Cape Town Open Eduacation Declaration

[john stampe]

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

 

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[Wayne Mackintosh]

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 <jwst...@yahoo.com>

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[aprasad]

Hi, it is right; solidarity is always a positive social gesture. I have signed it early March this year.

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[Barbara Dieu]

I've been in there for some time already as well.
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Bee

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[john stampe]

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. :-)

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Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 5:32:48 PM
Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Cape Town Open Eduacation Declaration

[NELLIE DEUTSCH]

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,
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[Wayne Mackintosh]

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?

[john stampe]

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.

 

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From: NELLIE DEUTSCH <nellie.mul...@gmail.com>
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Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 6:35:14 PM

[NELLIE DEUTSCH]

Hi John,
Thank you for sharing your wiki user and blog.

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

[john stampe]

>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?

Yes.

 

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http://johnsearth.blogspot.com

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From: Wayne Mackintosh <mackinto...@gmail.com>
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Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 6:35:20 PM

[NELLIE DEUTSCH]

It will be an honor, John.
Thank you for the invitation.

Warm wishes,
Nellie Deutsch
http://www.nelliemuller.com
Doctoral Student
Educational Leadership
Curriculum and Instruction
Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/
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[Randy Fisher]

Hi Everyone,

The Capetown Declaration is a significant step towards Open Education - yes, I have signed it.

The trouble is, that many educational institutions may not know how to truly operationalize it, to move forward to achieve this important goal.

As WikiEducators, we can certainly help! <smile>

- Randy

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PS. Here's a link to some info about me: http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Randyfisher

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