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2011 Summit Fundraising Toolkit

2011-06-23T15:48:57Z

Allison: /* Global Summit info */

[[Category:Fundraising]]
<div style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18px; line-height:1.5;">Help make the 2011 Global Summit a major success. Use these simple tools to spread the word and encourage your friends, colleagues, and networks to support this important global initiative!</div>
 
We encourage you to translate these templates and text and adapt them to be relevant to your own audience. If you have questions or need further support in your efforts, please contact allison[at]creativecommons.org

== Who should I ask? ==

*'''Colleagues''' 
*'''Friends''' 
*'''Family''' 
*'''Companies''' who find importance in your work and/or the work of Creative Commons, or companies who have supported your projects before. 
*'''Local charitable organizations''' who provide funding for conferences or international initiatives. 
*'''''Important:''''' If you plan to approach any foundations or companies, please let us know so we can coordinate efforts and minimize multiple requests coming from different people. 

== How should I ask them? ==

A personalized email, phone call, or in-person meeting all work well. You can also make an appeal for support by tweeting or posting on Facebook, LinkedIn, or other sites, with a link to the CC donate page: [https://creativecommons.net/donate https://creativecommons.net/donate]. 
 
The most important thing is that you are upfront with where their support will go, why it is important to Creative Commons, and equally importantly, why it is important to you. Feel free to use the following email template and adapt or alter to make it more relevant for you.

 
Dear Name/Friend, 

As much as all of us enjoy and depend on online teamwork these days, there is no substitute for the power of face-to-face collaboration. I am writing to ask you to support the 2011 Creative Commons Global Summit. 

For almost ten years, Creative Commons (CC) has been the leader in providing tools and licensing options to innovators all over the world, thereby fostering a more productive and collaborative world. CC provides a free, public, and standardized infrastructure that creates a balance between the reality of the Internet and the reality of copyright laws. If you haven’t sought a CC license yourself, I guarantee you have benefited from one. Flickr, YouTube, Wikipedia and the White House all rely on CC licenses in order to make content, images, and videos freely available. Since 2002, more than 400 million licenses have been acquired through Creative Commons. 

Like most global communities, the Creative Commons team, made up of volunteer experts and industry leaders and a small paid staff, communicates mostly online. They work hard to develop new open licensing initiatives and related materials to make these licenses simple and more functional for people all over the world. Through years of working together as a team, the CC community has learned that no amount of online teamwork can replace the value of in-person collaboration. Face to face meetings facilitate easy sharing of cross-cultural application of lessons learned. This is especially true for countries with strong language or cultural ties but geographic challenges, such as Latin America and Spain, Canada and France, and Macau and Portugal. Past face-to-face meetings in our extended community have resulted in outcomes like the Public Domain Manifesto and the Cape Town declaration on Open Education. 

This year, the Creative Commons Global Summit will take place in September in Warsaw, Poland. The goal of the Summit is to plan new open licensing initiatives and refine CC’s strategic vision in response to exponential demand for, and growth of, open licensing policies and practices around the globe. As “open” becomes the default for governments, educators, scientists, artists and many others, CC is committed to making license choices more prevalent and user-friendly. 

Please support the CC Global Summit with a gift of $50 or more. Please do what you can to support this important gathering of technical and legal experts: https://creativecommons.net/donate. 

I hope you consider supporting this exciting Summit. In appreciation of your donation, I will send you regular updates from the Summit and a report on issues covered and policies developed. 

I look forward to hearing from you. Please click here to make your donation: https://creativecommons.net/donate. 

Best,

== Donation/wire information ==
 
Donations to the summit can be made in the following ways:

1. '''Make an online donation''' using credit card, Google Checkout account, or PayPal account on [https://creativecommons.net/donate the donate page]. 
2. '''Send a check''', payable to Creative Commons, to:

Creative Commons 
444 Castro St. Suite 900 
Mountain View, CA 94041 
USA 

3. '''Send a wire transfer''' (recommended for donations USD500 or greater). For wire information, please contact allison[at]creativecommons.org

== Other ways to support the Global Summit ==
* [https://support.creativecommons.org/store Online store] - CC T-shirts, stickers, buttons, and lapel pins. The revenue from these items between now and September will go to support the Summit.

== Global Summit info ==

'''Creative Commons 10 Years and Counting: Supporting an Open Future''' 
''Creative Commons Global Summit 2011 – Warsaw, Poland''

Creative Commons (CC) leaders and expert affiliates from around the world will convene with key stakeholders for three days in September 2011. Together we will plan new open licensing initiatives and refine our strategic vision in response to exponential demand for open licensing policies and practices around the globe.

Significantly, 2011 also marks CC’s ten-year anniversary. In that time we have gone from an idea to a global leader in sharing culture, with over 500 million works worldwide now available under a CC license. This makes 2011 a crucial time for CC, as we consider the key challenges and goals for our next ten years.

As Creative Commons and open culture continue to gain popularity, it is crucial that we keep a strong focus on community. Beyond the legal innovation for which Creative Commons is known, the people and organizations that use and benefit from our licences are the key to the success of “open”. It is therefore crucial that we continue to support the sharing community and provide the resources they need to grow and evolve. This includes opportunities for them to interact with and learn from leaders in the field and each other.

'''''OPEN Challenges'''''

Open is becoming the default for governments, educators, scientists, artists and many others. For the benefit of all who use and contribute to our shared commons, we must address persistent challenges including:

License interoperability and compatibility issues that impede sharing and remixing of information, data and other content, compromising the overall growth and future of the collective commons;

The stability of the increasingly important, but complex and difficult to protect public domain;

Educating those charged with implementing a mandate of “openness,” and supporting those responding to openness requirements. From foundation grant recipients to governments seeking to maximize reuse and utility of the materials they fund, education is critical for ensuring correct implementation that interoperability and the ability of the Commons to scale;

Supporting and continuing to grow the Creative Commons community around the world. A strong and effective international community is essential to ensure that “open” remains a global phenomenon, accessible and responsive to those who most need it no matter their location or circumstances. Connecting CC’s international affiliates and enabling them to connect with other advocates of open ideals is a key part of this.

'''''Critical Topics'''''

Together with our affiliate experts and other stakeholders and stewards of the commons, CC will use the Global Summit to celebrate our collective successes and proactively address these significant challenges facing the commons. Key topics to be discussed include:

Supporting the growth of Open Educational Resources (OER);

Government adoption and public sector information;

Launching the CC 4.0 versioning process -- including conversation with key adopters and other license stewards; and

Increasing the capacity for Affiliate Teams to secure their own funding for work in their communities.

'''''Why Warsaw'''''

Poland will be hosting the EU Presidency for the second half of 2011 - at a time when the EU is intensifying work on issues related to free culture such as data licensing, open access to scientific research, and orphan works. This therefore represents an opportunity to involve European officials and help advance the cause of open licensing in the EU. This context will tie well into our discussion of government adoption and public sector information.

Warsaw is furthermore a rapidly developing city, with a rich post-war history, an interesting urban legacy of communism (with its specific architecture), and a quickly growing urban and grassroots culture. As such, it offers a creative and inspiring backdrop for the Global Summit.

'''''4.0 License Versions'''''

CC will launch its 4.0 versioning process in conversation with its legal affiliate network and other key stakeholders and license stewards. Among other issues, database rights and forging an international license usable around the world will lead the agenda.

'''''Open Educational Resources'''''

The growth in support for Open Educational Resources around the world has been phenomenal. We will explore how to facilitate even greater access to educational materials for learners in circumstances where free and open are the best, and sometimes only options.

'''''Building Public Support'''''

In addition to organizational discussions, we are planning a day of sessions open to the public to raise the visibility of CC and open licensing with general audiences and support the very active open culture groups in Poland. The public day will include performances by artists embracing open licensing and remixing.

'''''Need for Support'''''

Gathering the Creative Commons Affiliates, our international experts in open licensing, is the best way to share knowledge, adapt to new developments, and remain sensitive to the needs of a global community committed to openness. Our presence in Poland during its EU Presidency can also help amplify our message throughout the continent.

Allowing project leaders from wide-spread countries to meet face to face serves as a catalyst to collaborative projects across regions and on a global-scale. Many teams face similar roadblocks. Usually, at least one team has found a solution to a particular issue. Face to face meetings facilitate easy sharing of leaders’ concerns and the solutions applied in other locations. This is especially true for countries with strong language or cultural ties but who are long distances from each other, such as Latin America and Spain, Canada and France and Macau and Portugal.

It is also important that we mark our tenth anniversary with the global community that made it possible.

2011 Summit Fundraising Toolkit

2011-06-23T15:45:55Z

Allison: /* Global Summit info */

[[Category:Fundraising]]
<div style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18px; line-height:1.5;">Help make the 2011 Global Summit a major success. Use these simple tools to spread the word and encourage your friends, colleagues, and networks to support this important global initiative!</div>
 
We encourage you to translate these templates and text and adapt them to be relevant to your own audience. If you have questions or need further support in your efforts, please contact allison[at]creativecommons.org

== Who should I ask? ==

*'''Colleagues''' 
*'''Friends''' 
*'''Family''' 
*'''Companies''' who find importance in your work and/or the work of Creative Commons, or companies who have supported your projects before. 
*'''Local charitable organizations''' who provide funding for conferences or international initiatives. 
*'''''Important:''''' If you plan to approach any foundations or companies, please let us know so we can coordinate efforts and minimize multiple requests coming from different people. 

== How should I ask them? ==

A personalized email, phone call, or in-person meeting all work well. You can also make an appeal for support by tweeting or posting on Facebook, LinkedIn, or other sites, with a link to the CC donate page: [https://creativecommons.net/donate https://creativecommons.net/donate]. 
 
The most important thing is that you are upfront with where their support will go, why it is important to Creative Commons, and equally importantly, why it is important to you. Feel free to use the following email template and adapt or alter to make it more relevant for you.

 
Dear Name/Friend, 

As much as all of us enjoy and depend on online teamwork these days, there is no substitute for the power of face-to-face collaboration. I am writing to ask you to support the 2011 Creative Commons Global Summit. 

For almost ten years, Creative Commons (CC) has been the leader in providing tools and licensing options to innovators all over the world, thereby fostering a more productive and collaborative world. CC provides a free, public, and standardized infrastructure that creates a balance between the reality of the Internet and the reality of copyright laws. If you haven’t sought a CC license yourself, I guarantee you have benefited from one. Flickr, YouTube, Wikipedia and the White House all rely on CC licenses in order to make content, images, and videos freely available. Since 2002, more than 400 million licenses have been acquired through Creative Commons. 

Like most global communities, the Creative Commons team, made up of volunteer experts and industry leaders and a small paid staff, communicates mostly online. They work hard to develop new open licensing initiatives and related materials to make these licenses simple and more functional for people all over the world. Through years of working together as a team, the CC community has learned that no amount of online teamwork can replace the value of in-person collaboration. Face to face meetings facilitate easy sharing of cross-cultural application of lessons learned. This is especially true for countries with strong language or cultural ties but geographic challenges, such as Latin America and Spain, Canada and France, and Macau and Portugal. Past face-to-face meetings in our extended community have resulted in outcomes like the Public Domain Manifesto and the Cape Town declaration on Open Education. 

This year, the Creative Commons Global Summit will take place in September in Warsaw, Poland. The goal of the Summit is to plan new open licensing initiatives and refine CC’s strategic vision in response to exponential demand for, and growth of, open licensing policies and practices around the globe. As “open” becomes the default for governments, educators, scientists, artists and many others, CC is committed to making license choices more prevalent and user-friendly. 

Please support the CC Global Summit with a gift of $50 or more. Please do what you can to support this important gathering of technical and legal experts: https://creativecommons.net/donate. 

I hope you consider supporting this exciting Summit. In appreciation of your donation, I will send you regular updates from the Summit and a report on issues covered and policies developed. 

I look forward to hearing from you. Please click here to make your donation: https://creativecommons.net/donate. 

Best,

== Donation/wire information ==
 
Donations to the summit can be made in the following ways:

1. '''Make an online donation''' using credit card, Google Checkout account, or PayPal account on [https://creativecommons.net/donate the donate page]. 
2. '''Send a check''', payable to Creative Commons, to:

Creative Commons 
444 Castro St. Suite 900 
Mountain View, CA 94041 
USA 

3. '''Send a wire transfer''' (recommended for donations USD500 or greater). For wire information, please contact allison[at]creativecommons.org

== Other ways to support the Global Summit ==
* [https://support.creativecommons.org/store Online store] - CC T-shirts, stickers, buttons, and lapel pins. The revenue from these items between now and September will go to support the Summit.

