Hi Steve, Responses in text below -
On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 09:53 -0700, Steve Foerster wrote: > Wayne wrote: > > << This is an open invitation to all WIkiEducators for any questions > you may have about WikiEducator 3.0, but more importantly providing > us with well-founded advice on our next steps. >> > I have a few questions: > > * Where did we get "WikiEducator 3.0"? I wasn't aware we'd had a > 2.0. If anything, I'd call everything up to the point of elected > community governance a beta version, and only now really going into > production. Or, that we were in alpha before, now we're in beta, and > once we have a separate legal entity we'll be in production. (Not > that I'd suggest actually using any of that, I only meant those as > comparative analogies.) WikiEducator 3.0 refers to the phases of our strategic plan: Phase 1: Establishing Foundations (May 2006 - Dec 2007) Phase 2: Scaling up free content development (Jan 2008 - Dec 2008) Phase 3: Sustainable implementation of free content in education (Jan 2009 - ) See: http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:About > * I'd like to know exactly what your proposed timeline is for > transferring WE from COL to Otago, what needs to be done, etc. How > much do you have to do, and how much can others help you? TImeline: Startup of the new International Center for Open Education is scheduled for 1 May 2009. COL has agreed to fund the technical infrastructure of WIkiEducator for the first 3 years, that is servers and technical support staff. COL's future support for WikiEducator is conditional and requires that WikiEducator is established within a new legal framework that COL considers appropriate for such support. Our discussions have been around setting up an independent and appropriate non-profit entity. At this time I don't have all the information that we need to determine the action items and detailed project plan -- but rest assured we're most definitely going to need lots of help from the community. > * I'd like to know more about the International Centre for Open > Education that is being established at Otago Polytechnic. If I > understand correctly, that's something that will be permanently > attached to Otago, so it won't serve as the separate legal entity that > WE needs. What will this Centre's relationship with WE be, and what > else might it do? Steve the Open Education Centre comes under an employer - employee relationship. This is subject to the normal confidences afforded to employment agreements. The moment I have definitive detail on the relationship between the operations of the International Centre for Open Education and the WikiEducator project -- I will be the first to let our community know. Suffice it to say, the establishment of an independent legal entity for administering the funding for the WE project is a critical path decision for moving forward. Currently -- WE has no legal status. WE is a community of association whereby individual members are personally responsible (and liable) for their activities in the community. > * I understand that to this point you were acting in WE's interest and > had to act quickly, and especially given that Otago seems to be more > flexible than COL when it comes to software development and > multilanguage support, I'm pleased we're moving there. However, I > believe that from this point forward issues must be discussed openly > and decisions must be made through Council resolutions. Do you see > anything in our future that would make this impractical? I have always acted in the best interests of the WIkiEducator project. I hold the highest number of edits in the community and the accolade of being the first member of WikiEducator :-). Since the inception of the project I have always put community first and will continue to do so. For the record, international education specialists at COL are appointed on a rotation basis --- i.e. 3 year contracts. My contract with COL expires on 30 April 2008. Yes I do agree -- where feasible, all issues pertaining to WIkiEducator must be discussed transparently. Cheers Wayne > > Thanks, > > -=Steve=- > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
