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2016 年 10月 1 日 Firefox 学生マーケティングチームは、 秘密結社オープンフォース との協力で「 CookHack #1 〜火狐(フォクすけ)とパイを焼きまくれ！〜 」をMozilla Factory Space で開催します。

Raspberry Piで制御する石窯でラズベリーパイ を焼くイベントで、Raspberry Piをつかった石窯の制御がメイントピックですが、Firefox 学生マーケティングチームのメンバーが、参加者に Firefox の活用 Tips や Web、OSS など日頃の活動内容の発表します。

Mozilla Japan has been been working on Web literacy education for students. In 2016, we will start our new “Youth Program“ for Mozilla Factory.

On March 26th and 27th, we held a pilot workshop designed for high school and university students to learn basic Web App development, which covers HTML, CSS, JavaScript and GitHub.

Participants learn and built a development environment on their PCs on 26th. They created GitHub accounts and downloaded a sample program from GitHub. Then, they edit the program, undo the changes and commit the change to GitHub. After leaning how to use GitHub, participants used a local Web server and Firefox browser to confirm the action of their Web Apps. At the end of the day, participants are able to deploy play music button, change speed button, or jump to specific position buttons on their Web apps.

On 27th, participants developed to add a function to the sample Web apps. For example, play list, thumbnail, slider bars to adjust audio, Special UI using kinect and a lot more function were developed by participants.

On March 12th, Mozilla Japan provided a workshop about Online Privacy to EBA IT Fieldwork participants at Mozilla Factory Space in Tokyo.

EBA is an university consortium in Asia which develops human resources needed in the area. IT fieldwork in Tokyo is one of their program. During the fieldwork, participants designed and implemented a Web based service for online education. There are about 25 students from, Indonesia, Thai, Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia, Myanmar and Japan participated the program.

Online privacy workshop is designed by Mozilla Japan for those IT fieldwork participants to know and discuss with others about user’s privacy and how to deal with personal information on their Web services.

The workshop started from a lecture about Mozilla’s activity(Encryption, tracking protection and more), history of privacy rights, concept of “Privacy by Design” and recent news about online privacy. Also, discussed about “What is privacy in your mother tongue?“ to develop the common image of online privacy among participants. In most countries in Asia do not have a own word for Privacy in English. From that point, participants realized that privacy itself is a new concept for our society.

After the lecture, participants discussed in a group about their own Web services. They changed their design of services not to track user activity without agreement,  get minimum information, and not to store personal information on the servers.

On February 6, MDN Localisation Hands-on was held  in Mozilla Japan office, and　we had participated it. Community members, who actually localizing Mozilla’s MDN, supported and advised participants as tutors.　A lot of people who have interest in translation, activities of Mozilla participated the event.

During the event, we've formed a 2 groups, such as beginners and others. Each participant chooses documents from MDN and localised them.

At the end of the event,　participants who finished their work showed their contribution, problems in their works, interpretation of English sentences or comments.

 I, as a beginner, also had a fun, because there are short documents good for beginners and supports from tutors.

Firefox Student marketing team participated a community meeting about online privacy. This is translated version of their blog post. Original article(JP) http://fxstudent.tumblr.com/post/138128552252/on-line-privacy-meeting -------------------------- Hi, this is Kubota. On Sunday, January 24, we attended the  "community meeting on online privacy.” Though it was my first time meeting most of the people there, they were all very nice and we were able to get along very fast.

The agenda included a sharing of results from a “survey on privacy awareness,” and then brainstorming for ideas based on the results to think where and how we should put more effort to raise people’s privacy awareness.  

We first got a short presentation describing what online tracking is and how it affects our privacy. Then, after a brief discussion as a whole, we broke up into 4 groups to discuss the topic further. Each group came up with quite interesting ideas, so I want to share these with you today.  

The first group focused their discussions on “tracking.” All members of the group agreed on a consensus that though we don’t really wan’t people tracking us, it’s negotiable if it brings us benefits. However, they thought people aren’t aware of the potential dangers of tracking. They came to the conclusion that, to make people more aware, we should write out these potential dangers of tacking in “short and simple” descriptions. With this, we can convey the pros and cons of tracking, and prevent online incidents from happening.

The second group’s opinion: “most people already know that it will do harm if they don’t take privacy measures, so we need to provide these people who don’t know what exactly to do with the right information.” To do this, we can make and distribute a small booklet that carefully describes some measures that they can start taking on the spot. We can also use the Moz Bus to campaign privacy measures, along with the popularization of the Firefox OS.

Group 3: “we need to target elementary and middle school kids at the entrance of the Internet, and teach the basics of the web (including privacy) so that they have literacy once they start using it.” In the discussion, another interesting point came out: “focusing on children is a good idea, but often their parents don’t have a good understanding of online privacy neither.” Therefore, this group decided to target not only schoolchildren, but also their parents. To do this, they thought up of a workshop that we can hold at the Mozilla office where kids can come join with their parents. The workshop will take a jack-in-the-box-approach, where participants are asked to enter information into a prepared website. After this, they will get a first-hand experience on how much their personal information is at risk. We hope we can show features on their browsers so that these users can benefit from a Internet experience, including privacy,  that best fits their needs.

Group 4 also discussed about materials that we can make to raise privacy awareness. From the survey results, we saw that there was a large population of people who understood the risk of online privacy, but didn’t take any measures to prevent harm. Therefore this group came up with materials that we can use to let people know of actual measures that they can take. They targeted high school students, since these kids can then share the knowledge to their friends and family. The program will teach these students about the importance of privacy through workshops and online sites that cover topics such as location information and tracking. Since just providing them with information would have little adhesion, this group thought up of an app where students can learn about privacy “the hard way.”  The interactive app will use location information to let them experience its potential dangers. This group also had ideas of using media such as train ads and manga to raise awareness. I really hope some of these ideas will become reality.