[Fhsst-authors] Re: Free Science Textbook details (fwd)

[Mark Horner]

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Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 09:08:54 +0200
From: Susan Bourne <address@hidden>
To: Mark Horner <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Free Science Textbook details

Hi Mark

Just spotted your message in my inbox which reminded me : I have sent
your message out to all graduate students and lecturers in Chemistry.
I've spoken to a few who seemed interested, so hopefully you'll have had
(or will get) some volunteers.  Let me know how it's going?

Susan


Mark Horner wrote:
>
> Hi Susan,
>
> Here is a brief description of what we are trying to do. There are many
> more details on our website which is pretty quick to read.
>
> We have formed a group with the objectives mentioned below. We are looking
> for contributions from anyone who can help. To date we have written most
> of the physics core content we need (>100 pages). We need some guidance
> with the chemistry sections we hope to include and to this end we are
> looking for volunteers with a better grounding in chemistry than the current
> members of our group.
>
> *Mission statement:
> To combine the efforts of many individuals to produce a quality science
> and maths textbook for grades 10 - 12 (Std. 8 - 10) which can be provided
> for free. The books must be self contained and useful as a textbook or
> additional teaching resource. It should be pitched so that it can be used
> by an english second languague speaker. We hope that a dedicated student
> could teach themselves the entire course by working through our book.
>
> We hope to achieve this with a spirit of community and charity, using the
> ideas and principles of the opensource software community. It has been
> shown time and time again that many small contributions can lead to great
> things.
>
> *Why?
> Education, education, education! Our group believes that education is the
> key to making South Africa a wonderful place for all to live! This project
> was started by physics students from UCT and we felt this is the best way
> we could contribute to education in SA.
>
> Our website (unfortunately not 100% complete) is:
>
> http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/
>
> On it we list the variour types of contributions we are looking for as
> well as the people who have already commited to helping.
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark Horner
>
> Physics Department
> University of Cape Town
> Rondebosch
> 7700
> South Africa
>
> Phone: +27 21 650 3366 (office)
> Phone: +27 83 564 6272 (cellular)
> Fax:   +27 21 650 3342
>
> Homepage:
> http://hep.phy.uct.ac.za/~horner
>
> Co-author:
> http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/fhsst
>
> "It went well. There are no problems, and, as a bonus, it showed that I
> have a brain!"
> - Stormers and Springbok backrower CORNE KRIGE speaking after undergoing a
> precautionary brain scan after a clash of heads during a Super 12 match.

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