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Staff/2010-07-14

2010-07-13T16:30:13Z

Agarbagnati: /* Alea Garbagnati */ new section

== Call info ==

== Staff Updates ==

== Mike Linksvayer ==

*Returned from COMMUNIA and Wikimania; will report on both during meeting
*SingularityU open source panel

== Allison Domicone ==

* Catalyst campaign wrap-up: working on putting together giving analysis that includes 2009 fundraising campaign and Catalyst Campaign.
* Continued prep for fall fundraising campaign: working out T-shirt order, reviewing design, plans to leverage community in support of CC; put together a brief for potential copywriter.
* worked with Melissa to organize files and other development resources in preparation for her move.
* SF salon last Tuesday: went well, did follow-up and discussed with development/design/communications how to continue to improve for future.
* Mailings: continuing to improve & make more strategic the mailings we send to our community
* Ongoing: volunteer coordination
* Preparing to be offline starting July 17 for 2 weeks

== Timothy Vollmer ==

* comments to nick shockey about SPARC/R2RC website
* OER policy interview with Lisa Petrides posted - http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/22608
* other bloggin - http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/22712
* drafted but on hold "CC and 'some rights reserved' marking blog post
* attended USTPO-NTIA symposium on Copyright Policy, Creativity & Innovation in the Internet Economy
* briefing for Melanie and Alex for their meeting at Hewlett re: California Free Digital Textbook Initiative
* followup with RE: FDTI meeting, esp. with brian bridges from CLRN
* working on sketching out potential CC materials for OER policy toolkit
* attended grant workshops on proposal writing and budgeting
* met up with with Smithsonian Commons' Michael Edson on OER
* update the Learning Beyond Textbooks website with new language, waiting for others to edit
* iNACOL k-12 OER survey closed - 88 respondents, now will analyze with Sunnie Kim
* phone call with David Witzel, others from Environmental Defense Fund RE: OER in business sustainability
* attending their small meeting in DC July 20
* sent ideas for CC superheroes to allison
* oer advocacy coalition working group biweekly phone call

== Michelle Thorne ==
* COMMUNIA and Wikimania as well. Will support Mike in summary during call.
** CC Europe meeting
** meetings re: Europeana, collecting societies
** panel at WM about CC affiliate network and collaboration with WM chapters/communities: http://piratepad.net/opera
* Catalyst Grants closed with 134 submission, almost $50K raised: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Grants
** review to begin this week
* Ongoing upgrade of affiliate documents with Diane & Aurelia: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/International

== Jane Park ==

*music/culture blogs outreach
*Film Annex Web TV embeds for wiki and blog post
*pursuing a couple OER policy interviews w/K-12 educators
*social media plan, met w/Cameron and delegated upkeep (FB & twitter chatter)
*revising /Marking/Creators (in draft first) to make it more user friendly and to integrate relevant ccLearn docs
*helped tvol out w/ looking up cc license use for training materials
*P2PU feedback on ongoing projects and developments
*other feedback/tasks/news/blogs/tweets/etc.
this week:
*going to help lila on by-nc/other license pages msging

== Aurelia J. Schultz ==

* Affiliate Program Improvements w/ Michelle and Diane: Posting updated MOU and policies to the wiki for public comment (see http://wiki.creativecommons.org/International)
* Catalyst Grants: Formal review starting soon
* Database with Alex and Reg: Giving feedback when I can be of help
* HR with Jen - very happy to be full time now :)

== Cameron Parkins ==

* Working w/ JP on finalizing social media plan for immediate future (to be later revised)
* Updated attribution info on video pages
* Organizing ES contacts
* Assisting JP w/ updating marking best practices doc
* General outreach/feedback for a variety of groups
* General blog/microblog

== Alea Garbagnati ==

Working away on the FAQ Project
* Met with LB and NK last week on FAQ project
* Met with DP and LB to discuss some relevant legal background information
* Starting staging some FAQs that we've worked on
* Editing sections of the FAQ with LB

