[Cc-hk] CC-HK progress report
Rebecca MacKinnon
rebecca.mackinnon at gmail.com
Sat Sep 22 01:31:09 EDT 2007
OK I shall I take you off the community e-mail list then? Or would
you like to unsubscribe from it yourself?
On Sep 22, 2007, at 12:42 PM, Marco wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Pls. don’t send me more emails. The emails are infected with spy
> ware. I ran a scan and the virus is coming from these emails. Thanks’!
>
> Best,
>
> Marco
>
>
>
>
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> Von: cc-hk-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:cc-hk-
> bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] Im Auftrag von Rebecca MacKinnon
> Gesendet: Freitag, 21. September 2007 19:18
> An: cc-hk at lists.ibiblio.org
> Cc: Doreen Weisenhaus; Peter Yu; ying chan
> Betreff: [Cc-hk] CC-HK progress report
>
>
>
> Hello everybody!
>
> Sorry for the long silence. Many people were away in August, then
> things have been very hectic at HKU with the start of the new
> semester.
>
> I have several developments to report:
>
> 1. LEGAL WORK: Our legal leads at the HKU Law Faculty, Professors
> Yahong Li and Alice Lee, have recruited two graduate students to
> work on localization of the CC license into HK law. I've just added
> them to the list so hopefully they will introduce themselves.
>
> If all goes well, our legal team hopes that drafts of the licenses
> will be available for your comment by the end of the year. Then
> after an appropriate comment period (the length of which depends on
> the community), we hope that the licenses can be finalized and CC-
> HK can be launched by the middle of 2008.
>
> 2. CC CONTENT DIRECTORY PROJECT: Two other new additions to this
> mailing list are Prof. Thomas Lee of the HKU Computer Science
> department and Gary Tsui, a graduate student in the CS department.
> They are interested in exploring the possibility of creating some
> kind of directory of Hong Kong CC content and also possibly Chinese-
> language CC content more generally. Of course, we first need to
> localize the license in order for such a project to get fully
> underway, but it's worth starting to think about. So we welcome
> ideas and interest.
>
> 3. HK GOVERNMENT CIO: The government CIO's office has expressed an
> interest via Thomas in learning more about Creative Commons. Thomas
> and I will probably go and talk to them some time in early October
> just to explain more about how CC works and what it is. Then, I
> hope that after the license gets localized for HK law, our
> community can encourage them to use it.
>
> 4. NEXT MEETING? Some people have asked when we will have another
> meeting or get-together. Others have said they think that the next
> time we meet, we need to have very specific goals that we want to
> accomplish in order to make it worthwhile. I welcome your thoughts
> about whether people think it would be useful to hold another
> meeting sometime in October, and if so what the objectives of the
> meeting would be, or whether people prefer to wait until we have a
> draft of the licenses for comment.
>
> 5. BEN CHENG: Ben Cheng, who attended our July meeting, has been
> hired part-time by my Journalism & Media Studies Ctr here at HKU to
> help us out with a number of things, including CC-HK community
> building, organization, and relations. When we get further along in
> the license-porting process and start to think about a launch date,
> etc., he will be a key person to help coordinate activities and
> projects.
>
> Any further questions, ideas, thoughts, opinions, etc. are greatly
> welcome.
>
> If any other people who recently joined the list would like to
> introduce themselves, that would also be great.
>
> Cheers,
> Rebecca
>
>
> --
> Rebecca MacKinnon
> Assistant Professor, Journalism & Media Studies Ctr.
> University of Hong Kong (http://jmsc.hku.hk)
> E-mail: rmack at hku.hk | Tel: +852-2219-4005
> Blog: http://RConversation.blogs.com
> Co-founder: http://GlobalVoicesOnline.org
> "The world is talking. Are you listening?"
>
>
Rebecca MacKinnon
Assistant Professor, Journalism & Media Studies Ctr.
University of Hong Kong (http://jmsc.hku.hk)
E-mail: rmack at hku.hk | Tel: +852-2219-4005
Blog: RConversation.com
Co-founder: GlobalVoicesOnline.org
"The world is talking. Are you listening?"
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