[Commons-research] Latest?

Gavin Baker gavin at gavinbaker.com
Mon Nov 24 23:25:00 EST 2008


Out of curiosity (from someone who wasn't able to attend last year), is
there a reason the workshop isn't again going to be scheduled with the
iSummit?

Giorgos Cheliotis wrote:
> Hello everyone, in fact, there are fresh news on the conference front,  
> I just got an email a couple of days ago that the conference can be  
> held at Stanford in early August. The dates that were given to me were  
> Aug 6-8, but need to double check that first as it was initially  
> planned to have it on a weekend, Sunday included, but Aug 6-8 is Thu- 
> Sat. In any case, this took a while because it required the  
> coordination of a few parties, mostly people at the Stanford Center  
> for Internet and Society who will provide some logistic support and  
> Lessig himself who wanted to make sure he has time to attend. One can  
> imagine given his busy schedule that this was not so easy to achieve.
> 
> So, those of us who are interested in organizing the conference can  
> now work on the CFP, which can build on the old one, available still  
> here: http://commonsresearch.wikidot.com/call
> 
> Perhaps a couple of you, say for example Juan Carlos and Prodromos (as  
> you guys have shown a strong interest during and after the workshop  
> last year), as well as Larry (who will be hosting the conference so  
> should be kept informed) can work with me to produce a first draft of  
> a revised CFP and then circulate it on this list for more feedback? Of  
> course all are welcome to provide inputs, I'm just thinking about how  
> to stage this so as to be more efficient and get it out quicker - last  
> year the amount of emails I sent around was enormous and I don't have  
> that kind of bandwidth this year - which is fine I think because we've  
> already been through the process once, so this time it should be easier.
> 
> Can you let me have a first go at the revised CFP this week and then  
> share with you?
> 
> Giorgos
> 
> On Nov 24, 2008, at 6:37 PM, Jon Phillips wrote:
> 
>> The last post just awakened this thought and Christopher Adams just
>> reminded me about this list and the upcoming conference :)
>>
>> Giorgos and other colleagues, what is the latest on the Commons  
>> Research
>> project and conference?
>>
>> I should check in as well as what is happening with the Creative  
>> Commons
>> Metrics project. Has anyone done anything with this data?
>>
>> http://creativecommons.org/projects/metrics
>>
>> Jon
>>
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