Staff/2010-06-30

2010-06-29T17:20:10Z

Agarbagnati: /* Alea Garbagnati */

== Call info ==

== Staff Updates ==

=== Nathan Kinkade ===
* I have finally finished finding, resolving and cleaning up the data for several bugs in CiviCRM and our custom one-click donation code.
* I just lately upgraded our Drupal install to version 6.17 (from 6.15). Drupal runs http://support.creativecommons.org. Still need to upgrade a couple modules.
* I'm currently upgrading our WordPress install (runs creativecommons.org) to version 3.0, and am working through some potential problems with our theme and/or a custom plugin that isn't working with the latest version.
* Mentoring a Google Summer of Code student developing a [http://labs.creativecommons.org/2010/05/24/gsoc-project-introduction-cc-wordpress-plugin/ CC WordPress plugin].
* Answering emails to info@creativecommons.org

=== Cameron Parkins ===

* Finished design primer
* Met w/ Creative Migration about integrating CC-licensing across their distribution plan for documentary work
* Originating contacts for ease of use
* Assisting with various fundraising tasks AD delegates me
* Worked w/ Protagonize to help flesh out CC licensing options
* Assisted TicTacDo w/ licensing questions
* ASCAP web roundup assistance for ES

=== Alex Roberts ===

* Launched supporter analytics page - https://support.creativecommons.org/figures
* Launched beta of new search - http://labs.creativecommons.org/demos/search
* Updating, improving, and testing various parts of the support site
* Fall fundraising campaign development
* Newsletter revamping and development

=== Mike Linksvayer ===

* At [http://communia2010.org COMMUNIA] in Turin, meeting with a number of CC leads from affiliates in the region, especially with regards to Europeana, public domain, collecting societies, OER, metadata, affiliate upgrades, grant proposals review and planning [http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Creative_Commons_global_affiliate_network%E2%80%93origin,_role,_future,_including_collaboration_and_shared_learnings_with_Wikimedia_chapters Wikimania presentation] with Alek Tarkowski (CC Poland) and Michelle Thorne begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting.
* Writing proposals for collaboration with related organizations.

=== Timothy Vollmer ===

* attending uspto-ntia symposium: copyright policy, creativity & innovation in the internet economy - july 1
* OER Advocacy Coalition monthly call we discussed Common Core Standards and potential for integration with OER - discussing next steps
* iNACOL K-12 OER survey sent out and responses trickling in - 48 so far
* Wayne Mackintosh OER Policy interview up - http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/22470
* spec-ing out CC materials for inclusion in potential OER toolkit for educational technology directors
* meeting up with Michael Edson from Smithsonian to discuss OER aspects of Smithsonian Commons project

===Kaitlin Thaney===

* Last week at CC - very bittersweet. will miss you guys and gals. :)
** lots of transition emails
** handing over reigns to grant management, other tasks, programmatic work
* Sage
** second Workstream telecon, already starting to prepare for next year of work on issues such as citation, standards, tools and internationalization for global data sharing. public engagement group is new this year, and a very important component moving forward.
* Semantic Resources Collaboration
** prepping with the team a means of moving forward and achieving pre-established goals / deliverables.
* Grant renewals, grant renewals, grant renewals.
* Sent out next funder dispatch. You can find an archive of them here: http://sciencecommons.org/resources/funder/dispatches/ and more at http://sciencecommons.org/resources/funder/
* Logistical tidying up. Shipping SC Cambridge office boxes to SF headquarters, goodbyes, etc.

===Tal Niv===
* Writing and rewriting the general structure for the CC-C(ontribution) white paper
* Working my way through it – starting to draw up an outline for each chapter.
* Setting on a theoretical infrastructure
**institutional analysis
**transaction cost economics,microanalysis
**art as innovation
* Laying out the data requirements for project.
* Getting more in depth input from CC-people on their respective field.

