[eIFLoa] Cape Town Open Education Declaration - soft launch today

[Melissa Hagemann]

Thanks, Iryna. You make a very good point - I forgot to mention in my
post that we would love to have the declaration translated into as many
languages as possible. The Wikipedia community will be lending a hand.
We are starting to collect some translations here,
http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/translations. However, if you would
be interested in translating it, please let me know.

Thanks again,
Melissa

-----Original Message-----
From: I. Kuchma [mailto:kuchma at irf.kiev.ua] 
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 3:39 PM
To: Melissa Hagemann; eifloa at lists.eifl.net
Cc: Iryna Kuchma
Subject: Re: [eIFLoa] Cape Town Open Education Declaration - soft launch
today

congratulations Melissa and friends! it's also great that you want this 
declaration to be in as many languages as possible - we are ready to 
translate it into Ukrainian and Russian and then try to collect
signatures 
from high profile individuals. 
best wishes,
Iryna. 

 

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:58:53 -0500, Melissa Hagemann wrote
> Hello friends,
> 
> As I mentioned at the GA, OSI has been working with the Shuttleworth
> Foundation to develop a declaration around open educational 
> resources. Today we did a soft launch of the site, so please have a 
> look, http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/. We hope this declaration 
> will spur the development of a movement around open educational 
> resources as the Budapest Open Access Initiative did for Open Access 
> to research literature.
> 
> The declaration will be fully launched in January. Over the next six
> weeks, we are collecting signatures of support. So if you are
interested
> in the further development of open educational resources, please
> complete this form,
> http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/sign-the-declaration so that you
can
> be listed as an early signatory to the declaration. We would also 
> like to collect signatures from high profile individuals and 
> organizations to sign on before the launch, so if you have 
> suggestions for these, please email me directly.
> 
> Thanks for your help and please let me know if you have any questions.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Melissa
> 
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I. Kuchma