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  • From: "Danyl Strype" <strypey AT riseup.net>
  • To: cc-nz AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Cc-nz] A Potted History of the CC ANZ Project
  • Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:30:59 +1200

Kia ora koutou

Kua tae mai a Matariki, it's the southern new year. It seems like a good time to summarize what the CC ANZ project has accomplished in its relatively short existence, and gather some ideas and strategies for the coming year.

3 1/2 years ago, I contacted the iCommons organizers, and they set up this list for us. Various people floated in and out, doing things like reserving the cc.org.nz domain, and making suggestions like having a database of kiwi CC creators. The idea of having a kanohi-kanohi meeting was floated.

Then in August, Ian Thompson of the 2020 Trust contacted me about attending a meeting of interested parties at the National Library. At that meeting were a number of people who have had ongoing involvement in CC ANZ, including Brian Opie, representing the Council for the Humanities. It was Brian and the other Board members of the Council who sought development funding for the web team at CWA New Media, to provide the platform for our public information portal site. Our first website administrator, Alistair Pharo, did a great job getting the first version looking tidy. He announced on cc-nz that it was online, on July 5 2007, 2 years and 2 days ago!

Brian and the Council also co-ordinated networking and promotion of the benfits of CC. Those efforts, plus the event management work of Karin Kos, culminated in a public launch at the National Library, in October 2007, which presented the CC concept to participants, then encouraged them to cluster into sector groups, and brainstorm on the challenges and opportunities CC brings to their work (audio-visual files of keynotes speakers, and one workshop: http://www.r2.co.nz/20071027/).

Meanwhile the legal team, Paul Sumpter, Andrew Matangi and Susy Frankel, worked through a number of unanticipated complications with license versions to finish the first set of Aotearoa NZ CC licenses. The launch of these was announced on cc-nz in Nov, 2007.

Around this time, picking up the digital reigns from Alistair, Jane Hornibrook presided over the completion of the more interactive 'version 2' of the CC ANZ portal site, and has done solid work on contacting kiwi CCers, and writing up their profiles for the site:
(http://www.creativecommons.org.nz)

Thanks for your recent update Jane. A couple of questions:
- are the Council still spearheading the project? Is there a need for a separate admin umbrella?
- are there funds needed for maintaining/ extending the website, or other educational work? Where could they be sought?

A few unrealized community-building suggestions gathered from the archives:
- Regional seminars/ workshops (roadshow?) to promote and explain CC licenses to potential users around Aotearoa
- having a box for recent forum posts on the front page of the site, to draw users into the discussions
A fundraising CD of CC-licensed music (preferably in .ogg format as well as audio ;)
- musical events or video screenings as publicity and/ or fundraising
- making a standard CC ANZ leaflet (under a CC license of course ;), and making a .pdf version (and perhaps OpenDocuments format?) available on the website
- making CC ANZ leaflets targeted at different user groups (eg photographers, authors, researchers, librarians)
- holding a videoconference of CC advocates from different areas, perhaps through the KAREN network

Having attempted to illustrate the development curve we've followed so far, I've got some ideas about priorities for the free culture movement in the current climate. I'll write about those in a separate email. First I'd like to pose a question to everyone who's still reading this list:
- what next for the CC ANZ community?

Hei k?nei r?
Danyl Strype

BTW There are no doubt heaps of people who have made important contributions to CC ANZ other than the ones I've mentioned above, some of whose contribution I may be completely unaware of. You know who you are, thank you for everything you've done and continue to do.

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  • [Cc-nz] A Potted History of the CC ANZ Project, Danyl Strype, 07/02/2009

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