=== Christopher Webber ===

* Did thorough testing and fixing various issues for the (re)launch of the "Sanity" branch of the Creative Commons license engine
** Fixed some bugs in RDF tooling where defaultLanguage was not set and `./bin/license add` wouldn't add the jurisdiction field.
** Some pages were missing ability to set target language via lang query parameter.
** Found a bug in the CC0 email-me-this-output feature where it gave the string representation of the license.title method instead of actually calling it and printing the output.
** Sending email from CC0 page would redirect to /ccengine-fcgi/* kind of url when mounted that way (which the user shouldn't actually see because of the aliasing). Fixed that.
** After i18n update of formatters, were missing the image header (unit tests didn't catch this, so I didn't realize it sooner). Resolved.
** CC0 partner page was missing.
** CC0 RDF was missing the foaf:logo assertions. Added.
** Some pages not supporting RTL correctly. Resolved.
** A couple of <br />'s missing in the new i18n'ified formatter output
** /licenses/publicdomain/ was broken
* Bugfixing a number of issues with new formatter in cc.license
** Various fields not escaped
** dc:type / format wasn't going through in rendered output. The formatters, instead of accepting the actual dc:type (like MovingImage), expected other names like 'video', which it would thus transform into MovingImage.
** There was no public domain formatter in new cc.license, was mistakenly using the normal HTMLFormatter. Resolved and updated sanity cc.engine
** Mapping of work_info -> work_dict incorrect in cc.engine, meaning some useful information was missing from RDFa output
* Did a bunch of thorough testing to make sure all was good in sanity branch of cc.engine
* Launched cc.engine sanity. A few bumps while re-launching, but we're running the new engine, and all looks good now.
* Sometimes sanity was being slow to come up when restarting cc.engine w/ fcgid. Turns out we had MaxProcessCount at 500... heh. Moved it down to 25 and sanity starts up fast now.
* Sent a couple of emails about post-sanity license engine launch
** What was discovered while testing sanity before launch
** How to make license.rdf & cc.i18npkg deployment easier to servers
* GSOC mentoring Akila on his CC OpenOffice.org plugin

=== Alea Garbagnati ===

* Met with Lila to discuss the progress of the FAQ Project
* Finalized re-categorization of FAQs for the FAQ Project
* Set up Google Documents for updating each category of FAQs
* Working on first round of edits for the first two categories of FAQs

=== Aurelia J. Schultz ===
* Jurisdiction Team revamp with Diane and Michelle
* Internet Services Policy draft
* Porting - review of 2 jurisdiction's draft licenses
* Africa - communications re: Catalyst Grant Proposals

=== Reg Leones ===
* Reviewed CC license porting process
* Identified legal concepts and license terms of interest in the Unported BY-NC-SA 3.0 legal code
* Pre-Porting Questionnaire updates
* Preliminary comparative review of BY-NC-SA 3.0 legal codes in Netherlands, Spain, UK and Australia.

Staff/2010-06-30

2010-06-29T16:35:18Z

Agarbagnati: /* Staff Updates */

== Call info ==

== Staff Updates ==

=== Nathan Kinkade ===
* I have finally finished finding, resolving and cleaning up the data for several bugs in CiviCRM and our custom one-click donation code.
* I just lately upgraded our Drupal install to version 6.17 (from 6.15). Drupal runs http://support.creativecommons.org. Still need to upgrade a couple modules.
* I'm currently upgrading our WordPress install (runs creativecommons.org) to version 3.0, and am working through some potential problems with our theme and/or a custom plugin that isn't working with the latest version.
* Mentoring a Google Summer of Code student developing a [http://labs.creativecommons.org/2010/05/24/gsoc-project-introduction-cc-wordpress-plugin/ CC WordPress plugin].
* Answering emails to info@creativecommons.org

=== Cameron Parkins ===

* Finished design primer
* Met w/ Creative Migration about integrating CC-licensing across their distribution plan for documentary work
* Originating contacts for ease of use
* Assisting with various fundraising tasks AD delegates me
* Worked w/ Protagonize to help flesh out CC licensing options
* Assisted TicTacDo w/ licensing questions
* ASCAP web roundup assistance for ES

=== Alex Roberts ===

* Launched supporter analytics page - https://support.creativecommons.org/figures
* Launched beta of new search - http://labs.creativecommons.org/demos/search
* Updating, improving, and testing various parts of the support site
* Fall fundraising campaign development
* Newsletter revamping and development

=== Mike Linksvayer ===

* At [http://communia2010.org COMMUNIA] in Turin, meeting with a number of CC leads from affiliates in the region, especially with regards to Europeana, public domain, collecting societies, OER, metadata, affiliate upgrades, grant proposals review and planning [http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Creative_Commons_global_affiliate_network%E2%80%93origin,_role,_future,_including_collaboration_and_shared_learnings_with_Wikimedia_chapters Wikimania presentation] with Alek Tarkowski (CC Poland) and Michelle Thorne.
* Writing proposals for collaboration with related organizations.

