Hi John, No need for apology -- This gives us a greater opportunity to share the official launch of OERF globally! Don't know why I didn't thing of this before!
Would you like to help us co-ordinate an international activity encouraging WkiEducators and affiliated insitutions to sign the Cape Town Open Declaration on SFD? Pretty neat idea? Cheers Wayne 2009/8/21 john stampe <[email protected]> > Wayne, sorry to rain on your parade ;-(. > > I do not doubt that OERF is very much committed to the goals of the Cape > Town declaration, I actually thought is was more of an oversite, since as > you say OERF is a new non-profit. > > Anyway, I am glad to see that we will have a big launch of OERF, > > I like the idea of having a Wikieducator signing initiative on Software > Freedom Day. An informal workgroup might be a good idea. > > I was also an early signatory to the declaration, long before I had even > heard of WE. :-) > > http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWS > http://johnsearth.blogspot.com > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Wayne Mackintosh <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Friday, August 21, 2009 5:32:48 PM > *Subject:* [WikiEducator] Re: Cape Town Open Eduacation Declaration > > 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 > > > > > > > -- 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
