Extremely busy..

Whohow, I guessed this to happen, but still..

I´m doing three web courses to the University. One of them is vastly laborious and the other two "normal".

I´m also doing this Open Source Management -course, trying to learn Wesnoth.

Then there are these two Mauri´s courses, also done in the web.

And then there is the last two sections of my mediapedagogy (approbatur) studies..

Yep, I´m also working.

Just have to say, I wonder how I manage this all but I just do :)

OSM: Battle for Wesnoth IV

We´ve been working with the campaign in TRAC of this course.

I´ve been thinking of the story etc. and now I´m getting to know the coding and so on needed to make the campaign..

http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/Create

OSM: Battle for Wesnoth III

I´ve just played three hours..

I played the same campaign (Etelän Vartiosto) and the same level (siviili). This time I didn´t have to figure out the terms ;) Campaign is OK, when you know it.

It´s funny how you just click the text field even though it´s not said to be done. Maybe somehow you think there must be more information if I click this or something.

This time I tried different tactics. I collected different amounts of warriors and different sets. I Managed to get over the river, but got defeated. Then I didn´t have any money. Well, then I started thinking of the villages (oh, a house is a village ;) and got some money from there. So then I started to go back and forth between the village and the fortress..

And then I noticed that the enemies aren´t safe when they are in the villages..

Well, then I found a new problem. I selected same warriors which I just had moved or something and couldn´t get the selection off so I made double moves...

I managed to be a bit more careful with the moves, refreshed my warriors in the village and send new ones all the time. I also found a warrior called Aleran. Game started to flow and I won Urza Math :) But I did it by night, there was no way to fight just by day time.

From the winning I got 255 pieces of gold :) I won in 15 sifts, there was 17 still left.

Next assignment was to win back the city of West. I played this around four times or even more. First I lost because I used the same strategy and left Deoran to the starting fortress to get more warriors. Deoran was supposed to get to the West.. Somehow I thought that you should first empty the city or something. OK, it was said that the city must be won back in 10 sifts.

Then I lost a couple of times, maybe because of not so wise moves. And some of the enemies were weird, it wasn´t so easy to hurt them.

I managed to fool around also with the loading ;) I loaded a replay or something when I wanted to try again :D

Then I discovered that by clicking the right tap of the mouse you can take back the selection of a warrior.. It helped a lot! I managed to get Deoran to the city but he was so week that the next assignment got short.. There was these new characters, also with the enemy. Have to continue some other day!

This gave something to think about but mostly I felt that it takes looong time to learn some strategies..

We´ve been planning our own campaign here: http://trac.htk.tlu.ee/osm/wiki/BlueTeam

OSM: Battle for Wesnoth II

Hmmm.. I seem to be not that good strategic..

Well at the beginning the word "kampanja" was confusing. I search for a word like "aloita" or something. When "kampanja" was the only word worth trying I tried it. Since the others were obviously something else. But I expected there to be instructions of something.

And when I realized that "kampanja" was a kind of style to play the game, to choose the situation, then the word "kampanja" was quite ok. Maybe on the first page should be a kind of text box telling that if you want to start an individual game choose your "kampanja" first.

From the campaigns I chose the "Etelän vartiosto" since it was a kind of introduction to Wesnoth. And I took the "siviili" -level since it was recommended to beginners. BTW the first longer text on the foreword was in English, the others in Finnish.

Are there any female characters? Not that I mind, but it would give some variety :)

The music is nice, it supports the story and creates the atmosphere, but isn´t too controlling.

At the beginning of the game I was confused. What should I do? Ok, there were this talk boxes which told where to go, but it isn´t so clear what you can do and how much on your turn. The idea of these kind of adventure/role games is excellent, that the enemy has it´s turn.

It´s good that there are these talk boxes and some automatic moves, cause otherwise playing would be more difficult. Quite many times I was in the situation of thinking "what now?". And just did something and ended my turn.

I didn´t get quite far from the river and "Jokilinnoitus". My gold was spend quite fast, I didn´t realize that I could keep my main character all the time in the fortress and make him have more people. It was not clear where to get more gold, but somehow it was collected in turns.

My first game was mostly WTF and defending. Next time I´ll try to be more aggressive. I thought I was it this time, but obviously not. I ended the game before loosing, it started to repeat the same pattern (get one man with the gold I managed to have - oh, another is dead - oh, the enemy is healing it´s men - yeppiii...)

Another strategy next time! Maybe today..

OSM: Battle for Wesnoth

Haa, finally I had time :)
I downloaded Battle for Wesnoth and got a glimpse of it. Seems interesting!
As a e.g. Giana Sisters -addict, adventure games are always something worth getting familiar with.
http://c64s.com/game/1397/giana_sisters/

(I had a Commodore 64 as a kid, and was VERY happy when the emulators came!)

OSM: FSF & OSI

Free Software Foundation
* Free software is a matter of liberty not price.
* Established in 1985
* The FSF promotes the development and use of free software, particularly the GNU operating system, used widely in its GNU/Linux variant.
http://www.fsf.org/
Free Software Foundation in Wikipedia

"Free software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions only to ensure that further recipients can also do these things."
Source

Open Source Initiative
* California public benefit corporation, with 501(c)3 tax-exempt status, founded in 1998.
* Stewards of the Open Source Definition (OSD) and the community-recognized body for reviewing and approving licenses as OSD-conformant.
* Actively involved in Open Source community-building and education. OSI Board members frequently travel the world to attend Open Source conferences and events, meet with open source developers and users, and to discuss with executives from the public and private sectors about how Open Source technologies, licenses, and models of development can provide economic and strategic advantages.
http://www.opensource.org/
Open Source Initiative in Wikipedia

"Open source software is computer software whose source code is available under a license (or arrangement such as the public domain) that permits users to use, change, and improve the software, and to redistribute it in modified or unmodified form. It is often developed in a public, collaborative manner."
Source

Differences?
FS is more free of these two. It´s totally free to use, study, modify and distribute. Only restriction is that the possible modifications has to be also free to the next recipients. OS is free to use, study, modify and distribute only under license or for example public domain. The other difference is that OS is developed in more collaborative manner.

Open Source Management

This blog came back in use now cause I started to study in Tallinn University. This is going to be a kind of diary for Open Source Management -course.