Hi, As mentioned before, I spend last week-end at the annual convention of April (French Free Software NGO). There was a number of things that were interesting for us:
1) Version of HPO for April The NGO is trying to launch an initiative to foster more contributions from its members, especially to get them to spread the word around them about Free Software. A number of simple actions have been designed to be easily done by anyone (putting a poster on a wall, discussing free software with friends during a diner, etc.). I suggested to try to make it a game - make the actions the missions of a game HPO could be a good way to reach its members rather than just publishing a list, and it would be a good way for us to get more extensive feedback from a community, as well as some exposition. Someone already suggested to make the actions of the players progressively draw a mosaic, that would thus be the result of the concerted action of the April community. It's definitely the kind of mecanisms that would be interesting to develop for HPO. If you like the idea, I've got an ok on the principle from April. We would still have to produce a small prototype to show them how it could look like exactly, but already it would provide us with some interesting feedback imho. What do you think? 2) Movie production One of the persons present has made several open source movie production, through students at her school (she is a video production teacher). We talked a bit about producing something this way for Farsides - the good part is that it would be free, but there are some important drawbacks: it's done by students chosen randomly (it's an exam), so we can't really know in advance what the quality would be, and it has to be planned a long time in advance (we have to decide something in the next 1-2 months, but it would only be produced in March 2012... See http://sugerlab.blip.tv/file/3837952/ and http://sugerlab.blip.tv/ What do you think? Is there something we could propose within those constraints? 3) Interesting projects - A student is making an economics thesis, and was interested to study Farsides as part of it. I've given him the project mailing-list url so he can subscribe. - The LTLJ project has built a system to quickly setup lan parties game stations (cf http://www.ltlj.org/projects/ltlj/wiki/Welcome ). They try to reduce hardware costs and automate the setup as much as possible. I talked to them, they provide services based on it - I was thinking it could be a very good way to show the game in conventions When we get to that point. - Less directly useful, but maybe a source of inspiration: the Open-UDC project, who tries to build alternate virtual money systems. I've entered a few links in the wiki: http://farsides.com/wiki/Software_to_use#Open_source_currency . Btw, this is off-topic, but if you don't know it already I highly recommend that you watch "Money as Debt" from Paul Grignon, which presents how money is actually created today) Xavier. _______________________________________________ Farsides mailing list - [email protected] Wiki: http://farsides.com/ List: http://farsides.com/ml/ Forum: http://farsides.com/forum/ Ideas: http://farsides.com/ideas/ Chat: http://farsides.com/chat/
