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["Mr. Pindar Wong" <pindar AT pacific.net.hk>]

On May 16, 2007, at 3:03 AM, Jon Phillips wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 00:05 +0800, uta lam wrote:
> > Hi Pindar,
> >
> > Wow, you guys really discuss a lot of issues in the meeting.

it was quite informative actually and fortunately went  beyond the  
initial exchanging of  pleasantries ;)

I would imagine that a first formal meeting would be even more so...

> > But as I remember that the key of starting the project is to identify
> > a legal lead first, any potential candidates nominated from the
> > meeting?

In trying to understand the status of the project thus far, we also  
named  Ms Yahong Li and Prof. Matthew Yuen (from Jon's first meeting  
on this subject back in 2006)!

As far as we could tell, based on postings to this list,

1) we've two legal scholars  Ms. Yahong Li (HKU) and Rebecca Ong  
(City U - kindly introduced by Kenneth)
2) several individuals associated with 'academic'  bodies -  applied  
research (ASTRI) and universities (HKUST, CU, HKU ... ) law faculties/ 
media/cultural studies departments

So Uta ...  several potential candidates and institutions!  ;)

CC may have already identified both (from Jon's email below) -- which  
is *fantastic* to move things forward! :)

Although the ligh-level process for formation was clear ( http:// 
wiki.creativecommons.org/Worldwide_Overview ), we nevertheless had  
several operational/logistical/strategic user-related questions as  
well as some practical ones e.g.  whether our existing commercial  
contacts could be used to leverage  pro-bono work from a commercial  
law firm (Bakers, JSM, Slaughter&May etc) for the initial review  
(given that we've a common law history and version 3.0 released )

So, with the combined experience on this list, we should have enough  
clue to answer the 'known unknowns' !

As Jon, who was at the first meeting in 2006, mentioned both
> > Any plan to contact those candidates?

Ah... well they're all on the list and assumed to be periodically  
reading mail.

Based on Yahong's email of May 8th, she would not be available till  
July (earliest) and the thought of organising a 1st meeting in July  
was in deference to this reality.

Yahong: Would it be possible for you to propose a convenient date in  
July per your scheduled?
Matthew: Would it be possible for you to host this meeting in HKUST?
Jon: Would it be possible to participate by teleconference/video  
conference (we could rig something up)?


p.


> > Thanks,
> > Uta
>
> Ms Yahong Li and Prof. Matthew Yuen
>
> There is a chance that both Catharina and myself will be at  
> wikimania in
> taiwan in AUG, so depending if either of us get there, could possibly
> swing through. Catharina is your best bet...
>
> I will potentially travel through though in the next 6-9 months  
> because
> my family lives in Guangzhou...and I'm scouting out places to live in
> China/HK ;) (a little personal info for you all :)
>
> Jon