Totally agree with Wayne's proposal
Rwagasana Gerard Mob: 250 0788460976ayne's Email: gerw...@gmail.com Here is the Secret: Thoughts become Things On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 12:53 AM, Wayne Mackintosh < mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com> wrote: > The UNESCO World Open Educational Resources Congress promises to be a > landmark event contributing to the mainstream adoption of open education > practices worldwide. > > UNESCO working with Jonathas Mello (the copyright holder) has produced a > logo<http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-knowledge/open-educational-resources/global-oer-logo/>for > the World OER Congress. > > The logo carries a No-Derivatives restriction. In effect, this means that > the majority of our open education projects in the world will not legally > be able to use the logo in the absence of custom license permission from > the copyright holder. This seems to be an unnecessary transaction cost for > a visual identity "for the global Open educational resources community of > practitioners, projects and researchers". > > On behalf of many of the free culture projects in the world -- I request > UNESCO's assistance in negotiating removal of the ND restriction with the > copyright holder. It would be far better to use a free cultural works > approved license (CC-BY, CC-BY-SA or even a public domain declaration.) In > this way we will be able to use logo. As it stands, for example, we can't > include a copy of the logo on the WikiEducator website :-(. > > UNESCO - -can you help us? > > With kind regards > Wayne > > > > > -- > Wayne Mackintosh <http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg>, Ph.D. > Director OER Foundation <http://www.oerfoundation.org> > Director, International Centre for Open Education, > Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. > Founder and elected Community Council Member, > WikiEducator<http://www.wikieducator.org> > Mobile +64 21 2436 380 > Skype: WGMNZ1 > Twitter <http://twitter.com/#%21/Mackiwg> | > identi.ca<http://identi.ca/waynemackintosh> > Wikiblog <http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg/Blog> > > > _______________________________________________ > OER-forum mailing list > oer-fo...@lists.esn.org.za > http://lists.esn.org.za/mailman/listinfo/oer-forum > Unsubscribe: oer-forum-unsubscr...@lists.esn.org.za > > -- 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