== Global Summit info ==

'''Creative Commons 10 Years and Counting: Supporting an Open Future''' 
''Creative Commons Global Summit 2011 – Warsaw, Poland''

Creative Commons (CC) leaders and expert affiliates from around the world will convene with key stakeholders for three days in September 2011. Together we will plan new open licensing initiatives and refine our strategic vision in response to exponential demand for open licensing policies and practices around the globe.

Significantly, 2011 also marks CC’s ten-year anniversary. In that time we have gone from an idea to a global leader in sharing culture, with over 500 million works worldwide now available under a CC license. This makes 2011 a crucial time for CC, as we consider the key challenges and goals for our next ten years.

As Creative Commons and open culture continue to gain popularity, it is crucial that we keep a strong focus on community. Beyond the legal innovation for which Creative Commons is known, the people and organizations that use and benefit from our licences are the key to the success of “open”. It is therefore crucial that we continue to support the sharing community and provide the resources they need to grow and evolve. This includes opportunities for them to interact with and learn from leaders in the field and each other.

'''''OPEN Challenges'''''

Open is becoming the default for governments, educators, scientists, artists and many others. For the benefit of all who use and contribute to our shared commons, we must address persistent challenges including:

License interoperability and compatibility issues that impede sharing and remixing of information, data and other content, compromising the overall growth and future of the collective commons;

The stability of the increasingly important, but complex and difficult to protect public domain;

Educating those charged with implementing a mandate of “openness,” and supporting those responding to openness requirements. From foundation grant recipients to governments seeking to maximize reuse and utility of the materials they fund, education is critical for ensuring correct implementation that interoperability and the ability of the Commons to scale;

Supporting and continuing to grow the Creative Commons community around the world. A strong and effective international community is essential to ensure that “open” remains a global phenomenon, accessible and responsive to those who most need it no matter their location or circumstances. Connect CC’s international affiliates and enabling them to connect with other advocates of open ideals is a key part of this;

'''''Critical Topics'''''

Together with our affiliate experts and other stakeholders and stewards of the commons, CC will use the Global Summit to celebrate our collective successes and proactively address these significant challenges facing the commons. Key topics to be discussed include:

Supporting the growth of Open Educational Resources (OER);

Government adoption and public sector information;

Launching the CC 4.0 versioning process -- including conversation with key adopters and other license stewards; and

Increasing the capacity for Affiliate Teams to secure their own funding for work in their communities.

'''''Why Warsaw'''''

Poland will be hosting the EU Presidency for the second half of 2011 - at a time when the EU is intensifying work on issues related to free culture such as data licensing, open access to scientific research, and orphan works. This therefore represents an opportunity to involve European officials and help advance the cause of open licensing in the EU. This context will tie well into our discussion of government adoption and public sector information.

Warsaw is furthermore a rapidly developing city, with a rich post-war history, an interesting urban legacy of communism (with its specific architecture), and a quickly growing urban and grassroots culture. As such, it offers a creative and inspiring backdrop for the Global Summit.

'''''4.0 License Versions'''''

CC will launch its 4.0 versioning process in conversation with its legal affiliate network and other key stakeholders and license stewards. Among other issues, database rights and forging an international license usable around the world will lead the agenda.

'''''Open Educational Resources'''''

The growth in support for Open Educational Resources around the world has been phenomenal. We will explore how to facilitate even greater access to educational materials for learners in circumstances where free and open are the best, and sometimes only options.

'''''Building Public Support'''''

In addition to organizational discussions, we are planning a day of sessions open to the public to raise the visibility of CC and open licensing with general audiences and support the very active open culture groups in Poland. The public day will include performances by artists embracing open licensing and remixing.

'''''Need for Support'''''

Gathering the Creative Commons Affiliates, our international experts in open licensing, is the best way to share knowledge, adapt to new developments, and remain sensitive to the needs of a global community committed to openness. Our presence in Poland during its EU Presidency can also help amplify our message throughout the continent.

Allowing project leaders from wide-spread countries to meet face to face serves as a catalyst to collaborative projects across regions and on a global-scale. Many teams face similar roadblocks. Usually, at least one team has found a solution to a particular issue. Face to face meetings facilitate easy sharing of leaders’ concerns and the solutions applied in other locations. This is especially true for countries with strong language or cultural ties but who are long distances from each other, such as Latin America and Spain, Canada and France and Macau and Portugal.

It is also important that we mark our tenth anniversary with the global community that made it possible.

2011 Summit Fundraising Toolkit

2011-06-23T15:45:23Z

Allison: /* Global Summit info */

[[Category:Fundraising]]
<div style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18px; line-height:1.5;">Help make the 2011 Global Summit a major success. Use these simple tools to spread the word and encourage your friends, colleagues, and networks to support this important global initiative!</div>
 
We encourage you to translate these templates and text and adapt them to be relevant to your own audience. If you have questions or need further support in your efforts, please contact allison[at]creativecommons.org

== Who should I ask? ==

*'''Colleagues''' 
*'''Friends''' 
*'''Family''' 
*'''Companies''' who find importance in your work and/or the work of Creative Commons, or companies who have supported your projects before. 
*'''Local charitable organizations''' who provide funding for conferences or international initiatives. 
*'''''Important:''''' If you plan to approach any foundations or companies, please let us know so we can coordinate efforts and minimize multiple requests coming from different people. 

== How should I ask them? ==

A personalized email, phone call, or in-person meeting all work well. You can also make an appeal for support by tweeting or posting on Facebook, LinkedIn, or other sites, with a link to the CC donate page: [https://creativecommons.net/donate https://creativecommons.net/donate]. 
 
The most important thing is that you are upfront with where their support will go, why it is important to Creative Commons, and equally importantly, why it is important to you. Feel free to use the following email template and adapt or alter to make it more relevant for you.

 
Dear Name/Friend, 

As much as all of us enjoy and depend on online teamwork these days, there is no substitute for the power of face-to-face collaboration. I am writing to ask you to support the 2011 Creative Commons Global Summit. 

For almost ten years, Creative Commons (CC) has been the leader in providing tools and licensing options to innovators all over the world, thereby fostering a more productive and collaborative world. CC provides a free, public, and standardized infrastructure that creates a balance between the reality of the Internet and the reality of copyright laws. If you haven’t sought a CC license yourself, I guarantee you have benefited from one. Flickr, YouTube, Wikipedia and the White House all rely on CC licenses in order to make content, images, and videos freely available. Since 2002, more than 400 million licenses have been acquired through Creative Commons. 

Like most global communities, the Creative Commons team, made up of volunteer experts and industry leaders and a small paid staff, communicates mostly online. They work hard to develop new open licensing initiatives and related materials to make these licenses simple and more functional for people all over the world. Through years of working together as a team, the CC community has learned that no amount of online teamwork can replace the value of in-person collaboration. Face to face meetings facilitate easy sharing of cross-cultural application of lessons learned. This is especially true for countries with strong language or cultural ties but geographic challenges, such as Latin America and Spain, Canada and France, and Macau and Portugal. Past face-to-face meetings in our extended community have resulted in outcomes like the Public Domain Manifesto and the Cape Town declaration on Open Education. 

This year, the Creative Commons Global Summit will take place in September in Warsaw, Poland. The goal of the Summit is to plan new open licensing initiatives and refine CC’s strategic vision in response to exponential demand for, and growth of, open licensing policies and practices around the globe. As “open” becomes the default for governments, educators, scientists, artists and many others, CC is committed to making license choices more prevalent and user-friendly. 

Please support the CC Global Summit with a gift of $50 or more. Please do what you can to support this important gathering of technical and legal experts: https://creativecommons.net/donate. 

I hope you consider supporting this exciting Summit. In appreciation of your donation, I will send you regular updates from the Summit and a report on issues covered and policies developed. 

I look forward to hearing from you. Please click here to make your donation: https://creativecommons.net/donate. 

Best,

== Donation/wire information ==
 
Donations to the summit can be made in the following ways:

1. '''Make an online donation''' using credit card, Google Checkout account, or PayPal account on [https://creativecommons.net/donate the donate page]. 
2. '''Send a check''', payable to Creative Commons, to:

Creative Commons 
444 Castro St. Suite 900 
Mountain View, CA 94041 
USA 

3. '''Send a wire transfer''' (recommended for donations USD500 or greater). For wire information, please contact allison[at]creativecommons.org

== Other ways to support the Global Summit ==
* [https://support.creativecommons.org/store Online store] - CC T-shirts, stickers, buttons, and lapel pins. The revenue from these items between now and September will go to support the Summit.

== Global Summit info ==

'''Creative Commons 10 Years and Counting: Supporting an Open Future''' 
''Creative Commons Global Summit 2011 – Warsaw, Poland''

Creative Commons (CC) leaders and expert affiliates from around the world will convene with key stakeholders for three days in September 2011. Together we will plan new open licensing initiatives and refine our strategic vision in response to exponential demand for open licensing policies and practices around the globe.

Significantly, 2011 also marks CC’s ten-year anniversary. In that time we have gone from an idea to having 500 million works worldwide available under a CC license.

'''''OPEN Challenges'''''

Open is becoming the default for governments, educators, scientists, artists and many others. For the benefit of all who use and contribute to our shared commons, we must address persistent challenges including:

License interoperability and compatibility issues that impede sharing and remixing of information, data and other content, compromising the overall growth and future of the collective commons;

The stability of the increasingly important, but complex and difficult to protect public domain;

Educating those charged with implementing a mandate of “openness,” and supporting those responding to openness requirements. From foundation grant recipients to governments seeking to maximize reuse and utility of the materials they fund, education is critical for ensuring correct implementation that interoperability and the ability of the Commons to scale;

Supporting and continuing to grow the Creative Commons community around the world. A strong and effective international community is essential to ensure that “open” remains a global phenomenon, accessible and responsive to those who most need it no matter their location or circumstances. Connect CC’s international affiliates and enabling them to connect with other advocates of open ideals is a key part of this;

'''''Critical Topics'''''

Together with our affiliate experts and other stakeholders and stewards of the commons, CC will use the Global Summit to celebrate our collective successes and proactively address these significant challenges facing the commons. Key topics to be discussed include:

Supporting the growth of Open Educational Resources (OER);

Government adoption and public sector information;

Launching the CC 4.0 versioning process -- including conversation with key adopters and other license stewards; and

Increasing the capacity for Affiliate Teams to secure their own funding for work in their communities.

'''''Why Warsaw'''''

Poland will be hosting the EU Presidency for the second half of 2011 - at a time when the EU is intensifying work on issues related to free culture such as data licensing, open access to scientific research, and orphan works. This therefore represents an opportunity to involve European officials and help advance the cause of open licensing in the EU. This context will tie well into our discussion of government adoption and public sector information.

Warsaw is furthermore a rapidly developing city, with a rich post-war history, an interesting urban legacy of communism (with its specific architecture), and a quickly growing urban and grassroots culture. As such, it offers a creative and inspiring backdrop for the Global Summit.

'''''4.0 License Versions'''''

CC will launch its 4.0 versioning process in conversation with its legal affiliate network and other key stakeholders and license stewards. Among other issues, database rights and forging an international license usable around the world will lead the agenda.

'''''Open Educational Resources'''''

The growth in support for Open Educational Resources around the world has been phenomenal. We will explore how to facilitate even greater access to educational materials for learners in circumstances where free and open are the best, and sometimes only options.

'''''Building Public Support'''''

In addition to organizational discussions, we are planning a day of sessions open to the public to raise the visibility of CC and open licensing with general audiences and support the very active open culture groups in Poland. The public day will include performances by artists embracing open licensing and remixing.

'''''Need for Support'''''

Gathering the Creative Commons Affiliates, our international experts in open licensing, is the best way to share knowledge, adapt to new developments, and remain sensitive to the needs of a global community committed to openness. Our presence in Poland during its EU Presidency can also help amplify our message throughout the continent.

Allowing project leaders from wide-spread countries to meet face to face serves as a catalyst to collaborative projects across regions and on a global-scale. Many teams face similar roadblocks. Usually, at least one team has found a solution to a particular issue. Face to face meetings facilitate easy sharing of leaders’ concerns and the solutions applied in other locations. This is especially true for countries with strong language or cultural ties but who are long distances from each other, such as Latin America and Spain, Canada and France and Macau and Portugal.

It is also important that we mark our tenth anniversary with the global community that made it possible.

