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===1. Project Title & Shipment Detail=== |
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===3. Objectives (Bulleted list) === |
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::''Concrete proposals with defined, measurable outcomes are much more likely to result in a laptop than "it would be cool to play with these and demo them".'' |
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Revision as of 02:00, 13 March 2009
INSTRUCTIONS:
Copy this entire Project Proposal Form into an email, then complete all 8 fields.
Include your project title, and any countries connected to your project, in the subject line of your email.
Email to: contributors @ laptop.org
Respond in complete sentences where possible! Be concise.
1. Project Title & Shipment Detail
- Name of Project: (WEB-PUBLISHED)
- Shipping Address You've Verified:
- Number of Laptops You Request to Borrow:
- Loan Length—How Many Months:
2. Team Participants (In list form)
- Name(s) & Contact Info: (include email addresses & phone numbers)
- Teams of more than 1 person are not required, but favored!
- Employer and/or School:
- Past Experience/Qualifications:
3. Objectives (Bulleted list)
- Project Objectives: (WEB-PUBLISHED)
- Concrete proposals with defined, measurable outcomes are much more likely to result in a laptop than "it would be cool to play with these and demo them".
4. Plan of Action (One or more paragraphs)
- Plan and Procedure for Achieving the Stated Objectives:
5. Needs (A few sentences)
- Why is this project needed?
- Locally?
- In the greater OLPC/Sugar community?
- Outside the community?
- Why can't this project be done in emulation using non-XO machines?
- Why are you requesting the number of machines you are asking for?
- Will you consider (1) salvaged/rebuilt or (2) damaged XO Laptops?
6. Sharing Deliverables (A few sentences)
- Project URL:
- How will you convey tentative ideas & results back to the OLPC/Sugar community, prior to completion?
- How will the final fruits of your labor be distributed to children or community members worldwide?
- Will your work have any possible application or use outside our community?
- If yes, how will these people be reached?
- Have you investigated working with nearby XO Lending Libraries or Project Groups?
7. Quality (Can be a bulleted list)
- Would your Project benefit from Support, Documentation and/or Testing people?
- Teachers' input into Usability?
- How will you promote your work?
- Can we help you with an experienced mentor from the OLPC/Sugar community?
- If YES: specify the kind of Ongoing Mentoring that will benefit you most.
- If NO: specify who will help you share your progress, creations & results.
8. Timeline (Show start to finish)
- Please include a Proposed timeline for your Project life-cycle: (this can be in the form of Month 1, Month 2, etc rather than specific dates)
- Include a couple milestones, even if tentative.
- Specify how you prefer to communicate your ongoing progress and obstacles!
- [ ] I agree to pass on the laptop(s) to a local OLPC group or other interested contributors in case I do not have need for the laptop(s) anymore or in case my project progress stalls.