Advocacy Project in High Schools

Madero madero at maderoweb.com
Tue Dec 12 11:21:00 UTC 2006


Here you can find the contents of the poll and the results I got in Milan:
https://www.fsfe.org/en/fellows/madero/advocacy
Comments and corrections [also on my english grammar :) ] are welcome.

As soon as I can I will provide a detailed schedule for talks in Italy.

Bye

On 12/11/06, Stefano Maffulli <stef at zoomata.com> wrote:
> Hello Marco,
>
> thanks for summarizing this.  You have done already a good job.
> Exciting :)
>
> On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 16:51 +0100, Madero wrote:
> > And now here I am, ready to tell you what I've discovered with my
> > little poll. I talked with 14-17 age guys from Milan, attending to
> > technical schools like "Itis", or other kind of schools like "Liceo
> > Classico" or "Liceo Scientifico".
> > After explaining what I was talking about (nearly nobody had ever
> > heard the term Free Software), I asked them (a sample of 60 guys) if
> > they would be interested in a talk in their school about Free Software
> > and strictly related subjects.
> > All of them (without exceptions) asserted that they wouldn't join in a
> > talk like this, but that they would be without doubt interested in
> > speech about <something more general> involving also Free Software,
> > not just it.
>
> Can you provide more details about the questions you have asked and how
> you approached the poll itself?  We might want to try replicating it in
> other schools too.
>
> > LIST OF POSSIBLE TOPICS, WITH AN AVERAGE OF THE RANKS RETURNED BY THE
> > 60 VOTERS (Min 1 / Max 5)
> [...]
> > Even if these topics may appear too much common, you should realize
> > that speech's recipients are inexperienced users.
>
> Absolutely: software and free software have practical implications, and
> too few are interested or ready to understand them without somebody
> pointing them out clearly and loudly. Your poll already suggests paths
> that can be followed.
>
> cheers
> stef
>
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