The list of projects there are more focused than just sugar in general; more appropriate for the $10,000 price level. If "we" want to compete, we should agree on a focused feature that we could promise for that kind of money. I'd nominate something about collaboration - getting collaboration really working well for just Write would be great. Really working well means the whole workflow from a teacher's perspective: giving an assignment to several groups; having the groups collaboratively create documents, including both synchronous and asynchronous sessions; getting the first draft; adding teacher comments and handing it back; getting a second draft; etc. This should all work in various networking scenarios. Bonus points if making sugar/nonsugar collaboration work is easy. Other bonus points if it strengthens bemasc's "without even trying" auto-collaborating python data structures. Clearly, to make the idea more attractive and likely to win, we'd have to emphasize that Sugar can work on non-OLPC platforms. Improving Sugar's portability could be left out, included as part of the same proposal, or be its own separate proposal. I'd vote to include some of that work as part of the same proposal. Jameson <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 12:28 AM, Edward Cherlin <<a href="mailto:echerlin@gmail.com">echerlin@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I take back the taking back. They _do_ accept new ideas, but not on the <a href="http://usaid.gov" target="_blank">usaid.gov</a> site or the <a href="http://globaldevelopmentcommons.net" target="_blank">globaldevelopmentcommons.net</a> site. You have to go to <a href="http://www.netsquared.org/usaid" target="_blank">http://www.netsquared.org/usaid</a>.</blockquote><div>... </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Once the project submission process has closed, we will hold a community vote to select the top fifteen projects. Those projects will then go in front of a panel of USAID-selected judges who will determine the three winners. OK, here goes nothing.</blockquote></div>