The tender said materials *produced* would need to be freely licensed. If they are using pre-existing materials for part of the course, then not freely licensing those doesn't necessarily contradict the terms of the tender. It is unfortunate, though.
On 1 July 2012 22:47, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to know what other people understand as the "open access > ethos of Wikimedia UK". The reason I ask is that I have been informed that > Midas - who are delivering the Training for Trainers programme - have been > arguing that as they chose to use a process which was not written for > WMUK, some of their material is not available under a CC license. They > have suggested that WMUK pay an additional fee which they are happy to > quote for. > > As the initial tender specified "An agreement that the training materials > produced will be open access under a CC-BY-SA licence" I do not really > understand how Midas chose to use non CC material in the process for > delivering their course. At first glance it would seem that this is not in > compliance with the temrs of the tender. > > I must admit that I find Open access and open content as being quite > fundamental to Wikipedia, the sister projects and WMUK. This is whaqt I > understand by "Supporting Free and Open Knowledge". I personally have a > strong commitment to developing "Open Educational Resources" and was > particularly looking forward to the Eduwiki conference which has this as > one of its themes. > > In this context, I don't really understand why WMUK is having difficulty > in making sure that its own training programme sits comfortably into the > CC framework. I would welcome any comments which would help explain this? > > all the best > > Fabian > (User:Leutha) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
