ODF Olympiad is a competition for school children from 7-17 years of age.
This is an initiative driven by Sun Microsystems Malaysia, originated from Sun Microsystems, New Delhi. In Malaysia, this is supported by Ministry of Education, OSCC, Mampu, Malaysia National Computer Community (MNCC) and other companies like RedHat, pending confirmation from Google & IBM.
We will be having the ODF Olympiad starting September 2008, with the winning submissions getting the awards in November, 2008. There are host of Open source conferences happening in November and so we are targetting that the ODF Olympiad in each country gets over by October so that the national level awards can be given in November (eg. theMYGSSCON in KL, Malaysia in November 5 & 6, 2008).
Due to limited time, Ministry of Education would like us to focus the competition in the State of Terengganu only, with a total of 500 schools. These schools will be given 2 Open Office cd. As for creating awareness, we will be printing posters for the schools.
The winners will get to come to Goa in India for competing with winners from China, India, Vietnam and Indonesia. The final goal is to use this contest to influence change in school curriculum to have ODF or at least OpenOffice.org.
What is it about this competition?
- Students from the age of 7-17 are given Open Office CD. To participate in this competition, they are required to create presentation in English or Malay Language.
- The presentation should not have more than total of 21 slides (including introduction & Thank you slide)
- The presentation file size should not exceed 1 MB o Each slide should not have more than two clicks for navigation
Email the presentation to malaysia@odfolympiad.org along with your details.- Name, Class, School Name, School Address, Email Address, Phone number and Age before 20th October, 2008
The Subject of the email must be in the following format </category of presentation , the class ,school name> for example --- “why should I learn computers, class V, My school”
* 3 finalists from each category will be selected
* Each of these 3 finalists will be given 7 minutes to present their ODF document, at a National Conference and the winner shall be judged on merit of these presentations.
Topics and Categories
Standards 1 to 3-Why should I learn Computers?
Standards 4 to 6- Why Should Students Use Open Source Software?
Forms 1 to 3 - Benefits of Open Source Software to Malaysia And How To Increase It's Adoption.
Forms 4 to 6 and Matriculation - The Open Document Format (ODF) is an open standard: Why is it important to Malaysia And What Must We Do About It?
Evaluation Parameters
- Relevance of topic
- Creativity & Visual Appeal
- Organisation of the content
- Use of embedded tools (e.g. spreadsheet)
For clarification email to * malaysia@odfolympiad.org * For more detail,
please visit :http://www.odfolympiad.org/malaysia http://www.oscc.org.my
or contact : Sun Microsystems Malaysia Sdn Bhd
Level 34, Menara Citibank 165, Jalan Ampang 50450 Kuala Lumpur Tel :(603) 21161888 Fax :(603) 21161999