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[Christian Villum <villum AT creativecommons.dk>]

Sure thing, here is the draft/outline:

IDEA: CC DENMARK FRIENDS
Basically, we've been discussing how to involve our community a little more in promoting CC. In Denmark we have a relatively large following who attends events and speaks positively about CC in their networks. Some of them have even asked how they can help more, but with a group of 3-5 people already organizing CC's current activities and events, it's hard to involve people more in that part. This 
is why we've been talking about other ways to let people get involved - 
and have come up with an idea called CC DENMARK FRIENDS (working title).

The idea is to make a group that everyone can become a registered member of (for free). The group - CC Denmark Friends - will act as a community with whom we, the CC Denmark
 staff, can interact to discuss tasks and ideas. First and foremost
 we would use the group to crowd source brainstorming for events 
(speakers, locations, sponsors etc.), but also it would work as a 
"street team" to spread info about planned CC 
events and activities (through e-flyers, social media etc.). With such a 
community we could also harness the benefits of a much larger network in
 order to lower costs of events through sponsorships (a large network 
usually have people running hotels, venues, gear rental etc. who would 
like to help out or sponsor). Last, but not least, we are playing with 
the idea to use the community to do small-scale crowd funding to collect 
means to invite more prominent speakers to CC Salons and other events. 
In other words, CC Denmark Friends would involve a larger group in several stages of planning activities and create more momentum for CC in Denmark.

In practice, we have a guy (great CC
 activist) ready to act as community leader (in collab with us), and would 
probably use Ning or something similar as backbone for the experiment. 
After implementation, we'd naturally also want to share all our 
experiences with this to other CC affiliates, so if it works well maybe others would like to do something similar.
The plan is to launch over the winter 2011-21.

Feedback more than welcome!


-Christian

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Alek Tarkowski <alek AT creativecommons.pl> wrote:

Dear Jonas,

I think that the trick is not to find some cc-based collaboration
project to do, as with open content it's very easy, each of us can
propose something to translate by others. I think the challenges are to
a) collectively agree on a task (the project you mention, for which some
of us have applied a way back was different, as we planned to do a "web
of translations", with texts from different regions; b) coordinate work
and c) (let's face it) find at least some financing. That's why we then
wanted to apply for a project grant - which would allow / force us to do
all three.

Christian, can you write more about the "CC Denmark Friends" idea,
sounds interesting.

BEst,

Alek

On 19/09/11 22:19 , Jonas Öberg wrote:
> Here's an idea for a project which just became available: a friend of
> Creative Commons Sweden published some time ago a book for children in
> Swedish under a CC license (by-nc-sa). The book has been turned into a
> musical, and will now be recorded in an audio version suitable for
> radio.
>
> The book only exists in Swedish so far. Alek told me about a previous
> translation project they'd wanted to do, which I think sounded like a
> great idea. So the question is: if I can convince Creative Commons
> Sweden to do a translation of the book into English, is anyone
> interested in participating by doing a translation into other
> languages?
>


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Creative Commons Polska / Poland
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