2011 Summit Fundraising Toolkit

2011-06-20T22:49:22Z

Allison: /* Who should you ask? */

[[Category:Fundraising]]
<div style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18px; line-height:1.5;">Help make the 2011 Global Summit a major success. Use these simple tools to spread the word and encourage your friends, colleagues, and networks to support this important global initiative!</div>
 
We encourage you to translate these templates and text and adapt them to be relevant to your own audience. If you have questions or need further support in your efforts, please contact allison[at]creativecommons.org

== Who should I ask? ==

*'''Colleagues''' 
*'''Friends''' 
*'''Family''' 
*'''Companies''' who find importance in your work and/or the work of Creative Commons, or companies who have supported your projects before. 
*'''Local charitable organizations''' who provide funding for conferences or international initiatives. 
*'''''Important:''''' If you plan to approach any foundations or companies, please let us know so we can coordinate efforts and minimize multiple requests coming from different people. 

== How should I ask them? ==

A personalized email, phone call, or in-person meeting all work well. You can also make an appeal for support by tweeting or posting on Facebook, LinkedIn, or other sites, with a link to the CC donate page: [https://creativecommons.net/donate https://creativecommons.net/donate]. 
 
The most important thing is that you are upfront with where their support will go, why it is important to Creative Commons, and equally importantly, why it is important to you. Feel free to use the following email template and adapt or alter to make it more relevant for you.

 
Dear Name/Friend, 

As much as all of us enjoy and depend on online teamwork these days, there is no substitute for the power of face-to-face collaboration. I am writing to ask you to support the 2011 Creative Commons Global Summit. 

For almost ten years, Creative Commons (CC) has been the leader in providing tools and licensing options to innovators all over the world, thereby fostering a more productive and collaborative world. CC provides a free, public, and standardized infrastructure that creates a balance between the reality of the Internet and the reality of copyright laws. If you haven’t sought a CC license yourself, I guarantee you have benefited from one. Flickr, YouTube, Wikipedia and the White House all rely on CC licenses in order to make content, images, and videos freely available. Since 2002, more than 400 million licenses have been acquired through Creative Commons. 

Like most global communities, the Creative Commons team, made up of volunteer experts and industry leaders and a small paid staff, communicates mostly online. They work hard to develop new open licensing initiatives and related materials to make these licenses simple and more functional for people all over the world. Through years of working together as a team, the CC community has learned that no amount of online teamwork can replace the value of in-person collaboration. Face to face meetings facilitate easy sharing of cross-cultural application of lessons learned. This is especially true for countries with strong language or cultural ties but geographic challenges, such as Latin America and Spain, Canada and France, and Macau and Portugal. Past face-to-face meetings in our extended community have resulted in outcomes like the Public Domain Manifesto and the Cape Town declaration on Open Education. 

This year, the Creative Commons Global Summit will take place in September in Warsaw, Poland. The goal of the Summit is to plan new open licensing initiatives and refine CC’s strategic vision in response to exponential demand for, and growth of, open licensing policies and practices around the globe. As “open” becomes the default for governments, educators, scientists, artists and many others, CC is committed to making license choices more prevalent and user-friendly. 

Please support the CC Global Summit with a gift of $50 or more. Please do what you can to support this important gathering of technical and legal experts: https://creativecommons.net/donate. 

I hope you consider supporting this exciting Summit. In appreciation of your donation, I will send you regular updates from the Summit and a report on issues covered and policies developed. 

I look forward to hearing from you. Please click here to make your donation: https://creativecommons.net/donate. 

Best,

== Donation/wire information ==
 
Donations to the summit can be made in the following ways:

1. '''Make an online donation''' using credit card, Google Checkout account, or PayPal account on [https://creativecommons.net/donate the donate page]. 
2. '''Send a check''', payable to Creative Commons, to:

Creative Commons 
444 Castro St. Suite 900 
Mountain View, CA 94041 
USA 

3. '''Send a wire transfer''' (recommended for donations USD500 or greater). For wire information, please contact allison[at]creativecommons.org

== Other ways to support the Global Summit ==
* [https://support.creativecommons.org/store Online store] - CC T-shirts, stickers, buttons, and lapel pins. The revenue from these items between now and September will go to support the Summit.

== Global Summit info ==

'''Creative Commons 10 Years and Counting: Supporting an Open Future''' 
''Creative Commons Global Summit 2011 – Warsaw, Poland''

Creative Commons (CC) leaders and expert affiliates from around the world will convene with key stakeholders for three days in September 2011. Together we will plan new open licensing initiatives and refine our strategic vision in response to exponential demand for open licensing policies and practices around the globe.

Significantly, 2011 also marks CC’s ten-year anniversary. In that time we have gone from an idea to having 500 million works worldwide available under a CC license.

'''''OPEN Challenges'''''

Open is becoming the default for governments, educators, scientists, artists and many others. For the benefit of all who use and contribute to our shared commons, we must address persistent challenges including:

License interoperability and compatibility issues that impede sharing and remixing of information, data and other content, compromising the overall growth and future of the collective commons;

The stability of the increasingly important, but complex and difficult to protect public domain;

Educating those charged with implementing a mandate of “openness,” and supporting those responding to openness requirements. From foundation grant recipients to governments seeking to maximize reuse and utility of the materials they fund, education is critical for ensuring correct implementation that interoperability and the ability of the Commons to scale

'''''Critical Topics'''''

Together with our affiliate experts and other stakeholders and stewards of the commons, CC will use the Global Summit to celebrate our collective successes and proactively address these significant challenges facing the commons. Key topics to be discussed include:

Supporting the growth of Open Educational Resources (OER);

Government adoption and public sector information;

Launching the CC 4.0 versioning process -- including conversation with key adopters and other license stewards; and

Increasing the capacity for Affiliate Teams to secure their own funding for work in their communities.

'''''Why Warsaw'''''

Poland will be hosting the EU Presidency for the second half of 2011 - at a time when the EU is intensifying work on issues related to free culture such as data licensing, open access to scientific research, and orphan works. This therefore represents an opportunity to involve European officials and help advance the cause of open licensing in the EU. This context will tie well into our discussion of government adoption and public sector information.

Warsaw is furthermore a rapidly developing city, with a rich post-war history, an interesting urban legacy of communism (with its specific architecture), and a quickly growing urban and grassroots culture. As such, it offers a creative and inspiring backdrop for the Global Summit.

'''''4.0 License Versions'''''

CC will launch its 4.0 versioning process in conversation with its legal affiliate network and other key stakeholders and license stewards. Among other issues, database rights and forging an international license usable around the world will lead the agenda.

'''''Open Educational Resources'''''

The growth in support for Open Educational Resources around the world has been phenomenal. We will explore how to facilitate even greater access to educational materials for learners in circumstances where free and open are the best, and sometimes only options.

'''''Building Public Support'''''

In addition to organizational discussions, we are planning a day of sessions open to the public to raise the visibility of CC and open licensing with general audiences and support the very active open culture groups in Poland. The public day will include performances by artists embracing open licensing and remixing.

'''''Need for Support'''''

Gathering the Creative Commons Affiliates, our international experts in open licensing, is the best way to share knowledge, adapt to new developments, and remain sensitive to the needs of a global community committed to openness. Our presence in Poland during its EU Presidency can also help amplify our message throughout the continent.

Allowing project leaders from wide-spread countries to meet face to face serves as a catalyst to collaborative projects across regions and on a global-scale. Many teams face similar roadblocks. Usually, at least one team has found a solution to a particular issue. Face to face meetings facilitate easy sharing of leaders’ concerns and the solutions applied in other locations. This is especially true for countries with strong language or cultural ties but who are long distances from each other, such as Latin America and Spain, Canada and France and Macau and Portugal.

It is also important that we mark our tenth anniversary with the global community that made it possible.

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== Who should you ask? ==

*'''Colleagues''' 
*'''Friends''' 
*'''Family''' 
*'''Companies''' who find importance in your work and/or the work of Creative Commons, or companies who have supported your projects before. 
*'''Local charitable organizations''' who provide funding for conferences or international initiatives. 
*'''''Important:''''' If you plan to approach any foundations or companies, please let us know so we can coordinate efforts and minimize multiple requests coming from different people. 

== How should I ask them? ==

A personalized email, phone call, or in-person meeting all work well. You can also make an appeal for support by tweeting or posting on Facebook, LinkedIn, or other sites, with a link to the CC donate page: [https://creativecommons.net/donate https://creativecommons.net/donate]. 
 
The most important thing is that you are upfront with where their support will go, why it is important to Creative Commons, and equally importantly, why it is important to you. Feel free to use the following email template and adapt or alter to make it more relevant for you.

 
Dear Name/Friend, 

As much as all of us enjoy and depend on online teamwork these days, there is no substitute for the power of face-to-face collaboration. I am writing to ask you to support the 2011 Creative Commons Global Summit. 

For almost ten years, Creative Commons (CC) has been the leader in providing tools and licensing options to innovators all over the world, thereby fostering a more productive and collaborative world. CC provides a free, public, and standardized infrastructure that creates a balance between the reality of the Internet and the reality of copyright laws. If you haven’t sought a CC license yourself, I guarantee you have benefited from one. Flickr, YouTube, Wikipedia and the White House all rely on CC licenses in order to make content, images, and videos freely available. Since 2002, more than 400 million licenses have been acquired through Creative Commons. 

Like most global communities, the Creative Commons team, made up of volunteer experts and industry leaders and a small paid staff, communicates mostly online. They work hard to develop new open licensing initiatives and related materials to make these licenses simple and more functional for people all over the world. Through years of working together as a team, the CC community has learned that no amount of online teamwork can replace the value of in-person collaboration. Face to face meetings facilitate easy sharing of cross-cultural application of lessons learned. This is especially true for countries with strong language or cultural ties but geographic challenges, such as Latin America and Spain, Canada and France, and Macau and Portugal. Past face-to-face meetings in our extended community have resulted in outcomes like the Public Domain Manifesto and the Cape Town declaration on Open Education. 

This year, the Creative Commons Global Summit will take place in September in Warsaw, Poland. The goal of the Summit is to plan new open licensing initiatives and refine CC’s strategic vision in response to exponential demand for, and growth of, open licensing policies and practices around the globe. As “open” becomes the default for governments, educators, scientists, artists and many others, CC is committed to making license choices more prevalent and user-friendly. 

Please support the CC Global Summit with a gift of $50 or more. Please do what you can to support this important gathering of technical and legal experts: https://creativecommons.net/donate. 

I hope you consider supporting this exciting Summit. In appreciation of your donation, I will send you regular updates from the Summit and a report on issues covered and policies developed. 

I look forward to hearing from you. Please click here to make your donation: https://creativecommons.net/donate. 

Best,

== Donation/wire information ==
 
Donations to the summit can be made in the following ways:

1. '''Make an online donation''' using credit card, Google Checkout account, or PayPal account on [https://creativecommons.net/donate the donate page]. 
2. '''Send a check''', payable to Creative Commons, to:

Creative Commons 
444 Castro St. Suite 900 
Mountain View, CA 94041 
USA 

3. '''Send a wire transfer''' (recommended for donations USD500 or greater). For wire information, please contact allison[at]creativecommons.org

== Other ways to support the Global Summit ==
* [https://support.creativecommons.org/store Online store] - CC T-shirts, stickers, buttons, and lapel pins. The revenue from these items between now and September will go to support the Summit.

== Global Summit info ==

'''Creative Commons 10 Years and Counting: Supporting an Open Future''' 
''Creative Commons Global Summit 2011 – Warsaw, Poland''

Creative Commons (CC) leaders and expert affiliates from around the world will convene with key stakeholders for three days in September 2011. Together we will plan new open licensing initiatives and refine our strategic vision in response to exponential demand for open licensing policies and practices around the globe.

Significantly, 2011 also marks CC’s ten-year anniversary. In that time we have gone from an idea to having 500 million works worldwide available under a CC license.

'''''OPEN Challenges'''''

Open is becoming the default for governments, educators, scientists, artists and many others. For the benefit of all who use and contribute to our shared commons, we must address persistent challenges including:

License interoperability and compatibility issues that impede sharing and remixing of information, data and other content, compromising the overall growth and future of the collective commons;

The stability of the increasingly important, but complex and difficult to protect public domain;

Educating those charged with implementing a mandate of “openness,” and supporting those responding to openness requirements. From foundation grant recipients to governments seeking to maximize reuse and utility of the materials they fund, education is critical for ensuring correct implementation that interoperability and the ability of the Commons to scale

'''''Critical Topics'''''

Together with our affiliate experts and other stakeholders and stewards of the commons, CC will use the Global Summit to celebrate our collective successes and proactively address these significant challenges facing the commons. Key topics to be discussed include:

Supporting the growth of Open Educational Resources (OER);

Government adoption and public sector information;

Launching the CC 4.0 versioning process -- including conversation with key adopters and other license stewards; and

Increasing the capacity for Affiliate Teams to secure their own funding for work in their communities.

