[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
>
>
>
>
>
> 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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