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-*<b>Project name:</b>
+*<b>Project name: News Your Own Adventure</b>
-*<b>Your team:</b> Please list project team members
+*<b>Your team:</b>
+- Chris Droukas ()
+- Dan Schultz (http://www.slifty.com || @slifty)
+- Erhardt Graeff ()
+- Laurian Gridinoc ()
 *<b>Project URL(s), if applicable:</b>
+http://www.newsquest.me
+https://github.com/openNews/NewsYourOwnAdventure/
 *<b>Hashtag, if #relevant:</b>
+#newsquest
-*<b>What are you building:</b> What will the thing you are creating do, enable or solve, in 1 human-readable paragraph
+*<b>What are you building:</b>
+News Your Own Adventure mashes up news articles about the same topic to make it possible for readers to decide what story angles to dive into more deeply.  After reading each paragraph the reader is asked to decide what the next part of the story should be.  Should Barack say something funny?  Do they want to hear more about the war?  As content is pulled left and right from different sources it becomes possible to understand the larger narrative while also learning more about the topic at hand.
-*<b>Who is it for:</b> Describe your target user audience, e.g. "Everyone who uses the internet", "people in high risk environments", "People who still read 'Peanuts'"
+*<b>Who is it for:</b>
+Anyone who likes interactive storytelling.
-*<b>Your goal for this weekend:</b> where are you trying to get to by 2:45pm Sunday in terms of features, functionality or other creations
+*<b>Your goal for this weekend:</b>
+To create a prototype / demo of the system that works for at least one topic.  Ideally we'll have something that works from any starting article.
-*<b>Your starting point:</b> Are you writing from scratch? Designing a new concept? Modeling a data space? Extending a codebase or library? Adding a feature to a platform? Combining tools?
+*<b>Your starting point:</b>
+The interface is "from scratch" -- the backend uses several NLP tools from Standford and CMU.  Frontend is using jquery, but otherwise we're designing it from the ground up.
-*<b>Anything else we should know:</b> At most 1 non-long paragraph of useful additional context
+*<b>Anything else we should know:</b> NO!