On 14 February 2012 15:44, Alessandro Polvani alessandro.polvani@fsfe.org 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,