[Showme-devel] Timeline/deadline questions

Wed Sep 30 17:28:11 UTC 2015

Dear Bernelle,

I include the blurbs and hints we used in our competitions. The
competitions used specially "cleansed" data sets based on public NYC data,
which I can also get; our hope is to use Cape Town data (at least) for the
DebConf competition. Oh, and yes, I should also be able to get demo
notebooks for the NYC data.

Cheers,
  Kris

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 4:05 AM, Bernelle Verster <bernelle at indiebio.co.za>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 3:41 AM, Kristoffer Rose <krisrose at debian.org>
> wrote:
> > Dear Everyone,
> >
> > I have materials I can share about previous competitions, just need time
> to
> > enter it in the wiki (it is paper).
>
> Kris, if it's not too confidential, feel free to scan to pdf and share
> with us? I don't mind reading through and putting on wiki...
> >
> > My proposal to Two Sigma for sponsoring the competition itself will
> include
> > a proposal to send someone to Cape Town, probably in January, provided we
> > can line up the local teaching resources for a "crash course in data
> > analysis" (similar to what we have given to campus recruiters that have
> run
> > our datathons so far). So there is still stuff to discuss...
>
> Random idea, is there a MOOC (massive online open course, e.g.
> edx.org) or other general resources out there that could help too? It
> makes sense to use whatever can help, as long as it has the open
> ideology and/or no conflict of interest.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >   Kris
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
> >>
> >> Quoting Siri Reiter (2015-09-29 12:42:15)
> >> > On 29-09-2015 12:09, Siri Reiter wrote:
> >> >> Attempting to create a timeline [1] provoked questions and needs like
> >> >> this:
> >> >
> >> > As an afterthought, I don't think just "burping" out questions, like
> >> > like I just did, is a very inviting or creative approach. Ideally my
> >> > own opinion should be offered alongside (whenever I have one).
> >>
> >> Good point! :-)
>
> +1
> >>
> >>
> >> >> * How much time do we give the participants from signing up to
> >> >> delivery deadline? Can we set a participant deadline?
> >> >
> >> > I think at least three months. They need time to organize themselves,
> >> > research and develop alonside schoolwork and what not.
>
> Sounds good, but let's see Kris's docs.
> >> >
> >> > So we need to be ready to launch counting back that time from our
> >> > deadline.
> >> >
> >> > Deadline is related to how much time we need to evaluate and choose,
> >> > and how much time is needed ahead of DebConf16 to sign up the
> >> > participants. Of course we can reserve the space ahead.
> >>
> >> Learning from past experiences might be good here: Our contest model was
> >> chosen because of a previous similar contest held in New York.
> >>
> >> @Kris: Could you try (harder) at getting learning experiences from that
> >> past project for us?
> >>
> >>
> >> >> * When is DebConf16 in the local schoolyear? (In DK it is in the exam
> >> >> period.)
> >> >
> >> > Maybe a local can answer this.
> >>
> >> @Bernelle, Graham?
>
> DebConf16 will be in the university [1] and in the school [2] holidays.
> >>
> >>
> >> >> * What kind of support are we going to/ capable of/ willing to give
> >> >> the participants? What kind of support is needed?
> >> >
> >> > I suspect we can create an IRC channel and a mailing list to this
> >> > purpose. Create a FAC page.
> >>
> >> IRC, email and wiki documentation sounds sensible, but...: Let's rely
> >> only on each of those when we actually have them:
>
> +1
> >>
> >> @Everyone: Join existing IRC chatroom #debian-in on OFTC.net: Practice
> >> "hanging out" online and try evolve from that to "guiding others" which
> >> is a challenge different from guidance in a physical setting.
>
> done (indiebio)
> >>
> >> @Vasudev: Perhaps you have experience administrating a chatroom and want
> >> to create and host e.g. #debian-showme?  Or anyone else?
> >>
> >> @Everyone: Write guidance to students on the wiki.  Install either
> >> iPythin Notebook (in Debian so easy to install, but has limited use) or
> >> Beaker Notebook (more complex to install and may not be ready in time,
> >> but more rich use and possibly has concrete sample files for this type
> >> of contest) and document on the wiki how use them.
>
> ooh ooh me please! I'll bug Graham to help me. Maybe the old Beaker
> that the other competition ran on? I can be your guinea pig entrant.
> Please also see my write up on the open hardware stuff at DebConf15
> [3], just to show my commitment to this project (if you're interested,
> you may want to do a search for 'ShackLabs' on that site which is my
> proto-name for my rough ideas ... but this is off on a tangent)
> >>
> >> @Kris: Can you get documentation and demo Notebooks from the previous
> >> contest?
> >>
> >> >> * How much time do we need to evaluate the projects?
> >> >
> >> > I figure at least three weeks.
> >>
> >> @Kris: Again knowledge from prior contest would be really helpful here.
> >>
> >>
> >>  - Jonas
>
> [1] - http://www.uct.ac.za/calendar/terms/
> [2] - http://wced.school.za/documents/calendar2016.html
> [3] - http://indiebio.co.za/open-hardware
> >>
> >> --
> >>  * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt
> >>  * Tlf.: +45 40843136  Website: http://dr.jones.dk/
> >>
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> >>
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