PyConIL 2017 talk about ROSE (short for Red Hat Open Source for Education) which is a cross-community effort lead by Red Hat Israel that brings students from Tira and Ra'anana to the Red Hat offices to learn about the Linux operating system and Python programming.

1. Bringing people together
with Python and Open Source
Ori Rabin
Freddy Rolland

2. ROSE
Red Hat Open Source Education
Exposing kids to open
source and promoting
coding education
Collaboration between
Ra’anana and Tira

3. Course structure
Screening exam
Homework
Laptops with Fedora
Frontal lessons

4. Diversity
Culture
Level of
coding
LanguageGender

5. Obstacles
Language barrier
Holidays & school work
Level of coding
Teenagers

6. Lessons learned
Pairs of students from
each school
Two native Arabic
speaking mentors
Multilanguage
WhatsApp group
Competitions

7. Why Python?
Immediate results
Community
No IDE needed
Professional skill

8. How to make it fun?

9. The car race
https://github.com/emesika/RaananaTiraProject

10. CODE SNIPPET

12. Collaboration
12 kids
7 mentors
4 office managers
3 rooms
2 HR representatives
2 headmasters
2 mayors
2 IT representatives1 site manager
6 presenters 1 head of course
7 code contributors 324 commits

13. Links
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https://github.com/emesika/RaananaTiraProject
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https://opensource.com/education/15/9/open-source-education-israel
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https://www.redhat.com/en/explore/colab
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https://lightbot.com
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http://csunplugged.org/binary-numbers
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http://www.marshmallowchallenge.com

14. Q&A

15. THANK YOU
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