Re: [school-discuss] Contest in GCompris board creation

[Doug Loss <drloss@suscom.net>]

Hilaire Fernandes wrote:

> Finaly it looks like the EPI games in one hand and the contest idea in
> the other one could be linked, and the EPI game could be an excuse to
> set up a contest where  the participant will have to port one EPI board
> to GCompris, then the best ones would be rewarded. 
> Also it will be very cool to organize the event under the School Forge
> umbrella (so this mail in this list), just another occasion to work
> together and to strengthen our actions in the promotion of Free Software
> in Education. Probably the contest idea could be extend in other domain
> with the ressources of the participating members org. of SF. 
I think this sounds like a very good idea!  Of course, all the EPI games 
are in French (as you would expect), and so might be difficult for 
non-French-speakers to understand.  Could someone pick, say, the first 
group of EPI games and describe them to us so we know how they work and 
what their educational rationale is?

This would be something needed before the contest starts so participants 
have common "targets" to work towards.

How should such a contest be structured?  Would we pick winning 
equivalents for each EPI game, or first, second, and third place winners 
for each game, or something else again?  Would we run contests for all 
the games at the same time, or put up three or four games at a time with 
a call for ports?  What kind of deadline (how much time) should we have 
for each contest?

The success of such contests often depends on how widely publicized they 
are.  Where besides here should we publicize this contest?

I'm sure there are many more questions to be answered, but those are 
ones that occur to me quickly.

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