Re: [Fhsst-authors] Writing competition - new draft

[Mark Horner]

Hi Riana

Thanks for the input. You raised a very important point about the 
advertising. Nothing is cut
and dried yet but here is what I was thinking of doing.

We would send a small colour poster to various departmental heads with a 
cover letter explaining
the purpose and asking them to make their honours and masters students 
aware of the competition and to put
the poster up somewhere prominent.

We also advertise as much as possible via email (poster attached as a 
pdf file). Secretaries for various organisations/instutes can forward 
the details to their membership. These would be organisations like
the South African Institute of Physics or South African Chemical 
Institute. We can also email it to any
departmental secretaries of any deparments we didn't send a poster to.

The other groups to email will be all the science clubs/councils at 
universities like the Science Students Council at UCT. I know they do 
have development-like activities and the people who they have at least 
passed
an initial science interest filter.

I am completely open to suggestions and criticisms - I actually need to 
get a proper quote for printing of posters and we should maybe bump up 
the number of posters a fair amount. You can never advertise too much :)

Cheers,

Mark

Riana Meyer wrote:

> Hi Mark
>
> Well done, I think the proposal communicates all the necessary 
> information very efficiently. I just have a question.. have we thought 
> how we are going to promote this competition? I saw posters in the 
> budget.. is that just for on UCT campus or are we planning to go a bit 
> wider to recruit entrants? If so we might need a bit more money for 
> promotional purposes.
>
> Cheers
> Riana
>
>
>
> Mark Horner wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone
> >
> > I did some more work on the writing competition idea. The timeline I 
> > have in mind
> > is to have a final proposal for the week of May 9th and then we can 
> > construct a list of
> > people to send it to - and then mail it off the weekend following.
> >
> > I have a very slightly less rough draft than on Wednesday and I am 
> > looking for some
> > comments/suggestions/criticisms.
> >
> > The draft as is stands can be downloaded (450kB) from either of these 
> > links:
> >
> > http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/WritingCompetitionIdeas.pdf
> >
> > OR
> >
> > http://stary2-02.lbl.gov/WritingCompetitionIdeas.pdf
> >
> > So please take a look and if you have any ideas please send them in 
> > to the list - all
> > ideas welcome. We also need to come up with a list of potential 
> > sponsors.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> >
> >
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