Difference between revisions of "Activities/Inform7"

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The Proposal

Progress So Far: -Proposal (above link) has been submitted and accepted. Currently waiting on hardware --Maxpev, Apr3

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-. Project Title & Shipment Detail
+[[Activities/Inform7/Proposal | The Proposal]]
-Name of Project: (WEB-PUBLISHED)
-Interactive Fiction Interactive Developer (Inform7 IDE port to sugar)
-IF game engine (Parchment virtual machine in webkit activity)
-Shipping Address You've Verified:
- IS FEDEX AND DHL SHIPPABLE (NO POST OFFICE BOXES)
-INCLUDES A PHONE NUMBER
- CONTAINS TEAM LEADER'S LEGAL NAME
- US ADDRESS REQUESTED, OLPC CANNOT GUARANTY INTL SHIPPING
-Number of Laptops (or other hardware) You Request to Borrow:
-Loan Length—How Many Months:
+Progress So Far:
-. Team Participants
+-Proposal (above link) has been submitted and accepted. Currently waiting on hardware --Maxpev, Apr3
-Name(s) & Contact Info: (include all email addresses & phone numbers)
-Teams of more than 1 person are not required, but favored!
-MP
-SW
-Employer and/or School:
-Student at University of Mass Amherst
-Past Experience/Qualifications:
-I've worked with SW
-Avid interactive fiction fan
-linux experience (bash, install, package management)
-competency with GNU make tools
-. Objectives
-Project Objectives: (WEB-PUBLISHED)
-Concrete proposals with defined, measurable outcomes are much more likely to result in a laptop than "it would be cool to play with these and demo them".
--Package the Inform 7 IDE for the Sugar learning environment
-+I7 is an easy way of learning basic programming ideas
-+I7 is also creative writing that takes advantage of interacting with a laptop
-+plenty of source available for examples
-+easy to learn
--setup interactive fiction VM (make an Interactive Fiction Play activity)
-+addition of 'easy to use' games
-+numerous existing games
-Package french and spanish localizations
-//Work with the makers of the Spanish and French languge extension modules to make them contained by default in the package
-. Plan of Action
-Plan and Procedure for Achieving the Stated Objectives:
-modify the I7 IDE for usage on the XO (create and IF Create activity)
--packaged into activity format
--take advantage of the Journal
-create an IF Play activity
--should use existing VM's (Quixe, Parchment)
--should integrate into journal
--package a set of games to go with it
-. Needs
-Why is this project needed?
-provide a new realm of game playing / game creation that fits well on an XO machine
-provide a tool for interactive storytelling and creative writing
-Locally?
-In the greater OLPC/Sugar community?
-Help introduce more people to an easy to use 'language' for making games
-distribute a natual language programming environment that has spanish and french translations
--> better idea::: games help promote interaction with a machine increasing users ability to use the machine (think teachieaching mouse usage skills with solitaire :: fun trick that works)
-we don't need to sell games, the people you're pitching already know that
-Outside the community?
-Promote the IF community
-Why can't this project be done in emulation using non-XO machines?
-testing font rendering on pixel Qi screens
-viability on actual processing hardware
-using the Inform7 IDE and making sure the UI conforms to the XO's dimensions and grayscale modes
-(also making sure it doesnt outdo the processing hardware for longer stories)
-Why are you requesting the number of machines you are asking for?
-one per person actively working on to have access to a physical XO
-Will you consider (1) salvaged/rebuilt or (2) damaged XO Laptops?
-) yes
-) yes, but a functioning XO would be preferred
-. Sharing Deliverables
-Project URL—where you'll Blog specific ongoing progress:
-http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Inform7
-http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Activities/Inform7
-Please web-publish this entire completed proposal, removing any sections affecting your personal privacy. Ask if you want help -- communicating with our OLPC/Sugar global community is core!
-How will you convey tentative ideas & results back to the OLPC/Sugar community, prior to completion?
-Via IRC and announcements to mailing lists
-How will the final fruits of your labor be distributed to children or community members worldwide?
-Sugar Activities
-Repository hosted on git.sugarlabs.org/PROJECTNAME
-Will your work have any possible application or use outside our community?
-We would love to extend the existing gnome-inform7 translations (already using .po files)
-If yes, how will these people be reached?
-contact the IF community that it's been ported for use on XO via mailing lists, IFmud and the cambridge IF meetup
-Have you investigated working with nearby XO Lending Libraries or Project Groups?
-none in sturbridge/amherst area(?)
-. Quality/Mentoring
-Would your Project benefit from Support, Documentation and/or Testing people?
-Yes, but only once it has been built and package.
-Teachers' input into Usability?
-Yes, and on how to best integrate the activity into classrooms
-How will you promote your work?
-Via mailing lists
-Can we help you with an experienced mentor from the OLPC/Sugar community? (WEB-PUBLISHED)
-If YES: specify the kind of Ongoing Mentoring that will benefit you most.
-If NO: specify who will help you share your progress, creations & results.
-SW
-. Timeline (Start to Finish)
-Please include a Proposed timeline for your Project life-cycle: (this can be in the form of Month 1, Month 2, etc rather than specific dates)
-Include a couple milestones, even if tentative.
-Timeline:
-Month 1:
-build Inform IDE
-Begin work on Sugar oriented VM
-Month 2
-Have rudimentary VM built (prototype)
-Further work on IDE
-Month 5:
-Have beta of VM/IDE completed
-Month 6:
-test test test the IDE and VM
-Month 7:
-Create basic documentation
-Create VM/IDE packages with inbuilt game collection ready to ship
-Specify how you prefer to communicate your ongoing progress and obstacles!
-[X] I agree to pass on the laptop(s) to a local OLPC group or other interested contributors in case I do not have need for the laptop(s) anymore or in case my project progress stalls.

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