'''''Why Warsaw'''''

Poland will be hosting the EU Presidency for the second half of 2011 - at a time when the EU is intensifying work on issues related to free culture such as data licensing, open access to scientific research, and orphan works. This therefore represents an opportunity to involve European officials and help advance the cause of open licensing in the EU. This context will tie well into our discussion of government adoption and public sector information.

Warsaw is furthermore a rapidly developing city, with a rich post-war history, an interesting urban legacy of communism (with its specific architecture), and a quickly growing urban and grassroots culture. As such, it offers a creative and inspiring backdrop for the Global Summit.

'''''4.0 License Versions'''''

CC will launch its 4.0 versioning process in conversation with its legal affiliate network and other key stakeholders and license stewards. Among other issues, database rights and forging an international license usable around the world will lead the agenda.

'''''Open Educational Resources'''''

The growth in support for Open Educational Resources around the world has been phenomenal. We will explore how to facilitate even greater access to educational materials for learners in circumstances where free and open are the best, and sometimes only options.

'''''Building Public Support'''''

In addition to organizational discussions, we are planning a day of sessions open to the public to raise the visibility of CC and open licensing with general audiences and support the very active open culture groups in Poland. The public day will include performances by artists embracing open licensing and remixing.

'''''Need for Support'''''

Gathering the Creative Commons Affiliates, our international experts in open licensing, is the best way to share knowledge, adapt to new developments, and remain sensitive to the needs of a global community committed to openness. Our presence in Poland during its EU Presidency can also help amplify our message throughout the continent.

Allowing project leaders from wide-spread countries to meet face to face serves as a catalyst to collaborative projects across regions and on a global-scale. Many teams face similar roadblocks. Usually, at least one team has found a solution to a particular issue. Face to face meetings facilitate easy sharing of leaders’ concerns and the solutions applied in other locations. This is especially true for countries with strong language or cultural ties but who are long distances from each other, such as Latin America and Spain, Canada and France and Macau and Portugal.

It is also important that we mark our tenth anniversary with the global community that made it possible.

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== Letter Asking for Support ==
 

Dear <first name>,

Imagine a world where knowledge flows freely and can be built upon without limits. Imagine a world where culture, art and media are available to everyone, scientific content is shared by corporations and research institutions, and shared intelligence augments human rights efforts across borders.

A legion of Creative Commons (CC) Superheroes is already at work, using our amazing tools to save people from failed sharing all over the planet. GlaxoSmithKline, a major pharmaceutical company, recently released its entire malarial data set using CC tools, speeding the urgent search for new medicines to tackle the devastating disease. Online communities at Flickr, SoundCloud, and Vimeo are making creative works available for anyone in the world to use freely and legally through license adoption. Publisher Pratham Books has begun to CC license more and more of the textbooks it provides to 14 million children in India, lifting them from a future of poverty and miseducation. When the earthquake struck Haiti in January 2010, Google and Wired used CC tools to keep information widely available to relief workers, journalists, and governments worldwide.

Our challenge ahead is to join forces with this legion of CC Superheroes to fight the forces that don’t want an open web, or do not understand that sharing is a good thing. This fall, we’re recruiting a team of CC Superheroes to lead the world in the fight for creativity and innovation. We need to raise $550,000 by the end of the year to power up and support the work we’re doing. As a superhero, your role will be to donate, spread the word, and fundraise on our behalf. As an existing supporter of CC, you already believe that a sharing world is a good world. You have fueled our work and kept us going strong, and we thank you for that. It will take nothing short of a superhero’s strength to get us to where we need to go.

Join us in this fight for a free world - donate today at https://creativecommons.net/donate

== Donation/wire information ==
 
There are three ways to support the 2011 Global Summit.

1. '''Make an online donation''' using credit card, Google Checkout account, or PayPal account on [https://creativecommons.net/donate the donate page]. 
2. '''Send a check''', payable to Creative Commons, to:

Creative Commons 
444 Castro St. Suite 900 
Mountain View, CA 94041 
USA 

3. '''Send a wire transfer''' (recommended for donations USD500 or greater). For wire information, please contact allison[at]creativecommons.org

== Other ways to support the Global Summit ==
* [https://support.creativecommons.org/store Online store] - CC T-shirts, stickers, buttons, and lapel pins.

San Francisco Salon

2011-06-15T16:53:17Z

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'''*** [http://vimeo.com/25109769 Watch the video] from the event ***'''

In the 21st century we are more connected to each other and to information than ever before. As curious and social creatures living in a digital age, we tend to share and distribute the information we receive at remarkable speed and with remarkable outcomes. The end result? Every single one of us, on any given day, is both a learner and an educator. Some of us are more one than the other; some of us are both at the same time. But every single one of us stands to benefit from a revitalized look at what education means in the 21st century.

Join us Monday, June 13 at pariSoma Innovation Loft for a panel discussion exploring the ways we can facilitate this desire to improve learning. How do we maximize the impact of education in a digital age, taking care not to leave anyone behind? How can we set up environments where information is free flowing? How can we shift business as usual so that it is the learners and educators themselves who shape the learning and educating?

Come hear how Creative Commons, Open Educational Resources (OER), technology, and openness in general have been crucial in reshaping the way we teach and learn (online, offline, in the classroom and out), and join the discussion of how we can continue to make it so.

Panelists include:

'''Cathy Casserly''' (moderator), CEO, Creative Commons. Cathy’s career is dedicated to openness, and particularly to leveraging possibilities at the boundaries of formal and informal learning to equalize educational opportunity. She has been a long-time advocate of open educational resources (OER). Before CC, Cathy worked at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, where she spearheaded work in the areas of transparency and technology as a Senior Partner and the Vice President of Innovation and Open Networks.

'''David Bill''', Director of Educational Technology at the Urban School of San Francisco. As a teacher and director of academic technology, David has used Creative Commons materials in and out of the classroom. David is an educator consumed by the idea of improving our educational landscape. To him, learning is not something forced but rather an exploration that can and should be driven by being an inquisitive and passionate problem solver. In order to create such a learning environment, David focuses his energy on the intersection of Design Thinking, open educational resources, learning spaces, instructional models, and the power of technology in education..

'''Pete Forsyth''', Owner and Lead Consultant at Wiki Strategies. Pete is an Internet and communications consultant with deep expertise in online peer production communities, specifically the production of open educational resources using wiki-based web sites like Wikipedia. Pete's most recent engagement has been as the Wikimedia Foundation’s first Public Outreach Officer, working with Wikimedia’s vast network of volunteers and supporters to improve the experience of new project contributors. He was a key architect of the Wikipedia Public Policy Initiative, an innovative pilot project to support professors in the use of Wikipedia editing as a teaching tool.

'''Felipe Ortega''', Researcher and Project Manager at Libresoft, research group at University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain. Felipe is one of the main organizers of WikiSym, the premier conference on open collaboration and related technologies for researchers, industry, entrepreneurs and practitioners worldwide, to be held in the Bay Area in October. Felipe develops novel methodologies to analyze open collaborative communities (like FLOSS development projects, Wikipedia and social networks). He has done extensive research with the Wikipedia project and its community of authors. He actively participates in
research, promotion and education/training on libre software, and he is a
strong supporter of open educational resources, open access in scientific
publishing and open data in science.

'''Amy Roth''', Research Analyst at Wikimedia Foundation's Public Policy Initiative (PPI). The Public Policy Initiative is a pilot project whereby Professors at public policy programs in universities in the U.S. engage their students to improve articles on the English-language Wikipedia as part of the curriculum. Amy graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in Biology with a minor in Biotechnology. She went on to get a masters degree in public policy, during which time she analyzed the largest public health surveys in the nation and worked as a health inspector. Her thesis is a quantitative analysis of qualitative foster youth data; it identifies factors that correlate to an increased likelihood of incarceration for foster youth. Amy's background gives her a lot of experience in both quantitative and qualitative research and she enjoys challenging projects that require creative solutions and specific analysis. As Research Analyst for the PPI, she is tasked with program evaluation and assessing article quality and content improvement in Wikipedia.

No RSVP necessary, but you can let us know you're coming on [http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=104137469677954 Facebook].

==== Date & Time ====

* Monday, June 13, 2011
* 7:00- 9:00 PM PST
* Refreshments provided
* Free but $5-15 donation suggested
* Plenty of street parking

'''pariSoma''' 
'''169 11th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103''' 
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Data in sight Follow-up Forum: Does data visualization tell us what to think?

2011-06-13T19:35:17Z

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Creative Commons, The Consulate General of the Netherlands, and swissnex San Francisco invite you to an evening of exploring, celebrating, and questioning the rapidly growing role of data visualization in the 21st century.

Join us for our wrap-up event for data in sight: making the transparent visual, a hands-on data visualization competition. Come see the winning data visualization designs from the weekend and hear from a panel of experts as they discuss trends, risks, and the significance of data visualization. Specifically, we will explore the question of whether data visualization tells us what to think - if this is good, bad, and what the other implications of this might be.

Panelists:

'''Sean Gourley, co-founder and CTO, Quid'''. Sean did research into the mathematics of war for his PhD thesis at Balliol College, Oxford. His findings appeared as the featured article in "Nature" (December 2009) and were the subject of a popular TED talk (2009). His work on statistical analysis, probability, and algorithm development applied to complex systems and large datasets inspired the creation of Quid. Sean is a Rhodes Scholar PhD in Physics (Complexity) from the University of Oxford; his is undergraduate degree in Physics is from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

'''Eva Ho, VP of Marketing and Operations, Factual''', a platform where anyone can share and mashup data. Factual was founded in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, co-founder of Applied Semantics. Gil has had a lifelong passion for organizing and structuring information, and building smart tools which can make better sense of data. To that end, he set out to develop an open data platform and community in an effort to maximize data accuracy, transparency, and availability.

'''Sep Kamvar, Consulting assistant professor of Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University'''. His research focuses on social computing and information management, and he is particularly interested in personal and social models for search. From 2003 to 2007, Sep was the head of personalization at Google. Sep is the author of two books and over 40 technical publications and patents in the fields of search and social computing. His artwork has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Musem in London, and the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens.

'''Joris Maltha, Founder, Catalogtree''', a multidisciplinary design studio. The studio works continuously on commissioned and self initiated design projects. The studio's guiding design tactic is FORM = BEHAVIOUR. Typography, generative graphic design and the visualisation of quantitative data are daily routines. Other recent endeavours include: D.I.Y. structured-light 3D-scanning, Bristle bot development and the visualisation of financial tick-data.

Additional Panelists TBA

Doors open at 6:30, program begins at 7pm. Refreshments will be provided.

[http://datainsightforum.eventbrite.com/ RSVP here]. This event is free of charge and open to anyone who is a fan of, intrigued by, or even a little curious about data visualization.

Special thanks to PeopleBrowsr for being our wonderful host for the evening. [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=PeopleBrowsr+474+Bryant+St+San+Francisco,+CA+94107&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&hl=en&hq=PeopleBrowsr&hnear=474+Bryant+St,+San+Francisco,+California+94107&z=16 Map/Directions].

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2011-06-13T19:34:55Z

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Creative Commons, The Consulate General of the Netherlands, and swissnex San Francisco invite you to an evening of exploring, celebrating, and questioning the rapidly growing role of data visualization in the 21st century.

Join us for our wrap-up event for data in sight: making the transparent visual, a hands-on data visualization competition. Come see the winning data visualization designs from the weekend and hear from a panel of experts as they discuss trends, risks, and the significance of data visualization. Specifically, we will explore the question of whether data visualization tells us what to think - if this is good, bad, and what the other implications of this might be.

Panelists:

'''Sean Gourley, co-founder and CTO, Quid'''. Sean did research into the mathematics of war for his PhD thesis at Balliol College, Oxford. His findings appeared as the featured article in "Nature" (December 2009) and were the subject of a popular TED talk (2009). His work on statistical analysis, probability, and algorithm development applied to complex systems and large datasets inspired the creation of Quid. Sean is a Rhodes Scholar PhD in Physics (Complexity) from the University of Oxford; his is undergraduate degree in Physics is from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

'''Eva Ho, VP of Marketing and Operations, Factual''', a platform where anyone can share and mashup data. Factual was founded in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, co-founder of Applied Semantics. Gil has had a lifelong passion for organizing and structuring information, and building smart tools which can make better sense of data. To that end, he set out to develop an open data platform and community in an effort to maximize data accuracy, transparency, and availability.

'''Sep Kamvar, Consulting assistant professor of Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University'''. His research focuses on social computing and information management, and he is particularly interested in personal and social models for search. From 2003 to 2007, Sep was the head of personalization at Google. Sep is the author of two books and over 40 technical publications and patents in the fields of search and social computing. His artwork has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Musem in London, and the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens.

