Wayne wrote: << WikiEducator 3.0 refers to the phases of our strategic plan: >>
Oooooh, okay, fair enough. << TImeline: Startup of the new International Center for Open Education is scheduled for 1 May 2009. COL has agreed to fund the technical infrastructure of WIkiEducator for the first 3 years, that is servers and technical support staff. COL's future support for WikiEducator is conditional and requires that WikiEducator is established within a new legal framework that COL considers appropriate for such support. Our discussions have been around setting up an independent and appropriate non-profit entity. >> I agree that this is critically important. In order to set up a non- profit organisation, it must have by-laws, yes? And these would presumably refer to a governance structure, e.g., Board of Directors or Trustees or what have you? I ask because if that's the case then this would effectively replace our Draft Policy on Governance, and if that's so we must be the ones to write it. << Steve the Open Education Centre comes under an employer - employee relationship. This is subject to the normal confidences afforded to employment agreements. >> I hope that doesn't mean that you foresee your relationship with Otago would require confidences that would preclude you from sharing relevant information with the WE community. << The moment I have definitive detail on the relationship between the operations of the International Centre for Open Education and the WikiEducator project -- I will be the first to let our community know. >> Fair enough. << Suffice it to say, the establishment of an independent legal entity for administering the funding for the WE project is a critical path decision for moving forward. Currently -- WE has no legal status. WE is a community of association whereby individual members are personally responsible (and liable) for their activities in the community. >> Very good, on this I think everyone agrees. Can we assume the non- profit group would be chartered in NZ? (Fine with me if it is, so long as NZ recognises public domain dedications.) << I have always acted in the best interests of the WIkiEducator project. I hold the highest number of edits in the community and the accolade of being the first member of WikiEducator :-). Since the inception of the project I have always put community first and will continue to do so. >> I know. I really hope you don't think that I'm asking you these questions because of any doubt of that, as for the record I have none at all. And hopefully everyone understands that you can't know everything yet. I'm only bugging you this way because I want to ensure that the community is as involved as possible in what happens to us, and you can't reasonably facilitate that if we don't do our part by asking what we need to know. -=Steve=- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
