[Icommons] Explaining the iCommons site better.
Daniela Faris
daniela at icommons.org
Tue Jan 29 03:48:50 EST 2008
Hi Jamison
Anyone is free to contribute information, resources, news and events
related to the commons from around the world. Artists are very
welcome on icommons.org - as an artist yourself, you have contributed
to icommons.org many times, and had many stories published on the
front page of the site. :) We are using the term 'social
entrepreneur' as an overarching term for people who recognise the
need for social change related to the Internet and the digital
commons, and are mobilising themselves and people around them to work
for that change. So the term could include anyone - from media
creators, to teachers, to business people, students and artists - the
list could go on and on and on...
You have a good point that people new to the Commons movement might
need some extra information on the FAQ, and we could definitely look
into providing some links to additional reading, for example. This
might even be a good start for gathering materials for the CC 101/
Academy that we are hoping to have at the Summit. Do you have any
resources that are good introductions/explanations of Open Source,
Open Content, Free Culture etc. that you'd like to recommend Jamison?
As for your queries regarding how to to contribute to icommons.org,
and what the site is about, please refer to the FAQ page.
If you have any further questions, please feel free to mail me.
Regards
Daniela
On 28 Jan 2008, at 5:58 PM, Jamison Young wrote:
> The iCommons website (to my eyes) has been set up for the people that
> come to summit, it provides little resource to people new to the open
> source. If an artist/creator that knows nothing about the open source
> comes to this site. Are they going to register? should this be the
> focus of the site?
>
> Where is the link to "What is open culture?" "What is this site
> about?" "Where do i fit into the open source movement?" "How can i
> contribute?" The about this page makes out that iCommons is about
> education and getting more funds to educate further, at a glance.
>
> I understand that the mission of icommons.org is "iCommons.org’s
> mission is to provide a valuable service to the global commons
> community by providing valuable information and networking tools to
> the social entrepreneurs that make up this movement."
>
> What Icommons.org does not seem to want to understand is that lot of
> artists might be "social entrepreneurs" that have ideas that relate
> to this movement. from Wiki
> "while social entrepreneurs' principal objectives include the
> creation of a social and/or environmental benefit." Just about every
> artist i know is a "social entrepreneur" under this definition.
>
> Yet i never met an artist that called her or him self a "social
> entrepreneuse" or entrepreneur! its possible that many artists have
> very like minded values to that of the iCommons community. The way
> iCommons have things explained for now means that few artists are
> going to understand how their views fit in with what's going on.
>
> Can the iCommons.org mission include an artist/creator focus as well?
> Is it part of the iCommons mission to bring the users of the licences
> together?
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