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[Haggen So <haggen_so AT yahoo.com>]

I would like to add a third point to this (3) we don't know other members 
in the 'core' group well enough to perform as a team.  Also, it seems to 
me that the 'core' members come from different backgrounds, thus we 
probably have different understandings and expectations of CC and the 
group.  Hong Kong people usually are pragmatic and apolitical, but CC has 
a political element to it and somewhere down the road this element might 
become important.  We need to take some time to form and norm.  We should 
be inclusive and agree to disagree, but we surely need to know our 
differences first ;) Recently, there are a number of Blogosphere meetings 
and I know that some members within the 'core' are good friends and 
probably meeting weekly.  But I would still suggest some informal events 
would be good to build friendships and to discover our strengths as well 
as our weaknesses.

Comments are welcome, including whether there should be the label 'core'.

Haggen

On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, Charles Mok (gmail) wrote:

> I can offer to co-organize this, Chan Yau.  But, I think we really need to
> have some better progress and a firmer timetable before we should do more to
> attract a wider audience, or else we may risk (1) not having enough things
> solid to share, or (2) attracting more people to complicate matters even
> more.  We must _focus_ on the legal drafting issues first at this stage
> although I know a lot of the rest of us are eager to move.
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> Charles
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> From: cc-hk-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:cc-hk-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Chong Chan-yau
> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 6:25 AM
> To: 'Rebecca MacKinnon'; 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
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> Dear Rebecca and all,
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> Thank you for your update.
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> Much progress seems to be happening.
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> 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.
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> Rebecca indicates that she will be more available in the fall.
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> I offer to take the initiative to do the organizing.
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> Any one who is interested as a speaker, etc.
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> This seminar is intended for the laymen, internet users, students etc.
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> It should contain demonstration, experience sharing, etc. Some background
> introd, and overlap may be useful.
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> Will let you the progress. Welcome expression of interests.
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> 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
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> 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!
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> Best regards,
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> Rebecca
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> On Sep 21, 2007, at 11:51 PM, jerryhua AT hkusua.hku.hk wrote:
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> Hello everyone,
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> 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.
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> Thank you!
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> Best regards,
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> Jerry Hua
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> ----- Message from rebecca.mackinnon AT gmail.com ---------
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> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:17:41 +0800
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> From: Rebecca MacKinnon <rebecca.mackinnon AT gmail.com>
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> Reply-To: Rebecca MacKinnon <rebecca.mackinnon AT gmail.com>
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> Subject: [Cc-hk] CC-HK progress report
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> To: cc-hk AT lists.ibiblio.org
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> Cc: Doreen Weisenhaus <doreen AT hku.hk>, Peter Yu <peter_yu AT msn.com>, ying
> chan <yychan AT hku.hk>
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> Hello everybody!
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> Sorry for the long silence. Many people were away in August, then things
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> have been very hectic at HKU with the start of the new semester.
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> I have several developments to report:
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> 1. LEGAL WORK: Our legal leads at the HKU Law Faculty, Professors Yahong Li
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> and Alice Lee, have recruited two graduate students to work on localization
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> of the CC license into HK law. I've just added them to the list so hopefully
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> they will introduce themselves.
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> If all goes well, our legal team hopes that drafts of the licenses will be
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> available for your comment by the end of the year. Then after an appropriate
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> comment period (the length of which depends on the community), we hope that
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> the licenses can be finalized and CC-HK can be launched by the middle of
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> 2008.
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> 2. CC CONTENT DIRECTORY PROJECT: Two other new additions to this mailing
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> list are Prof. Thomas Lee of the HKU Computer Science department and Gary
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> Tsui, a graduate student in the CS department. They are interested in
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> exploring the possibility of creating some kind of directory of Hong Kong CC
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> content and also possibly Chinese-language CC content more generally. Of
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> course, we first need to localize the license in order for such a project to
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> get fully underway, but it's worth starting to think about. So we welcome
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> ideas and interest.
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> 3. HK GOVERNMENT CIO: The government CIO's office has expressed an interest
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> via Thomas in learning more about Creative Commons. Thomas and I will
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> probably go and talk to them some time in early October just to explain more
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> about how CC works and what it is. Then, I hope that after the license gets
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> localized for HK law, our community can encourage them to use it.
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> 4. NEXT MEETING? Some people have asked when we will have another meeting
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> or get-together. Others have said they think that the next time we meet, we
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> need to have very specific goals that we want to accomplish in order to make
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> it worthwhile. I welcome your thoughts about whether people think it would
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> be useful to hold another meeting sometime in October, and if so what the
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> objectives of the meeting would be, or whether people prefer to wait until
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> we have a draft of the licenses for comment.
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> 5. BEN CHENG: Ben Cheng, who attended our July meeting, has been hired
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> part-time by my Journalism & Media Studies Ctr here at HKU to help us out
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> with a number of things, including CC-HK community building, organization,
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> and relations. When we get further along in the license-porting process and
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> start to think about a launch date, etc., he will be a key person to help
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> coordinate activities and projects.
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> Any further questions, ideas, thoughts, opinions, etc. are greatly welcome.
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> If any other people who recently joined the list would like to introduce
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> themselves, that would also be great.
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> Cheers,
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> Rebecca
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> Rebecca MacKinnon
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> Assistant Professor, Journalism & Media Studies Ctr.
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> University of Hong Kong (http://jmsc.hku.hk)
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> Rebecca MacKinnon
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> Assistant Professor, Journalism & Media Studies Ctr.
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> University of Hong Kong (http://jmsc.hku.hk)
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> E-mail: rmack AT hku.hk | Tel: +852-2219-4005
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> Blog: RConversation.com
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> Co-founder: GlobalVoicesOnline.org
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> "The world is talking. Are you listening?"