[Sugar-devel] Fwd: Free From Malaria Game

[World Class Project- Dev Team]

Hi James, Everyone
 

> It is important that the health message be controlled by those who are
> qualified to review it; medical professionals and research group

 
I agree with you about the need to peer review health messages. However all of
the content, the story, the text and the guidance has been resourced and
motivated from peer reviewed scientific sources, I will put all citations and
references on the world class project soon this weekend.
 
Although we are not experts in Malaria research we are post-graduate students in
biological sciences and have used our knowledge of the parasite and its
epidemiology to construct the story. The health messages and guidance have also
been sourced from UNICEF and WHO guidelines for malaria prevention, sometimes
near ad verbatim. We would welcome reviews by health professionals however would
like to note that the content covers the most basic/common knowledge of health
messages with respect to Malaria prevention. 
 
> It is also important that Sugar Labs hosts software with a permissive
> license.
 
Our main concern is not about giving unrestricted creative commons access to end
users, it relates to giving non-qualified people the ability to change the
content, hence the creative commons restrictions on the images. The rest of the
content, the software code, is open source and modifiable under GPL3.0 including
the text of the story. 
 
> Perhaps this can be resolved by splitting the delivery software from the
> content.
 
I'm not quite sure what this means, however the delivery software contains the
story book images, 2 games and maps of Malaria endemic regions. The
only aspect that can be split is the text of the story.
 
If this is the general consensus I can separate the textual narrative
into localized content, i.e. a customizable text file to allow users to change
the text content of the story. Although this risks having unmaintainable
versions of the game, with possible different and possible conflicting messages.
That is why we originally hoped to have a single generic narrative applicable to
all Malaria endemic regions, which is then translated into various languages
using pootle. This way a single "approved/reviewed" health message is translated
into various languages, we can then perform an additional review of these
translations by more qualified people. So far we have received one commentary on
the narrative which helped us get the health message across.
 
Joel
 
>Then it might make it less offensive/scary to generalize the name?
>(Generally, kids are pretty smart and you don't have to hit them over  
>the head with things like this.
>Their parents, on the other hand, ... )
 
Do you mean rename the game from FreeFromMalaria, is that what you mean
when referring to scary/offensive?
 
>Anyway, and apologizing for not taking the time to try the game,  
>World Class Project 殿, are you considering making the game playable  
>from both sides? In other words, giving it both an attack mode and a  
>protect mode?
 
The 2 interactive games, in-between the comic are both attack and protect
"mode". The first game is about attacking the host, the second is about swatting
the mosquitoes and protecting from them until you "win" a bed net and window
grill.
 
I hope this goes some way in addressing the concerns,
 
Thanks
World Class Project
 
 
 
 
 

On 24 June 2010 at 03:18 James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 09:04:37AM -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
> > Developer without a name wrote:
> >
> > > The images are not meant to be modified since it contains material and
> > > information about health and we want to maintain the integrity of the
> > > story
> > > to the information displayed. All text is rendered as fonts and strings
> > > and
> > > a future release with Pootle annotation will be provided in order to allow
> > > translation and localisation.
> >
> > There are more disease associated to mosquitoes. In my country Dengue have
> > the
> > same preventions and the game will be very useful. Probably there are more
> > situations where a modification of the game will be useful for a particular
> > deployment.
>
> It is important that the health message be controlled by those who are
> qualified to review it; medical professionals and research groups.
>
> Pootle translation may not be sufficient, since a translation won't
> necessarily be reviewed by medical professionals.
>
> It is also important that Sugar Labs hosts software with a permissive
> license.
>
> Perhaps this can be resolved by splitting the delivery software from the
> content.
>
> --
> James Cameron
> http://quozl.linux.org.au/
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