Hi Felipe, Good news! We have settled on dates for the trip, if all goes well we should be in Sao Paulo the week of the 4th of April. Will be very cool to see you : )
I'd like to introduce you to Smitha, who will take care of the coordination and organization of the trip details. Xavier. On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 19:16 +0100, Xavier Antoviaque wrote: > Hi Felipe, > > Woops, your email went to the wrong folder - sorry for the late answer. > > On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 15:06 -0300, Felipe Sanches wrote: > > > > There are some people at IDEC (the brazilian institute for defense of > > counsumer rights) that are friendly to us. We need to talk to them. > > But I still think that passing a law involvimg technology is often a > > difficult thing to do. > > It definitely is. You've had many more successes on that side than in > France over the last 8 years, though : ) > > > well... some of my perceptions are in my blog. For instance, read this > > blogpost about Metalab, a hackerspace in Vienna: > > http://jucablues.blogspot.com/2010/12/pinball-hacking-in-vienna-i-am.html > > Thanks for the link. > > Nice blog btw - programming the laser (the one for display, not for > cutting ;p) must have been pretty fun : ) > > > Alright. Maybe we could try to synchronize the dates with our > > trip? Is > > there anything we could to to help with the organization of > > the contest? > > > > well... one possibility is sponsoring prizes for the contest. It would > > be awesome! > > We are still small so we can't spend much with non-vital stuff, but I > can try to discuss it. Do you already have a prize or a budget in mind? > > > Also, I'd like to have some feedback on the contest rules. Do you > > think it is a good ruleset? Any advice on how to make it better? > > You have a pretty good base, especially license-wise. Do you expect a > lot of participants? The more participants, the more constraints it puts > on the judging (you may have to have several phases of selection). > > It's good to encourage new concepts and upstream contribution with > points, I like that : ) Maybe could be worth expliciting how the points > would be calculated too, to allow competitor to put an adequate amount > of efforts, knowing its value for the contest. > > You can also have a look at Mozilla Game On contest rules for some > details that you may want to integrate: > https://gaming.mozillalabs.com/fineprint . I wish they had put the same > type of rules as you on the licensing part, but other than that they > covered the grounds well. > > Ah, also - it's probably not for the contest rules and it depends on the > number of participants too, but it's very nice when those who lose get > some feedback on what was good/wrong with their entry. > > > My friend likes the idea. LEt me know when you figure out the date of > > your trip and I'll contact him again to schedule a presentation of > > April. > > I definitely will. > > > I guess you could publish a call for developers in one of the free > > software magazines/websites. You could try LinuxMagazine > > (translation/adaptation of the german magazine), BR-Linux (a news > > website), and RevistaEspiritoLivre (an online only monthly magazine). > > Very good idea - thanks for the names of the magazines! > > Xavier. > > _______________________________________________ Farsides mailing list - [email protected] Wiki: http://farsides.com/ List: http://farsides.com/ml/ Forum: http://farsides.com/forum/ Ideas: http://farsides.com/ideas/ Chat: http://farsides.com/chat/
