<div dir="ltr">Below my initial mail.<br><div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Kristoffer Rose</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kristoffer.rose@gmail.com">kristoffer.rose@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 3:46 PM<br>Subject: ShowMeBox Kick-off<br>To: Jonas Smedegaard <<a href="mailto:dr@jones.dk">dr@jones.dk</a>>, Bernelle Verster <<a href="mailto:bernellev@gmail.com">bernellev@gmail.com</a>>, Graham Inggs <<a href="mailto:ginggs@debian.org">ginggs@debian.org</a>><br>Cc: Kristoffer Rose <<a href="mailto:krisrose@debian.org">krisrose@debian.org</a>>, Kristoffer Rose <<a href="mailto:Kristoffer.Rose@twosigma.com">Kristoffer.Rose@twosigma.com</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear Everyone,<br><br></div>The ShowMeBox got an enthusiastic reception here at Two Sigma! So as far as I am concerned, we should find out what can truly be done.<br><br></div><div>At this point this leads me to ask the following *questions* of you, the group:<br><br></div><div>1. Who is part of the project? I put our names in the ShowMeBox wiki[1] but please add further names. (Two Sigma has not yet committed to be an official partner but it may happen.) Should we have a mailing list?<br></div><div><br></div><div>2. Bernelle and Graham: a competition such as we envision requires that there is a "Data Science Tutorial" stage to teach some people how to use the ShowMeBox; these people are then the ones that travel to all the competition locations and give a brief crash course in how to use the machines they hand out...can such a group of volunteers be recruited? If Two Sigma can help, what is the ideal way to do that (like should we send someone over for a week in January, for example)?<br><br>3. Jonas, what do you need to find the ideal <$100 server hardware to use and create an initial Debian image for it, RSN?<br></div><div><br></div><div>4. Everyone, if Two Sigma decides to outsource the "proper debian packaging of beaker-notebook[2] and dependencies", do any of you know a DD or DM who would take the job (at decent pay)?<br></div><div><br></div><div>There are more questions (like "how many competition sites - 100 or 10000?" and "any other locations than Capetown?") but lets take those later.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,<br></div><div> Kris<br></div><div><br><div>[1]<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/ShowMeBox" target="_blank">https://wiki.debian.org/ShowMeBox</a><br>[2]<a href="https://github.com/twosigma/beaker-notebook" target="_blank">https://github.com/twosigma/beaker-notebook</a><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><br>-- <br><div>Kristoffer H. Rose, Ph.D. <<a href="http://kristofferrose.com" target="_blank">http://kristofferrose.com</a>><br><br></div>
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