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Re: [Fhsst-authors] Idea for rapid content development |
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Mon, 21 Mar 2005 09:20:14 +0200 |
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Hey Mark
Great stuff.
Congrats on the NPO thing.
I've met up with Ismail and we've organised a stand here for past few days. He's
gone back to Durbs now but I'll only take the stand down tomorrow (last day of
scifest) and return the posters to him in first weekend in april. Feedback was
VERY positive and lots of people wanted the books! Ismail will tell you more as
he was manning the stand most of the time. He's a cool dude - brought flyers
also and had his laptop there to show people the site. I'm unable to man the
stand all the time but we've placed it in a nice position and posters have been
getting lots of attention - plus there's flyers there now.
Gotta run now but chat to Ismail more about things - please forward this to
Spencer - don't have his ad offhand.
cool banananaaas
kg
Quoting Mark <address@hidden>:
> Hi Heather
>
> I agree with you completely. We would need to allow submission in almost
> any digital format - I
> think one of our problems has been how foreign LaTeX, PSTricks and CVS
> are to some
> people (most people).
>
> I do think we'll have to restrict entries to being in digital format. If
> people start faxing in hand-written sections
> it won't be of any use to us. There would be some hard work for the
> admin team in converting all the useful
> content and incorporating it even if we get everything digitally.
>
> I haven't thoroughly worked out the rules yet (and I'd appreciate any
> input). I have some ideas for the rules and I'll
> try to put them down on paper (email) and send them out for suggestions
> later this week. The hardest part will
> be trying to find a sponsor but I am optimistic.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
>
> Heather Gray wrote:
>
> > 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
> >>
> >> --
> >> --
> >> Mark
> >> Horner
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> >> marknewlyn
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> Mark Horner
>
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