Talk:Volunteers in Technical Assistance: Difference between revisions

Email sent to EnterpriseWorks 28 April 2011

Dear Mr Feil, Ms Tsiliopolis

I'm a volunteer with Appropedia.org and I've been doing some work on porting publications by VITA from the Appropriate Technology microfiche to our wiki. See http://www.appropedia.org/Category:VITA and http://www.appropedia.org/VITA_document_and_link_list

We have marked the VITA publications as "Open Access" (can be freely reproduced and circulated) as this is how they are shown on the microfiche however we prefer information on our site to be licensed under the CC-BY-SA creative commons license as this permits us (or anyone else) to update and improve the content provided we (or anyone else) shares those changes under the same license and clearly gives credit to the original author.

Will you agree to license your information under this license? This is the same license used by Wikipedia and many other sites so it will mean your content could be ported to any of these sites or printed out (even sold) provided they give credit to you for your contributions and agree to freely share their changes under the same license.

Yours

Joe Raftery

Editor Appropedia.org

Reply from VITA 28 April 2011

Dear Mr. Rafferty,

Could you please provide me with the permission you received to port the VITA publications? In terms of your follow on request please don’t proceed until we have had a chance to get some legal counsel on this and revert to you.

I look forward to receiving the requested information and thank you in advance for your help,

Vicki Tsiliopoulos

Senior Vice President, Administration & Grants Management Relief International - EnterpriseWorks/VITA 1100 H Street, NW Suite 1200 Washington, DC 20005

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Reply sent to Enterprise Works 30 April 2011

Vicki

Thanks for your prompt reply.

I'm afraid it was another volunteer who ported the VITA publications - I'm just trying to tidy up the licensing information.

My initial check shows this content seems to have been developed by VITA on behalf of the Peace Corps and that the permission to copy and distribute came via them. Can you check on that?

These publications had been widely disseminated for some years before we ported it to our wiki - I'll do some checking and see what I can find about the permissions and get back to you.

yours

Joe Raftery

Reply from Enterprise Works 30 April 2011

Hi Joe,

VITA did not develop its publications on behalf of the Peace Corps although we worked very closely with the Peace Corps and our Village Technology Handbook was widely disseminated to Peace Corps volunteers. There were a couple of VITA publications that were developed in collaboration with other organizations including CODEL. A good number of publications have been disseminated for years some with our permission and some without so I appreciate you getting back to me with the information on permission provided.

I look forward to hearing back from you and thank you again for your help. Have a good weekend,

Vicki