September 11, 2008
Tasks:
* Wiki Page on Funding Opportunities
http://design4dev.wetpaint.com/page/funding+opportunities
(Please add what you know, Bill and Miguel)
* Find Standardized Test or Curriculum material for 6th grade students in India, Ghana, and Brazil (Focus on Math Skills, but try to find entire test)
India - Anuj
Brazil - Miguel
Ghana - Bill
Soft Deadline: September 18, 1 week from now
* Develop Interaction Design and Specifications for a good math learning game that can be programmed for the TVC
Derek and Anuj
Deadline: Sept 25
* Write Business Plan for Brazil Market
Miguel
Deadline: November 1
* Find out difficulty, cost, and minimum order quantity for building cartridges based upon our ROMs
Derek
Deadline: Sept 25
Soft Targets:
* Build open-source programming community... discuss programming platforms... distribute programming environment and toolset
* Plan outcomes for field distribution of TVC: How will we benefit from doing this? What questions do we need to ask? What is the method or procedure that should be followed?
Meeting Review:
Today we discussed the relationship between non-profit and for-profit playpower. Miguel discussed his plans for distribution and market research in brazil with ttp://www.itsbrasil.org.br/ . We discussed the imporatance of focusing on building content for the existing TVC platform.
As a plan for content production, we discused: 1. identifying important skills that are tested n standardized tests in target market (ghana, india, brazil) 2. identify skill training games that address those skills 3. build a cartridge that contains these skill training games 4. enable for-profit distribution of branded TVCs containing this cartridge
Announcement:
Derek is presenting a paper about playpower and TVCs at the Meaningful Play conference. He wishes to publish several other papers as well.
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