[Showme-devel] No action required, other than to take note: ShowMeBox and DebConf16

[Bernelle Verster]

Hi all

Just out of interest, these are the people I've contacted so far, with
two more contacts coming from asking friends...
They cover the spectrum of mildly relevant (*) to 'I would really love
to work with them!' (***)

I've kept the personal contact details out of this mail, but please
let me know if you want them, they're not confidential per se.

*** Code4SA: http://code4sa.org,
** AIMS SEC: http://aimssec.ac.za (African Institute for Mathematical
Sciences Schools Enrichment Centre)
* CHED: www.ched.uct.ac.za (Centre for Higher Education Development)
* http://jacquesblom.org - started an app when he was in grade 11, now
markets himself as a social entrepreneur
(https://za.linkedin.com/in/blomjacques)
*** RLabs: http://rlabs.org
** CT Sciencentre: http://ctsc.org.za
**/*** Kobus van Zyl, who runs Aqualibrium (high school civil
engineering competition): A UCT colleague interested to help, we're
meeting with him on Tuesday.
** Numeric: http://numeric.org (Tutoring school learners on Maths,
using the Khan Academy)
*** InnovateSA: http://innovatesa.org/
with one of their projects (not contacted)
http://www.siliconcape.com/profiles/blogs/two-young-entrepreneurs-help-high-schoolers-bridge-the-gap-to
*/? Luthando Dyasi and Sinethemba Makoma have released GoVarsity
(app.govarsity.co.za)

cheers
B

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 5:56 PM, Bernelle Verster <bernellev at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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)