[Fhsst-authors] Idea for rapid content development

[Mark]

Hi all

Things have slowed quite a lot on the content development front. Now 
that we are a registered NPO it occurred
to me that we might be able to have a rapid content development drive.

I propose to host a Writing for Scientific Literacy Competition. We 
would need to provide a few prizes to entice a large enough pool of 
entries. We would
have to find a sponsor for the prizes. The competition would consist of 
selecting a section for one of the books from a provided list. To enter 
the candidate would need to write the section under certain guidelines 
to make it appropriate for the books. Judges would then select winners 
from the pool of entries based on how clear and accessible it would be 
to a high school learner. One of the rules would be that any entry can 
be used in the books.

This could lead to a large number of entries which would be used in the 
books.


If we pitched it before the June/July holiday in SA we might get a large 
number of university student entering. I was thinking
we could put up 10 - 15 sections (~4 pages each) for each book. Then if 
enough people enter we'd probably have sufficient
content for all those sections.

I think it would be easy to
- come up with the list of sections
   - we can point them at the Shuttleworth curriculum stuff which is on 
the web
   - also at wikibooks and wikipedia
- come up with volunteer judges - we would need to screen out the top 
20 or so and then we could approach facutly at UCT
- sponsorship ~ R10 000 in total - say a R5000 first prize, R3000 
second and R2000 third prize

Please let me know what you think?

Cheers,

Mark

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Mark Horner                                                                                                         
Jabber/AIM/Yahoo:   marknewlyn                                                               

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