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  • From: Timothy Vollmer <tvol AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: cc staff all <cc-staff AT lists.ibiblio.org>, cc-europe AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [CC-Europe] CC and the Edgeryders project
  • Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:30:19 -0800

Hi all:

Jonas Öberg and I have been in touch with Nadia EL-Imam from Edgeryders (I'm hoping it's pronounced "edge riders," otherwise I have no clue). Edgeryders (http://edgeryders.ppa.coe.int/) is an EU funded project that attempts to collect and highlight stories, case studies, and interesting projects from individuals to show the need for policy change in the Council of Europe. The site uses CC BY, which is nice (go Jonas!) (http://edgeryders.ppa.coe.int/page/legals). 

Nadia contacted us to see if Creative Commons can help get individuals to submit information to the Edgeryders site, specifically with regard to the "Caring for Commons" campaign (http://edgeryders.ppa.coe.int/campaign/caring-commons). She also wants us to help guide some of the conversation on that part of the project. They're trying to get a critical mass of input on the commons, how people manage the commons, and identifying new initiatives and approaches (like CC, I suppose). 

I am somewhat skeptical of yet another networking/case studies website, but to CC the interesting part would be in the possibility of influencing the Council of Europe generally regarding CC licensing. As Jonas said, if we could help out make a push towards the council for CC adoption, that seems like it would be a very useful thing to do.

We told Nadia that we would share information about the Edgeryders platform to our European affiliates. Hopefully the commitment to CC will be relatively low, as I do not think we have the capacity to spend much time/resources on this. In addition to the online platform they are holding a meeting with European policymakers in June in Strasbourg to discuss the Edgeryders initiatives. There is potential for CC involvement at the meeting in person (and with partial funding). After the meeting there will be a community-driven process to draft policy recommendations. 

Does anyone know more about this project or do you have input about the utility to Creative Commons? 

Thank you. Regards, 

Timothy

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