'''Joris Maltha, Founder, Catalogtree''', a multidisciplinary design studio. The studio works continuously on commissioned and self initiated design projects. The studio's guiding design tactic is FORM = BEHAVIOUR. Typography, generative graphic design and the visualisation of quantitative data are daily routines. Other recent endeavours include: D.I.Y. structured-light 3D-scanning, Bristle bot development and the visualisation of financial tick-data.

Additional Panelists TBA

Doors open at 6:30, program begins at 7pm. Refreshments will be provided.

[http://datainsightforum.eventbrite.com/ RSVP here]. This event is free of charge and open to anyone who is a fan of, intrigued by, or even a little curious about data visualization.

Special thanks to PeopleBrowsr for being our wonderful host for the evening. [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=PeopleBrowsr+474+Bryant+St+San+Francisco,+CA+94107&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&hl=en&hq=PeopleBrowsr&hnear=474+Bryant+St,+San+Francisco,+California+94107&z=16 Map/Directions].

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Join us for '''data in sight: making the transparent visual''', a hands-on data visualization competition held June 25th and 26th, 2011, at the Adobe Systems, Inc. offices in San Francisco’s SoMa District. Open to coders, programmers, developers, designers, scientists, members of the media—anyone who believes that data is divine and has ideas for bringing it to life.

On Saturday, hear from data visualization experts from the Netherlands and Switzerland—Dutch graphic designers from Catalogtree and LUST and Switzerland-based interaction designers from Interactive Things—then roll up your sleeves and get hacking on a data visualization of your own and compete for prizes.

Need more information? Take a look at the [http://datainsightsf.com/schedule-2/ schedule].

Ready to sign up? [http://datainsightsf.com/attend/ Register here]. Sign up by June 19 and pay only $22. After June 19, registration costs $33. Students can sign up for only $10. If you are a student, contact us at datainsight2011[at]gmail.com to secure your discounted ticket. A limited quantity of student registrations will be available.

Data deets: Data sets will be provided. For more details see the data page. Do you have an interesting data set of your own you’d like to mash up with the data we provide? Want people to join your team? You can use the [http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=3923305 LinkedIn group] to connect with other attendees and pitch your own data.

Follow-up forum, Tuesday, June 28: Winning data visualizations will be presented and a panel of experts will discuss trends, risks, and the significance of data visualization. We are excited to have PeopleBrowsr as our host for the evening. [http://datainsightforum.eventbrite.com/ More info].

'''data in sight is organized by swissnex, the Netherlands Consulate General in San Francisco, and Creative Commons.'''

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Data in sight Follow-up Forum: Does data visualization tell us what to think?

2011-06-10T16:31:38Z

Allison:

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[[Image:Datainsight_square.png|right]]

Creative Commons, The Consulate General of the Netherlands, and swissnex San Francisco invite you to an evening of exploring, celebrating, and questioning the rapidly growing role of data visualization in the 21st century.

Join us for our wrap-up event for data in sight: making the transparent visual, a hands-on data visualization competition. Come see the winning data visualization designs from the weekend and hear from a panel of experts as they discuss trends, risks, and the significance of data visualization. Specifically, we will explore the question of whether data visualization tells us what to think - if this is good, bad, and what the other implications of this might be.

Panelists:

'''Eva Ho, VP of Marketing and Operations, Factual''', a platform where anyone can share and mashup data. Factual was founded in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, co-founder of Applied Semantics. Gil has had a lifelong passion for organizing and structuring information, and building smart tools which can make better sense of data. To that end, he set out to develop an open data platform and community in an effort to maximize data accuracy, transparency, and availability.

'''Sep Kamvar, Consulting assistant professor of Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University'''. His research focuses on social computing and information management, and he is particularly interested in personal and social models for search. From 2003 to 2007, Sep was the head of personalization at Google. Sep is the author of two books and over 40 technical publications and patents in the fields of search and social computing. His artwork has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Musem in London, and the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens.

'''Joris Maltha, Founder, Catalogtree''', a multidisciplinary design studio. The studio works continuously on commissioned and self initiated design projects. The studio's guiding design tactic is FORM = BEHAVIOUR. Typography, generative graphic design and the visualisation of quantitative data are daily routines. Other recent endeavours include: D.I.Y. structured-light 3D-scanning, Bristle bot development and the visualisation of financial tick-data.

Additional Panelists TBA

Doors open at 6:30, program begins at 7pm. Refreshments will be provided.

[http://datainsightforum.eventbrite.com/ RSVP here]. This event is free of charge and open to anyone who is a fan of, intrigued by, or even a little curious about data visualization.

Special thanks to PeopleBrowsr for being our wonderful host for the evening. [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=PeopleBrowsr+474+Bryant+St+San+Francisco,+CA+94107&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&hl=en&hq=PeopleBrowsr&hnear=474+Bryant+St,+San+Francisco,+California+94107&z=16 Map/Directions].

Data in sight Follow-up Forum: Does data visualization tell us what to think?

2011-06-10T16:23:58Z

Allison:

[[Image:Datainsight_square.png|right]]

Creative Commons, The Consulate General of the Netherlands, and swissnex San Francisco invite you to an evening of exploring, celebrating, and questioning the rapidly growing role of data visualization in the 21st century.

Join us for our wrap-up event for data in sight: making the transparent visual, a hands-on data visualization competition. Come see the winning data visualization designs from the weekend and hear from a panel of experts as they discuss trends, risks, and the significance of data visualization. Specifically, we will explore the question of whether data visualization tells us what to think - if this is good, bad, and what the other implications of this might be.

Panelists:

'''Eva Ho, VP of Marketing and Operations, Factual''', a platform where anyone can share and mashup data. Factual was founded in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, co-founder of Applied Semantics. Gil has had a lifelong passion for organizing and structuring information, and building smart tools which can make better sense of data. To that end, he set out to develop an open data platform and community in an effort to maximize data accuracy, transparency, and availability.

'''Sep Kamvar, Consulting assistant professor of Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University'''. His research focuses on social computing and information management, and he is particularly interested in personal and social models for search. From 2003 to 2007, Sep was the head of personalization at Google. Sep is the author of two books and over 40 technical publications and patents in the fields of search and social computing. His artwork has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Musem in London, and the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens.

'''Joris Maltha, Founder, Catalogtree''', a multidisciplinary design studio. The studio works continuously on commissioned and self initiated design projects. The studio's guiding design tactic is FORM = BEHAVIOUR. Typography, generative graphic design and the visualisation of quantitative data are daily routines. Other recent endeavours include: D.I.Y. structured-light 3D-scanning, Bristle bot development and the visualisation of financial tick-data.

Additional Panelists TBA

Doors open at 6:30, program begins at 7pm. Refreshments will be provided.

[http://datainsightforum.eventbrite.com/ RSVP here]. This event is free of charge and open to anyone who is a fan of, intrigued by, or even a little curious about data visualization.

Special thanks to PeopleBrowsr for being our wonderful host for the evening. [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=PeopleBrowsr+474+Bryant+St+San+Francisco,+CA+94107&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&hl=en&hq=PeopleBrowsr&hnear=474+Bryant+St,+San+Francisco,+California+94107&z=16 Map/Directions].

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Data in sight Follow-up Forum: Does data visualization tell us what to think?

2011-06-10T16:23:02Z

Allison:

Creative Commons, The Consulate General of the Netherlands, and swissnex San Francisco invite you to an evening of exploring, celebrating, and questioning the rapidly growing role of data visualization in the 21st century.

Join us for our wrap-up event for data in sight: making the transparent visual, a hands-on data visualization competition. Come see the winning data visualization designs from the weekend and hear from a panel of experts as they discuss trends, risks, and the significance of data visualization. Specifically, we will explore the question of whether data visualization tells us what to think - if this is good, bad, and what the other implications of this might be.

Panelists:

'''Eva Ho, VP of Marketing and Operations, Factual''', a platform where anyone can share and mashup data. Factual was founded in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, co-founder of Applied Semantics. Gil has had a lifelong passion for organizing and structuring information, and building smart tools which can make better sense of data. To that end, he set out to develop an open data platform and community in an effort to maximize data accuracy, transparency, and availability.

'''Sep Kamvar, Consulting assistant professor of Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University'''. His research focuses on social computing and information management, and he is particularly interested in personal and social models for search. From 2003 to 2007, Sep was the head of personalization at Google. Sep is the author of two books and over 40 technical publications and patents in the fields of search and social computing. His artwork has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Musem in London, and the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens.

'''Joris Maltha, Founder, Catalogtree''', a multidisciplinary design studio. The studio works continuously on commissioned and self initiated design projects. The studio's guiding design tactic is FORM = BEHAVIOUR. Typography, generative graphic design and the visualisation of quantitative data are daily routines. Other recent endeavours include: D.I.Y. structured-light 3D-scanning, Bristle bot development and the visualisation of financial tick-data.

Additional Panelists TBA

Doors open at 6:30, program begins at 7pm. Refreshments will be provided.

[http://datainsightforum.eventbrite.com/ RSVP here]. This event is free of charge and open to anyone who is a fan of, intrigued by, or even a little curious about data visualization.

Special thanks to PeopleBrowsr for being our wonderful host for the evening. [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=PeopleBrowsr+474+Bryant+St+San+Francisco,+CA+94107&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&hl=en&hq=PeopleBrowsr&hnear=474+Bryant+St,+San+Francisco,+California+94107&z=16 Map/Directions].

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Data in sight Follow-up Forum: Does data visualization tell us what to think?

2011-06-10T16:19:44Z

Allison:

Creative Commons, The Consulate General of the Netherlands, and swissnex San Francisco invite you to an evening of exploring, celebrating, and questioning the rapidly growing role of data visualization in the 21st century.

Join us for our wrap-up event for data in sight: making the transparent visual, a hands-on data visualization competition. Come see the winning data visualization designs from the weekend and hear from a panel of experts as they discuss trends, risks, and the significance of data visualization. Specifically, we will explore the question of whether data visualization tells us what to think - if this is good, bad, and what the other implications of this might be.

Panelists:

'''Eva Ho, VP of Marketing and Operations, Factual''', a platform where anyone can share and mashup data. Factual was founded in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, co-founder of Applied Semantics. Gil has had a lifelong passion for organizing and structuring information, and building smart tools which can make better sense of data. To that end, he set out to develop an open data platform and community in an effort to maximize data accuracy, transparency, and availability.

'''Sep Kamvar, Consulting assistant professor of Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University'''. His research focuses on social computing and information management, and he is particularly interested in personal and social models for search. From 2003 to 2007, Sep was the head of personalization at Google. Sep is the author of two books and over 40 technical publications and patents in the fields of search and social computing. He is on the technical advisory boards of several companies, including Aardvark and Etsy. His artwork has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Musem in London, and the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens.

'''Joris Maltha, Founder, Catalogtree''', a multidisciplinary design studio. The studio works continuously on commissioned and self initiated design projects. The studio's guiding design tactic is FORM = BEHAVIOUR. Typography, generative graphic design and the visualisation of quantitative data are daily routines. Other recent endeavours include: D.I.Y. structured-light 3D-scanning, Bristle bot development and the visualisation of financial tick-data.

Additional Panelists TBA

Doors open at 6:30, program begins at 7pm. Refreshments will be provided.

[http://datainsightforum.eventbrite.com/ RSVP here]. This event is free of charge and open to anyone who is a fan of, intrigued by, or even a little curious about data visualization.

Special thanks to PeopleBrowsr for being our wonderful host for the evening. [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=PeopleBrowsr+474+Bryant+St+San+Francisco,+CA+94107&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&hl=en&hq=PeopleBrowsr&hnear=474+Bryant+St,+San+Francisco,+California+94107&z=16 Map/Directions].

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Data in sight Follow-up Forum: Does data visualization tell us what to think?

2011-06-10T16:18:36Z

Allison:

Creative Commons, The Consulate General of the Netherlands, and swissnex San Francisco invite you to an evening of exploring, celebrating, and questioning the rapidly growing role of data visualization in the 21st century.

Join us for our wrap-up event for data in sight: making the transparent visual, a hands-on data visualization competition. Come see the winning data visualization designs from the weekend and hear from a panel of experts as they discuss trends, risks, and the significance of data visualization. Specifically, we will explore the question of whether data visualization tells us what to think - if this is good, bad, and what the other implications of this might be.

Panelists:

'''Eva Ho, VP of Marketing and Operations, Factual''', a platform where anyone can share and mashup data. Factual was founded in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, co-founder of Applied Semantics. Gil has had a lifelong passion for organizing and structuring information, and building smart tools which can make better sense of data. To that end, he set out to develop an open data platform and community in an effort to maximize data accuracy, transparency, and availability.

