Hi all,

I would like to know what other people understand as the "open access
ethos of Wikimedia UK". The reason I ask is that I have been informed that
Midas - who are delivering the Training for Trainers programme - have been
arguing that as they chose to use a process which was not written for
WMUK, some of their material is not available under a CC license. They
have suggested that WMUK pay an additional fee which they are happy to
quote for.

As the initial tender specified "An agreement that the training materials
produced will be open access under a CC-BY-SA licence" I do not really
understand how Midas chose to use non CC material in the process for
delivering their course. At first glance it would seem that this is not in
compliance with the temrs of the tender.

I must admit that I find Open access and open content as being quite
fundamental to Wikipedia, the sister projects and WMUK. This is whaqt I
understand by "Supporting Free and Open Knowledge". I personally have a
strong commitment to developing "Open Educational Resources" and was
particularly looking forward to the Eduwiki conference which has this as
one of its themes.

In this context, I don't really understand why WMUK is having difficulty
in making sure that its own training programme sits comfortably into the
CC framework. I would welcome any comments which would help explain this?

all the best

Fabian
(User:Leutha)




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