=== Timothy Vollmer ===

* attending uspto-ntia symposium: copyright policy, creativity & innovation in the internet economy - july 1
* OER Advocacy Coalition monthly call we discussed Common Core Standards and potential for integration with OER - discussing next steps
* iNACOL K-12 OER survey sent out and responses trickling in - 48 so far
* Wayne Mackintosh OER Policy interview up - http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/22470
* spec-ing out CC materials for inclusion in potential OER toolkit for educational technology directors
* meeting up with Michael Edson from Smithsonian to discuss OER aspects of Smithsonian Commons project

===Kaitlin Thaney===

* Last week at CC - very bittersweet. will miss you guys and gals. :)
** lots of transition emails
** handing over reigns to grant management, other tasks, programmatic work
* Sage
** second Workstream telecon, already starting to prepare for next year of work on issues such as citation, standards, tools and internationalization for global data sharing. public engagement group is new this year, and a very important component moving forward.
* Semantic Resources Collaboration
** prepping with the team a means of moving forward and achieving pre-established goals / deliverables.
* Grant renewals, grant renewals, grant renewals.
* Sent out next funder dispatch. You can find an archive of them here: http://sciencecommons.org/resources/funder/dispatches/ and more at http://sciencecommons.org/resources/funder/
* Logistical tidying up. Shipping SC Cambridge office boxes to SF headquarters, goodbyes, etc.

===Tal Niv===
* Writing and rewriting the general structure for the CC-C(ontribution) white paper
* Working my way through it – starting to draw up an outline for each chapter.
* Setting on a theoretical infrastructure
**institutional analysis
**transaction cost economics,microanalysis
**art as innovation
* Laying out the data requirements for project.
* Getting more in depth input from CC-people on their respective field.

=== Christopher Webber ===

* Did thorough testing and fixing various issues for the (re)launch of the "Sanity" branch of the Creative Commons license engine
** Fixed some bugs in RDF tooling where defaultLanguage was not set and `./bin/license add` wouldn't add the jurisdiction field.
** Some pages were missing ability to set target language via lang query parameter.
** Found a bug in the CC0 email-me-this-output feature where it gave the string representation of the license.title method instead of actually calling it and printing the output.
** Sending email from CC0 page would redirect to /ccengine-fcgi/* kind of url when mounted that way (which the user shouldn't actually see because of the aliasing). Fixed that.
** After i18n update of formatters, were missing the image header (unit tests didn't catch this, so I didn't realize it sooner). Resolved.
** CC0 partner page was missing.
** CC0 RDF was missing the foaf:logo assertions. Added.
** Some pages not supporting RTL correctly. Resolved.
** A couple of <br />'s missing in the new i18n'ified formatter output
** /licenses/publicdomain/ was broken
* Bugfixing a number of issues with new formatter in cc.license
** Various fields not escaped
** dc:type / format wasn't going through in rendered output. The formatters, instead of accepting the actual dc:type (like MovingImage), expected other names like 'video', which it would thus transform into MovingImage.
** There was no public domain formatter in new cc.license, was mistakenly using the normal HTMLFormatter. Resolved and updated sanity cc.engine
** Mapping of work_info -> work_dict incorrect in cc.engine, meaning some useful information was missing from RDFa output
* Did a bunch of thorough testing to make sure all was good in sanity branch of cc.engine
* Launched cc.engine sanity. A few bumps while re-launching, but we're running the new engine, and all looks good now.
* Sometimes sanity was being slow to come up when restarting cc.engine w/ fcgid. Turns out we had MaxProcessCount at 500... heh. Moved it down to 25 and sanity starts up fast now.
* Sent a couple of emails about post-sanity license engine launch
** What was discovered while testing sanity before launch
** How to make license.rdf & cc.i18npkg deployment easier to servers
* GSOC mentoring Akila on his CC OpenOffice.org plugin

=== Alea Garbagnati ===

* Met with Lila to discuss the progress of the FAQ Project
* Finalized re-categorization of FAQs for the FAQ Project
* Set up Google Documents for updating each category of FAQs
* Went through first round of revisions for "General License Info" category
** On a hunt for good comparative resource on fair use/fair dealing internationally
* Started revisions for the "For Licensors" category