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Re: [Fhsst-authors] Idea for rapid content development |
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Sun, 20 Mar 2005 11:41:52 -0800 |
Sounds like a great idea!!! I'd suggest showing a sample, "model"
example so people know what sort of thing you are looking for and
figuring out some way so that people don't have to spend ages learning
latex, pstricks, etc. My feeling would be that the focus should be on
the content of the chapter, not the computer skills of the people
writing it.
Hell, you might even get me entering - that's enough money for a flight
home ;)
Enjoy Brookhaven...
Heather
On Mar 20, 2005, at 6:55 AM, Mark wrote:
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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