creativity contests at exhibitions

[Sebastian Harl-2]

Hi,

Galileo Press offered us (as in "the Debian team") to provide some
samples of their latest book on Debian [1] to be used on exhibitions,
e.g. for doing something like a lottery. I was thinking about accepting
that offer for FrOSCon and doing some sort of creativity contest.
However, I failed to come up with a good idea how that contest might
look like in detail, i.e. what exactly the contest could be about, how
to chose a winner, etc.

So, I'd like to know what others think about this idea in general and
I'm hoping for someone else to be more creative than I am in "designing"
that contest.

Cheers,
Sebastian

[1] http://www.galileocomputing.de/katalog/buecher/titel/gp/titelID-2084
    (in German)

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[martin f krafft]

also sprach Sebastian Harl <tokkee@...> [2009.07.25.1942 +0200]:
> Galileo Press offered us (as in "the Debian team") to provide some
> samples of their latest book on Debian [1] to be used on
> exhibitions, e.g. for doing something like a lottery. I was
> thinking about accepting that offer for FrOSCon and doing some
> sort of creativity contest. However, I failed to come up with
> a good idea how that contest might look like in detail, i.e. what
> exactly the contest could be about, how to chose a winner, etc.

http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2005/11/msg00421.html

Or do something entirely different, ask people to give a 60 second
presentation of a contribution they made and let the audience vote.
Repeat every year from then on. By next year there'll also be books
of mine available if you want it.

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[Alexander Reichle-Schmehl]

Hi!


martin f krafft schrieb:
>> Galileo Press offered us (as in "the Debian team") to provide some
>> samples of their latest book on Debian [1] to be used on
>> exhibitions, e.g. for doing something like a lottery. I was
>> thinking about accepting that offer for FrOSCon and doing some
>> sort of creativity contest.
[..]
> Or do something entirely different, ask people to give a 60 second
> presentation of a contribution they made and let the audience vote.
> Repeat every year from then on. By next year there'll also be books
> of mine available if you want it.

While I fail to come up with a better idea, I think an event, where
visitors can participate and do something during the conference would be
a better idea.  A lot of visitors of the froscon don't contributed to
Debian directly, so such a kind of events would exclude a major part of
the visitors.


Best regards,
  Alexander


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[martin f krafft]

also sprach Alexander Reichle-Schmehl <tolimar@...> [2009.07.26.1143 +0200]:
> While I fail to come up with a better idea, I think an event,
> where visitors can participate and do something during the
> conference would be a better idea.  A lot of visitors of the
> froscon don't contributed to Debian directly, so such a kind of
> events would exclude a major part of the visitors.

That would be the idea behind doing it again next year so that
people have a year to prepare. However, a book may not be enough of
an incentive for that.

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