[Showme-devel] Catch up: Background research

[Bernelle Verster]

Hi all

I added some links that may provide open data for analysis on the website.

I also spoke to a few people who are teachers, their feedback:
* Don't try to target many schools, start small and grow from there
* Having a diffuse competition many months ahead of DebConf is not a
good idea. Try for one day only. Thinking about this makes me feel
more and more strongly that we should stay with the rough 24h format
of the past Beaker competition, rather than a many month thing.
* From Gavin (friend and at [2]):  I do recommend that you consider
installing QGIS and other tools from DebianGIS [1] on it as standard.

I am gearing up to contact people who may be able to help design the
competition appropriately for high school students - how
simple/complicated it should be, how not to be too 'lets save africa'
but add actual real value, etc. I have some leads but at the moment
this is still fuzzy.

Then, I was wondering if we should advertise this project to
Developers to grow the team - do you feel you need more personpower?
Similarly, do we need other sponsors - if e.g. we want to bus the
students in to the conference or similar?

[1] - https://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis
[2] - http://kartoza.com/