[cc-community] iSummit update: How to say ‘Give me beer’ in Japanese and other critical information

Heather Ford heather at icommons.org
Thu Jun 19 05:48:08 EDT 2008


Apologies for cross-posting.

The iSummit Update: 19 June 2008

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39 Days to go!

1. How you can help:

Thank you to the Friends of the iSummit (including organizations such  
as Global Voices, IP Justice, the UNU Media Studio, the Open Rights  
Group, Sapporo City University and others) who have helped spread the  
word about the event by blogging about it, sending emails to their  
lists and generally supporting the event.

  It would be awesome if you could add the button to your own site –  
especially if you’re attending this year (http://icommonssummit.org/ 
support/become-a-friend-of-the-isummit.html).

  We’re still looking for sponsors to help bring participants to  
Japan. If you have any leads on this, please let me know.

  2. The programme:

As you would have read in previous updates, the iSummit is being  
developed as a hybrid ‘unconference’ this year, with a focus on  
making sure participants get the most out of the global networking  
opportunity. The following people were chosen by their community on  
the mailing lists or volunteered as facilitators of the core labs at  
this year's iSummit. They’ve been hard at work with participants  
developing a programme that enables connections and some really  
focused learning to take place in Sapporo.

Open Education: Ahrash Bissell (ccLearn) and Delia Browne (National  
Copyright Director of Ministerial Council Employment Education  
Training and Youth Affairs, Australia) - Although both Ahrash and  
Delia work on Creative Commons projects, they will enable discussion  
on all aspects of the open education production and dissemination  
cycle in the Open Education workshop. Ahrash and Delia are excited  
about the participatory workshop process that we're using for the  
iSummit, and have the passion and enthusiasm to help sustain the  
connections that are made in Sapporo.

Local Context Global Commons: Rebecca Kahn (iCommons) and Jessica  
Coates (ccAustralia) - Rebecca Kahn is the Editor of the Local  
Context Global Commons project at iCommons and is passionate at  
looking at the diverse ways in which communities around the world  
produce and disseminate culture. Jessica Coates has done a lot of  
thinking about how communities can build open works, and has done a  
great deal of work around networking with fellow commoners -  
especially in Asia.

DIY Video: David Harris (Global Lives Project) and Anna Berthold  
(iCommons). David Harris is the passion behind the distributed,  
volunteer-driven Global Lives Project, which is creating a video  
library of human life experience based on 24-hour recordings of daily  
life around the world and showing their footage both online and in  
unique and immersive video installations. Anna has just graduated  
from the University of Southern California's Masters in Public  
Diplomacy programme and has come to work for iCommons where she is  
working on video documentation and strategic issues.

Open Business: Lanon Prigge (Indep) and James Cairns (iCommons).  
Lanon is an independent facilitator who has volunteered for the  
iSummit and who will be training facilitators in the day before the  
iSummit. James is the iSummit Programme Coordinator and has done a  
great job of bringing everyone together and making sure that their  
needs are met by the iSummit programme to the greatest extent  
possible. Both Lanon and James are excellent facilitators and both  
fascinated with the area of 'What makes an Open Business?'

The First Interdisciplinary Research Workshop on Free Culture:  
Giorgos Cheliotis:  Giorgos, with the help of Tyng-Ruey Chuang and  
Jonathan Zittrain, has driven the research workshop from its initial  
inception in December, 07 and has been instrumental in making this  
workshop a reality at this year's iSummit.

Remember to join one of the following mailing lists dedicated to the  
parallel tracks at the iSummit this year where discussions are  
ongoing around the different aspects of the commons:

1. Open education (http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/icic) -  
English

2. Open business (http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/ 
isummitbusiness) - English

3. Local context global commons: Voices from the global South  
(htttp://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/isummitglobalcommons) -  
English

4. DIY Video - back due to popular demand! (http://lists.ibiblio.org/ 
mailman/listinfo/isummitvideo) - English

5. Open in Japan (http://icommonssummit.org/programme/labs/cc- 
japan.html) - mostly Japanese

Or the satellite event:

6. "The First Interdisciplinary Research Workshop on Free  
Culture" (http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-research)  
- English

I’ve also uploaded an updated version of the highlights of this  
year’s iSummit programme on Slideshare here: http:// 
www.slideshare.net/hfordsa/isummit-programme-as-at-18-jun-08/

3. The language:

Here's the second Japanese lesson by Fumi (http://www.youtube.com/ 
watch?v=UvIB-ZeCKhI&feature=related) where you’ll learn how to say  
‘Give me beer’ and other critical phrases.

'Til next time!

Heather.

P.S. Read the other updates at http://icommonssummit.org/summit_blog/ 
heather-ford/2008/05/.



Heather Ford

iCommons Executive Director
http://icommons.org

The iCommons Summit: 29 July - 1 August 2008, Sapporo, Japan
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