Celebrity Challenges
Owner: Alison

Goal: Members from the community develop exciting challenges endorsed or designed by notable figures for July 18 media sweep

Plan: 

• Identify an field you feel connected to 
• Develop a challenge idea
• Pitch draft challenge to your celebrity
• Final challenge due April 11

Challenges

• Challenge name + owner
  • The pitch:
  • The partner:
  • Status: (Alison will chase you!)

Draft Ideas:

• Open Governance / Community Building - Jono Bacon/ Seth Godin (Philipp)
• MBA Monday Challenge - Fred Wilson (John)
• Cyberpunk Fiction - Cory Doctorow / China Mievielle (Bekka, Nadeem, Laurian)
• Creative Writing - ... (Jane)
• Building Collaborative Spaces--Alex Hillman (Vanessa)
• Audio Documentary--Ira Glass (eeeek!)
• Food - Zach Denfield / Gordon Ramsey / Jamie Oliver / Heston Blumenthal/Herman Den Blijker (Niels)
• Planning your Web Career - / Sacha Chua / (paulbakulich)
• Arduino - Make:Mag (philipp/chloe)
• Grassroots Mapping - The Public Lab (alison)
• Open Science - (jessy) (possible endorsers: michael neilson, john wilbanks, cameron neylon, peter murray-rust,) (possible partners: mendeley, PLoS, peerevaluation.org, OKFN)  - I suspect that some of the emeritus profs at CERN might be keen after we met with them at the Citizen CyberScience event - Bekka
• Game Design Challenge- Mark Rosewater, Tom LaPille, Richard Garfield (Niels, Chloe)
• Stand up comedy sketch - Louis C.K (Niels)
• Making a 5 minute movie - Quentin Tarantino, Paul Verhoeven (Niels)

• Country Specific Challenges

Netherlands

• Schrijf een super column - Sylvia Witteman, Jan Mulder, Nico Dijkshoorn (Niels)
• Maak een 5 minuten durend filmpje - Paul Verhoeven, Arne Toonen, Dick Maas, Eddy Terstall
• Je eerste 10 minuten stand up comedy - Theo Maassen, Raoul Heertje, Martijn Koning

Successfully Made:

• Writing for the Web - Vanessa G
  • The pitch: Make your place in the blogosphere
  • The partner: Audrey Watters
  • Status: running!

• Open Music Video | Alison, Chloe
  • Make your first music video using open/libre music!
  • Partner: Vimeo Video School 
  • Status: under development