Hi Kim, Thanks for your note.
I'm optimistic and confident that this will lead to a higher level of collaboration among free culture initiatives in the education sector -- hopefully wider than just WMF projects and the WE community :-). For example, WE has submitted a funding proposal to Hewlett for content interoperability between Connexions and Mediawiki installations. Atkins, Brown and Hammond warn against "success disaster" where, for instance, a teacher has access to hundreds of free courses in elementary calculus. The OER movement needs to think about incentives to promote access to fewer instances of the "same" course materials but offer more flexible ways for communities to reuse and remix content, develop support materials, customised activities etc. ( http://www.hewlett.org/download?guid=745fe08c-54de-102c-ae2b-0002b3e9a4de ) while recognising their unique community identity. Each of the WMF, WE and Connexions communities have their own character, unique strengths (and weaknesses) --- fostering interoperability and reuse among these projects is a step in the right direction. (Think of the different GNU/Linux distros each adding value in their own way.) The licensing interoperability has removed a significant barrier in achieving these goals :-) Cheers Wayne <http://www.hewlett.org/download?guid=745fe08c-54de-102c-ae2b-0002b3e9a4de> > Well done Eric and all. > > I hope this will also lead to a higher level of collaboration across > various WMF and WE communities (technical, knowledge resources, > organisational, strategic, ...). > > Kim > > ---- > > PS Maybe Libre Puro could also be improved and supported some time - > http://www.wikieducator.org/Libre_License > along with a cool new CC wrapper - draft: > http://www.wikieducator.org/Libre_License_Draft_Creative_Commons_Deed > Say Libre :-) - http://www.wikieducator.org/Say_Libre > > ---- > > On May 27, 1:01 am, Erik Moeller <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thank you, Wayne, for your personal note as well. It's a very big deal > > for us and we're quite excited about it finally happening. Hopefully > > we'll be able to issue guidelines soon for importing content from > > projects like WikiEducator into Wikimedia, and the opposite direction > > will become possible once we switch (by June 15 at the latest). :-) > > > > -- > > Erik Möller > > Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation > > > > Support Free Knowledge:http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > > -- 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