'''Sep Kamvar, Consulting assistant professor of Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University'''. His research focuses on social computing and information management, and he is particularly interested in personal and social models for search. From 2003 to 2007, Sep was the head of personalization at Google. Sep is the author of two books and over 40 technical publications and patents in the fields of search and social computing. He is on the technical advisory boards of several companies, including Aardvark and Etsy. His artwork has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Musem in London, and the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens.

'''Joris Maltha, Founder, Catalogtree''', a multidisciplinary design studio. The studio works continuously on commissioned and self initiated design projects. The studio's guiding design tactic is FORM = BEHAVIOUR. Typography, generative graphic design and the visualisation of quantitative data are daily routines. Other recent endeavours include: D.I.Y. structured-light 3D-scanning, Bristle bot development and the visualisation of financial tick-data.

Additional Panelists TBA

Doors open at 6:30, program begins at 7pm. Refreshments will be provided.

This event is free of charge and open to anyone who is a fan of, intrigued by, or even a little curious about data visualization.

Special thanks to PeopleBrowsr for being our wonderful host for the evening. [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=PeopleBrowsr+474+Bryant+St+San+Francisco,+CA+94107&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&hl=en&hq=PeopleBrowsr&hnear=474+Bryant+St,+San+Francisco,+California+94107&z=16 Map/Directions].

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2011-06-10T16:17:48Z

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Creative Commons, The Consulate General of the Netherlands, and swissnex San Francisco invite you to an evening of exploring, celebrating, and questioning the rapidly growing role of data visualization in the 21st century.

Join us for our wrap-up event for data in sight: making the transparent visual, a hands-on data visualization competition. Come see the winning data visualization designs from the weekend and hear from a panel of experts as they discuss trends, risks, and the significance of data visualization. Specifically, we will explore the question of whether data visualization tells us what to think - if this is good, bad, and what the other implications of this might be.

Panelists:

Eva Ho, VP of Marketing and Operations, Factual, a platform where anyone can share and mashup data. Factual was founded in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, co-founder of Applied Semantics. Gil has had a lifelong passion for organizing and structuring information, and building smart tools which can make better sense of data. To that end, he set out to develop an open data platform and community in an effort to maximize data accuracy, transparency, and availability.

Sep Kamvar, Consulting assistant professor of Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University. His research focuses on social computing and information management, and he is particularly interested in personal and social models for search. From 2003 to 2007, Sep was the head of personalization at Google. Sep is the author of two books and over 40 technical publications and patents in the fields of search and social computing. He is on the technical advisory boards of several companies, including Aardvark and Etsy. His artwork has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Musem in London, and the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens.

Joris Maltha, Founder, Catalogtree, a multidisciplinary design studio. The studio works continuously on commissioned and self initiated design projects. The studio's guiding design tactic is FORM = BEHAVIOUR. Typography, generative graphic design and the visualisation of quantitative data are daily routines. Other recent endeavours include: D.I.Y. structured-light 3D-scanning, Bristle bot development and the visualisation of financial tick-data.

Additional Panelists TBA

Doors open at 6:30, program begins at 7pm. Refreshments will be provided.

This event is free of charge and open to anyone who is a fan of, intrigued by, or even a little curious about data visualization.

Special thanks to PeopleBrowsr for being our wonderful host for the evening. [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=PeopleBrowsr+474+Bryant+St+San+Francisco,+CA+94107&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&hl=en&hq=PeopleBrowsr&hnear=474+Bryant+St,+San+Francisco,+California+94107&z=16 Map/Directions].

Data in Sight: Making the Transparent Visual

2011-06-08T17:20:55Z

Allison:

[[Image:Datainsight_square.png|right]]

Join us for '''data in sight: making the transparent visual''', a hands-on data visualization competition held June 25th and 26th, 2011, at the Adobe Systems, Inc. offices in San Francisco’s SoMa District. Open to coders, programmers, developers, designers, scientists, members of the media—anyone who believes that data is divine and has ideas for bringing it to life.

On Saturday, hear from data visualization experts from the Netherlands and Switzerland—Dutch graphic designers from Catalogtree and LUST and Switzerland-based interaction designers from Interactive Things—then roll up your sleeves and get hacking on a data visualization of your own and compete for prizes.

Need more information? Take a look at the [http://datainsightsf.com/schedule-2/ schedule].

Ready to sign up? [http://datainsightsf.com/attend/ Register here]. Sign up by June 19 and pay only $22. After June 19, registration costs $33. Students can sign up for only $10. If you are a student, contact us at datainsight2011[at]gmail.com to secure your discounted ticket. A limited quantity of student registrations will be available.

Data deets: Data sets will be provided. For more details see the data page. Do you have an interesting data set of your own you’d like to mash up with the data we provide? Want people to join your team? You can use the [http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=3923305 LinkedIn group] to connect with other attendees and pitch your own data.

Follow-up forum, Tuesday, June 28: Winning data visualizations will be presented and a panel of experts will discuss trends, risks, and the significance of data visualization. We are excited to have PeopleBrowsr as our host for the evening. More details to come.
data in sight is organized by swissnex, the Netherland Consulate General in San Francisco, and Creative Commons.

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Data in Sight: Making the Transparent Visual

2011-06-08T17:18:24Z

Allison:

[[Image:Datainsight_square.png|right]]

Join us for '''data in sight: making the transparent visual''', a hands-on data visualization competition held June 25th and 26th, 2011, at the Adobe Systems, Inc. offices in San Francisco’s SoMa District. Open to coders, programmers, developers, designers, scientists, members of the media—anyone who believes that data is divine and has ideas for bringing it to life.

On Saturday, hear from data visualization experts from the Netherlands and Switzerland—Dutch graphic designers from Catalogtree and LUST and Switzerland-based interaction designers from Interactive Things—then roll up your sleeves and get hacking on a data visualization of your own and compete for prizes.

Need more information? Take a look at the [http://datainsightsf.com/schedule-2/ schedule].

Ready to sign up? [http://datainsightsf.com/attend/ Register here].

Data deets: Data sets will be provided. For more details see the data page. Do you have an interesting data set of your own you’d like to mash up with the data we provide? Want people to join your team? You can use the [http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=3923305 LinkedIn group] to connect with other attendees and pitch your own data.

Follow-up forum, Tuesday, June 28: Winning data visualizations will be presented and a panel of experts will discuss trends, risks, and the significance of data visualization. We are excited to have PeopleBrowsr as our host for the evening. More details to come.
data in sight is organized by swissnex, the Netherland Consulate General in San Francisco, and Creative Commons.

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Data in Sight: Making the Transparent Visual

2011-06-08T17:18:02Z

Allison:

[[Image:Datainsight_square.png|right]]

'''About the event'''

Join us for '''data in sight: making the transparent visual''', a hands-on data visualization competition held June 25th and 26th, 2011, at the Adobe Systems, Inc. offices in San Francisco’s SoMa District. Open to coders, programmers, developers, designers, scientists, members of the media—anyone who believes that data is divine and has ideas for bringing it to life.

On Saturday, hear from data visualization experts from the Netherlands and Switzerland—Dutch graphic designers from Catalogtree and LUST and Switzerland-based interaction designers from Interactive Things—then roll up your sleeves and get hacking on a data visualization of your own and compete for prizes.

Need more information? Take a look at the [http://datainsightsf.com/schedule-2/ schedule].

Ready to sign up? [http://datainsightsf.com/attend/ Register here].

Data deets: Data sets will be provided. For more details see the data page. Do you have an interesting data set of your own you’d like to mash up with the data we provide? Want people to join your team? You can use the [http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=3923305 LinkedIn group] to connect with other attendees and pitch your own data.

Follow-up forum, Tuesday, June 28: Winning data visualizations will be presented and a panel of experts will discuss trends, risks, and the significance of data visualization. We are excited to have PeopleBrowsr as our host for the evening. More details to come.
data in sight is organized by swissnex, the Netherland Consulate General in San Francisco, and Creative Commons.

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File:Datainsight square.png

2011-06-08T17:16:55Z

Allison:

Data in Sight: Making the Transparent Visual

2011-06-08T17:13:17Z

Allison:

'''About the event'''

Join us for '''data in sight: making the transparent visual''', a hands-on data visualization competition held June 25th and 26th, 2011, at the Adobe Systems, Inc. offices in San Francisco’s SoMa District. Open to coders, programmers, developers, designers, scientists, members of the media—anyone who believes that data is divine and has ideas for bringing it to life.

On Saturday, hear from data visualization experts from the Netherlands and Switzerland—Dutch graphic designers from Catalogtree and LUST and Switzerland-based interaction designers from Interactive Things—then roll up your sleeves and get hacking on a data visualization of your own and compete for prizes.

Need more information? Take a look at the [http://datainsightsf.com/schedule-2/ schedule].

Ready to sign up? [http://datainsightsf.com/attend/ Register here].

Data deets: Data sets will be provided. For more details see the data page. Do you have an interesting data set of your own you’d like to mash up with the data we provide? Want people to join your team? You can use the [http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=3923305 LinkedIn group] to connect with other attendees and pitch your own data.

Follow-up forum, Tuesday, June 28: Winning data visualizations will be presented and a panel of experts will discuss trends, risks, and the significance of data visualization. We are excited to have PeopleBrowsr as our host for the evening. More details to come.
data in sight is organized by swissnex, the Netherland Consulate General in San Francisco, and Creative Commons.

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Data in Sight: Making the Transparent Visual

2011-06-08T17:01:38Z

Allison:

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about the event

Join us for data in sight: making the transparent visual, a hands-on data visualization competition held June 25th and 26th, 2011, at the Adobe Systems, Inc. offices in San Francisco’s SoMa District. Open to coders, programmers, developers, designers, scientists, members of the media—anyone who believes that data is divine and has ideas for bringing it to life.

On Saturday, hear from data visualization experts from the Netherlands and Switzerland—Dutch graphic designers from Catalogtree and LUST and Switzerland-based interaction designers from Interactive Things—then roll up your sleeves and get hacking on a data visualization of your own and compete for prizes.

Need more information? Take a look at the [http://datainsightsf.com/schedule-2/ schedule].

Ready to sign up? [http://datainsightsf.com/attend/ Register here].

Data deets: Data sets will be provided. For more details see the data page. Do you have an interesting data set of your own you’d like to mash up with the data we provide? Want people to join your team? You can use the [http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=3923305 LinkedIn group] to connect with other attendees and pitch your own data.

Follow-up forum, Tuesday, June 28: Winning data visualizations will be presented and a panel of experts will discuss trends, risks, and the significance of data visualization. We are excited to have PeopleBrowsr as our host for the evening. More details to come.
data in sight is organized by swissnex, the Netherland Consulate General in San Francisco, and Creative Commons.

San Francisco Salon

2011-06-07T16:09:11Z

Allison: /* Date & Time */

[[Image:Salon-sf.png|right]]

'''*** This event will be livestreamed via [http://www.ustream.tv/channel/creative-commons-salon Ustream] ***'''

In the 21st century we are more connected to each other and to information than ever before. As curious and social creatures living in a digital age, we tend to share and distribute the information we receive at remarkable speed and with remarkable outcomes. The end result? Every single one of us, on any given day, is both a learner and an educator. Some of us are more one than the other; some of us are both at the same time. But every single one of us stands to benefit from a revitalized look at what education means in the 21st century.

Join us Monday, June 13 at pariSoma Innovation Loft for a panel discussion exploring the ways we can facilitate this desire to improve learning. How do we maximize the impact of education in a digital age, taking care not to leave anyone behind? How can we set up environments where information is free flowing? How can we shift business as usual so that it is the learners and educators themselves who shape the learning and educating?

Come hear how Creative Commons, Open Educational Resources (OER), technology, and openness in general have been crucial in reshaping the way we teach and learn (online, offline, in the classroom and out), and join the discussion of how we can continue to make it so.

Panelists include:

'''Cathy Casserly''' (moderator), CEO, Creative Commons. Cathy’s career is dedicated to openness, and particularly to leveraging possibilities at the boundaries of formal and informal learning to equalize educational opportunity. She has been a long-time advocate of open educational resources (OER). Before CC, Cathy worked at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, where she spearheaded work in the areas of transparency and technology as a Senior Partner and the Vice President of Innovation and Open Networks.

'''David Bill''', Director of Educational Technology at the Urban School of San Francisco. As a teacher and director of academic technology, David has used Creative Commons materials in and out of the classroom. David is an educator consumed by the idea of improving our educational landscape. To him, learning is not something forced but rather an exploration that can and should be driven by being an inquisitive and passionate problem solver. In order to create such a learning environment, David focuses his energy on the intersection of Design Thinking, open educational resources, learning spaces, instructional models, and the power of technology in education..

