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  • From: Tessa Houghton <tessajadehoughton AT gmail.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [Cc-nz] reportback from IRGO unConference (Danyl Strype) (Tessa Houghton) (Jessica Coates)
  • Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:02:14 +1300

Hi Jessica,

Thanks for that info - it's really interesting to hear.  I thought that the CC community might be a bit more equal due to the wider knowledge and input base, but it's really interesting (and great) to hear that there has been thought and action over existing inequalities and why they might exist/how they might be rectified.  I'm aware of Linux Chicks and Tech Girls Are Chic, and know someone involved in the latter, and at the moment, am keeping an eye on their sites/blogs as part of gradually getting to grips with the general research area, but it would be wonderful to be put in touch with other members for when I start the research proper.  Any contacts you have would be very much appreciated - if you could email me on or off-list that would be wonderful :) 

Also, is there any archiving of the discussion resulting from the 2007 iCommons conference? Or if not, would you be happy to discuss it further at some stage? I actually think women in CC likely merits its own separate study, but it's really something that has only occurred to me since the conversations at the IRGO unConference.

Cheers,
Tessa

Tessa Jade Houghton

PhD Candidate
Media and Communication
University of Canterbury
New Zealand

"If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of creation, it would appear that God has an inordinate fondness for stars and beetles." - J.B.S. Haldane


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From: Jessica Coates <j2.coates AT qut.edu.au>
To: Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand discussion <cc-nz AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:35:12 +1000
Subject: Re: [Cc-nz] reportback from IRGO unConference (Danyl Strype)

Hi Tessa

 

I was part of a discussion on the issue of gender balance in the commons community a few years ago, when people realised that the 2007 iCommons conference (that for a few years was the main gathering of the CC community) in Dubrovnik didn’t have a female keynote.

 

The feeling at the time was that, because of its origins in the programming and academic communities, a lot of the existing ‘high profile’ commoners were men - but that a lot (maybe even the majority) of people ‘on the ground’ were women. We were hoping that as the commons moved more into the education and collections areas, the balance would start to right itself.

 

A mailing list for ideas to increase the profile of women in the commons was set up, but didn’t really go anywhere.

 

As far as the CC chapters go – doing a random count of the people I know off the top of my head, I’d say representation is fairly even between men and women.  Though I note the head office seems to be weighted towards men – though again, this might be a result of the number of programmers it has on staff. About a third of the board are women.

 

I presume you’re aware of the excellent work being done here in Australia by our local LinuxChix chapter (http://au.linuxchix.org/) and by the Brisbane-base ‘Tech Girls are Chic’ organisation (http://techgirlsarechic.org/)? I can  give you contacts for both these groups if you’d like.

 

 

Jessica Coates

Project Manager

Creative Commons Clinic

Queensland University of Technology

 

ph: 07 3138 8301

fax: 07 3138 9395

email: j2.coates AT qut.edu.au




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