Workspace for a Nevada Open Source Graphics and Game Development Contest

Add your thoughts for development of the following contest idea to expand awareness of open source software and identify Nevada's evolving young "creative class".

Concept

Develop a contest based on use of open source graphics and game development applications to create 2D, 3D illustrations, animations and games.

Name Ideas

Brainstorm, Mindstorm, Graphatix, Graphatics, Grafatix, Nevatics, Nevadix, ????

-- Gary Lyon - 10 Apr 2005 - "The Infinitech Project - Exploring Unlimited Creativity, Unleashing Infinite Possibilities"

Eligible Participants

Any school age kid throughout Nevada working alone or in teams (physical or virtual - but all members must be from Nevada)

??? Should the contest have 'divisions' based on age or type of submission, i.e. 2D, 3D, animations, games?

Potential Sponsors/Funders

• IGT

• National Science Foundation - Informal Science Education grant announcement

• Soros Institute Open Society Youth Initiatives

• Cicsco Foundation

• Lucas Foundation/Edutopia

• SBC Excelerator Program grant announcement

• Sony Foundation

• Pixar

• We the People: Request for Proposals for Developing a Model for a National History Competition Grant http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/NEH/OPUB/OPO/NEH-GRANTS-041405-001/listing.html

• ???

Categories

• 2D graphics
• 3D graphics
• Animations - "Open concept", problem-solving/project-based (i.e. develop animation to illustrate your approach to solve the following problem/challenge ....how would you create a self-sustaining food system for people living on Mars???)
• Games - "Open concept", based on basic story outline???

Structure Thoughts

The contest would be conducted over a period of one calendar year and divided into phases where participants would post status reports on this site which would be universally visible to all other participants and interested parties. Prizes would be provided by public and private sponsors and could include books, scholarships, trips to Pixar or IGT ?????

• Phase 1 -
• Phase 2 -
• Phase 3 -

Eligible Applications

• [http://www.blender.org[Blender]]- the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback (see the features and screenshots). Available for Windows, Linux, Irix, Sun Solaris, FreeBSD or Mac OS X under the GNU Public License.

• [http://www.gimp.org[Gimp]] - the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.

• ????

Awards

• Cash??
• Scholarships
• Books
• Training
• ???