idea: Contest and promoting Rev to the world

[Marielle Lange]

>No problem with it at all, I don't think. Sandy Beadle was talking to me
>about porting over the old HC example stacks and she talked to Kevin
>about it at the Monterey conference. He was fully supportive. I
>encouraged her to do it, and in those cases where the scripts or
>examples were outdated, to create new ones. She is seriously considering it.

>To avoid duplication of effort, anyone who wants to help with this
>project should probably get in touch with Sandy. If she's on this list,
>maybe she will respond.

>Sounds promising! Come in Sandy Beadle...

Glad to see members of the use-revolution also come up with this proposal... We
had similar talks on the education list. See under the "abstracts" heading at:
<http://revolution.lexicall.org/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=RevolutionProjects>
(text reproduced below for convenience).

But to prevent duplication, it is necessary to have some co-ordination taking
place. If this can be of help, I will gladly offer a space on the wiki to help
with this (can create a subgroup of users, with dedicated pages, dedicated
forum, dedicated ftp account, dedicated image gallery, to share resources
within the group, with upload authorizations based on group membership or
project administrator status). However,I am personally not in a position to
take care of the co-ordination of this initiative.

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(copy from the relevant text on the revolution-education wiki)

On the Revolution-education mailing list, some persons mentioned it would be
great to have a book helping to rapidly get to grasp with revolution and its
use in education. I would enjoy doing this but I do not have enough free time
to do it alone. That's probably the same for most of you.
* Why not try to produce it collaboratively (open source)?
* What is your opinion on the idea of a book, of what such a book should
contain? Should it be text-based. Should it rather contain a lot of pre-coded
and easy to adapt stacks? Should we try to produce a revolution application
that combines an exercise editor combined with a tutorial sheet that describes
what each exercise is known to achieve (learning theories)?
* As a busy educator, what resources do you need to help you quick started with
revolution?
* Express your views!
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Marielle