[00:00.000 --> 00:12.120]  Bonjour. It's a great honor to be present among you. I'm sorry, I speak English like an average
[00:12.120 --> 00:22.560]  French. And I asked, obviously, I asked chat GPT and Google Translate to write me my speech,
[00:22.560 --> 00:30.040]  so if it doesn't work for you, it's the algorithm fault, obviously. My name is Alexis
[00:30.040 --> 00:36.680]  Kaufman and I'm going to present to you a forge project for all teachers and students in France.
[00:36.680 --> 00:47.480]  So a forge project that foes them, so what? Nothing less original. But three points in
[00:47.480 --> 00:54.600]  which, in my opinion, distinguish this forge from other classical forges. Users are teachers and
[00:54.600 --> 01:06.760]  K-12 students, so up to 18 years old for school, not for the university. Share content is educational,
[01:06.760 --> 01:15.600]  pedagogical content and is more text in a mock-up language than code. And last but not least,
[01:15.600 --> 01:28.640]  the project is supported by the French state. A few words about me. Basically, I've been a high
[01:28.640 --> 01:36.480]  school math teacher for 25 years, but also a kind of free software activist having founded
[01:36.480 --> 01:46.560]  Fremontoft 20 years ago, a non-profit organization mainly focused on free software valorization.
[01:46.560 --> 01:55.440]  And for years, we hoped, we, Fremontoft, we hoped for a real free software policy in
[01:55.440 --> 02:04.080]  French education and elsewhere and worldwide, obviously. But that did not real come. I remember
[02:04.080 --> 02:12.160]  10 years ago, as a president of Fremontoft, I wrote an article titled, My Ministry Drives Me
[02:12.160 --> 02:19.480]  to Despair, where I said this, either my ministry doesn't know that free software exists and then
[02:19.480 --> 02:27.760]  it is irresponsible and incompetent, or it knows it and does nothing and then it is guilty. By having
[02:27.760 --> 02:34.600]  such remarks publicly, you can well imagine that I would never have thought of funding myself
[02:34.600 --> 02:41.920]  one day in the ministry. But today times have changed. I was invited to join the ministry a year
[02:41.920 --> 02:48.600]  ago and I accepted the challenge. This is the first time that there is such a free software and
[02:48.600 --> 02:57.160]  open educational resources project manager in the institution and quite high in the organization
[02:57.160 --> 03:07.080]  chart. And I think it's a good sign. Another good sign, we don't just use free software,
[03:07.080 --> 03:13.960]  we also contribute. For example, we found a development for the open source video conferencing
[03:13.960 --> 03:28.320]  to Big Blue Button and it's unusual to read this in a project repose. And we contribute to other
[03:28.320 --> 03:41.280]  free software projects like NextCloud, Future, or Moodle. So another positive move, this project,
[03:41.280 --> 03:51.080]  it responds to two needs expressed by the teachers. The first is a classic one. We are nearly a
[03:51.080 --> 03:59.400]  million teachers in France and among them there are those who develop free software
[03:59.400 --> 04:07.200]  application for education and some of which have a great potential. But all these projects are
[04:07.200 --> 04:15.360]  scattered and it is difficult to spot them and then it's difficult to support them. And for ethical
[04:15.360 --> 04:24.720]  and GDPR reasons, we cannot also tell our teachers to go to Microsoft GitHub. So let's bring them
[04:24.720 --> 04:35.160]  together in a sovereign and secure space. And as we have computers courses from high school now
[04:35.160 --> 04:44.880]  in France, this also concerns students. First need, the second need corresponds to new users.
[04:44.880 --> 04:54.240]  Here we share a lot more formatted text, markdown, latech, then code to create educational content
[04:54.240 --> 05:07.640]  together. And here we create content in the dark mode image which will then be pushed into web
[05:07.640 --> 05:20.520]  pages, print PDF, or Jupyter Notebook. By using the pages function of the force, you can work
[05:20.520 --> 05:28.840]  collaboratively on the force to produce web pages, web sites with quality educational content as in
[05:28.840 --> 05:35.640]  this project with computer science teachers. And you can do this without leaving the web
[05:35.640 --> 05:48.000]  environment, without knowing Gitpush, et cetera. Another example in continuous, CI,
[05:48.000 --> 06:00.920]  continuous integration, we can also push markdown text into a pretty mind map as a
[06:00.920 --> 06:10.800]  philosophy teacher suggests here, just to emphasize that it's not just science teacher who work this
[06:10.800 --> 06:23.040]  way. So two needs expressed by teachers for a force of code and text. So let's do it. And the
[06:23.040 --> 06:31.080]  force already exists as a, as a POC, as a proof of concept since last September with 200 projects,
[06:31.080 --> 06:41.000]  300 accounts. It's a GitLab instance powered by a French P platform as a service, Claver Cloud,
[06:41.000 --> 06:48.280]  who have a stand here at FOSDEM. And administered by the Association of Teachers Association,
[06:48.280 --> 06:58.200]  the Association of Computer Science Teacher of France, the A-E-E-F. The big news just from
[06:58.200 --> 07:06.920]  10 days ago is that the project has been validated by the ministry, which has integrated it into
[07:06.920 --> 07:19.640]  its big strategy, the digital strategy for education 2023-2027. So the prototype force will
[07:19.640 --> 07:28.560]  join the IT services of the ministry. I cannot give you more details because the project is just
[07:28.560 --> 07:39.200]  beginning, so no roadmap, et cetera. But we have at least five years to move forward. To move
[07:39.200 --> 07:47.840]  forward and convince of its interest more and more teachers and students. This is the big challenge.
