[Shacs] wiki.SHACS.org

[Pilling, Andrew Alexander]

As much as we all love money the point wasn't to sell/publish Dr. B's
notes, or any other professor's notes, but rather offer the students a
means to correct spelling, grammatical, and indexing errors while at the
same time have a chance to contribute real-life examples and perhaps
animated examples to the wiki'd notes. It was also suggested as a means
to help promote class participation and raise interest by having a
chance to claim a more lasting stake in helping others. Pretty much the
same concept that has driven the more reliable info on Wikipedia;
speaking of which I was hoping to implement a strategy similar to what
the German language Wikipedia is using for distinguishing between
publicly seen and "proposed" material.
 
In honesty, I was also hoping to mirror the site and offer real-life
analogies of a more amusing and satirical nature. The power that you may
pray to knows there's plenty of it in our field of work/study.
 
-Drew

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From: shacs-bounces at shsu.edu [mailto:shacs-bounces at shsu.edu] On Behalf
Of Dr. Tim McGuire
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 9:45 AM
To: shacs at shsu.edu
Subject: Re: [Shacs] wiki.SHACS.org


Just a clarification... it is my understanding that the CS faculty who
have their class notes published do not get royalties from the publisher
paid to them for those copies purchased by Sam students.  The students
still pay royalties, but those funds have to go back to the university.



	Note there are other faculty in CS who publish their class
notes, especially CS133, 138, and 143 and make several thousand dollars
a year more from the publishers for their efforts.  


-- 
Timothy J. McGuire, Ph.D.
Department of Computer Science
Sam Houston State University
Huntsville, Texas  77341-2090
(936)294-1571	mcguire at shsu.edu	http://www.shsu.edu/~csc_tjm/

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