Staff/2010-07-14

Call info

Staff Updates

Mike Linksvayer

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

Allison Domicone

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

Timothy Vollmer

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

Michelle Thorne

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

Jane Park

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

this week:

• going to help lila on by-nc/other license pages msging

Aurelia J. Schultz

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