[cc-community] [Icommons] [CCi] invitation
Elizabeth Stark
elizabeth at freeculture.org
Tue Dec 11 12:47:28 EST 2007
I'd also be happy to communicate via IRC. :)
On Dec 11, 2007 11:31 AM, Jeremy Hunsinger <jhuns at vt.edu> wrote:
> we do have plenty of unused space on the creative common's island in
> sl...
>
> On Dec 11, 2007, at 6:27 AM, Simon Dingle wrote:
>
> > How about using Second Life to pull in people who can't make it to SA?
> >
> > On 11 Dec 2007, at 12:06 PM, carolina botero wrote:
> >
> >> Heather, it seems like a great idea, thanks to technology there are
> >> many tools today to facilitate actual meetings dispite the
> >> distance. Please check on this possibility for those of use that
> >> can not make it to South Africa (not just the wiki but streamming
> >> or...). I will be very much interested to follow the educational
> >> track planning
> >> best
> >> Carolina
> >>
> >> On Dec 11, 2007 4:12 AM, Heather Ford <heather at icommons.org> wrote:
> >> Friends,
> >>
> >> It is with great pleasure that I invite you to attend the
> >> Johannesburg planning workshop for the 2008 iCommons Summit from the
> >> 17th to the 18th of January. We were so excited by all the great
> >> feedback that we received about the iSummit this year in Dubrovnik -
> >> much of which focussed on making the event more participatory and
> >> interactive - that we realised the best way to build this event
> >> together would be to get as many of you as possible face-to-face to
> >> design it together :)
> >>
> >> We're very sorry that we don't have more resources to get you to
> >> South Africa, but if you can possibly make it, we'll be most
> >> grateful. For those who aren't able to come, we'll be facilitating
> >> discussions on these lists and putting everything on the iCommons
> >> wiki as it is discussed in January.
> >>
> >> Some of what we'll be looking at in January:
> >> - Inspiration: A look at some of the world's best conferences
> >> and events and what makes them so successful;
> >>
> >> - Goals for the Summit: Brainstorming around the core goals of
> >> the iCommons Summit and how the iSummit can serve the global Creative
> >> Commons community.
> >>
> >> - Target audiences: A look at the different target audiences
> >> for the Summit and what they aim to achieve from attending the
> >> Summit;
> >>
> >> - Brainstorming around the core 'tracks' at the Summit i.e .
> >> inspire, debate, learn, show and create, and the CCI Legal Day. Does
> >> this cover everything that needs to be achieved? How can we design
> >> these tracks creatively with maximum impact?
> >>
> >> - Track design: Group work to script the tracks and develop a
> >> process for maximum interactivity;
> >>
> >> - Project plan: Develop a project timeline for
> >> responsibilities going forward.
> >>
> >> This workshop is kindly being funded by the Ford Foundation as part
> >> of the Local Context Global Commons Project ( http://
> >> www.icommons.org/
> >> nodes/local-context-global-commons). You would have seen some of the
> >> great articles resulting from this project on the iCommons website
> >> and monthly magazine. Anyone is welcome to participate in this
> >> project - all you need is to write at least one article a month, to
> >> attend a planning meeting conference call once a month with the rest
> >> of the team, and to participate in a mailing list to discuss themes
> >> etc. A project meeting for Local Context Global Commons will be held
> >> on the 16th of January - a day before the iSummit workshop begins.
> >> Contact us if you're interested :)
> >>
> >> More soon!
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Heather.
> >>
> >> Heather Ford
> >> iCommons Executive Director
> >> http://icommons.org
> >>
> >> The iCommons Summit: 29 July - 1 August 2008, Sapporo, Japan
> >>
> >> Phone: +27 11 327 3155
> >> PO Box 1453, Saxonwold, 2132, Johannesburg
> >>
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> >>
> >>
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> Jeremy Hunsinger
> Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research,
> School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu
> )
>
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> thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
> --Byron
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