[Fhsst-authors] News: Good month for FHSST

[Mark Horner]

Hi all

Its been a pretty good month. We are definitely picking up some good 
momentum.

We have some new contributors:
- Heather Gray has joined and is helping with some physics and looking 
into doing some recruiting
specifically for trigonometry
- Gray Africa is writing an essay on "Science: Skills for Life" which 
will go at the beginning of
the science sections. Gray is a chemical engineer who then did the 
accounts conversion, moved on to
management consulting and is now doing his MBA.
- Dr. Shaun Kirchmann from the CSIR has joined us and will be helping 
get essays on the applications of
science in the real world and perhaps some editing. Note we are looking 
for suggestions for essay topics.
- Vanessa McBride has also volunteered to help now that her MSc is out 
the way

Feel free to recruit more people, we can just break tasks down.

We received the first chemistry contributions and the first maths 
contributions from Dawn and Andrea respectively.
Lara assures me that her gang are on track which is great!

The Dean of Science at UCT gave us his stamp of approval and Prof. 
Rochford of the Education Department is
still on board. We need to contact him in the next week or so to 
finalise arrangements. For those who don't know
his class of teachers in training will help to edit the book so that it 
meets outcomes based criteria.

On the publicity front we were contacted by a reporter from the Sowetan 
about an article and there may be a Business Day
article in the pipeline.

I have added some of the pstricks packages that make life difficult on a 
default install of Linux. Now you should be able
to latex fhsst without installing anything extra. My new system had no 
problems.

On the whole things are looking good, keep up the good work!

Cheers,

Mark