Design and IT Infrastructure of the YC project

# Main Framework

### Vision

The YOU(th) CARE for Change is a project co-funded by the EU-DEAR Programme, supporting Youths across 12 countries (8 in the EU and 4 extra EU, in the Med Area) in tackling global challenges. From December 2023 to March 2025, it aims to support the engagement of nearly 300 Youth groups who are interested in embracing, sharing and re-framing the CARE for people and the planet. 

Spanning generations, the CARE approach underscores the interdependencies between realities, global challenges, and macro-micro actions, allowing us to connect the dots of our initiatives globally, in contrast to the extractive and often destructive logic of the market. 

The Project will organize online and on-site trainings exploring interdependencies, climate change, human rights and intersectionality, and strengthening our gender perspective. Hundreds of youth aged 14 to 25 will access the YOU(th) CARE Campus, conceived as a platform to design the CARE Toolkit collaboratively. The toolkit will guide youth groups and learning communities in elaborating territorial agendas which will become actions which can be supported by the project through sub-granting and not only: learning initiatives, alternative economic actions, and campaigns at the territorial, national and Mediterranean level. 

### Timetable proposed by Traversées (original tender)

* [Last week of July 2024]: Building up of the digital infrastructure.

> * Setup of a new dedicated server located in Europe (Hetzner or OVH with a hardware profile close to CPU 40 cores, RAM 128Gb, NVMe SSD disks).

> * Setup of a scalable virtualization environment (based on the open technologies Proxmox, KVM, LXC).

> * Configuration of a working digital environment splitted into a production server and a development server, featuring tools for collaboration and code building (Redmine, GIT).

> * Setup of a security backup and server monitoring policy (Zabbix).

* [Weeks 1 and 2 of August 2024]: Coordination and installation of the main core of Moodle, duplicating the configuration of edu.ripess.eu.

> * Briefings with the project’s coordination (identification of contacts, semantic updating of the project, planning).

> * Installation of the core components and extensions of Moodle (internationalization, Big Blue Button, monitoring) using the model built for edu.ripess.eu.

> * Installation and testing of a Big Blue Button/Fair Blue virtual server (or a cluster of servers if it is necessary to host up to 300-400 simultaneous participants).

> * Graphic customization of the Moodle interface according to the existing visuals of the YOU CARE project and other institutional brands.

* [Week 3 of August 2024]: Tests and adaptation of Moodle and first internal learning session for administrators.

> * Customization of the server for a high-performance rendering, able to host more than 1000 users and up to 200 video conferencing participants (caching, optimization of SQL, PHP, Apache/Nginx, eventually load balancing and multi-servers).

> * Installation of a Big Blue Button streaming extension, to be connected with the open video server Peertube.

> * Installation of a self-hosted Peertube video server (with a high performance configuration).

> * Configuration of a Moodle’s common extension for users’ monitoring and statistics.

* [Month 9-12 of 2024]: Training and enhancement of the platform to an assembly functionality

> * Feasibility of creating a task group of facilitators of the platform.

> * Installation and testing of a forum/assembly functionality, based on Matrix (instant messaging integrated to Moodle 4.3), or Discourse (advanced community forum and knowledge base).

> * Development of missing or additional functionalities; improvement of graphic templates.

> * Trainings of the project’s coordination (and eventually the facilitators group).

* [Month 1-6 of 2025]: Reporting, training and supervision of the platform

> * First report based on statistics, shared contents in the platform and emerging interactions.

> * Supervision and maintenance of the platform (core and components optimization, security checking).

> * Activation of the participative assembly module (March 2025).

> * Trainings and a working group of the project’s coordination (and eventually the facilitators group).

* [Month 6-12 of 2025]: Reporting, training and supervision of the platform

> * Second report based on statistics, shared contents and emerging interactions.

> * Trainings of the project coordination (and eventually the facilitators group).

> * Maintenance of the platform (core and components update, security checking).

* [2026-2027]: Reporting, training and supervision of the platform.