Thanks Nellie for the link. The last entry was in December of 2007, before I joined WE, so I had not noticed it before.
>I wonder if some of the members changed their minds since 2007? First, there were not many members at that time. And I think many members, especially those joining since 2007, did not know of the Cape Town declaration. http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWS http://johnsearth.blogspot.com ________________________________ From: NELLIE DEUTSCH <nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com> To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 6:35:14 PM Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Cape Town Open Eduacation Declaration Thank you for bringing up the topic. I signed the declaration as an individual but have you seen the discussions on WikiEducator: http://wikieducator.org/Talk:Open_Education_Declaration I wonder if some of the members changed their minds since 2007? Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 4:22 AM, john stampe <jwsta...@yahoo.com> wrote: 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 <mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com> >To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com >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 <jwsta...@yahoo.com> > >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 wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
