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=== Communia presentation and discussion ===
 
=== Communia presentation and discussion ===
 
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* Sunday 11:00 - 12:30 Raspberry Hall
 
* Communia, the European thematic network on the digital public domain, published 15 policy recommendations available at http://www.communia-association.org/recommendations.
 
* Communia, the European thematic network on the digital public domain, published 15 policy recommendations available at http://www.communia-association.org/recommendations.
 
* An international association has been created to continue part of the mission of the European network: http://www.communia-association.org/
 
* An international association has been created to continue part of the mission of the European network: http://www.communia-association.org/
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* This session aims at discussing Communia objectives and ongoing projects.
 
* This session aims at discussing Communia objectives and ongoing projects.
 
* You should come if you are a member or if you'd like your institution to become a member and contribute to a more balanced discussion about copyright in the digital environment.
 
* You should come if you are a member or if you'd like your institution to become a member and contribute to a more balanced discussion about copyright in the digital environment.
* preferred time slot: sunday 11:00 - 12:30
 
 
* organizer melanie dulong
 
* organizer melanie dulong
  

Revision as of 09:10, 16 September 2011

Potential unconference session topics

There's a lot of time to run informal, unconference sessions and workshops during the CC Global Summit. We have several extra rooms available. Below is a non-comprehensive list of session ideas which are not a part of the formal Summit program. We encourage interested persons to sketch out ideas for the topics below, or add different ones if you're so inclined. Also, please suggest a preferred time slot for your session, which are listed at the bottom of the page. Note that your session doesn't have to fill the entire time available.


CC and TOS/EULA compatibility

  • Organizer(s): Tyng-Ruey Chuang
  • Timeslot: Sunday morning
  • Description: We shall talk about issues of using CC licenses in the context of content hosting services like Flickr and YouTube. Ask yourselves these questoins:
    • Why is that you still need to register to a website just in order to download CC-licensed materials from the site?
    • What does it mean when a website offers to mark your uploaded materials only as CC BY-NC-ND or not at all?
    • Can you upload your friends' CC-licensed photos to Flickr under your account?
    • You want to pull out and re-host many CC-licensed videos from YouTube. How?
    • When there are conflicts, which comes first? Terms of Service or CC Licenses?

And we shall have interesting discussions!

Beginners guide to CC

[please provide a rough session description, preferred time slot, and and why people should come]

How to create short videos like CC NZ

[please provide a rough session description, preferred time slot, and and why people should come]

ACTA discussion

[please provide a rough session description, preferred time slot, and and why people should come]

CC and piracy discussion

[please provide a rough session description, preferred time slot, and and why people should come]

Government transparency and CC's role in addressing corruption

[please provide a rough session description, preferred time slot, and and why people should come]

Communia presentation and discussion

  • Sunday 11:00 - 12:30 Raspberry Hall
  • Communia, the European thematic network on the digital public domain, published 15 policy recommendations available at http://www.communia-association.org/recommendations.
  • An international association has been created to continue part of the mission of the European network: http://www.communia-association.org/
  • Planned activities are to educate and perform research on the digital public domain, though collective discussion and work led by thematic Working Groups on PSI, GLAM, orphan works, exceptions and limitations for audiovisual, open hardware etc.
  • This session aims at discussing Communia objectives and ongoing projects.
  • You should come if you are a member or if you'd like your institution to become a member and contribute to a more balanced discussion about copyright in the digital environment.
  • organizer melanie dulong

Global community communication strategies: best practices from Affiliates and CC HQ

Friday, 15:00-16:25 Yellow Hall

Organizers: Eric Steuer, David Kindler, Lisa Green, Jane Park

Goals: Affiliates share feedback on what communication methods work best for them. Discuss how to best identify and promote regional case studies. Share lessons learned during The Power of Open. Share communication tips. Affiliates share feedback on what communications support from HQ would be most valuable.

Integrating CC licenses and tools in gov policy/open gov toolkit

[please provide a rough session description, preferred time slot, and and why people should come]

Open access and students

[please provide a rough session description, preferred time slot, and and why people should come]

Arab World arts events

[please provide a rough session description, preferred time slot, and and why people should come]

Brainstorming session on open government data principles

  • CC/OKF/LAPSI/others would like to hold a drafting session on international open government data (legal) principles immediately after the "CC and the Broader Open Government and PSI Community" session
  • preferred time is 16:00 SATURDAY
  • there's been quite a bit of work by various groups over the last few years in developing principles for open government, but we'd like to have a community discussion of some of the legal-specific considerations that governments around the world should take into account when thinking about releasing data
  • the goal is to develop a set of principles that addresses the legal and other licensing issues to make sure that governments who mean to release their data openly actually have the tools, knowledge and guidance to do that
  • see http://blog.okfn.org/2011/07/08/we-need-international-open-government-data-principles/
  • see http://www.lapsi-project.eu/position-papers
  • organizers = timothy vollmer, jonathan gray
  • openetherpad: http://etherpad.tugraz.at/XkTswvtrFD

CC technology: licensing tools and other tech projects update

  • Organizer(s): Nathan Kinkade, Chris Webber
  • Timeslot: no preference
  • Description: Topic(s) can be flexible depending on what interest people the most, but general direction will be about the various tools that CC offers and the underlying technology, as well as things we are currently doing and things we have planned in the area of technology.

Free software tools for creating free culture

  • Organizer(s): Christopher Allan Webber
  • Timeslot: no preference
  • Description: Learn about and discuss various free and open source software tools for creating free culture, particularly on the graphics end (Blender, GIMP, Inkscape, MyPaint, etc)

translation tools Q&A

  • Organizer(s): Nathan Kinkade
  • Timeslot: no preference
  • Description: Learn about the tools that CC currently uses to facilitate localization of various parts of the CC site. This session can also be a forum for suggesting new tools, processes or methods to make translating as easy as possible.

LRMI project

Arab spring under CC

  • Organizer(s): Bassel Safadi
  • Timeslot: Saturday 13:00-14:20
  • Description: Coming from 6 month and ongoing revolution in Syria, will talk about revolutions and copyrights in such conditions.

Open Times

  • Friday 14:00-15:00 (2 time slots)
  • Friday 15:00-16:25 (2 time slots)
  • Saturday 9:00-10:30 (2 time slots)
  • Saturday 11:00-11:50 (4 time slots)
  • Saturday 12:00-12:50 (2 time slots)
  • Saturday 13:00-13:50 (1 time slot) LRMI
  • Saturday 13:00-14:20 (1 time slot) Arab spring under CC
  • Saturday 14:00-15:20 (1 time slot)
  • Saturday 14:30-15:50 (1 time slot)
  • Saturday 15:30-16:00 (1 time slot)
  • Saturday 16:00-16:50 (2 time slots)
  • Sunday 9:00-10:40 (3 time slots)
  • Sunday 11:00-12:30 (2 time slots)