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["Chong Chan-yau" <chanyau AT hku.hk>]

Dear Rebecca and all,

Thank you for your update.

Much progress seems to be happening.

I would like to propose a workshop or seminar where the use of CC can be promoted to a wider audience than the people signing up to this list.

Rebecca indicates that she will be more available in the fall. 

I offer to take the initiative to do the organizing.

Any one who is interested as a speaker, etc.

This seminar is intended for the laymen, internet users, students etc.

It should contain demonstration, experience sharing, etc. Some background introd, and overlap may be useful.

Will let you the progress. Welcome _expression_ of interests.

Chan Yau 

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From: cc-hk-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:cc-hk-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Rebecca MacKinnon
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 12:03 AM
To: jerryhua AT hkusua.hku.hk
Cc: cc-hk AT lists.ibiblio.org; Doreen Weisenhaus; Peter Yu; ying chan
Subject: Re: [Cc-hk] CC-HK progress report

Thanks Jerry, great to meet you. There are several people on this list with IP expertise and familiarity with CC, so please feel free to ask for help!

Best regards,

Rebecca

On Sep 21, 2007, at 11:51 PM, jerryhua AT hkusua.hku.hk wrote:

Hello everyone,

I am Jerry Hua, the graduate student recently recruited in the CC-HK project. I am fist-year PhD under the supervision of Ms Yahong Li, doing research in IP. As a fresh research student, I have not developed expertise in IP yet, but I do hope I could make efforts to promote the progress of this project and learn from you all.

Thank you!

Best regards,

Jerry Hua

----- Message from rebecca.mackinnon AT gmail.com ---------

Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:17:41 +0800

From: Rebecca MacKinnon <rebecca.mackinnon AT gmail.com>

Reply-To: Rebecca MacKinnon <rebecca.mackinnon AT gmail.com>

Subject: [Cc-hk] CC-HK progress report

To: cc-hk AT lists.ibiblio.org

Cc: Doreen Weisenhaus <doreen AT hku.hk>, Peter Yu <peter_yu AT msn.com>, ying chan <yychan AT hku.hk>

Hello everybody!

Sorry for the long silence. Many people were away in August, then things

have been very hectic at HKU with the start of the new semester.

I have several developments to report:

1. LEGAL WORK: Our legal leads at the HKU Law Faculty, Professors Yahong Li

and Alice Lee, have recruited two graduate students to work on localization

of the CC license into HK law. I've just added them to the list so hopefully

they will introduce themselves.

If all goes well, our legal team hopes that drafts of the licenses will be

available for your comment by the end of the year. Then after an appropriate

comment period (the length of which depends on the community), we hope that

the licenses can be finalized and CC-HK can be launched by the middle of

2008.

2. CC CONTENT DIRECTORY PROJECT: Two other new additions to this mailing

list are Prof. Thomas Lee of the HKU Computer Science department and Gary

Tsui, a graduate student in the CS department. They are interested in

exploring the possibility of creating some kind of directory of Hong Kong CC

content and also possibly Chinese-language CC content more generally. Of

course, we first need to localize the license in order for such a project to

get fully underway, but it's worth starting to think about. So we welcome

ideas and interest.

3. HK GOVERNMENT CIO: The government CIO's office has expressed an interest

via Thomas in learning more about Creative Commons. Thomas and I will

probably go and talk to them some time in early October just to explain more

about how CC works and what it is. Then, I hope that after the license gets

localized for HK law, our community can encourage them to use it.

4. NEXT MEETING? Some people have asked when we will have another meeting

or get-together. Others have said they think that the next time we meet, we

need to have very specific goals that we want to accomplish in order to make

it worthwhile. I welcome your thoughts about whether people think it would

be useful to hold another meeting sometime in October, and if so what the

objectives of the meeting would be, or whether people prefer to wait until

we have a draft of the licenses for comment.

5. BEN CHENG: Ben Cheng, who attended our July meeting, has been hired

part-time by my Journalism & Media Studies Ctr here at HKU to help us out

with a number of things, including CC-HK community building, organization,

and relations. When we get further along in the license-porting process and

start to think about a launch date, etc., he will be a key person to help

coordinate activities and projects.

Any further questions, ideas, thoughts, opinions, etc. are greatly welcome.

If any other people who recently joined the list would like to introduce

themselves, that would also be great.

Cheers,

Rebecca

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Rebecca MacKinnon

Assistant Professor, Journalism & Media Studies Ctr.

University of Hong Kong (http://jmsc.hku.hk)

E-mail: rmack AT hku.hk | Tel: +852-2219-4005

Blog: http://RConversation.blogs.com

Co-founder: http://GlobalVoicesOnline.org

"The world is talking. Are you listening?"

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Rebecca MacKinnon

Assistant Professor, Journalism & Media Studies Ctr.

University of Hong Kong (http://jmsc.hku.hk)

E-mail: rmack AT hku.hk | Tel: +852-2219-4005

Blog: RConversation.com

Co-founder: GlobalVoicesOnline.org

"The world is talking. Are you listening?"