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| − | 1. Project Title & Shipment Detail
| + | [[Activities/Inform7/Proposal | The Proposal]] |
| − | Name of Project: (WEB-PUBLISHED)
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| − | Interactive Fiction Interactive Developer (Inform7 IDE port to sugar)
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| − | IF game engine (Parchment virtual machine in webkit activity)
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| − | Shipping Address You've Verified:
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| − | IS FEDEX AND DHL SHIPPABLE (NO POST OFFICE BOXES)
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| − | INCLUDES A PHONE NUMBER
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| − | CONTAINS TEAM LEADER'S LEGAL NAME
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| − | US ADDRESS REQUESTED, OLPC CANNOT GUARANTY INTL SHIPPING
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| − | Number of Laptops (or other hardware) You Request to Borrow:
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| − | 1
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| − | Loan Length—How Many Months:
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| − | 7
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| − | 2. 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)
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| − | Teams of more than 1 person are not required, but favored!
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| − | MP
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| − | SW
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| − | Employer and/or School:
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| − | Student at University of Mass Amherst
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| − | Past Experience/Qualifications:
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| − | I've worked with SW
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| − | Avid interactive fiction fan
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| − | linux experience (bash, install, package management)
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| − | competency with GNU make tools
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| − | 3. Objectives
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| − | Project Objectives: (WEB-PUBLISHED)
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| − | 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".
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| − | -Package the Inform 7 IDE for the Sugar learning environment
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| − | +I7 is an easy way of learning basic programming ideas
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| − | +I7 is also creative writing that takes advantage of interacting with a laptop
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| − | +plenty of source available for examples
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| − | +easy to learn
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| − | -setup interactive fiction VM (make an Interactive Fiction Play activity)
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| − | +addition of 'easy to use' games
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| − | +numerous existing games
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| − | Package french and spanish localizations
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| − | //Work with the makers of the Spanish and French languge extension modules to make them contained by default in the package
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| − | 4. Plan of Action
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| − | Plan and Procedure for Achieving the Stated Objectives:
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| − | modify the I7 IDE for usage on the XO (create and IF Create activity)
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| − | -packaged into activity format
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| − | -take advantage of the Journal
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| − | create an IF Play activity
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| − | -should use existing VM's (Quixe, Parchment)
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| − | -should integrate into journal
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| − | -package a set of games to go with it
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| − | 5. Needs
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| − | Why is this project needed?
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| − | provide a new realm of game playing / game creation that fits well on an XO machine
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| − | provide a tool for interactive storytelling and creative writing
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| − | Locally?
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| − | In the greater OLPC/Sugar community?
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| − | Help introduce more people to an easy to use 'language' for making games
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| − | distribute a natual language programming environment that has spanish and french translations
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| − | -> 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)
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| − | we don't need to sell games, the people you're pitching already know that
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| − | Outside the community?
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| − | Promote the IF community
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| − | Why can't this project be done in emulation using non-XO machines?
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| − | testing font rendering on pixel Qi screens
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| − | viability on actual processing hardware
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| − | using the Inform7 IDE and making sure the UI conforms to the XO's dimensions and grayscale modes
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| − | (also making sure it doesnt outdo the processing hardware for longer stories)
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| − | Why are you requesting the number of machines you are asking for?
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| − | one per person actively working on to have access to a physical XO
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| − | Will you consider (1) salvaged/rebuilt or (2) damaged XO Laptops?
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| − | 1) yes
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| − | 2) yes, but a functioning XO would be preferred
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| − | 6. Sharing Deliverables
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| − | Project URL—where you'll Blog specific ongoing progress:
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| − | http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Inform7
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| − | http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Activities/Inform7
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| − | 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!
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| − | How will you convey tentative ideas & results back to the OLPC/Sugar community, prior to completion?
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| − | Via IRC and announcements to mailing lists
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| − | How will the final fruits of your labor be distributed to children or community members worldwide?
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| − | Sugar Activities
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| − | Repository hosted on git.sugarlabs.org/PROJECTNAME
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| − | Will your work have any possible application or use outside our community?
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| − | We would love to extend the existing gnome-inform7 translations (already using .po files)
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| − | If yes, how will these people be reached?
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| − | contact the IF community that it's been ported for use on XO via mailing lists, IFmud and the cambridge IF meetup
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| − | Have you investigated working with nearby XO Lending Libraries or Project Groups?
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| − | none in sturbridge/amherst area(?)
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| − | 7. Quality/Mentoring
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| − | Would your Project benefit from Support, Documentation and/or Testing people?
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| − | Yes, but only once it has been built and package.
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| − | Teachers' input into Usability?
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| − | Yes, and on how to best integrate the activity into classrooms
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| − | How will you promote your work?
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| − | Via mailing lists
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| − | Can we help you with an experienced mentor from the OLPC/Sugar community? (WEB-PUBLISHED)
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| − | If YES: specify the kind of Ongoing Mentoring that will benefit you most.
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| − | If NO: specify who will help you share your progress, creations & results.
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| − | SW
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| − | 8. Timeline (Start to Finish)
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| − | 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)
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| − | Include a couple milestones, even if tentative.
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| − | Timeline:
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| − | Month 1:
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| − | build Inform IDE
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| − | Begin work on Sugar oriented VM
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| − | Month 2
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| − | Have rudimentary VM built (prototype)
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| − | Further work on IDE
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| − | Month 5:
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| − | Have beta of VM/IDE completed
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| − | Month 6:
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| − | test test test the IDE and VM
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| − | Month 7:
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| − | Create basic documentation
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| − | Create VM/IDE packages with inbuilt game collection ready to ship
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| − | Specify how you prefer to communicate your ongoing progress and obstacles!
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| − | [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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