[Foundation-l] Fwd: [WikiEducator] Hewlett Foundation award WikiEducator $100 000

Fri Oct 26 10:15:42 UTC 2007

Congrats !

Ant

Erik Moeller wrote:
> This is great news for the entire free knowledge community. I consider
> WikiEducator, in many ways, a sister project to our own initiatives,
> especially Wikiversity. Wayne Mackintosh, who founded the project,
> sits on our Advisory Board (and I sit on the WikiEducator Advisory
> Board). He's also a friend and drives many key initiatives like this
> one.
> 
> I'm especially pleased that the probably largest initiative ever for
> capacity building around wiki use is taking place in developing
> countries. The idea of the "Learning4Content" project - teachers get
> instructed in the wiki use, and in return contribute their knowledge -
> could very well be a model for us to follow.
> 
> Kudos to Wayne and everyone else who is making this happen. :-)
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: mackiwg <WMackintosh at col.org>
> Date: Oct 26, 2007 4:11 AM
> Subject: [WikiEducator] Hewlett Foundation award WikiEducator $100 000
> To: WikiEducator <wikieducator at googlegroups.com>
> 
> 
> 
> Be sure to check out our News on the front page.
> 
> (http://www.wikieducator.org/Main_Page)
> 
> The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation award WikiEducator $100000 to
> build MediaWiki Educator skills for at least 2500 educators in 53
> countries under our Learning4Content initiative:
> 
> http://www.wikieducator.org/Metawikieducator/Learning4Content/Hewlett_bid
> 
> The COL will also be investing an additional $60000 for this project.
> 
> The WikiEducator family is proud of this achievement because it is our
> first funding proposal developed as free content on WikiEducator.
> 
> The project will widen the skills base among educators to contribute
> to free content projects like WikiEducator and Wikipedia.
> 
> I think I should have a glass of red wine to celebrate. I hope
> WIkiEducators all over the world will do the same!
> 
> Cheers
> Wayne
> 
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