hey diego and allan! it is awesome, that you are willing to help out here! ;) we (outreach admins) already had some minor discussions a few months ago. basically we should take care of not bugging people with 20+ students, it should be comfortable for everybody, even for shy students/community members. if they have to hunt a specific person, we should also ask them for permission first ;) On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 04:56 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: > Hi! > > On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 5:34 AM, Allan Day <allanpday gmail com> wrote: > > > > It would be good to do something that gets the interns interacting with > > established contributors on a one-to-one basis, rather than simply > > photographing them or having them answer questions en mass. So my preference > > from the ideas you've listed would be for old farts club. > > Agree. What kind of challenge can we come up with that requires a > closer collaboration? > > Ideas: > - Pairing an Old Fart with a New Contributor, they have to meet 3 > challenges (to keep it short). Maybe something really simple like: > + explain "What is GNOME" in a 30s video (this will trigger some Q&A > between them). > > + you are given the photo of an old fart, your Old Fart has to tell > you who he is, where to find him and he introduces him to you. > You have to prove you did this with an unedited video where you > get them to say a catchphrase or something (triggers introducing > people, the introduced hacker is also enrolled in the game > preferrably) (I am thinking on a catchphrase or something like that so > we can later make a mashup of the videos for a nice "GNOME is all > these people" thing) > > + (alternatively) you get two photos, you gotta get these two people > into a single photo with a paper or some GNOME-y thing. Photo is the > proof. > > + something else i really like those ideas! btw: we got some pretty rude comments about the name of the game "old farts", which imho can also be seen under the wrong lights ;) so maybe we should either find a new name for this or drop the name altogether. > > We give stickers or something to everyone who finishes, t-shirts for > the 2 fastest team. could we do that in the same session as the "travelling pants"? > > I am preferring photos or video for proof of the hunt so that we can > later mashup all these for a closing video or something. > I would find it interesting to have a nice ThankYou video for > volunteers and the local team, "crowdfilmed" during the Welcome Game. > > Some more ideas around this? how about we put all those ideas in a wiki page on l-g-o? that way no idea gets lost. daniel > > Diego > _______________________________________________ > outreach-list mailing list > outreach-list gnome org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/outreach-list -- this mail was sent using 100% recycled electrons ================================================ daniel g. siegel <dgsiegel gnome org> http://www.dgsiegel.net gnupg key id: 0xDB8E409F fingerprint: F9DD 693C 9E8B 9121 B20B 202E C7D3 3397 DB8E 409F encrypted email preferred
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