[07:47.840 --> 07:57.720]  Succeed in enlarging the cycle of users. This will require support, training,
[07:57.720 --> 08:07.160]  animation, and promotion of the projects submitted. Here you can see a quick and dirty
[08:07.160 --> 08:14.520]  swap analysis. The most important thing for me is that the project is supported by the
[08:14.520 --> 08:25.640]  institution and that it has values close to an event like the FOSDEM. So I have just one minute.
[08:25.640 --> 08:38.280]  Okay. So I don't detail the strengths, opportunities, or weaknesses. So thank you. I came to FOSDEM
[08:38.280 --> 08:45.640]  to present this project, but also despite my terrible level of English to discuss and see if
[08:45.640 --> 08:53.240]  other countries, other ministry of education in Europe, for instance, are engaged in similar
[08:53.240 --> 09:04.720]  projects to pool and share our experiences. Okay. Don't hesitate to talk about it around you if you
[09:04.720 --> 09:10.480]  think the project is interesting. And thank you very much for your attention.
[09:10.480 --> 09:40.440]  Thanks for your attention. If there is anyone who has a question,
[09:40.440 --> 09:50.960]  is there anyone who has a question in French, in English, also in chat GPT language?
[09:50.960 --> 10:06.000]  No, but if we have them, I can read with you a first list of positive points and some risks.
[10:06.000 --> 10:17.560]  So obviously the main thing is that it's an institutional project that carries values,
[10:17.560 --> 10:24.120]  openness, sharing ethics, sovereignty. So sovereignty is important here and sustainability. It
[10:24.120 --> 10:31.320]  encourages teachers and students to work together and so increase digital and computer skills,
[10:31.320 --> 10:40.280]  I think. And by gathering our force, join the force in the same place, it's easier to make
[10:40.280 --> 10:51.600]  community and obtain means. It's easier to ask money. And doing so, I hope we will have a big,
[10:51.600 --> 11:01.240]  a large bank of open educational content with free license and available to the entire school
[11:01.240 --> 11:12.040]  community. There is also a point with what in France we call it sobriété numérique,
[11:12.040 --> 11:22.600]  digital sobriété. I think it's not a good translation, but because we use light and open
[11:22.600 --> 11:31.040]  format, we can work offline. It's improved the existing rather than beginning from scratch,
[11:31.040 --> 11:46.760]  et cetera, et cetera. And important with the project for us is comments. So its governance
[11:46.760 --> 11:51.960]  and policy is shared with the users. That's very important because we did a lot of projects,
[11:51.960 --> 11:58.680]  a lot of top-down projects in the French Ministry of Education. These want to be more horizontal.
[11:58.680 --> 12:08.200]  Not very expensive, but at the beginning, but if there are more and more users with CICD,
[12:08.200 --> 12:20.280]  it can be different. And the threats, maybe it's a too complex tool for teachers and students
[12:20.280 --> 12:29.400]  if you want more and more users. So great needs for documentation, training, community
[12:29.400 --> 12:40.880]  animation. And convicts, great teachers who are already on forges to migrate to our force.
[12:40.880 --> 12:47.760]  That's a point because super teachers are already on Github, for instance.
[12:47.760 --> 12:56.800]  A couple of stuff. This is not clear. If the content belongs to the agents or the teacher
[12:56.800 --> 13:09.080]  or to the states, there is a thing to... And the evolution of GitLab offer and the competition
[13:09.080 --> 13:19.520]  with Microsoft Github, with Copilot, and cetera with more and more new functions. Voila.
[13:19.520 --> 13:42.160]  Thank you.