[WikiToLearn] Report from Trieste

[Riccardo Iaconelli]

Hi all,

Thursday night I came back from Trieste, where I have stayed for a week doing 
a tour in the most prestigious academical institutions of the city, speaking 
about WikiToLearn. This is a brief report of what happened there, please ask 
if you want me to elaborate more.

I have been speaking to about 20 people from the following institutions:

* SISSA ( www.sissa.it )
* ICTP ( www.ictp.it )
* University of Trieste

The enthusiasm for what we are doing has positively surprised me and gave me a 
big boost of confidence that what we're doing is both valuable and has request 
from the market. It was a little bit like selling water in the desert: the 
enthusiasm was great and the participants we already have on board made 
introductions much easier. They all decided to join at various level, so 
expect contributions in the next months on the topics of advanced Mathematics, 
theoretical and experimental Physics, and high performance computing.

To make things more interesting, ICTP is also backed by UNESCO and UN, and has 
the mission to spread knowledge to developing countries. They now want to use 
WikiToLearn for this purpose. :-)

We have a few follow-ups in this direction, including seminairs in front of 
the Scientifical Commitee and or demonstrations to students and professors. I 
will keep you up to date, but all in all, great news, celebrate! :-)

Bye,
-Riccardo