[Dialogue] {Spam?} Re: new E.D. for ICA

[Wayne Nelson]

"Don Hinkelman"  wrote:
As one who is heavily involved in proliferating open-source educational
software and content, I am finding the following values useful:
> - trademarks, icons and symbols are important to protect
> - specific books, papers, forms are copyright to the authors (permission
> needed to reprint) 
> - processes, ideas, and methodologies are public property and should be
> aggressively shared 
> 
> 
> In Canada, we are very careful about logos, symbols and trademarks etc. We
> copyright our books and training materials. We give away a lot of ideas,
> methods and tools etc.  See
> http://ica-associates.ca/Resources/Articles/ArticlesIndex.cfm for public, all
> the time give-aways ­ all downloadable articles. You¹ll see that some are
> kinda promotional, but all have value to someone.
> 
> ICA Associates (our for-profit side) pays royalties to ICA Canada (our
> not-for-profit side) for the use of ICA Canada¹s intellectual property. We pay
> when we facilitate, when we do training and when we sell books. We tally it up
> quarterly. We ³donate² any new work to ICA Canada as well. These royalties
> provide ICA Canada with some core funding.
> 
> The operating global ICA protocol is that everything created before 1988 is
> ³open source² among ourselves. Things created after that are the ³property² of
> whoever created them.  We use material from other ICAs and always attribute it
> to the source.  We are asked by lots of individuals and organizations about
> using articles etc. We always agree and we only ask for attribution. We find
> that we gain a lot in the long run when we give things away.
> 
> We¹ve learned how to use our methods and tools to make a living ­  a dream I
> recall articulated by many, integrating the various dimensions of our life and
> mission. Our methods and tools have real value, so we walk that line between
> open source, ³get it out there² and proprietary material that provides us some
> bread and butter. It¹s easy to scoff from the outside (about a lot of things),
> but it¹s a serious question for us.  We intend to keep these organizations
> going in a robust way that makes a real difference. Our ³intellectual
> property² is a real resource for us. We dig into our own archives on a regular
> basis when we¹re working on curriculum etc.
> 
> \\/
> Wayne

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Wayne Nelson - ICA Associates Inc
416-691-2316 - http://ica-associates.ca


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