Hello I want to contribute and start a new project for OLPC. I believe that it's well suited for OLPC and for targeted users. Samuel Klein told me that no similar project has been started yet.
1. Project name : Wordsearch 2. Existing website, if any : http://tea.ch/olpc/wordsearch/ http://tea.ch/olpc/wordsearch/wordsearch.tar.gz 3. One-line description : It's a Word search puzzle game. 4. Longer description : What is a Word search puzzle? ----------------------------- It's a puzzle game. Within a field of random letters, find all words that were placed in that field. Generally you have to find sequences of pictograms out of random field of pictograms. So even an analphabet player can solve the puzzles as well. It helps when you can read. In the following example, egyptian hieroglyphs could be used instead. Example: -------- K C N O V W I M G T D X O G E T O O T H E D W H A L E E E P V X S A L M O N K X S L Q H E I Q D O L P H I N T A Q Y X I A X N A R P B M J H E P L R B U Y C E K K L T W O R A V M B M R J B A L E E N W H A L E J O T X T R O U T Y L Q M Y T Q T G O Y C L W R K M E L I X E Y R D O B U V I C P E R C H A Find these words: BALEENWHALE BLUEWHALE DOLPHIN ORCA PERCH SALMON TOOTHEDWHALE TROUT Solution: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . T O O T H E D W H A L E E . . . . S A L M O N . . . L . . . . . D O L P H I N . A . . . . . . . A . . . . . H . . . . . . . C . . . . . W . . . . . . . R . B A L E E N W H A L E . O . . T R O U T . . . . . . . . . . . . L . . . . . . . . . . . . . B . . . . P E R C H . Purpose: -------- Teaching: Work different and joyfull way on a subject. Children could appreciate it as some fun Recreation: Many puzzle magazines world wide exists where you can solve Word search puzzles. So there are people paying for these kinds of puzzles. Maybe children would solve Word searches in theire spare time as well. Use cases: --------- Quickly play Word search: Here a Word search is played as casual game. The program selects subject at random and creates new Word search for immediate solving. Size, is allways the same. Rows and columns are optimized for OLPC laptops. Create and play Word search: User can specify a list of words or select prepared wordlists of different subjects, specify range of random letters and size. Create and play Word search out of other activities: Program can be started with parameters which are provided by other activities. If Wordsearch.activity is allready running, new game can be started through inter-activity communication. Word search from neighbouring laptops: Word search can be shared among children. Continue a saved Word search: A previously saved Word search can be loaded and played. Word search and status are automatically saved through the Journal.activity and can be continued anytime. Word search by download: Browse through online word search repositories and download. Competition mode: Among a group of children, the same given Word search should be solved as fast as possible. Advanced use cases: ------------------- Customize Word search by adding background image and sound or music. Change visual properties of Word searches such as font and colors. Teacher mode: Organize competition and distribute Word search to children. Create and distribute wordlists. 5. URLs of similar projects : 6. Committer list Please list the maintainer (lead developer) as the first entry. Only list developers who need to be given accounts so that they can commit to your project's code repository, or push their own. There is no need to list non-committer developers. Username Full name SSH2 key URL E-mail -------- --------- ------------ ------ #1 ptea Phyrum Tea, , [EMAIL PROTECTED] #2 #3 ... If any developers don't have their SSH2 keys on the web, please attach them to the application e-mail. 7. Preferred development model [X] Central tree. Every developer can push his changes directly to the project's git tree. This is the standard model that will be familiar to CVS and Subversion users, and that tends to work well for most projects. [ ] Maintainer-owned tree. Every developer creates his own git tree, or multiple git trees. He periodically asks the maintainer to look at one or more of these trees, and merge changes into the maintainer-owned, "main" tree. This is the model used by the Linux kernel, and is well-suited to projects wishing to maintain a tighter control on code entering the main tree. If you choose the maintainer-owned tree model, but wish to set up some shared trees where all of your project's committers can commit directly, as might be the case with a "discussion" tree, or a tree for an individual feature, you may send us such a request by e-mail, and we will set up the tree for you. 8. Set up a project mailing list: [ ] Yes, named after our project name [ ] Yes, named ______________________ [X] No When your project is just getting off the ground, we suggest you eschew a separate mailing list and instead keep discussion about your project on the main OLPC development list. This will give you more input and potentially attract more developers to your project; when the volume of messages related to your project reaches some critical mass, we can trivially create a separate mailing list for you. If you need multiple lists, let us know. We discourage having many mailing lists for smaller projects, as this tends to stunt the growth of your project community. You can always add more lists later. 9. Commit notifications [ ] Notification of commits to the main tree should be e-mailed to the list we chose to create above [ ] A separate mailing list, <projectname>-git, should be created for commit notifications [X] No commit notifications, please 10. Shell accounts As a general rule, we don't provide shell accounts to developers unless there's a demonstrated need. If you have one, please explain here, and list the usernames of the committers above needing shell access. 11. Notes/comments: Phyrum Tea _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
