[Fiware-campusero] Proposal on challenges to be launch associated to FI-WARE/FI-LAB

[stefano de panfilis]

dear juanjo,

to me is not completely clear, although you say so, the difference between
smart cities and smart business.
what is smart business: making applications with high business impact?
what i mean is that the second should be the ultimate goal also for the
first and for the overall challange you have in mind for the last contest,
i.e. all the solutions proposed should have a good, i'd rather say the best
possible, usage of fi-ware technologies and also good marketability
proposing high innovative solutions.

so if this is correct, i think for the first contest we have just one topic.

for the second i'd like to propose and this for young people could be
really interesting applications for ageing people. this is one of the most
social challenge we are going to face in the next coming years and the eyes
of the fi-ware community on this topic would be seen as a strong signal of
being from us in line with the current needs of the worl population.

i think also an eye should be put on environment and society.

my two cents.

ciao,
stefano








2013/10/1 Juanjo Hierro <jhierro at tid.es>

>  Hi all,
>
>   Futura Networks will send an email with further details, but let me
> briefly describe what they have proposed and we need to approve this week.
>
>   As you know, there were aprox. 870 K€ in prizes to be consumed until end
> of the proyect.   Of these 870 K€, 17.500€ were consumed in Campus Party
> Europe in London (2.500 € of one of the special awards were not given away).
>
>   The idea is now to launch a number of challenges which will be run along
> a number of months.   We would start launching two thematic challenges, one
> focused on Smart Cities and another one focused on Smart Businesses.
>
>   The two challenges would be launched this week and we would define a
> deadline (mid November) to collect proposals.   Proposers who accompany
> their ideas with proof of concepts developed on FI-LAB, etc will be given
> preference.    In December we would select 20 proposals for each of the
> challenges and we will invite two people of each of the selected teams to
> travel to the Campus Party Brasil, early February 2014.
>
>   The selected teams attending the Campus Party Brasil event will run a
> final there so that the final prizes are given away:
>
>    - 1st prize: 75 K€
>    - 2nd prize: 40 K€
>    - third prize: 20 K€
>    - two additional special awards (e.g., "Young developer"): 5.000 € each
>
>
>   During the Campus Party Brasil event we would launch the second round of
> challenges, targeted to be given away at the Campus Party Europe (most
> likely to take place in Spain during July 2014).   A similar schema would
> be followed.   We would define an interim milestone to select the 40 best
> proposals and pay them the travel expenses to Campus Party Europe where a
> final would take place.
>
>   There are several options for this second round of challenges, we may go
> for thematic challenges (we didn't have too appealing themes) or we may go
> for a big contest to be referred as "FI-WARE Excellence Awards" (with total
> 290K€ in prizes) where there would not be restriction about the theme to be
> addressed and focus would be given on finding the applications that make
> best usage of FI-WARE technologies.   Another possibility is to find
> another two thematic challenges, or do a mix: run one thematic challenge
> and one "FI-WARE Excellenge Awards" (in this case, each with 145 K€ in
> prizes).
>
>   Personally, I would go fo a single challenge on "FI-WARE Excellence
> Awards" with total 290 K€ in prizes, but your feedback is welcome.
>
>   The launch of the first two challenges on Smart Cities and Smart
> Businesses (with 145 K€ in prizes each) look more clear to me and, since we
> are running a bit out of time, I would go for advertising them at the
> Campusero Community this Thursday 17:00 unless anyone has an objection.
>
>   Cheers,
>
> -- Juanjo
>
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