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=== Prerequisites ===

As part of your application, you'll need to complete the following tasks and provide us with links to your creations in your application. Work you have already done can count towards this. If you can think of a different way to demonstrate similar skills, you can [[Talk:Grassroots bootcamp/Prerequisites|ask for an alternative to be approved]].

== Activity creation ==

''Knowledge demonstrated: programming, Activity-making, mediawiki usage''

Create and release an .xo [[Activity]] with a wikipage - with screenshots - documenting its installation and usage. 

== Translation ==

''Knowledge demonstrated: i18n considerations, pootle''

Translate at least 40 terms in [http://dev.laptop.org/translate pootle]. If you don't know a foreign language, find a friend who does and sit down with them; they provide the translations, you put them in.

== Testing ==

''Knowledge demonstrated: testing, bug reporting, Trac''

Find at least 2 bugs in any software or hardware that ships by default, [http://dev.laptop.org create Trac tickets] for them, and cc yourself on the tickets.

== Community support ==

''Knowledge demonstrated: repair, community support, RT, IRC''

Resolve 10 [http://rt.laptop.org RT tickets] (deletions of spam don't count). List the ticket numbers resolved and your username. If you don't have RT access, apply to the [[Support gang]] program or provide us with transcripts of 10 email or IRC exchanges demonstrating you helping other people fix their XO-related problems. (RT, support)

== Educational theory ==

''Knowledge demonstrated: proposal-writing and project-planning, teaching, Constructionism, open-source philosophy''

Write a draft of a pilot proposal (minimum 800 words). Post both the proposal and a peer review of it (hint: one good way to get someone else to review your proposal is to offer to review theirs in exchange). Your intended audience is educators and parents - people who may not have a lot of technical or open-source background, but whose overriding questions are "how will this help students learn?" and "how is it possible for this to happen?" You should have a specific school/deployment-site in mind, or a paragraph on how you will find one and what selection criteria will be used. Back up your arguments with citations from the field of educational theory, and cite your sources. At least two of your sources should be published books or papers on education (suggestion: Seymour Papert is a useful author to look for). During the bootcamp we will be refining pilot proposals and moving them towards implementation.