Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand discussion

[Jane Hornibrook <janehornibrook AT gmail.com>]

Hi Danyl,

Thanks for posting some background about CCANZ, I'll answer the questions you've posed as best I can.

Q. Are the Council still spearheading the project? Is there a need for a separate admin umbrella?

Yes, the Council for the Humanities are still spearheading the CCANZ project. Stephanie Pietkiewicz (the new Executive Director) and I have put substantial effort this year in to inquiring how CCANZ may best be looked after in the future, and whether an alternative administrative arrangement is needed. At present, the Council is reshaping and developing its identity in a way that poses considerable opportunities for CCANZ in 2010 should all go to plan. We cannot say more than that at this point, but the list will be notifies as soon as plans are more concrete.

Q. Are there funds needed for maintaining/ extending the website, or other educational work? Where could they be sought?

Funding for sustainability is always something the Council and CCANZ have an eye on. With a recent upsurge in CC use by larger organisations and govt groups, we've been presented with some potential avenues for ongoing sustainability as more and more bodies can 'buy in' to CCANZ's administrative and support services, with one govt department having shown its financial support already. Again, this development is tied up with the movement of the Council and some promising initiatives we hope to see within govt, so further details will have to wait till public announcements come.

In regards to the list of unrealised community-building suggestions gathered from the archives, these activities are not forgotten. So far in 2009, a huge portion of CCANZ's time and limited resources have been spent working behind the scenes to develop key professional relationships and to ensure the project sports a solid mission, business plan and case for further development. Once CCANZ has achieved a more certain base to work from we anticipate that 2010 will be a very busy year spent reviving public interface and community building. With the solid financial and administrative model we are working towards, time and resources can be reassigned to these purposes.

Without being able to reveal much on behalf of larger bodies and projects which tie into CCANZ's movements, I hope that if anything, I've been able to give an idea of where our efforts are strategically concentrated this year. In answer to your question "what next for the CCANZ community?", I can certainly say 'a lot', more of which you will hear about come summer.

Thanks to all,

Jane

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Today's Topics:

  1. CCANZ update (Jane Hornibrook)
  2. A Potted History of the CC ANZ Project (Danyl Strype)


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From: Jane Hornibrook <janehornibrook AT gmail.com>
To: cc-nz AT lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 22:02:16 -0700
Subject: [Cc-nz] CCANZ update
Hi all,

I’d like to draw your attention to a recent news story published by Computerworld magazine and explored on the CCANZ website. New Zealand’s Ministry for the Environment has released CC data sets which have taken up and republished by the Koordinates web resource. We think this is a good example of what possibilities could lie ahead for open licensing applied to public sector information.

www.creativecommons.org.nz

You may also be interested in the Open Data Catalogue, a recent initiative independently set up Glen Barns and other interested members of New Zealand’s web community.

http://opengovt.org.nz/cat/2009/07/01/land-cover-database/

A representative from the Council for the Humanities will also be speaking at LIANZA 09 on research opportunities and Creative Commons for business, institutions and government in a paper by Stephanie Pietkiewicz and myself called ‘Releasing Content in the Digital Age: gatekeeping or gateholding?’

Discussions are being fully revived this winter about working towards an Indigenous Creative Commons licence in New Zealand, and we will keep the list updated on key advancements in this area.

Feel free to make contact me about any developments at CCANZ you would like to have further involvement with or any questions you have, we would love to hear from you.


Regards

Jane Hornibrook


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