On 14 February 2012 15:44, Alessandro Polvani <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/14/2012 03:51 PM, Heiki "Repentinus" Ojasild wrote: > * the English language. This is a huge barrier at least for Italy, > where maybe the 10% of students of an average high school (excluding > schools with a focus on languages) would be able and willing to write > a blog post in English. Maybe I go wrong but that would be a huge > barrier. This does not mean that we can't do it, but that we could not > expect, in my opinion, a huge participation. If we dropped the requirement, we would have to organize the translation of the entries for the jury.
> * I think we should announce the prize with the competition > announcement, to motivate people to participate without restricting > the audience on people who are already familiar with Open Standards. > So I also propose to quickly brainstorm about the prize. The Yeelong > laptop that was proposed on a previous e-mail costs $449 (340 EUR) > both on http://freedomincluded.com/ and on amazon.com I agree. I hope that Matthias can offer some insights (especially regarding the budget) here. I like doing things that are the right things to do, and I need no extra motivators. Thus, I probably cannot pick the best prizes. But someone on the lists is bound to have experience organizing contests. Regards, -- Heiki "Repentinus" Ojasild <[email protected]> <https://wiki.fsfe.org/Fellows/repentinus> <http://blogs.fsfe.org/repentinus/> _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
