Hi John that's a very astute observation :-) You will see that I'm personally one of the early signatories of the declaration -- see the bottom of this page: http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/read-the-declaration :-)
Also, Otago Polytechnic (the host institution of the OER Foundation) is also a signatory of the Cape Town Open Education Declaration) -- I can assure you that we're 150% behind the document. WikiEducator committed to the Free cultural works definition ( http://freedomdefined.org/Definition) before the inception of the Cape Town Open Education Declaration. I've been holding my breath that no one would notice the absense of the OERF signature - we're a new non profit -- Now the cat is out of the bag ;-) -- We're planning the official launch of the OER Foundation to coincide with Software Freedom Day which is celebrated on 17 September around the world. We've been holding back on the official launch of the OER Foundation for this important day. See: http://softwarefreedomday.org/ One of our planned activities will be the OERF's official signing of the Cape Town Open Content Declaration. Now that our launch "secret" is now public -- perhaps we should plan a global WikiEducator initiative invloving individuals signing the Open Content Declaration and having a page dedicated to all WikiEducators who sign the declaration on SFD. No need for a WE council decision on this -- we adopted free content licensing as a core value of WE from the start of the project :-). Is a non-negotiable value of the community. Perhaps we need an informal workgroup to plan activities around SFD coinciding with the official launch of the OERF. Thoughts? Cheers Wayne 2009/8/21 john stampe <[email protected]> > The Wikieducator website home page has a link to the Cape Town Open > Eduacation Declaration (even though indirectly through the featured > institution section). But looking through the list of signatories, I noticed > that the OER Foundation is not a signatory to the declaration. > > Not sure if such a decision would need to be approved by the Council. > > P.S. All wikieducators should also sign the declaration if you have not > already. You can sign here: > http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/sign-the-declaration > > http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWS > http://johnsearth.blogspot.com > > > > > -- 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 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
