Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand discussion

[Danyl Strype <strypey AT riseup.net>]

Kia ora koutou

I had a highly productive meeting with Brian and Jane on Friday at the  
Council for the Humanities office. We talked about retaining this  
email list as a sort of think tank for the ongoing administration of  
CC in Aotearoa/ NZ. Think of it as an online extension of the HRN  
board meetings, where organizing discussions about CC ANZ regularly  
take place. It's a channel for those of you out of reach of these  
Poneke meetings to contribute your ideas for the ongoing development  
of CC ANZ, and receive reports from the CC-related discussion at the  
meetings.

The discussion forums that will be part of the new site, will be the  
place for other discussions and Q & A about the practical  
implementation of the licenses, related free culture info like the  
Stallman visit etc The idea is that by dividing the discussion into  
different streams or channels, people can pick the things they are  
most interested in and avoid information overload.

Another topic we covered was the potential benefits of a CC-ANZ wiki.  
A wiki is a website which can be collaboratively edited by a group of  
users. Wikipedia is the most famous example of a wiki in action.

I agreed to set up a test wiki on a site called OpenPlans.org. to see  
how many of us are keen wiki-users. Here we can aggregate helpful  
information shared through both the cc-nz email list, and the new  
forums on www.creativecommons.org.nz. The admins can then use this  
wiki as a source of new content for cc.org.nz during upgrades of the  
FAQ etc. If the idea is successful, a wiki may be added during a  
future upgrade of the cc.org.nz website, and the content from the wiki  
migrated to it. Check it out!
http://www.openplans.org/projects/cc-anz/project-home

RnB
Strypes

FYI OpenPlans is a free toolset for social change. With OpenPlans, you  
can build collaborative pages for organizing projects. You can also  
blog, set up mailing lists, store and share files, and keep track of  
tasks.

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- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr

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those who matter don't mind."
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