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
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