[FOSDEM] Fosdem Junior experience

[Andriy Utkin]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 09:22:31AM +0200, Dominik George wrote:
> I didn't want to, but now that the idea came up that FOSDEM Junior will teach children about freedom and openness:
> 
> In the last years, FOSDEM Junior required registration on a hostile platform that had tons of trackers and wanted to share all sorts of information with a few hundred "partners" that "value the privacy" of the children, and some workshops required children to use an Apple or Google smartphone.
> 
> Most workshops use free software, but still require registration with the hostile, commercialised platform, and openness definitely does not appear to be a priority at FOSDEM Junior.
> 
> Teckids offered help, but we never heard back from FOSDEM.

I think this is an undeservedly negative view. I would even say
dishonest.

I go there
https://codeclub.org/en/clubs/c0468f47-a1a4-43b6-b7f0-170a7d98b30c
I click "Use necessary cookies only", I get two cookies: from the domain
and from consentcdn.cookiebot.com.

"some workshops required children to use an Apple or Google smartphone"
- yes, MIT App Inventor is a project which allowed my kid to create a
mobile app, it's the outcome of FOSDEM they're most proud. I guess it
would work on rooted phone or an Android VM, but, really? You're against
*that*?
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