do it, I'll do it. The opportunity is too good to let it pass. We can start now and coordinate and work out the kinks live at Akademy.

Also I see as requirement for the workshops. "Tout le matériel pédagogique fourni sera librement et immédiatement réutilisable, adaptable et redistribuable", but since we sell the full version of GCompris on proprietary operating systems, it may be a little ambiguous for this.

But GCompris itself is available for free and under a free license for all platforms, right? As long as the application (GCompris) is free, as in freedom there is no problem. The proprietary platform is not part of the "matériel pédagogique".

We'll have several things we want to demo in the booth: GCompris and other KDE Edu applications.

Yes, of course I hope to see the other KDE Edu apps in demo there ;)

If you want, we can prepare it together and, if you can't do it, I'll do it. The opportunity is too good to let it pass. We can start now and coordinate and work out the kinks live at Akademy.

Ok, then I'll propose something.

But GCompris itself is available for free and under a free license for all platforms, right?

The code and assets are under a free license of course, but the binaries of the full version are not available for free on all platforms, as I said we sell them for proprietary systems (win/android/apple).
Only the demo with 2/3 of the activities is available for free there.

But sure, we can prepare something based on the activities available in the demo.. Or also show the other activities but then insist on the fact people should use GNU/Linux if they want those for free.

The code and assets are under a free license of course, but the binaries of the full version are not available for free on all platforms, as I said we sell them for proprietary systems (win/android/apple).

Only the demo with 2/3 of the activities is available for free there.

I did not know this. But, two things,

1. Is the source code for all platforms available for free?

2. By what you say, the source code and binaries for Linux are FLOSS and free as in beer, correct?

I did not know this. But, two things,

1. Is the source code for all platforms available for free?

Source is the same for all platforms, so yes.

2. By what you say, the source code and binaries for Linux are FLOSS and free as in beer, correct?

Correct, the installers we provide for GNU/Linux and the packages from distributions have the full version without any restriction.

So all "versions" are still free software, i.e. freely distributable. You don't have anything to worry about @timotheegiet.

Good then :)

Workshop proposed.

Title:
Découverte et utilisation de GCompris
Description:
Atelier de découverte des activités et fonctionnalités du logiciel libre GCompris.

Excellent

@apol, you want to do something generic about KDE Edu or KAlgebra?

@timotheegiet: your talk is on the 28th at 13:30, Cyberclass 2- Looking forward to it.

Hi,
So now I'm sure I won't be able to attend at those dates, too bad.

@paulb if you're still ready to replace me there, I would be grateful.
If you confirm that I'll send a note to the organizers.
I will also not be able to be at Akademy, so we need to prepare this online.
I can prepare in the coming days a list of points to show and tell during the workshop.
And you can give the email support@gcompris.net for those who have some more questions in french or in english... (you don't speak french, right?)

In T8122#152612, @timotheegiet wrote:

Hi,
So now I'm sure I won't be able to attend at those dates, too bad.

Ah! That is bad news.

@paulb if you're still ready to replace me there, I would be grateful.

I think it is not a good idea to back out now.

If you confirm that I'll send a note to the organizers.

Please do that.

I will also not be able to be at Akademy, so we need to prepare this online.
I can prepare in the coming days a list of points to show and tell during the workshop.

Great. I will get up to speed with GCompris.

And you can give the email support@gcompris.net for those who have some more questions in french or in english... (you don't speak french, right?)

I do not, no.

Minutes from today's meeting:

Goals

Long term

• Encourage schools to use KDE Edu applications in the classroom
• Open a channel with teachers, students and parents so we can receive a continuous flow of feedback regarding to what they would like to see included
• Obtain backing from official institutions to develop the KDE Edu suite further

At the event

Booth

• Attract attendees to our booth
• Have users try out KDE Edu apps
• Collect Feedback
• Collect contact information from information to follow up

Workshop

• Introduce attendees to GCompris
• Field questions and discussions

Stuff we need

• Stickers/pins > @tcanabrava is going to look into creating pins. @apol will ask for stickers (from Petra?)
• A monitor on a stand (rent it?) > @paulb will look into see who can rent this to us and for how much
• List of Educational applications up to par > @tcanabrava has a list. We need to share it here and split it into subjects (maths, history, music, language learning, etc.)
• Give links to attendees (How? QRs? Printed list of applications? Disks?)
• @apol said we need to push to bring some of the applications' websites up to scratch so they are fit for visits from attendees

Budget

• Each attendee to the talk will look into travel and accommodation costs and anything else they need and bring it together into one estimate to present to the board

@timotheegiet: Did you manage to speak to the event organisers? I am happy to run the workshop for you.

@paulb : Not yet, I was waiting a few days to see if others would be able to help. But since no one else volunteered, I'll contact them this week-end to say you will replace me to run the workshop.
I'll also try to get the workshop plan and notes for you done this week-end.
Thank you again!

In T8122#153560, @timotheegiet wrote:

@paulb : Not yet, I was waiting a few days to see if others would be able to help. But since no one else volunteered, I'll contact them this week-end to say you will replace me to run the workshop.
I'll also try to get the workshop plan and notes for you done this week-end.
Thank you again!

No problem. Things are coming together.

Stuff we need

• Monitor @adridg will bring one (24", HDMI & DVI)

@paulb : so as you probably saw I did contact the organizers last week-end to tell them, and forwarded to your mail.
I also just finished preparing the plan text for the workshop, I sent it to you by mail too.

In T8122#153840, @timotheegiet wrote:

@paulb : so as you probably saw I did contact the organizers last week-end to tell them, and forwarded to your mail.
I also just finished preparing the plan text for the workshop, I sent it to you by mail too.

Yes, I saw. I'll study your plan with GCompris open and get in touch if I have any questions. Thank you @timotheegiet.

More info about booth and exhibition:

Text says:

Location of the exhibition

BOZAR - rue Ravenstein 23, 1000 Brussels
Room: Horta Hall

Assembly and disassembly

Editing: For those who wish, you can come Sunday 26 August between 18h and 21h to start setting up the stands. Otherwise, meet Monday August 27 at 7am (to be ready to 8h30). If you come before 8am you will have to return by the Rue des Sols. After 8am you can access at Horta Hall through the main entrance.

Dismantling: Monday 27 August before 23h00.

Exhibition schedule

The exhibition will be held throughout the day and will be accessible to all Educode participants, as well as than to the general public. The exhibition will begin on Monday 27 August at 9 am and will end at 8.30 pm.

Most Educode participants will visit the exhibition during the two coffee breaks (10h30 and 16h), lunch break (12h30 to 14h), and before the concert (18h30 to 20h30). All breaks will take place in the Horta Hall.

Your stand (6m2)

Each stand includes:

1 table of 1m80
2 chairs
2 panels (85cm wide by 2m high)
1 multiple socket for electricity
1 free Wifi Educode access

Insurance

The organizers do not take any insurance relating to your goods on the stand, take care of you cover if necessary.

Conferences

Exhibitors may attend the conferences but must register in advance and pay the registration fee. Click on this link to register:

http://brussel.iticketsro.com/Bozar/search/EDUCODE

Questions?

If you have any special requests, please do not hesitate to contact us.