Great news, Congratulations Dr. Wayne! and thank you very much UNV Warm regards Anil http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://www.apletters.blogspot.com
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 4:23 AM, Wayne Mackintosh < mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > Late last year Anil, Phil, Randy, John and others were exploring the idea > of working with United Nations Volunteers (http://www.unv.org ) -- See > earlier discussions on the list - http://tinyurl.com/ybcfwbv > > You may recall that we were concerned about the all rights reserved > copyright provisions of the UNV site with reference to content our community > would generate in listing our volunteer needs on the UNV site. This > practice did not align with our with our core community values associated > with open content licensing. > > I agreed to contact Elise Bouvet, Online Volunteering Programme Specialist > at UNV on behalf of the OER Foundation and the WikiEducator community for > UNV to consider an exception in our case. Elise took the initiative to > contact their legal department and WE are very pleased to confirm that UNV > have agreed to an exception to license content we produce for the UNV site > under our default CC-BY-SA license. > > I have uploaded a copy of the letter from UNV confirming this exception for > our community: > > http://tinyurl.com/yzrtbcf > > I would like to commend the United Nations for listening and being prepared > to consider our request. This is a testament to UNV's commitment to respond > to the needs of the volunteer community they serve. If WE had a monthly > *Bouquet > *Award, January's award would definitely go to UNV :-). > > mmmm -- perhaps we should think about instituting a community Bouquet Award > where we can nominate people and organisations to recognise outstanding > contributions of people and organisations who serve WE in a special way? > Thoughts? > > I think WE should move forward in preparing a volunteers proposal for > consideration by UNV. Randy has already set up a page for us to collaborate > on drafting the proposal here: > > http://www.wikieducator.org/UNV<http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://www.wikieducator.org/UNV&usg=AFQjCNFyCecQl33ImXe8u5Mz5fv6yWvZeA> > > 2010 is going to be an amazing year for OER! > > Cheers > Wayne > > > > > > > -- > 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 > User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg > 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 -- Warm regards Anil Prasad -- 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
