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[Ben <chpapa AT gmail.com>]

Hi all,

Just to remind you we will have Lucifer Chu from Taiwan, talking on the topic of Lucifer Chu's Seminar on Web 2.0, Creative Commons and OOPS tomorrow. Please come if you're interested. Details as follows:

Lucifer Chu: Web 2.0, Creative Commons and the Opensource Opencourse Prototype System (OOPS)

Organizers: Journalism and Media Studies Centre, the University of Hong Kong; Internet Society Hong Kong; iResources Centre, Cyberport
Supporting Organizations:

IEEE Hong Kong Section Computer Society Chapter and Education Society Chapter
Hong Kong Open Source Software Centre
Institution of Engineering and Technology Hong Kong
Hong Kong Linux Industry Association
Hong Kong Wireless Technology Industry Association
Hong Kong Information Technology Federation
Emerging Technology Special Interest Division of Hong Kong Computer Society
Professional Information Security Association

Seminar
Date: 29 March, 2008 (Saturday)
Time: 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre 14, Academic Building, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong.
Language: Mandarin
Speaker: Lucifer Chu (朱學恆), Founder of the OOPS.

Casual Meeting
Date:         29 March, 2008 (Saturday)
Time:         5:30pm to 7:30pm (Light dinner will be provided)
Venue:         iResources Centre, IT Street, Level 3, Cyberport 3, 100 Cybeport Road Hong Kong

Registration
Please email us at rsvp AT hk.creativecommons.org with your contact information.

About Mr. Chu's talk
Web 2.0 enables people from different countries, languages, and cultures to collaborate. Successful Web 2.0 media projects include Wikipedia (Encyclopedia) and Global Voices Online (Citizen journalism). For instance, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia written by millions of Internet users all over the world.

OOPS (Opensource Opencourse Prototype System), is another successful project under the Web 2.0 era. OOPS translates the vast library of resources from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) on-line Open Courseware into Chinese. From just two persons the foundation has now grown to 1,900 volunteers from 16 countries around the world.

Besides technology infrastructure, flexible copyright licenses such as Creative Commons are a key factor enabling such collaborative projects. Flexible licenses based on "Some Rights Reserved" free the creations of individual contributors from a "All Rights Reserved" copyright regime, so that works can be shared and mixed together without any potential copyright hassle.

Lucifer Chu is the founder of OOPS. He will talk about the trend of Web 2.0,  its implications, why Creative Commons is important and how he applied it to the OOPS project.

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朱學恆: Web 2.0, Creative Commons 以及開放式課程計劃 (OOPS)

主辦機構︰ 香港大學新聞及傳媒研究中心、香港互聯網協會、數碼港資訊資源中心
支持機構︰

IEEE Hong Kong Section Computer Society Chapter and Education Society Chapter
Hong Kong Open Source Software Centre
Institution of Engineering and Technology Hong Kong
Hong Kong Linux Industry Association
Hong Kong Wireless Technology Industry Association
Hong Kong Information Technology Federation
Emerging Technology Special Interest Division of Hong Kong Computer Society
Professional Information Security Association

講座
日期︰ 二零零八年三月二十九日　星期六
時間︰ 下午二時至三時半
地點︰ 香港城市大學教學樓、LT14
語言︰ 國語
講者︰ Lucifer Chu (朱學恆), 開放式課程計劃創辦人

聚會
日期︰ 二零零八年三月二十九日　星期六
時間︰ 下午五時半至七時半 (大會將會提供簡單的晚膳)
地點︰ 香港數碼港資訊資源中心、香港數碼港道100號數碼港3 座資訊科技大道311室

報名
請電郵至 rsvp AT hk.creativecommons.org （請註明姓名、聯絡方法及是否同時參加講座及聚會)

簡介
Web 2.0  使不同國家、語言、文化的人可以通力合作。其中，維基百科和Global Online Voices 就是Ｗeb 2.0媒體的成功例子。現時，有成千上萬的網絡用戶正在共同編寫維基百科。

「開放式課程計劃」（OOPS, Opensource Opencourse Prototype System）是另一個成功的web 2.0計劃。OOPS把麻省理工學院的MIT OpenCourseware 計劃中的教材大量翻譯成中文。計劃由兩名發起人擴展至現時來自全球16個國家的2300名義工協助翻譯。

除了科技外，具彈性的授權條款，好像Creative Commons 也是讓上述的合作性計劃成功的關鍵因素。「保留部份權利」原則的彈性條款能把創作者由「版權所有」的版權釋放出來，提供了自由創作的空間，因此合作者之間能無須擔心版權紛爭的情況下，自由分享和混合檔案。

朱學恆是OOPS的創辦人，在他到訪香港期間他會為我們分享Web2.0的發展趨勢、影響、Creative Commons 的重要性及在OOPS上應用的經驗。

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Ben Cheng
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Email: ben AT bencheng.net