[Grassroots-l] Weekend food for thought.

[Christoph Derndorfer]

Bastien schrieb:
> Christoph Derndorfer <e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
>
>   
>> Another thing that I've been also thinking about - but don't know how 
>> feasible it really is - is setting up mini-competitions (think 
>> "Challenge XO" or something) to get more community members involved in 
>> creating content, writing activities, documentation, testing, etc.
>>     
>
> We've just set up something like this at OLPC France: a Ideas contest.
> It has been advertized at the Libre Software Meeting in Mont de Marsan
> and it has already a good press coverage in France.
>   
Unfortunately even after 6 years of studying French in school my 
understanding of the language is still pretty limited, but I *assume* 
what you're talking about is "Concours d'idées OLPC France" 
(http://olpc-france.org/wiki/index.php?title=Concours_d%27id%C3%A9es_OLPC_France), 
right?

If I understand it correctly the objectives are to:

- improve initiatives to produce localized contents
- attract people who are motivated to contribute new contents
- make OLPC France more visible both within France and Europe

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Good night from Vancouver,
Christoph

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Christoph Derndorfer
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