📢 Trainings for the projects of Wikimedia (Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Commons) are ongoing!

📍 So far, four sessions have been held with high school students in Kosovo, where students learned the principles and rules of writing encyclopedic articles.

📝 During this time there will be 8 more sessions after which new Wikipedians will be ready to contribute to the Albanian Wikipedia by creating new articles or improving existing articles.

These trainings are being held in cooperation with Wikimedians of Albanian Language User Group within the ASSET project by Kosova Education Center – KEC.

🤝On October 23, FLOSSK signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with the LUMBARDHI Foundation for the donation of a scanner for the digitization of publications and archives held by this cultural institution in Prizren. FLOSSK has worked on the construction of book scanners in order to make this material available to the public and for further processing of this material by the public.

💡This cooperation will serve for the exchange of knowledge, capacities, and resources for digitalization as well as the provision of materials and publications for free use by the public. FLOSSK and Lumbardhi will cooperate in the digitization of Zëri Newspaper, TAN newspaper, completion of the digital archive of Rilindja Newspaper as well as Jeta e Re, Përparimi and Çevren magazines, which will also be public with free access.

📚We would also like to inform you that the digitized book platform books.flossk.org has been enriched with a total of 50 books from the publishing houses of the time, which are considered orphan works. Other books scanned and edited by volunteers will be constantly added to this platform.

This project was made possible by the Culture for Change program. The project is funded by the European Union, managed by the European Union Kosovo, and implemented by Qendra Multimedia and Goethe-Institut.

Trainings on Arduino and OpenStreetMap with high school students have begun!

During the 2020/2021 period, 16 trainings for each field will be held where Arduino will be presented by using the simulator app TinkerCad, as well as editing on OpenStreetMap will be taught.

The trainings will focus on creating experiments with electronics by students by using microcontrollers, as well as editing on OpenStreetMap.

These trainings are being held within the ASSET project by Kosova Education Center – KEC.

books.flossk.org is a platform that primarily provides opportunities for readers and scholars of the period 1945-1990 to have easy access to the resources of the time. In addition, the platform aims to provide an open and scalable model for the digitization of publications that are hard to reach for the public.

Books on this platform were scanned and edited by groups of volunteers and young students during workshops held with FLOSSK. Currently, the platform has the first 11 books from the 50s written by: Beqir Musliu, Asen Kavaev, Anton Pashku, Rexhep Qosja, Martin Camaj, Adem Demaçi, Anton Çetta, etc.

Other publications of that period are expected to be added on books.flossk.org to create a complete platform where books can be read easily and for free!

This project was made possible by the Culture for Change program. The project is funded by the European Union, managed by the European Union Kosovo, and implemented by Qendra Multimedia and Goethe-Institut.

Thank you to all the speakers, attendees, and FLOSSK team who made #SFK20 possible!
We would like to thank all of our sponsors without whom we wouldn’t have the chance to organize the conference this year. Special thanks to Pixels Productions who helped us with #SFK20 production.

Videos will soon be available online. See you next year!

This conference was supported and sponsored by the Austrian Development Agency, Skins Agency, Frakton, Gjirafa, SWISS EP Albania and by the EEBO Project, which is an EU funded project managed by the European Union Kosovo and implemented by Balkan Green Foundation and Institute for Development Policy (INDEP).