Hi Savithri - and to WikiEducator India who have showed the way in building national OER collaborations!
Cheers Wayne 2009/5/25 Savithri Singh <[email protected]> > Congratulations and is it not great that Wikieducator showed the way?!!! > Savithri > > 2009/5/25 Wayne Mackintosh <[email protected]> > > Hi Chris, >> >> CC-BY-SA was the right decision for the time --- we had the advantage of >> starting WE a little later than Wikipedia. We also support the CC-BY >> license in respect for freedom of choice under licenses which meet the >> requirements of the free cultural works definition. >> >> We should also pay due respect to the Free Software Foundation who in the >> spirit of the free culture movement supported a change in the GFDL which >> made this migration possible. >> >> (Refer to the Relicensing section under the GFDL ( >> http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html ) -- this is not a blanket provision >> and any qualifiying Massive Multiauthor Collaboration Site (MMC) wishing to >> relicense under a CC-BY-SA license would need to do so before 1 August >> 2009.) >> >> Cheers >> Wayne >> >> >> >> 2009/5/25 Chris Harvey <[email protected]> >> >> >>> Congratulations to all of you. >>> >>> Looks like Wikieducator made a good decision with cc-by-sa >>> >>> Warm Regards >>> Chris Harvey >>> >>> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Wayne Mackintosh >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > Hi Everyone, >>> > >>> > I've been meaning to post a word of congratulations to the WikiMedia >>> > Foundation on our list, who recently announced exiting changes to their >>> > licensing policy. >>> > >>> > Following a positive community vote, the WikiMedia Foundation have >>> passed a >>> > resolution to relicense the content of their community projects >>> including >>> > Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikiversity etc under a Creative Commons >>> Sharealike >>> > License (CC-BY-SA). This is a great opportunity to widen collaboration >>> > within the freedom culture in sharing and reusing content. >>> > >>> > Once the new licensing is implemented -- this now makes it legally >>> possible >>> > to develop derivative works from WikiMedia Foundation projects in >>> support of >>> > the development of OER for different teaching contexts. Similarly, >>> content >>> > developed by our community can potentially add value to WikiMedia >>> Foundation >>> > projects. This is a significant step in helping achieve the vision of >>> free >>> > content resources in support of all national curricula in the world. >>> > Through collaboration we can achieve so much more than working alone. >>> > >>> > A great day for the the freedom culture. You can read the full press >>> release >>> > here: >>> > >>> > >>> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Dual_license_vote_May_2009 >>> > >>> > Cheers >>> > Wayne >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. >>> > Director, >>> > International Centre for Open Education, >>> > Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. >>> > Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, >>> www.wikieducator.org >>> > >>> > > >>> > >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. >> Director, >> International Centre for Open Education, >> Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. >> Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org >> >> >> > > > -- > 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 9786 2584 3496 > > 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 > > > > > -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
