[WikiEducator] Good News: United Nations Volunteers
Hi Everyone, Late last year Anil, Phil, Randy, John and others were exploring the idea of working with United Nations Volunteers (http://www.unv.org ) -- See earlier discussions on the list - http://tinyurl.com/ybcfwbv You may recall that we were concerned about the all rights reserved copyright provisions of the UNV site with reference to content our community would generate in listing our volunteer needs on the UNV site. This practice did not align with our with our core community values associated with open content licensing. I agreed to contact Elise Bouvet, Online Volunteering Programme Specialist at UNV on behalf of the OER Foundation and the WikiEducator community for UNV to consider an exception in our case. Elise took the initiative to contact their legal department and WE are very pleased to confirm that UNV have agreed to an exception to license content we produce for the UNV site under our default CC-BY-SA license. I have uploaded a copy of the letter from UNV confirming this exception for our community: http://tinyurl.com/yzrtbcf I would like to commend the United Nations for listening and being prepared to consider our request. This is a testament to UNV's commitment to respond to the needs of the volunteer community they serve. If WE had a monthly *Bouquet *Award, January's award would definitely go to UNV :-). -- perhaps we should think about instituting a community Bouquet Award where we can nominate people and organisations to recognise outstanding contributions of people and organisations who serve WE in a special way? Thoughts? I think WE should move forward in preparing a volunteers proposal for consideration by UNV. Randy has already set up a page for us to collaborate on drafting the proposal here: http://www.wikieducator.org/UNVhttp://www.google.com/url?sa=Dq=http://www.wikieducator.org/UNVusg=AFQjCNFyCecQl33ImXe8u5Mz5fv6yWvZeA 2010 is going to be an amazing year for OER! Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Board of Directors, OER Foundation. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [WikiEducator] Good News: United Nations Volunteers
Great news, Congratulations Dr. Wayne! and thank you very much UNV Warm regards Anil http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://www.apletters.blogspot.com On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 4:23 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, Late last year Anil, Phil, Randy, John and others were exploring the idea of working with United Nations Volunteers (http://www.unv.org ) -- See earlier discussions on the list - http://tinyurl.com/ybcfwbv You may recall that we were concerned about the all rights reserved copyright provisions of the UNV site with reference to content our community would generate in listing our volunteer needs on the UNV site. This practice did not align with our with our core community values associated with open content licensing. I agreed to contact Elise Bouvet, Online Volunteering Programme Specialist at UNV on behalf of the OER Foundation and the WikiEducator community for UNV to consider an exception in our case. Elise took the initiative to contact their legal department and WE are very pleased to confirm that UNV have agreed to an exception to license content we produce for the UNV site under our default CC-BY-SA license. I have uploaded a copy of the letter from UNV confirming this exception for our community: http://tinyurl.com/yzrtbcf I would like to commend the United Nations for listening and being prepared to consider our request. This is a testament to UNV's commitment to respond to the needs of the volunteer community they serve. If WE had a monthly *Bouquet *Award, January's award would definitely go to UNV :-). -- perhaps we should think about instituting a community Bouquet Award where we can nominate people and organisations to recognise outstanding contributions of people and organisations who serve WE in a special way? Thoughts? I think WE should move forward in preparing a volunteers proposal for consideration by UNV. Randy has already set up a page for us to collaborate on drafting the proposal here: http://www.wikieducator.org/UNVhttp://www.google.com/url?sa=Dq=http://www.wikieducator.org/UNVusg=AFQjCNFyCecQl33ImXe8u5Mz5fv6yWvZeA 2010 is going to be an amazing year for OER! Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Board of Directors, OER Foundation. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Warm regards Anil Prasad -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [WikiEducator] Good News: United Nations Volunteers
Great news, So more and more people are understanding the importance of 'Open'. Savithri On 30 January 2010 04:23, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Everyone, Late last year Anil, Phil, Randy, John and others were exploring the idea of working with United Nations Volunteers (http://www.unv.org ) -- See earlier discussions on the list - http://tinyurl.com/ybcfwbv You may recall that we were concerned about the all rights reserved copyright provisions of the UNV site with reference to content our community would generate in listing our volunteer needs on the UNV site. This practice did not align with our with our core community values associated with open content licensing. I agreed to contact Elise Bouvet, Online Volunteering Programme Specialist at UNV on behalf of the OER Foundation and the WikiEducator community for UNV to consider an exception in our case. Elise took the initiative to contact their legal department and WE are very pleased to confirm that UNV have agreed to an exception to license content we produce for the UNV site under our default CC-BY-SA license. I have uploaded a copy of the letter from UNV confirming this exception for our community: http://tinyurl.com/yzrtbcf I would like to commend the United Nations for listening and being prepared to consider our request. This is a testament to UNV's commitment to respond to the needs of the volunteer community they serve. If WE had a monthly *Bouquet *Award, January's award would definitely go to UNV :-). -- perhaps we should think about instituting a community Bouquet Award where we can nominate people and organisations to recognise outstanding contributions of people and organisations who serve WE in a special way? Thoughts? I think WE should move forward in preparing a volunteers proposal for consideration by UNV. Randy has already set up a page for us to collaborate on drafting the proposal here: http://www.wikieducator.org/UNVhttp://www.google.com/url?sa=Dq=http://www.wikieducator.org/UNVusg=AFQjCNFyCecQl33ImXe8u5Mz5fv6yWvZeA 2010 is going to be an amazing year for OER! Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Board of Directors, OER Foundation. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- डॉक्टर सावित्री सिंह प्रधानाचार्य आचार्य नरेन्द्र देव कॉलेज ( दिल्ली विश्वविद्यालय ) गोविन्दपुरी, कालकाजी नयी दिल्ली 110019 Dr. Savithri Singh Principal Acharya Narendra Dev College (University of Delhi) Govindpuri, Kalkaji New Delhi 110 019 Tel: 2629 4542, 2629 3224, 2641 2547 Fax: (011) 2629 4540 Res: 2584 8151 2584 97862584 3496 http://eduframe.net/andc http://andcollege.du.ac.in http://wikieducator.org/Acharya_Narendra_Dev_College http://wikieducator.org/User:Savi.odl http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/India/wikieducator_launch http://www.slideshare.net/singh.savithri P Please do not print this email unless it is absolutely necessary. Spread environmental awareness. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
