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Last night was our first of a series of evening events that we will be hosting over the next few weeks. We held this particular event at the Field Office, a short walk from the OIS in Cape Town. We…
It came to pass recently that we (and by we I mean just short of 100 volunteers from all over the world!) edited the Free High Schools Science Texts (FHSST) textbooks in the space of 9 days. The…
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Much excitement surrounded the launch of the FullMarks website which took place on the morning of Friday 27 August, at the Mount Nelson Hotel in Cape Town. The Siyavula team has spent weeks…
Our schools are struggling due to the nation wide strike. Learning needs to continue at the schools, many of whom are running on skeleton crews. A group of volunteers have authored a set of open…
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The idea of testing crowdsourcing against a more traditional design process came up last year (you can read about it here) and we decided to do an experiment as we needed new covers for the two sets…
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Neels van der Westhuizen and I met with Mothusi Sebogwa and Jors de Ridder from the North West Education Department On Wednesday and Thursday last week (9th and 10th June) to discuss what the next…
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