[olpc-nz] Fwd: [Grassroots-l] Food ForceII updates, opportunity for volunteers and localization

Brenda Wallace shiny at cpan.org
Wed Nov 11 19:13:52 EST 2009


Lotsa foodforce fans here... here's an oppoutunty to get involved
further with the project


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From: Food ForceII Community <foodforceii at seeta.in>
Date: Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:38 PM
Subject: [Grassroots-l] Food ForceII updates, opportunity for
volunteers and localization
To: community-support at lists.laptop.org, educators at lists.laptop.org,
grassroots at lists.laptop.org, localization at lists.laptop.org,
iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org
Cc: Yama Ploskonka <yama at netoso.com>, Tomeu Vizoso
<tomeu at sugarlabs.org>, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>,
Caroline Meeks <caroline at solutiongrove.com>, Tabitha Roder
<tabitha.roder at gmail.com>, Cjl <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com>, Aleksey Lim
<alsroot at member.fsf.org>


Dear all,

We are very happy to learn the good feedback and response received by
Food ForceII (http://seeta.in/j/products-and-services/food-force-ii.html)
from educators, children, developers and public leaders. The feedback
has strengthen our believes on how storytelling and narratives present
a very interesting and powerful approach towards social learning.

We wish to update about the progress in Food ForceII achieved, since
its beta release
(http://blog.laptop.org/2009/05/08/food-force-2-makes-waves/). We have
been successful in designing the localization infrastructure for Food
ForceII, and have localized the game play in Hindi and Spanish (please
download the latest dev version from
http://seeta.in/j/downloads.html). We are in the process of localizing
the storyboard, and have been trying to understand and realize its
pedagogical impact as we pursue this endeavor.

Opportunity for Volunteers -

We are looking for volunteers, who could participate with us in a
number of initiatives -

1. Developing creative storyboards for Food ForceII - We are attaching
a storyboard which we integrated in the Food ForceII game. This
storyboard is not 100%
    complete. We would like someone with experience in graphics and
design to participate with us towards designing the characters of the
storyboard. Also, the attached
    storyboard does not have a female character. We would like to help
solve the issue of gender inequities, and wish to design a similar
storyboard to include the female
    character. Finally, we would like creative authors to write their
own storyboards, and we would be happy to include them in the list of
storyboards written for Food Force II.


2. Social Science around the Game Characters -  We would like to
develop science around the game characters - what should be their
qualities, how they should respond
    to crisis, their focus on community citizenship and team-building.
The idea is not to make the game characters look like Superman or
Superwoman. But, real people coming
    out as leaders from real life situations.


We wish to thank everyone for their wonderful support, guidance and feedback.

Namaste.

Best Regards,

Food ForceII Volunteer Community

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