'''Pete Forsyth''', Owner and Lead Consultant at Wiki Strategies. Pete is an Internet and communications consultant with deep expertise in online peer production communities, specifically the production of open educational resources using wiki-based web sites like Wikipedia. Pete's most recent engagement has been as the Wikimedia Foundation’s first Public Outreach Officer, working with Wikimedia’s vast network of volunteers and supporters to improve the experience of new project contributors. He was a key architect of the Wikipedia Public Policy Initiative, an innovative pilot project to support professors in the use of Wikipedia editing as a teaching tool.

'''Felipe Ortega''', Researcher and Project Manager at Libresoft, research group at University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain. Felipe is one of the main organizers of WikiSym, the premier conference on open collaboration and related technologies for researchers, industry, entrepreneurs and practitioners worldwide, to be held in the Bay Area in October. Felipe develops novel methodologies to analyze open collaborative communities (like FLOSS development projects, Wikipedia and social networks). He has done extensive research with the Wikipedia project and its community of authors. He actively participates in
research, promotion and education/training on libre software, and he is a
strong supporter of open educational resources, open access in scientific
publishing and open data in science.

'''Amy Roth''', Research Analyst at Wikimedia Foundation's Public Policy Initiative (PPI). The Public Policy Initiative is a pilot project whereby Professors at public policy programs in universities in the U.S. engage their students to improve articles on the English-language Wikipedia as part of the curriculum. Amy graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in Biology with a minor in Biotechnology. She went on to get a masters degree in public policy, during which time she analyzed the largest public health surveys in the nation and worked as a health inspector. Her thesis is a quantitative analysis of qualitative foster youth data; it identifies factors that correlate to an increased likelihood of incarceration for foster youth. Amy's background gives her a lot of experience in both quantitative and qualitative research and she enjoys challenging projects that require creative solutions and specific analysis. As Research Analyst for the PPI, she is tasked with program evaluation and assessing article quality and content improvement in Wikipedia.

No RSVP necessary, but you can let us know you're coming on [http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=104137469677954 Facebook].

==== Date & Time ====

* Monday, June 13, 2011
* 7:00- 9:00 PM PST
* Refreshments provided
* Free but $5-15 donation suggested
* Plenty of street parking

'''pariSoma''' 
'''169 11th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103''' 
[http://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&q=parisoma&fb=1&gl=us&hq=parisoma&hnear=Oakland,+CA&cid=0,0,9664195992360879058&z=16&iwloc=A Google Map/Directions]

<h2>[[/Archive|See past SF Salons]]</h2>

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|Location=San Francisco, CA, USA
|EventType=Salon
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[[Category:Salon]] [[Category:Event]]

San Francisco Salon

2011-06-03T20:24:16Z

Allison:

[[Image:Salon-sf.png|right]]

'''*** This event will be livestreamed via [http://www.ustream.tv/channel/creative-commons-salon Ustream] ***'''

In the 21st century we are more connected to each other and to information than ever before. As curious and social creatures living in a digital age, we tend to share and distribute the information we receive at remarkable speed and with remarkable outcomes. The end result? Every single one of us, on any given day, is both a learner and an educator. Some of us are more one than the other; some of us are both at the same time. But every single one of us stands to benefit from a revitalized look at what education means in the 21st century.

Join us Monday, June 13 at pariSoma Innovation Loft for a panel discussion exploring the ways we can facilitate this desire to improve learning. How do we maximize the impact of education in a digital age, taking care not to leave anyone behind? How can we set up environments where information is free flowing? How can we shift business as usual so that it is the learners and educators themselves who shape the learning and educating?

Come hear how Creative Commons, Open Educational Resources (OER), technology, and openness in general have been crucial in reshaping the way we teach and learn (online, offline, in the classroom and out), and join the discussion of how we can continue to make it so.

Panelists include:

'''Cathy Casserly''' (moderator), CEO, Creative Commons. Cathy’s career is dedicated to openness, and particularly to leveraging possibilities at the boundaries of formal and informal learning to equalize educational opportunity. She has been a long-time advocate of open educational resources (OER). Before CC, Cathy worked at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, where she spearheaded work in the areas of transparency and technology as a Senior Partner and the Vice President of Innovation and Open Networks.

'''David Bill''', Director of Educational Technology at the Urban School of San Francisco. As a teacher and director of academic technology, David has used Creative Commons materials in and out of the classroom. David is an educator consumed by the idea of improving our educational landscape. To him, learning is not something forced but rather an exploration that can and should be driven by being an inquisitive and passionate problem solver. In order to create such a learning environment, David focuses his energy on the intersection of Design Thinking, open educational resources, learning spaces, instructional models, and the power of technology in education..

'''Pete Forsyth''', Owner and Lead Consultant at Wiki Strategies. Pete is an Internet and communications consultant with deep expertise in online peer production communities, specifically the production of open educational resources using wiki-based web sites like Wikipedia. Pete's most recent engagement has been as the Wikimedia Foundation’s first Public Outreach Officer, working with Wikimedia’s vast network of volunteers and supporters to improve the experience of new project contributors. He was a key architect of the Wikipedia Public Policy Initiative, an innovative pilot project to support professors in the use of Wikipedia editing as a teaching tool.

'''Felipe Ortega''', Researcher and Project Manager at Libresoft, research group at University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain. Felipe is one of the main organizers of WikiSym, the premier conference on open collaboration and related technologies for researchers, industry, entrepreneurs and practitioners worldwide, to be held in the Bay Area in October. Felipe develops novel methodologies to analyze open collaborative communities (like FLOSS development projects, Wikipedia and social networks). He has done extensive research with the Wikipedia project and its community of authors. He actively participates in
research, promotion and education/training on libre software, and he is a
strong supporter of open educational resources, open access in scientific
publishing and open data in science.

'''Amy Roth''', Research Analyst at Wikimedia Foundation's Public Policy Initiative (PPI). The Public Policy Initiative is a pilot project whereby Professors at public policy programs in universities in the U.S. engage their students to improve articles on the English-language Wikipedia as part of the curriculum. Amy graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in Biology with a minor in Biotechnology. She went on to get a masters degree in public policy, during which time she analyzed the largest public health surveys in the nation and worked as a health inspector. Her thesis is a quantitative analysis of qualitative foster youth data; it identifies factors that correlate to an increased likelihood of incarceration for foster youth. Amy's background gives her a lot of experience in both quantitative and qualitative research and she enjoys challenging projects that require creative solutions and specific analysis. As Research Analyst for the PPI, she is tasked with program evaluation and assessing article quality and content improvement in Wikipedia.

No RSVP necessary, but you can let us know you're coming on [http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=104137469677954 Facebook].

==== Date & Time ====

* Monday, June 13, 2011
* 7:00- 9:00 PM PST
* Refreshments provided
* Free but $10-15 donation requested
* Plenty of street parking

'''pariSoma''' 
'''169 11th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103''' 
[http://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&q=parisoma&fb=1&gl=us&hq=parisoma&hnear=Oakland,+CA&cid=0,0,9664195992360879058&z=16&iwloc=A Google Map/Directions]

<h2>[[/Archive|See past SF Salons]]</h2>

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|date=2011/06/13
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|Location=San Francisco, CA, USA
|EventType=Salon
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[[Category:Salon]] [[Category:Event]]

San Francisco Salon

2011-05-26T20:24:37Z

Allison:

[[Image:Salon-sf.png|right]]

'''*** This event will be livestreamed via [http://www.ustream.tv/channel/creative-commons-salon Ustream] ***'''

In the 21st century we are more connected to each other and to information than ever before. As curious and social creatures living in a digital age, we tend to share and distribute the information we receive at remarkable speed and with remarkable outcomes. The end result? Every single one of us, on any given day, is both a learner and an educator. Some of us are more one than the other; some of us are both at the same time. But every single one of us stands to benefit from a revitalized look at what education means in the 21st century.

Join us Monday, June 13 at pariSoma Innovation Loft for a panel discussion exploring the ways we can facilitate this desire to improve learning. How do we maximize the impact of education in a digital age, taking care not to leave anyone behind? How can we set up environments where information is free flowing? How can we shift business as usual so that it is the learners and educators themselves who shape the learning and educating?

Come hear how Creative Commons, Open Educational Resources (OER), technology, and openness in general have been crucial in reshaping the way we teach and learn (online, offline, in the classroom and out), and join the discussion of how we can continue to make it so.

Panelists include:

'''Cathy Casserly''' (moderator), CEO, Creative Commons. Cathy’s career is dedicated to openness, and particularly to leveraging possibilities at the boundaries of formal and informal learning to equalize educational opportunity. She has been a long-time advocate of open educational resources (OER). Before CC, Cathy worked at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, where she spearheaded work in the areas of transparency and technology as a Senior Partner and the Vice President of Innovation and Open Networks.

'''David Bill''', Educational Design Strategist at Be Playful. As a teacher and director of academic technology, David has used Creative Commons materials in and out of the classroom. David is an educator consumed by the idea of improving our educational landscape. To him, learning is not something forced but rather an exploration that can and should be driven by being an inquisitive and passionate problem solver. In order to create such a learning environment, David focuses his energy on the intersection of Design Thinking, open educational resources, learning spaces, instructional models, and the power of technology in education..

'''Pete Forsyth''', Owner and Lead Consultant at Wiki Strategies. Pete is an Internet and communications consultant with deep expertise in online peer production communities, specifically the production of open educational resources using wiki-based web sites like Wikipedia. Pete's most recent engagement has been as the Wikimedia Foundation’s first Public Outreach Officer, working with Wikimedia’s vast network of volunteers and supporters to improve the experience of new project contributors. He was a key architect of the Wikipedia Public Policy Initiative, an innovative pilot project to support professors in the use of Wikipedia editing as a teaching tool.

'''Felipe Ortega''', Researcher and Project Manager at Libresoft, research group at University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain. Felipe is one of the main organizers of WikiSym, the premier conference on open collaboration and related technologies for researchers, industry, entrepreneurs and practitioners worldwide, to be held in the Bay Area in October. Felipe develops novel methodologies to analyze open collaborative communities (like FLOSS development projects, Wikipedia and social networks). He has done extensive research with the Wikipedia project and its community of authors. He actively participates in
research, promotion and education/training on libre software, and he is a
strong supporter of open educational resources, open access in scientific
publishing and open data in science.

'''Amy Roth''', Research Analyst at Wikimedia Foundation's Public Policy Initiative (PPI). The Public Policy Initiative is a pilot project whereby Professors at public policy programs in universities in the U.S. engage their students to improve articles on the English-language Wikipedia as part of the curriculum. Amy graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in Biology with a minor in Biotechnology. She went on to get a masters degree in public policy, during which time she analyzed the largest public health surveys in the nation and worked as a health inspector. Her thesis is a quantitative analysis of qualitative foster youth data; it identifies factors that correlate to an increased likelihood of incarceration for foster youth. Amy's background gives her a lot of experience in both quantitative and qualitative research and she enjoys challenging projects that require creative solutions and specific analysis. As Research Analyst for the PPI, she is tasked with program evaluation and assessing article quality and content improvement in Wikipedia.

No RSVP necessary, but you can let us know you're coming on [http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=104137469677954 Facebook].

==== Date & Time ====

* Monday, June 13, 2011
* 7:00- 9:00 PM PST
* Refreshments provided
* Free but $10-15 donation requested
* Plenty of street parking

'''pariSoma''' 
'''169 11th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103''' 
[http://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&q=parisoma&fb=1&gl=us&hq=parisoma&hnear=Oakland,+CA&cid=0,0,9664195992360879058&z=16&iwloc=A Google Map/Directions]

<h2>[[/Archive|See past SF Salons]]</h2>

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[[Category:Salon]] [[Category:Event]]

San Francisco Salon

2011-05-26T19:13:01Z

Allison:

[[Image:Salon-sf.png|right]]

In the 21st century we are more connected to each other and to information than ever before. As curious and social creatures living in a digital age, we tend to share and distribute the information we receive at remarkable speed and with remarkable outcomes. The end result? Every single one of us, on any given day, is both a learner and an educator. Some of us are more one than the other; some of us are both at the same time. But every single one of us stands to benefit from a revitalized look at what education means in the 21st century.

Join us Monday, June 13 at pariSoma Innovation Loft for a panel discussion exploring the ways we can facilitate this desire to improve learning. How do we maximize the impact of education in a digital age, taking care not to leave anyone behind? How can we set up environments where information is free flowing? How can we shift business as usual so that it is the learners and educators themselves who shape the learning and educating?

