No-one interested? On 3 February 2012 15:18, Heiki "Repentinus" Ojasild <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I proposed organizing a student essay competition on Free Software and > Open Standards topics. > > The original letter to the DFD mailing list: >> I would like to propose organizing an essay competition for European >> high school students on Free Software and Open Standards issues. This >> would have several benefits: it would encourage people to think about >> Free Software and Open Standards; it would expose more young people to >> the issues of Free Software and Open Standards (I am of the opinion >> that educational institutions would rather advertise a student essay >> competition than distribute, say, FSFE leaflets); it would popularize >> Free Software; we would probably get new good texts to promote Open >> Standards and Free Software; if we announced the winners on the DFD >> using an Open Standard, we would celebrate it in a very suitable >> fashion and would further publicize the DFD. >> >> I am now going to propose some ideas that could be developed into >> topics if you agree it is a good idea. >> -> What am I going to do on the DFD to advance Open Standards and >> promote Free Software?/What would my ideal DFD experience be? >> -> What should be done to promote Open Standards? >> -> What am I going to do to ensure that my government will use open >> document formats? >> -> Open standards vs proprietary specifications >> >> Should you agree that such an activity would be nice, we would have to >> act pretty fast. If we wanted to announce the winners on the DFD, the >> deadline for sending essays would have to be the 14th of March at the >> latest and we would probably want to give people at least a month to >> think and write. We would probably have to have our volunteers contact >> the national ministries of education and media at least another week >> in advance. Which means, that should we agree to do this, we would >> have to have everything decided by the 7th of February. > > Following deliberation on the df-coordination@, we have come to the > agreement that it would be better to organize a blog post competition > and we should stick to a small number of countries (like 3) this year > due tto time constraints. Thus, as I would be able to coordinate and > publicize this in Estonia, I am looking for volunteers who would be > willing to run it in two additional countries. > > Furthermore, prize ideas would be welcome. >> I think that as we want to popularize Free Software and Open >> Standards, the prizes could be somehow related to the FSFE. The prizes >> should be decided based on whether we want to primarily appeal to >> students who already have an inclination for Free Software or students >> who do not. If we want to encourage people who have an affinity for >> Free Software to get active, then we could offer something from the >> FSFE shop, a FSFE Fellowship, or a Free Software book, etc... If we >> want to appeal to more students, we would probably have to offer >> monetary rewards or hardware. I am not sure which group we should >> target, thus prize ideas and suggestions would be welcome from other >> interlocutors. > > Also, any offers to participate in a jury to grade the entries would > also be appreciated. > > > Faithfully, > -- > Heiki "Repentinus" Ojasild > <[email protected]> > <https://wiki.fsfe.org/Fellows/repentinus> > <http://blogs.fsfe.org/repentinus/>
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