[WikiToLearn] Report from Trieste

[Valorie Zimmerman]

Wow.

On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 4:09 AM, Riccardo Iaconelli <riccardo at kde.org> wrote:
> 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

It is so great when others see what is so clear to us! That
Wikitolearn is great, and essential to all universities. Thank you so
much for spending the time, Riccardo!

Valorie

PS: Please add some short bits of this to the News channel, OK?