Talk:Service Civil International

Copyright

Hi, my name is Thomas Splettstoesser and I am part of the tech team administrating the website of Service Civil International www.sciint.org. From our point of view this Wikipedia article about our organization does not violate our copyright and I therefore insist on keeping the page. The kind of licence that applies to the text I have to discuss with the other people responsible and will get back here as soon as possible.

Please do not delete this page until then.

Thank you, Thomas Splettstoesser Splette 17:30, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi Chick, I got you message on my talk page. I let our executive committee know about the issue and got feedback from them, saying they will write the permission. Thanks, Splette 10:39, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Ok, the email was sent to permissions et wikipedia dt org. They also sent a copy to me. If needed I could forward it to you too, Chick?! Splette 13:01, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Here it is:

To whom it may concern,
I, Ossi Lemström, Interim International Coordinator of Service Civil International, St-Jacobsmarkt 82, 2000 Antwerp hereby confirm that all text on our organisation's website www.sciint.org is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License: 
Copyright (c) 2006  Service Civil International
St-Jacobsmarkt 82, 2000 Antwerp
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify all text on our organisations's website www.sciint.org under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections.
A copy of the license is included below. 
With best regards,
Ossi Lemström
Interim International Coordinator of SCI

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Ossi Lemström Interim International Coordinator

The Association of Service Civil International in Europe IVZW St-Jacobsmarkt 82 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium phone +32.3.2265727 fax +32.3.2320344 www.sciint.org

Origins

More on the origins of Service Civil International (SCI) and other peace organisations on fr:Rencontres de Bilthoven. Maybe someone will translate this article into English? (See also CCIVS) -- MHM-en (talk) 20:28, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

I ll add it on my to do list.

Working on a translation to German, maybe later also English. The French article seems to have some issues though, I'm trying to find out more about it.--Ilka5 (talk) 09:40, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

List of branches and groups

The list was outdated. I made a new one (with the website of SCI as source). I like about the old one that it included the foundation dates of branches, however, I would like to verify that information and complete the list before I add it again. --Ilka5 (talk)