Come hear how Creative Commons, Open Educational Resources (OER), technology, and openness in general have been crucial in reshaping the way we teach and learn (online, offline, in the classroom and out), and join the discussion of how we can continue to make it so.

Panelists include:

'''Cathy Casserly''' (moderator), CEO, Creative Commons. Cathy’s career is dedicated to openness, and particularly to leveraging possibilities at the boundaries of formal and informal learning to equalize educational opportunity. She has been a long-time advocate of open educational resources (OER). Before CC, Cathy worked at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, where she spearheaded work in the areas of transparency and technology as a Senior Partner and the Vice President of Innovation and Open Networks.

'''David Bill''', Educational Design Strategist at Be Playful. As a teacher and director of academic technology, David has used Creative Commons materials in and out of the classroom. David is an educator consumed by the idea of improving our educational landscape. To him, learning is not something forced but rather an exploration that can and should be driven by being an inquisitive and passionate problem solver. In order to create such a learning environment, David focuses his energy on the intersection of Design Thinking, open educational resources, learning spaces, instructional models, and the power of technology in education..

'''Pete Forsyth''', Owner and Lead Consultant at Wiki Strategies. Pete is an Internet and communications consultant with deep expertise in online peer production communities, specifically the production of open educational resources using wiki-based web sites like Wikipedia. Pete's most recent engagement has been as the Wikimedia Foundation’s first Public Outreach Officer, working with Wikimedia’s vast network of volunteers and supporters to improve the experience of new project contributors. He was a key architect of the Wikipedia Public Policy Initiative, an innovative pilot project to support professors in the use of Wikipedia editing as a teaching tool.

'''Felipe Ortega''', Researcher and Project Manager at Libresoft, research group at University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain. Felipe is one of the main organizers of WikiSym, the premier conference on open collaboration and related technologies for researchers, industry, entrepreneurs and practitioners worldwide, to be held in the Bay Area in October. Felipe develops novel methodologies to analyze open collaborative communities (like FLOSS development projects, Wikipedia and social networks). He has done extensive research with the Wikipedia project and its community of authors. He actively participates in
research, promotion and education/training on libre software, and he is a
strong supporter of open educational resources, open access in scientific
publishing and open data in science.

'''Amy Roth''', Research Analyst at Wikimedia Foundation's Public Policy Initiative (PPI). The Public Policy Initiative is a pilot project whereby Professors at public policy programs in universities in the U.S. engage their students to improve articles on the English-language Wikipedia as part of the curriculum. Amy graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in Biology with a minor in Biotechnology. She went on to get a masters degree in public policy, during which time she analyzed the largest public health surveys in the nation and worked as a health inspector. Her thesis is a quantitative analysis of qualitative foster youth data; it identifies factors that correlate to an increased likelihood of incarceration for foster youth. Amy's background gives her a lot of experience in both quantitative and qualitative research and she enjoys challenging projects that require creative solutions and specific analysis. As Research Analyst for the PPI, she is tasked with program evaluation and assessing article quality and content improvement in Wikipedia.

No RSVP necessary, but you can let us know you're coming on [http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=104137469677954 Facebook].

==== Date & Time ====

* Monday, June 13, 2011
* 7:00- 9:00 PM PST
* Refreshments provided
* Free but $10-15 donation requested
* Plenty of street parking

'''pariSoma''' 
'''169 11th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103''' 
[http://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&q=parisoma&fb=1&gl=us&hq=parisoma&hnear=Oakland,+CA&cid=0,0,9664195992360879058&z=16&iwloc=A Google Map/Directions]

<h2>[[/Archive|See past SF Salons]]</h2>

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|Location=San Francisco, CA, USA
|EventType=Salon
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[[Category:Salon]] [[Category:Event]]

San Francisco Salon

2011-05-26T19:07:06Z

Allison:

[[Image:Salon-sf.png|right]]

In the 21st century we are more connected to each other and to information than ever before. As curious and social creatures living in a digital age, we tend to share and distribute the information we receive at remarkable speed and with remarkable outcomes. The end result? Every single one of us, on any given day, is both a learner and an educator. Some of us are more one than the other; some of us are both at the same time. But every single one of us stands to benefit from a revitalized look at what education means in the 21st century.

Join us Monday, June 13 at pariSoma Innovation Loft for a panel discussion exploring the ways we can facilitate this desire to improve learning. How do we maximize the impact of education in a digital age, taking care not to leave anyone behind? How can we set up environments where information is free flowing? How can we shift business as usual so that it is the learners and educators themselves who shape the learning and educating?

Come hear how Creative Commons, Open Educational Resources (OER), technology, and openness in general have been crucial in reshaping the way we teach and learn (online, offline, in the classroom and out), and join the discussion of how we can continue to make it so.

Panelists include:

'''Cathy Casserly''' (moderator), CEO, Creative Commons. Cathy’s career is dedicated to openness, and particularly to leveraging possibilities at the boundaries of formal and informal learning to equalize educational opportunity. She has been a long-time advocate of open educational resources (OER). Before CC, Cathy worked at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, where she spearheaded work in the areas of transparency and technology as a Senior Partner and the Vice President of Innovation and Open Networks.

'''David Bill''', Educational Design Strategist at Be Playful. As a teacher and director of academy technology, David has used Creative Commons materials in and out of the classroom. David is an educator consumed by the idea of improving our educational landscape. To him, learning is not something forced but rather an exploration that can and should be driven by being an inquisitive and passionate problem solver. In order to create such a learning environment, David focuses his energy on the intersection of Design Thinking, open educational resources, learning spaces, instructional models, and the power of technology in education..

'''Pete Forsyth''', Owner and Lead Consultant at Wiki Strategies. Pete is an Internet and communications consultant with deep expertise in online peer production communities, specifically the production of open educational resources using wiki-based web sites like Wikipedia. Pete's most recent engagement has been as the Wikimedia Foundation’s first Public Outreach Officer, working with Wikimedia’s vast network of volunteers and supporters to improve the experience of new project contributors. He was a key architect of the Wikipedia Public Policy Initiative, an innovative pilot project to support professors in the use of Wikipedia editing as a teaching tool.

'''Felipe Ortega''', Researcher and Project Manager at Libresoft, research group at University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain. Felipe is one of the main organizers of WikiSym, the premier conference on open collaboration and related technologies for researchers, industry, entrepreneurs and practitioners worldwide, to be held in the Bay Area in October. Felipe develops novel methodologies to analyze open collaborative communities (like FLOSS development projects, Wikipedia and social networks). He has done extensive research with the Wikipedia project and its community of authors. He actively participates in
research, promotion and education/training on libre software, and he is a
strong supporter of open educational resources, open access in scientific
publishing and open data in science.

'''Amy Roth''', Research Analyst at Wikimedia Foundation's Public Policy Initiative (PPI). The Public Policy Initiative is a pilot project whereby Professors at public policy programs in universities in the U.S. engage their students to improve articles on the English-language Wikipedia as part of the curriculum. Amy graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in Biology with a minor in Biotechnology. She went on to get a masters degree in public policy, during which time she analyzed the largest public health surveys in the nation and worked as a health inspector. Her thesis is a quantitative analysis of qualitative foster youth data; it identifies factors that correlate to an increased likelihood of incarceration for foster youth. Amy's background gives her a lot of experience in both quantitative and qualitative research and she enjoys challenging projects that require creative solutions and specific analysis. As Research Analyst for the PPI, she is tasked with program evaluation and assessing article quality and content improvement in Wikipedia.

No RSVP necessary, but you can let us know you're coming on [http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=104137469677954 Facebook].

==== Date & Time ====

* Monday, June 13, 2011
* 7:00- 9:00 PM PST
* Refreshments provided
* Free but $10-15 donation requested
* Plenty of street parking

'''pariSoma''' 
'''169 11th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103''' 
[http://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&q=parisoma&fb=1&gl=us&hq=parisoma&hnear=Oakland,+CA&cid=0,0,9664195992360879058&z=16&iwloc=A Google Map/Directions]

<h2>[[/Archive|See past SF Salons]]</h2>

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|date=2011/06/13
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|Location=San Francisco, CA, USA
|EventType=Salon
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[[Category:Salon]] [[Category:Event]]

San Francisco Salon

2011-05-26T19:06:46Z

Allison:

[[Image:Salon-sf.png|right]]

In the 21st century we are more connected to each other and to information than ever before. As curious and social creatures living in a digital age, we tend to share and distribute the information we receive at remarkable speed and with remarkable outcomes. The end result? Every single one of us, on any given day, is both a learner and an educator. Some of us are more one than the other; some of us are both at the same time. But every single one of us stands to benefit from a revitalized look at what education means in the 21st century.

Join us Monday, June 13 at pariSoma Innovation Loft for a panel discussion exploring the ways we can facilitate this desire to improve learning. How do we maximize the impact of education in a digital age, taking care not to leave anyone behind? How can we set up environments where information is free flowing? How can we shift business as usual so that it is the learners and educators themselves who shape the learning and educating?

Come hear how Creative Commons, Open Educational Resources (OER), technology, and openness in general have been crucial in reshaping the way we teach and learn (online, offline, in the classroom and out), and join the discussion of how we can continue to make it so.

Panelists include:

'''Cathy Casserly''' (moderator), CEO, Creative Commons. Cathy’s career is dedicated to openness, and particularly to leveraging possibilities at the boundaries of formal and informal learning to equalize educational opportunity. She has been a long-time advocate of open educational resources (OER). Before CC, Cathy worked at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, where she spearheaded work in the areas of transparency and technology as a Senior Partner and the Vice President of Innovation and Open Networks.

'''David Bill''', Educational Design Strategist at Be Playfil. As a teacher and director of academy technology, David has used Creative Commons materials in and out of the classroom. David is an educator consumed by the idea of improving our educational landscape. To him, learning is not something forced but rather an exploration that can and should be driven by being an inquisitive and passionate problem solver. In order to create such a learning environment, David focuses his energy on the intersection of Design Thinking, open educational resources, learning spaces, instructional models, and the power of technology in education..

'''Pete Forsyth''', Owner and Lead Consultant at Wiki Strategies. Pete is an Internet and communications consultant with deep expertise in online peer production communities, specifically the production of open educational resources using wiki-based web sites like Wikipedia. Pete's most recent engagement has been as the Wikimedia Foundation’s first Public Outreach Officer, working with Wikimedia’s vast network of volunteers and supporters to improve the experience of new project contributors. He was a key architect of the Wikipedia Public Policy Initiative, an innovative pilot project to support professors in the use of Wikipedia editing as a teaching tool.

'''Felipe Ortega''', Researcher and Project Manager at Libresoft, research group at University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain. Felipe is one of the main organizers of WikiSym, the premier conference on open collaboration and related technologies for researchers, industry, entrepreneurs and practitioners worldwide, to be held in the Bay Area in October. Felipe develops novel methodologies to analyze open collaborative communities (like FLOSS development projects, Wikipedia and social networks). He has done extensive research with the Wikipedia project and its community of authors. He actively participates in
research, promotion and education/training on libre software, and he is a
strong supporter of open educational resources, open access in scientific
publishing and open data in science.

'''Amy Roth''', Research Analyst at Wikimedia Foundation's Public Policy Initiative (PPI). The Public Policy Initiative is a pilot project whereby Professors at public policy programs in universities in the U.S. engage their students to improve articles on the English-language Wikipedia as part of the curriculum. Amy graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in Biology with a minor in Biotechnology. She went on to get a masters degree in public policy, during which time she analyzed the largest public health surveys in the nation and worked as a health inspector. Her thesis is a quantitative analysis of qualitative foster youth data; it identifies factors that correlate to an increased likelihood of incarceration for foster youth. Amy's background gives her a lot of experience in both quantitative and qualitative research and she enjoys challenging projects that require creative solutions and specific analysis. As Research Analyst for the PPI, she is tasked with program evaluation and assessing article quality and content improvement in Wikipedia.

No RSVP necessary, but you can let us know you're coming on [http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=104137469677954 Facebook].

==== Date & Time ====

* Monday, June 13, 2011
* 7:00- 9:00 PM PST
* Refreshments provided
* Free but $10-15 donation requested
* Plenty of street parking

'''pariSoma''' 
'''169 11th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103''' 
[http://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&q=parisoma&fb=1&gl=us&hq=parisoma&hnear=Oakland,+CA&cid=0,0,9664195992360879058&z=16&iwloc=A Google Map/Directions]

<h2>[[/Archive|See past SF Salons]]</h2>

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[[Category:Salon]] [[Category:Event]]