Hi Wayne CONGRATULATIONS! to the WikiEducator Community. Wayne your leadership and enthusiasm have lead to this achievement. Hope to get many more devoted & commited teachers & Educators to contribute to this endeavour. Warm regards Gita - Dr. Gita Mathur <gita.mat...@gmail.com> Associate Professor of Botany Gargi College (University of Delhi) Siri Fort Road, New Delhi 110049 skype:gitamathur
Web: http://wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur http://wikieducator.org/India http://www.slideshare.net/Gita_Mathur http://wikieducator.org/EL4C26 http://wikieducator.org/EL4C27 On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 20:51 +1200, Wayne Mackintosh wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm very pleased to share the news that our recent bid submitted to > the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has been successful. > > The OER Foundation has been awarded a grant of $200 000 to support > strategic WikiEducator projects. > > This is a testament to our community's passion and commitment to > collaborative models of OER creation and distribution. The > WikiEducator community can stand proud and take a brief moment of > reflection and celebrate what we have achieved! This is another > significant milestone for the WikiEducator family and our wiki model > of OER development. > > This generous funding support from the Hewlett foundation will enable > us to: > > 1) Continue WikiEducator's work in hosting the world's largest wiki > skills training project in the formal education sector. This grant > will ensure that we can continue providing a minimum of one online > Learning4Content workshop for the next 2 years. WikiEducator will > continue to provide opportunities for educators around the world to > acquire wiki skills for OER content development and collaboration. > 2) Build a technology bridge for OER content interoperability between > Connexions and the Mediawiki software platforms thus fostering further > development and scalability of the OER ecosystem among projects which > subscribe to the free cultural works definition. > 3) Establish a national OER collaboration for the school sector in New > Zealand with the view to developing resources and models that can be > reused and remixed for other countries around the world. > > I would also like to congratulate our friends at the Wikimedia > Foundation (WMF) and their respective community projects. > > The Hewlett Foundation have also awarded the WMF a grant of $500,000 > for general operating support of the largest free content initiative > in the world. Congratulations to our free content partners at the WMF! > This combined with the recent resolution of WMF projects to support > the CC-BY-SA license is reason for celebration in the free culture > movement --- particularly those projects which have remained true to > licensing alternatives which meet the requirements of the free > cultural works definition. > > I'm proud that the OER Foundation and WikiEducator have remained true > to our core values modeling approaches for open philanthropy by > developing all our funding proposals openly and transparently in the > wiki. > > A special word of thanks to every WikiEducator who continues to > demonstrate that the purpose of education is to share knowledge > freely. > > Now onto making the future happen -- we have lots of work to do and > we're going to need all the help we can get! > > 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 > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
