Let's create a timeless educational tale for the next generation of learners...earn community status and rewards–help push American (and global) STEM education forward 🤓 ☄️.
We put together this effort to bring Americans (and the world) together through creativity and collaboration!
Story–the entire book manuscript can be found here
Front-end–React Native client repo can be found here for The Nestomir Digital
Backend–Web server repo for The Nestomir Digital can be found here
Please see our Contributor Agreement & Additional Repository Terms at the bottom of this document.
The Nestomir is a planetary quest (fantasy novel and companion app) involving a crash-landed alien warrior, a troubled 12-year-old boy, a mysterious learning force permeating the universe and 9 computer science lessons which grant students superpowers. It follows the main character, Jake Addison, through a series of quests which introduce him to computer programming and a new "learn with purpose" learning philosophy. And now through crowd participation, we're going to improve the the story and social reading driven app experience together.
Make sure you review the story outline to get a better sense of the story and lesson plan. You can also check out the main project page here.
- The book's manuscript and the native app (The Nestomir Digital) are stored in repositories on GitHub (any accepted pull request will grant you Major Contributor status)
- All Major Contributors will be listed/profiled in new versions of the book and app
- We plan on VERSIONING the series (e.g., v1.1, v1.2, as users contribute...our goal is to build a timeless series…one that people read 200 years from now)
- Earn Perk Points by participating in discussions on web and on discord (1 like from moderator = 1 Perk Point)
See the offical Rules & Rewards doc to learn more about our community participation details.
- Submit a pull request to the main branch of The Nestomir or The Nestomir Digital repositories (instructions will go here for writers)
- If a pull request is accepted, you are awarded Major Contributor status
- Make sure each pull request corresponds to one contribution type (if you want to make multiple contributions, issue multiple pull requests)
- Add your own vision to the lessons embedded in the story
- Improve story language, character descriptions, add more pace and tension to story chapters and scenes
- Anything else your creative mind can imagine! This is why we put this on Github!
Our web platform and discord community are buzzing with conversations and ideas about how to contribute to the book. Please check them out to get started.
- Typo Fix (fix a typo in the story) +🏆 Featured in Book/App
- Sentence update (update one sentence in the story) +🏆 Featured in Book/App)
- Paragraph Tweak (update one paragraph in the story) +🏆 ..all above + Signed Paperback Copy
- Lesson update (make an update to a lesson in the story) +🏆 ..all above + Rights to private Quarterly Author Call
- Chapter update (update an entire chapter in the story (multiple paragraphs, etc) +🏆 ...all above (more to come in the near future)
- Multi-chapter update +🏆 ...all above (more to come in the near future)
- Git is a version control system that allows you to track changes made to a project over time
- GitHub is a web-based hosting platform for version control repositories; it uses Git technology to store and manage repositories
- A pull request is a way for a developer (or writer 😉) to suggest changes to a project. By creating a pull request, the developer (or writer) is asking the repository owner (in our case, The Nestomir team) to review and consider incorporating their changes into the main branch of the project.
- In a git repository, the main branch often represents the “production” version of the product being built
This repository is governed by its attached Creative Commons License as well as the terms in this Contributor Agreement. Any contributions you make to the story in this repository can be used by The Nestomir™ team (and any other third party party) in their version of the story (in a commercial or non-commercial setting). There is no obligation to compensate you in any form for your contributions (ever). All contributions made to this repository will also be governed by the Creative Commons CC-BY-4.0 License (this means you are agreeing to put your contributions in the open source domain, which legally means you are providing the public with an irrevocable license to use your work in a commercial or non commercial capacity–see the license attached to this repository for the specific details behind the Creative Commons CC-BY-4.0 license). The Nestomir’s objective is to open up the story for others to participate/modify–however–The Nestomir™ will maintain full rights over our brand name, cover art and branding. This means you agree to not use The Nestomir™ or any variations of The Nestomir™ name or cover art in your distributed works in any commercial or non-commercial capacity.