[WikiToLearn] news of the day...

[Riccardo Iaconelli]

Hi all!
 
news of the day:
 
1) the TEDx talk in Milan is confirmed. The date is still to be set, I'll let 
you know as soon as I know more.
 
2) I had an interview about WikiToLearn at Radio Cusano, here is the podcast 
(in Italian) in case you missed it: http://www.radiocusanocampus.it/podcast?
prog=488&dl=5357
 
3) today at CERN I had a long chat with Maria Grazia Pia (who sits in the 
board of Geant4, the most important Monte Carlo simulation toolkit in 
physics). Maria Grazia liked a lot WikiToLearn and it is going to use it as 
platform for her material. Why is this interesting? Because she participates 
in a few important summer schools, which usually have great success, and most 
importantly, she is deeply involved with IEEE. IEEE is currently looking for 
creating/participating on a training platform such as ours, and even if it’s 
going to take a while to move such a gigantic organization, there are very 
concrete possibilities that they will support us. More on this soon...

She also promised me she will spread the word about WikiToLearn in the Genova 
University and INFN, and we already identified some pretty nice content...
 
4) had a conference call with the KDE board, we discussed about several 
fundraising opportunities for WikiToLearn (crowdfunding/h2020), and how to 
better integrate the KDE community with ours. A proposal was to host a sprint 
together with KDE EDU so that we can get to know each other better and start 
to really work together - when, where and how are still to be decided too, I 
am waiting for a proposal from Aleix.

5) with the promo team we’re designing an a4 poster to be exposed in various 
locations at CERN for a physical “advertisement campaign”...

that is all, it was another long day :-)

Bye,
-Riccardo