Teachers Write an Open Textbook In a Weekend Hackathon

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday September 29, 2012 @09:59AM from the get-it-right-the-first-time dept.

linjaaho writes "A group of Finnish mathematics researchers, teachers and students write an upper secondary mathematics textbook in a three-day booksprint. The event started on Friday 28th September at 9:00 (GMT+3) and the book will be (hopefully) ready on Sunday evening. The book is written in Finnish. The result — LaTeX source code and the PDF — is published with open CC-BY-license. As far as the authors know, this is the first time a course textbook is written in three-day hackathon. The hackathon approach has been used earlier mainly for coding open source software and writing manuals for open source software. The progress can be followed by visiting the repository at GitHub or the project Facebook page."

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I hope they manage to by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-29 10:03 · Score: 3, Funny

Finnish it... Get it? Finnish... it?
1. Re:I hope they manage to by tomhath · 2012-09-29 10:14 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I doubt it, they're not Russian.
2. Re:I hope they manage to by K.+S.+Kyosuke · 2012-09-29 10:28 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I fail to see how their nationality could be German to this discussion.
  
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  Ezekiel 23:20
3. Re:I hope they manage to by neapolitan · 2012-09-29 10:34 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  There were insufficient bathroom breaks; European in the seat.
  
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  Slashdotter, ID #101. UIDs are in binary, right?
4. Re:I hope they manage to by Seumas · 2012-09-29 15:05 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  They didn't have much time for meal breaks. They were so Hungary.