[Cc-hk] Saturday meeting follow-up

Chong Chan-yau chanyau at hku.hk
Wed Jan 30 04:23:49 EST 2008


Dear All,
Sorry I couldn't make it.
I'm excited by the progress.
The notes do not seem to contain reference to the need for setting a formal
organization to run CC.
Is this being considered? 
Do we need a 'company limited by guarantee' to 'run and promote' CC?
Rgds.
Chan Yau

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[mailto:cc-hk-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Rebecca MacKinnon
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 3:38 PM
To: cc-hk
Cc: Marco marco at montaniglobal.com; Peter Yu; ying chan
Subject: [Cc-hk] Saturday meeting follow-up


Hello everybody!

Thanks so much to those of you who came to our planning meeting last
Saturday. From now until the launch (exact timing tba) it was agreed we
should have monthly gatherings to touch base and exchange ideas. Ben will be
in charge of organizing those.

Thanks to Ben for posting meeting notes. I've also posted a list of the
attendees (first names only) on the wiki here: 
http://cchk.wetpaint.com/page/Jan+26
For convenience I am also pasting Ben's notes at the bottom of this email.

Here is where we now stand:

- We agreed on a timeline for license consulation and completion of the
license, to be spearheaded by Yahong and Alice with assistance from Ben and
Henry and others as needed. 
- The launch will no longer be on June 15th because people felt we can't do
it properly if combined with the Chinese internet research conference at
HKU. 
- After the meeting a number of us had further discussion via e-mail about
the launch timing. Due to our present limitations on resources, time and
personnel, we realized it's actually unrealistic to do a full public launch
in June if we are going to do it separately from the other conference. 
- Therefore, the current plan is to do a "soft launch" of the license in
June and aim for a formal public launch, with VIPs and media and
celebrations and whatever else, in the Fall or Winter.

Because this e-mail list has been made public in order to invite public
discussion of the CC-HK draft license (which we need a lot more of!), Ben
has created a new google group for everybody who is interested in being
involved with the launch in any way. If you have not been added and want to
be on it please e-mail  him at chpapa at gmail.com

We remain very excited about launching CC  in Hong Kong in 2008, but we want
to make sure we do it right.

Thanks!
Rebecca

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NOTES FROM JAN.26 MEETING:

Important Point / Quick Agreement
- If we want to have the license by late-June, final draft of license have
to be done by early to mid-May
- Legal team expresses that the difficult part is the choice of terminology.
The terms have to be easy to understand and also in-compliance with legal
requirement.
- It is important to change the culture, and get more supportors,
independent contributors.
- We need to change the date of CC-HK Launch, decoupling with CIRC (the
original schedule is to have it at 15 June) (Note: It was generally agreed
that we need to reconsider weather a June launch is a good idea after the
meeting)
- A CC-HK Education Kit which should includes local show case of copyright
problem and how CC may help was suggested.
- Generally agreed that we should use the general CC logo but a slogan
specific for CC-HK is acceptable. 
- A new email group for preparing the CC-HK launch will be created for those
who will commit to help the launch. To avoid sending lots more email to the
general CC-HK mailing list.

Todo's
- Yahong: Need to find a people to translate the license into Chinese (next
week or after CNY)
- Macro: Contact collecting society for comments
- Alice: Will send out a clear version of the draft license
- Someone? : Inform the government about the draft of CC-HK
- Aaron: Find some companies want to use CC
- Rebecca: Will check with Lessig for another CC Launching Day
- Ben: Draft a timeline and budget plan for the CC-HK education kit.

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Rebecca MacKinnon
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University of Hong Kong   (http://jmsc.hku.hk)
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