Raising the prize money should be a lot easier than for the CSC. Use Kickstarter or Indiegogo. Make a spiffy advertising video (I'm a terrible videographer). Do a nice write-up for the crowdfunding campaign (I can edit your draft). Set a modest funding goal of, say, $2500 (for 5 contest countries).
Offer a gift of a Pi Zero with Squeak preinstalled for the first 100 contributors of $30 or more.
I think this could work.
(Cautionary note: I see that there are quite a few campaigns at Kickstarter that offer Raspberry Pi products. We may be a little late to the game. )
tim Rowledge wrote
On 22-12-2015, at 4:10 PM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. <
jecel@
> wrote:
Richard Eng wrote on Tue, 22 Dec 2015 06:11:12 -0500
I have a suggestion for future Smalltalk advocates... [Squeak and Raspberry Pi contest idea]
One problem is that the standard Linux distributions (including those optimized for the Pi) don't include a complete Squeak (or Pharo).
True, though the Pi Raspbian does include the full VM setup (currently a Cog Spur 34xx level vm), which means that a fairly small package of image/change/sources/tutorials/examples/support files is al lthat would be needed. Oh, wait, we don’t have a well thought out tutorial world.
By far the biggest problem would be raising money I fear. The foundation can’t offer any because it basically doesn’t have any. It’s just as well the SFC provide free hosting because we’d not be able to pay for commercial support.
tim
tim Rowledge;
tim@
; http://www.rowledge.org/tim Time to start the War on Errorism before stupidity finally gets us.
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