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  • From: John Weitzmann <johnweitzmann AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: Alek Tarkowski <alek AT creativecommons.pl>
  • Cc: "cc-europe AT lists.ibiblio.org" <cc-europe AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [CC-Europe] Action appreciated: CC's State of the Commons Report needs a drumbeat
  • Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 13:13:42 +0100

Hi Alek,

I agree, there's a lot to be learned from this. To not just rain on people's parade internally but move forward constructively now (not in a year), I'd like to propose to make stateof.creativecommons.org into a kind of permanent place to go to if you want to find out about the state of free culture, CC as an org and metrics in general. We all know how often these questions about "how many CC works are there?" etc. are brought to affiliates. The presentation/data/report would not need to have a fixed form, it could/should be versioned and updated whenever it makes sense, i.e. surely right before the annual donation campaign(s) start but also in between if new data becomes available.

What do people think about this?

Best
John


On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Alek Tarkowski <alek AT creativecommons.pl> wrote:
Hi everyone,

adding to the discussion. I think that the map was not the only problem. I personally fixed errors in the list of OER policies selected by someone who prepared the infographic (based on the OER policy registry, which is out of date, which is a separate issue) - we had on our list Lithuania (based on some declaration from 2003 that was never followed up) and Hungary (based on some weird, Hungarian only statement by an NGO). 

I know that this is another detail, like the map. But the point I'd like to make is that the HQ, in preparing such an infographic, can benefit a lot from feedback and support of others. But this cannot be done in the last moment. Maybe the translation takes only 20 minutes, but we all have our jobs, projects, etc. and having only several days to do something often means putting things in "express mode".

Thanks John for relaying the comments further on to the HQ.

best,

Alek

On Nov 23, 2014, at 15:39, John Weitzmann <johnweitzmann AT creativecommons.org> wrote:

Hi Maarten,

I relayed the critique to Ryan, Meryl and the others directly. The German translation, sent in in time, is still not up.

That said, I think the feedback should stay within proportion. As disappointing as the results may be, including the report only being an info graphic etc., it took about 20 minutes to translate everything and nobody was/is required to promote it against their own assessment, which includes the tweet I referred to because you said you couldn't promote something pre publication.
From my personal p.o.v. the map issue is rather quirky. When I first saw that second "map" I didn't even recognise any resemblance with the actual world map higher up in the graphic. But it probably is meant to be losely world-based, which must lead to an investigation how this can be avoided from now on. Everyone should keep in mind, though, that this thing was rushed in all its stages - which is the first thing to avoid in the future.

Best
John


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