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Wayne Mackintosh
Website:	My old bio @ COL
Employer:	International Centre for Open Education / OER Foundation
Occupation:	Education specialist, eLearning and ICT Policy
Other roles:	Advisory Board - Wikimedia Foundation Editorial Board, Open Learning
Nationality:	New Zealand (South Africa)
Country:	New Zealand
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Hi -- my page needs updating -- will get to this soon!

Hi, my name is Wayne Mackintosh and I'm the founder of the WikiEducator project. I am a Wikiambassador and do my best to promote WikiEducator among my friends around the world.

Currently I'm the founding Director of the International Centre for Open Education based at Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand and member of the Board of Directors of the OER Foundation. I was previously Education Specialist for eLearning and ICT Policy at the Commonwealth of Learning. You'll find a copy of my old bio on the COL website. I've had the privilege of working and living in three different regions of the Commonwealth, namely Africa (South Africa), the Pacific (New Zealand) and North America (Canada).

Feel free to leave me a message on my talk page.

My passion

Helping the freedom culture in developing a free version of the entire education curriculum by 2015.

My biases

• I'm an educator and I wouldn't change my career for anything else.
• I believe that all learners and teachers should have the freedom to use the technologies of their choice. No learner should be denied access to an education because learning material is locked behind copyright or because people may not have the resources to pay for licensed software.
• Ubuntu GNU/Linux helps me to live and work as an upright citizen.
• All people of the world have a fundamental right to participate in the knowledge economy - access is not an excuse for using legacy technologies.
• Social innovation is the only way to ensure sustainable learning for development.

Things I'm proud of

• My family (Wendy, Anthony, Catherine and Jessica);
• Launching WikiEducator as a tool to support and promote eduction in the developing world using free content and open networks;
• Founding project leader of the eLearning XHTML Editor (eXe) project helping to widen access to web publishing in education for all teachers using free software;
• Creating spaces to work with African educators in building free content for Africa by Africa through the (FLOSS4Edu) project;
• Widening access to ICT skills development for everyone through projects like the WikiEducator Newbie Tutorials and the Commonwealth Computer Navigator's Certificate.
• Invited to serve on the Advisory Board of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Things I must still master

• Learning to play the tenor saxophone
• Snowboarding

Talk with Wayne

Leave me a message ..

Selected links

• Text interview by Incognita, Penn State University covering some of my thoughts on free software and free content.
• Reflections on the Wikiversity and Wikieducator.

To do list

• Add news item on VUSSC team leader's meeting
• Complete Tut on Free content
• Add sub-page on User page for international missions
• Set up page listing COL resources released under CC-BY-SA and source files that are available for conversion into wiki format
• Set up page for brainstorming a special project on specifying requirements for eXe as dedicated educational editor for offline editing of Mediawiki pages
• Set up sub-page to generate ideas on the Learn4Content initiative
• Explore flash based iDevices for MW
• Develop Free content license advisory
• Set up notifications for new account [survey]

/Benefit table Barbados
Dashboard
Open Education - 2008
OER Session_6_Feb
movie
My sandbox
pdf_testing
pdf testing 2
Infobox_testing
. Working_papers
/Chainsaw-test
/Draft_content_page
Welcome_Template
. /Draft_Featured_Users
. PCF5
Tuvalu
Wiki to odt
/Issue tracker test
/Community media
/Node-page
/Demo Community Media
/Testing HIV/AIDs page
Samoa_WS
cats
WMF Meeting
Footer Straw dog
Delection template - Straw dog
L4C_featured_graduate - Straw dog

A few pictures

Me (on the far right) with the founding members of the eXe team	Chatting with Erik Möller about strategic technology options for the future of WikiEducator in my office in Vancouver.	A photo of a photo of colleagues participating in the first VUSSC bootcamp in Mauritius, 2006.	Wiki Pacifika is launched! Educators from nine Pacific countries attend the Pacific Regional Workshop on OERs in Wellington, 13 - 15 August 2007.
Me, Ward Cunnigham and Jimbo Wales at the Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board meeting, Wikimania 2007

This user is a researcher of wikis and/or open educational resources.

This user is a Learning Designer who assists with the instructional design of free content projects.

My learning contract

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I Wayne Mackintosh (OERF, New Zealand) have signed my L4C learning contract and agree to share some of my knowledge by developing the following learning resource by Today:

• Tutorial