[Shacs] wiki.SHACS.org

Mon Sep 11 14:01:02 CDT 2006

I always wished I could edit some of Dr B's notes for spelling. That
disclaimer on the front page specifying that the material was for
"personnel" use only has always bothered me for some reason.

On the other hand, I just can help but think this is part of a much larger,
and more elaborate, scheme for the ultimate PUG incident involving all the
professors' notes.

Jeremy

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From: shacs-bounces at shsu.edu [mailto:shacs-bounces at shsu.edu] On Behalf Of
Pilling, Andrew Alexander
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 1:46 PM
To: SHACS at shsu.edu
Subject: RE: [Shacs] wiki.SHACS.org

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 <mailto:mcguire at shsu.edu>
http://www.shsu.edu/~csc_tjm/ <http://www.shsu.edu/~csc_tjm/> 

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