From: sbrant@npal.rn.com (Steve Brant)
Newsgroups: alt.config,alt.education.distance
Subject: Re: Proposal for the creation of alt.authorware
Date: 1 Oct 92 16:12:23 GMT
Organization: PalNet -- Indianapolis, Indiana

In article <yy6qbn9x@cck.coventry.ac.uk>, esz001@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Will Overington) writes:
> Wednesday 30th September 1992
> 
> Proposal for the creation of alt.authorware
> 
> I am proposing in alt.config, cross-posted to
> alt.education.distance, the creation of a new group called
> alt.authorware.
> 
> The intention, subject to the results of any discussions on the
> net, is that alt.authorware shall be a special group for
> discussions relating to the use of the Authorware package, which
> is produced by Authorware, Inc..
> 
> This is certainly a specialist topic, though one for which those
> who are involved in using Authorware is a very important one.
> 
> I started using Authorware on Monday and am starting to get into
> it.  I am a programmer on the staff of Coventry University,
> including being a programming adviser.  From next week, a number
> of final year undergraduates are to be started off on projects
> involving using Authorware to create open learning packages.
> They will be under the supervision of a lecturer who has a lot of
> experience with Authorware.  As well as installing the software
> on the PCs, I am hoping to be able to help the students on a day
> to day basis as they work on their projects.  A thriving
> alt.authorware group, where they can read views from around the
> world, with discussions at a state-of-the-art level, would be a
> great benefit.  Discussions with other students working on
> Authorware based projects, would, I feel, be an added advantage.
> 
> The number of students to be involved is not yet fixed, as there
> is an element of choosing projects with some flexibility on the
> numbers.  That is, all sorts of projects of which an Authorware
> based project is just one of the things on offer.
> 
> Authorware has a vast number of possibilities.
> 
> The group will not be moderated.  I will do my best to try to
> keep an archive, but hope that others will also wish to do this
> as well.
> 
> As well as discussions on programming and presentation aspects,
> the group is intended also as a forum for discussion of copyright
> aspects and so on.
> 
> I am fully aware that Authorware is a licensed product and that
> permission to publish finished work is part of the licensing, and
> also a matter of copyright of the open learning package author.
> I am not in charge of Authorware here and will need to go into
> the details of the licensing.  However, if it can be legally and
> properly done, maybe the group can facilitate the circulation of
> open learning packages produced using Authorware, by the various
> methods of servers and the like.
> 
> Comments and support is welcomed, preferably posted, but by
> e-mail if you wish.
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                                                     Steven B. Brant
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