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[Ben <chpapa AT gmail.com>]

Hi Henry,

Your idea sounds great. It would be nice if you can put this on our
wiki, and mark what have been done / what you think worth doing on
relevant page. Wiki can be more easily tracked compared with email :-)

Ben


On Jan 5, 2008 4:37 PM, Henry Oh <henryoh AT gmail.com> wrote:
> Wow, this list has been very active for the past few days.  Kudos to all of
> us for keeping up.
>
> I think we have all gone to enough conferences or "events" to have a pretty
> good sense of what we like and what we don't like.
>
> And what we don't want is two things:
>
> 1)  A conference that gets no attention, nobody comes and we are left
> speaking to ourselves.
>
> 2)  The launch to hinder the growth of Creative Commons HK into a social and
> technological force that people look at and envy.  I think a little friendly
> competitiveness in the CC community can be a good thing as long as it helps
> speed the spread of the ideals and capabilities we all hope CC can bring to
> the world.
>
> What I can offer is this.  I worked on a few conferences in law school.  As
> student-run conferences go, they weren't the best events, they weren't the
> worst events.  So I have some experience in conference planning.  One
> conference was an event with Professor Lessig as the main speaker so I have
> some insight into the difficulties of coordinating his schedule to our
> schedule.  :-)
>
> And as I see it, fundamentally, at this stage, we need two things:
>
> 1)  The right people working on the right tasks.  Committed manpower.  And
> we need to do a good job on figuring out what these "right tasks" are and
> their order of execution.
>
> 2)  Cash.  The more the better.
>
> I have two ideas for both.
>
> One is the Hong Kong Stanford Club
> (http://e.stanfordalumni.org/Clubs/hongkong/index.asp).  I have a connection
> there and they obviously have a connection to Professor Lessig and would
> have their own interests in being associated with an event like this.  I
> can, with Dr. Li's help, reach out to them.  They can be a good source for
> #1 and #2.  I have no prior experience of being involved with them but it
> would be very easy to be.
>
> The second is a funding model that can be a part of the overall
> multi-funding model that CC HK's launch requires.
>
> It's been a few years but I believe the budgets we had for these conferences
> were somewhere between (HK$240,000-HK$320,000), if not higher.  I've seen
> some outrageous conference funding figures.  If the exact dollar figures are
> important to anyone, I can track them down.  This is just the figure that
> comes to mind and it seems to fall into the range of what we are looking to
> raise for the launch event.
>
> For us, we raised the money for these conferences by hitting up law firms.
> We got them to buy ads in the conference program's guide.  It was
> astonishing to me to see how much they were willing to pay for these ads.
> There were certain "forces" at work in our favor and I do not have the local
> knowledge to know if these same "forces" are at work here.  If so, I have a
> lot of 2nd degree connections to a lot of lawyers at a lot of law firms.  I
> can track them down and try to convince them to help us get the money we
> want from these law firms.
>
> If any of these ideas do not pan out or if you the rest of you do not think
> they are worth pursuing, no problem.  Just tell me what to do and I'll tell
> you if I can do it or not.  I have no problem handing out conference name
> tags.  :-)
>
> In terms of THE MEETING, I may or may not be able to make it.  I will be out
> of town on business starting somewhere between the 21st or 22nd.  And I may
> be gone for as long as six weeks.  The timing is pretty indeterminate at
> this point.  My apologies in advance if I can't make the meeting.
>
> Another long email to get through (and I'm sure many more will follow).
> Again, kudos for keeping up!  :-)
>
> -Henry
>
>
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