What does “number of reads” mean?
January 13, 2011
To calculate how many times our m-novels are read we look at the number of page views of the last chapter (assumption: if a reader is on the last chapter of a story then he or she has read all…
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Experiences of Uploading Latex to Connexions
November 19, 2010
Some time ago I started on the process of uploading all the updated versions of the Free High School Science Texts (FHSST) to Connexions. The books cover grades 10 – 12 maths and physical science…
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- Chapter, high school science, Mark Horner, process, time, typesetting mark
Hackathon Three – Third Time’s a Charm!
October 20, 2010
This week’s Hackathon saw our biggest turnout of volunteers yet. We had a total of 30 people including our small Siyavula team, and room L of the RW James building, UCT, was buzzing with…
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- Chapter, Hackathon, phet simulations, pizza orders, rw james, time
Hackathon Two – Another Success Story!
October 13, 2010
For the first time in recorded history, a FHSST Hackathon was run by an all women team without the supervision of a founding FHSST member. Heather, Carine, Natalia and I took charge as Mark was…
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First FHSST Hackathon of 2010
October 6, 2010
It was awesome! Great turnout + great food + great people + great atmosphere = excellent work done! We arrived at our venue on the University of Cape Town (UCT) campus armed with laptops, snacks,…
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FHSST books proof-reading marathon / hackathon
September 13, 2010
The week of the FHSST proof-reading was the most unbelievable whirlwind of top science minds coming together with amazing generosity. This all began at lunchtime on Wednesday 25 August, when Mark…
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- Chapter, Mark Shuttleworth, OIS, order, reading marathon, social networking sites
“wt due respect check da script b4 sndn it”
March 25, 2010
Last week Kontax 2: The Big Win was published on a mobisite and on MXit, unfortunately with spelling and grammatical errors in the text. This was embarrassing for the author, proofreader and myself,…
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