[Cc-hk] About the Practical Workshop on the Use of CC Materials
Rebecca MacKinnon
rebecca.mackinnon at gmail.com
Mon Oct 22 05:10:18 EDT 2007
Thanks Haggen!! Yes it would be great for us to join the December party. I
see it is scheduled for December 15th, same day as Barcamp Hong Kong. See:
http://barcamp.org/BarCampHongKong
Maybe we should combine all three communities that evening? There is lots of
overlap I think.
Rebecca
On 10/22/07, Haggen So <haggen_so at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> First, the "official report" for the event can be found at:
>
> http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E8%81%9A%E6%9C%83/2007%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E7%A7%8B%E8%81%9A%E6%9A%A8%E6%BE%B3%E9%96%80%E9%A6%96%E6%AC%A1%E8%81%9A%E6%9C%83
>
> Let me briefly describe what impressed me most... It was a successful
> event that Wikipedians from Mainland, Macau and HK were all present in the
> meeting. We were very grateful that CT, an Open Source activitist and a
> Macau University of Science and Technology lecturer, provided us all the
> facilities we needed within a short notice. I was also honored to witness
> the first Macau Wikipedian meeting.
>
> What I learnt from the meeting were how a local Wikipedia chapter worked
> and the benefits of having one. I remembered in the meeting some local
> Macau Wikipedians were a bit reserved in the idea of a local chapter as
> they did not know how much they could commit to the task. Receiving some
> more encouragement and seeing the possibility of applying for fundings
> from the government, the Macau Wikipedians decided to start a local
> chapter as well. I hope that when we get the approval to setup a local CC
> chapter, we should seek some fundings as well.
>
> Another highlight was about GFW, the damage to the Mainland Wikipedia
> community and the persistence of the Mainland Wikipedians. I was aware of
> GFW for awhile but never discussed it with the "victims" and learnt how
> bad it really was. It was very encouraging that the two Mainland
> Wikipedians were still very committed.
>
> I have to admit that though I did change some contents of Wikipedia before
> (hopeful for the better), I was not registered. After the trip I quickly
> registered and added some content to the entry about my surname 'So'. I
> can now claim that I am a Wikipedian ^^
>
> Oops, nearly forgotten. I have to mention that Jerry told me the next big
> event for the Wikipedians would be the 50 parties. Jimmy Wales encourages
> Wikipedians to invite CC and FSF people to party in at least 50 different
> locations in December. The HK page is
> http://50parties.wikia.com/wiki/Hong_Kong . We should participate and
> help out. Jerry also proposed a join HK-Macau party.
>
> Haggen
>
> On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Jack Qiu wrote:
>
> > I also like the idea. Yesterday Haggen and I were at the wikipedian
> gathering in Macao. Looks like the wikipedians have started to develop
> a pan-Pearl River Delta network with some strong basis in HK. There're
> plenty of things we should learn from them. Haggen may have more to
> share here as I had to leave at the end of the afternoon, so I didn't
> go to their evening events.
>
> Jack
>
> On 10/21/07, Charles Mok <mok at hknet.com> wrote:
> > Yes I think so!
> >
> > --------
> >
> > Charles Mok ²ö¤D¥ú charlesmok.blogspot.com
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cc-hk-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
> > [mailto:cc-hk-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Ben
> > Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 9:57 PM
> > To: Chong Chan-yau
> > Cc: cc-hk at lists.ibiblio.org; mklwong at hkucc.hku.hk
> > Subject: Re: [Cc-hk] About the Practical Workshop on the Use of CC
> Materials
> >
> > BTW, should we videotape this workshop and put it online so that those
> > who can't join can also benefit from it?
> >
> > Bests,
> > Ben
> >
> > On 10/20/07, Ben <chpapa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I have finalized the workshop content on the wiki page here:
> > >
> >
> http://cchk.wetpaint.com/page/Practical+Workshop+on+the+Use+of+CC+Materials
> > >
> > > More details can be added later, so please feel free to take a look
> and
> > comment.
> > >
> > > For the e-lealeft, I have drafted a website for the event:
> > > http://cc.workshop.hk.googlepages.com/
> > >
> > > Please help to take a look and comment on it too. I think we can set a
> > > deadline for it -- Let's finalized and publish it on next Wed 6:00pm
> > > if no objection.
> > >
> > > Bests,
> > > Ben
> > >
> > > On 10/17/07, Chong Chan-yau <chanyau at hku.hk> wrote:
> > > > Thanks Ben.
> > > > Chan Yau
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Ben [mailto:chpapa at gmail.com]
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 12:14 AM
> > > > To: Chong Chan-yau
> > > > Cc: Charles Mok; Oiwan Lam; Jack Qiu; cc-hk at lists.ibiblio.org;
> > > > mklwong at HKUCC.HKU.HK
> > > > Subject: Re: [Cc-hk] About the Practical Workshop on the Use of CC
> > Materials
> > > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for Chan-yau's arrangement.
> > > > Alright, I could help that and would try to make a e-lealeft before
> > Friday.
> > > >
> > > > Bests,
> > > > Ben
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Ben Cheng
> > > > Mobile: 93816083
> > > > Email: ben at bencheng.net
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
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> > Email: ben at bencheng.net
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