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

[Janice Ulangca]

Re: [Dialogue] new E.D. for ICAVery helpful, Wayne.  
Janice Ulangca
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Wayne Nelson 
  To: Colleague Dialogue 
  Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 4:10 PM
  Subject: [Dialogue] {Spam?} Re: new E.D. for ICA


  "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. You'll 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 Canada's intellectual property. We pay when we facilitate, when we do training and when we sell books. We tally it up quarterly. We "donate" 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 "open source" among ourselves. Things created after that are the "property" 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.

    We've 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, "get it out there" and proprietary material that provides us some bread and butter. It's easy to scoff from the outside (about a lot of things), but it's a serious question for us.  We intend to keep these organizations going in a robust way that makes a real difference. Our "intellectual property" is a real resource for us. We dig into our own archives on a regular basis when we're working on curriculum etc.

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    Wayne


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




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