Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand discussion

["Danyl Strype" <strypey AT riseup.net>]

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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