Hi all This is not relevant to DebConf orga, but I don't want you to feel left out, so please be aware that I am working on the ShowMeBox, and currently asking people to help me design the competition.
The email I am sending them is below. Cheers B ___________________________________________________ Subject: Advice requested: Designing a open data analytics competition targeted to high school students Hi We are designing a competition targeted at high school students, involving (Free and Open Source) software (Debian) and hardware. The ShowMeBox is a competition that uses software and open source hardware to visualize data relevant to the participants. It is designed to promote Debian and the art of open data analytics. We are currently working on the technical aspects of the competition, but I need input on how best to design the user-facing part of the competition, what the students will see, how they will interact with us, how we will reach them, what issues to consider, how best to pitch it to high school students, etc. We were thinking of having a long running competition, but the advice I have received so far is to have a short competition -no longer than one day. We hope to start the marketing of the competition before the end of the year, and we need the competition to end, with prize giving, during the international Debian Developers Conference held in Cape Town next year - DebConf16 - around 2 July 2016. We are at this stage considering about 300 entrants, but this is flexible either way. More information can be found here: https://wiki.debian.org/ShowMeBox Could you please let me know if you are willing to help, with an indication of costs (if any - we are all volunteers, but willing to commit funds to this to do it right), and if you can't assist, if you can recommend other people, or resources, books, websites... best regards Bernelle Verster (indiebio) _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
