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‎Motivations

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 |Description=<p>Citizen Now is an open-source visioning project anchored in a group of Creative Commons-licensed statements — formally, the "Draft Guiding Statements for a Community Convening a Democracy Movement for the United States — that were consensus-developed, from August 2010 to January 2012, by the Principles and Purpose Working Group.</p>
-<p>The Working Group came together to support the development of the political organization known as the Coffee Party. But, over time, the Group saw its mission less and less exclusively in those terms --- and, by the time the Group concluded its work, it had become completely independent of the Coffee Party.</p>
+<p>The Working Group came together to support the development of the political organization known as the Coffee Party. But, over time, the Group saw its mission less and less exclusively in those terms — and, by the time the Group concluded its work, it had become completely independent of the Coffee Party.</p>
-<p>In January 2012, the Group provisioned the statements with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license, as well as with a dedicated wiki, and published the statements at [http://www.citizennow.org <b>CitizenNow.org</b>].</p>
+<p>In January 2012, the Group provisioned the statements with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, as well as with a dedicated wiki, and published the statements at [http://www.citizennow.org <b>CitizenNow.org</b>].</p>
 |Mainurl=http://www.citizennow.org/
 |Author=Principles and Purpose Working Group

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 |Description=<p>Citizen Now is an open-source visioning project anchored in a group of Creative Commons-licensed statements — formally, the "Draft Guiding Statements for a Community Convening a Democracy Movement for the United States — that were consensus-developed, from August 2010 to January 2012, by the Principles and Purpose Working Group.</p>
-<p>The Working Group came together to support the development of the political organization known as the Coffee Party. But, over time, the Group saw itself less and less exclusively in those terms --- and, by the time the Group concluded its work, it had become completely independent of the Coffee Party.</p>
+<p>The Working Group came together to support the development of the political organization known as the Coffee Party. But, over time, the Group saw its mission less and less exclusively in those terms --- and, by the time the Group concluded its work, it had become completely independent of the Coffee Party.</p>
 <p>In January 2012, the Group provisioned the statements with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license, as well as with a dedicated wiki, and published the statements at [http://www.citizennow.org <b>CitizenNow.org</b>].</p>

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 {{Case Study
-|Description=<p>Citizen Now is an open-source visioning project anchored in a group of Creative Commons-licensed statements --- formally, the "Draft Guiding Statements for a Community Convening a Democracy Movement for the United States --- that were consensus-developed, from August 2010 to January 2012, by the Principles and Purpose Working Group.</p>
+|Description=<p>Citizen Now is an open-source visioning project anchored in a group of Creative Commons-licensed statements — formally, the "Draft Guiding Statements for a Community Convening a Democracy Movement for the United States — that were consensus-developed, from August 2010 to January 2012, by the Principles and Purpose Working Group.</p>
 <p>The Working Group came together to support the development of the political organization known as the Coffee Party. But, over time, the Group saw itself less and less exclusively in those terms --- and, by the time the Group concluded its work, it had become completely independent of the Coffee Party.</p>

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 {{Case Study
-|Description=<p>Citizen Now is an open-source visioning project anchored in a group of CC-licensed statements --- formally, the "Draft Guiding Statements for a Community Convening a Democracy Movement for the United States --- that were consensus-developed, from August 2010 to January 2012, by the Principles and Purpose Working Group.</p>
+|Description=<p>Citizen Now is an open-source visioning project anchored in a group of Creative Commons-licensed statements --- formally, the "Draft Guiding Statements for a Community Convening a Democracy Movement for the United States --- that were consensus-developed, from August 2010 to January 2012, by the Principles and Purpose Working Group.</p>
 <p>The Working Group came together to support the development of the political organization known as the Coffee Party. But, over time, the Group saw itself less and less exclusively in those terms --- and, by the time the Group concluded its work, it had become completely independent of the Coffee Party.</p>

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 <p><br>So, in August 2010, some 25 Coffee Party members organized themselves as the Principles and Purpose Working Group. This Working Group aimed to do two things:</p>
-<blockquote><br><p><b>1</b></p>
+<br><blockquote><p><b>1</b></p>
 <p>Engage a large, national sample of Coffee Party members in a conversation about their visions for the Coffee Party. Use member comments and feedback to develop member-supported draft Statements of the Coffee Party’s Core Values, Purpose and strategic Goals. And present these Statements to the Board of the Coffee Party.</p>
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 <p>From the Overview, above:</p>
-<blockquote><p>Working Group members came to understand that it was in the truest spirit of the Statements to make clear that this vision was not the reserve of any single organization or group.</p>
+<br><blockquote><p>Working Group members came to understand that it was in the truest spirit of the Statements to make clear that this vision was not the reserve of any single organization or group.</p>
 <p><br>Rather, this was a public vision; and, because it was a public vision, the Statements themselves should be made open-source — should be offered to be accessed, developed, adapted and lived out by all who are involved in the larger project of healing the democracy.</p></blockquote>
-<p>It was of utmost importance to the Working Group that the Statements be preserved for the most generous possible access, use, adaptation and development by We-the-People-oriented individuals, communities, organizations and coalitions — but also that there be the greatest possible traceability of the origin and the "history of use" of the Statements, so as to facilitate community and movement building.</p>
+<p><br>It was of utmost importance to the Working Group that the Statements be preserved for the most generous possible access, use, adaptation and development by We-the-People-oriented individuals, communities, organizations and coalitions — but also that there be the greatest possible traceability of the origin and the "history of use" of the Statements, so as to facilitate community and movement building.</p>
 <p>So the Group adopted a two-pronged approach, provisioning the Statements with (1) a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license and (2) a wiki for further development of the Statements.

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 <p><br>Rather, this was a public vision; and, because it was a public vision, the Statements themselves should be made open-source — should be offered to be accessed, developed, adapted and lived out by all who are involved in the larger project of healing the democracy.</p></blockquote>
-<p>It was of utmost importance to the Working Group that the Statements be preserved for public-only use and that they be preserved as adaptable / developable — but also that there be traceability, so as to facilitate historical awareness and community building.</p>
+<p>It was of utmost importance to the Working Group that the Statements be preserved for the most generous possible access, use, adaptation use and development by We-the-People-oriented individuals, communities, organizations and coalitions — but also that there be the greatest possible traceability of the origin and the "history of use" of the Statements, so as to facilitate community and movement building.</p>
 <p>So the Group adopted a two-pronged approach, provisioning the Statements with (1) a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license and (2) a wiki for further development of the Statements.
 === Impact ===

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 |Country=United States
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+|Image_Header=http://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/f/f4/Citizen_Now_logo.jpg
 |Image_attribution=Citizen Now
 }}