At our workday on 18. March 2017, we held a workshop together to discuss the goals of the association and their priorities. We wanted to find out which common ideas we will use to orientate our association work in the future and in which goals we will invest the most resources. The individual goals of the association and what is meant with it we would like to introduce briefly today.
## 1. Providing educational institutions with free software and free educational material
Our members have agreed that the dissemination of free software to schools and the distribution of free educational material on our workshop topics should be the top priority. For our work, this now means B. that we will also place great emphasis on the reusability of the material, also when preparing workshops for holiday camps and similar activities. In addition, we focus all our free software development on reusability, help projects that develop free software for education, and bring recommendations and experiences to schools and others.
## 2. Offer online platforms for exchange and communication
As a second priority, we want to offer children and young people an online platform for exchanging information about projects and using free software. This includes our e-mail and Jabber service for children and much more, which is now to be planned.
## 3. Recreational activities and afternoon meetings
As usual, we wanted to continue offering holiday and weekend camps and afternoon meetings where children and young people can learn about computer science, natural sciences and free software. In the future, however, we will pay more attention to sustainability in terms of materials and follow-up projects (see above).
## Awareness and presence at events
We want to actively present all the above goals at events such as trade fairs and conferences and ensure the visibility of free software in education.
