Salon

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The CC Salon is a monthly San Francisco based event focused on building a community of artists and developers around Creative Commons licenses, standards, and technology.

The format for each event is to encourage loose networking amongst participants with 2-3 brief presentations from individuals and groups developing interesting projects that relate to the Creative Commons.

The First CC Salon

Who

People interested in Creative Commons, copyright, Free Culture, Open Source, Art, Media, and Music

What

A local informal gathering of individuals around Creative Commons licenses, standards, and technology.

When

March 8, 2006, 6-9 PM

Where

Shine
1337 Mission St, San Francisco, CA
Google Map/Directions
http://www.shinesf.com/

Why

To connect with and build a community of artists and developers who are working with Creative Commons licenses, standards, and technology.

Theme

Content Distribution

Format

During Event: Chat on #cc on irc.freenode.net

  • 6:00-7:00 - Drinks, music, and conversation
  • 7:00-7:15 - First presentation: Joshua Kinberg on FireAnt
  • 7:15-7:30 - Second presentation: James Wagner Au on Second Life
  • 7:30-7:45 - Third presentation: Simon Carless on the Internet Archive's Netlabels collection
  • 7:45-8:00 - Anything else?
  • 8:00-9:00 - Drinks, music, and more conversation

Press Release

How to Participate?

  1. Attend the Event
  2. Present at Future Event
  3. Add/Edit this wiki with your ideas
  4. Spread Creative Commons (by licensing and using CC Technology)
  5. Join Creative Commons Discussion Lists
  6. Join #cc chat channel on irc.freenode.net (live during event)

Future Events (Monthly on 2nd Wednesday)

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Theme

TBD

Presenters

TBD

Location

TBD

Format

6-8:30 PM

Press Release

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Theme

TBD

Presenters

TBD

Location

TBD

Format

6-8:30 PM

Press Release

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Theme

TBD

Presenters

TBD

Location

TBD

Format

6-8:30 PM

Press Release

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Theme

TBD

Presenters

TBD

Location

TBD

Format

6-8:30 PM

Press Release

Wednesday, August 9, 2006

Theme

TBD

Presenters

TBD

Location

TBD

Format

6-8:30 PM

Press Release

Wednesday, Sept 13, 2006

Theme

TBD

Presenters

TBD

Location

TBD

Format

6-8:30 PM

Press Release

Ideas

What ideas would be good to try out at the CC Salon? This is a good place to brainstorm and place up thoughts about small segments at the CC Salon such as mix-offs, live code workshops, demonstration of new projects, etc.

Podcast

What about a podcast of the event?

Streaming

Should the event be streamed for those who can't attend? Also, to go along with, a chat channel would work out nicely as well.

Chat

The #cc chat channel on irc.freenode.net should be used for online communication during the event. Also, it is a useful space for communication before and after the event.

Performances

Would anyone want to perform live at the event? DJs and musicians, that means you! Also, anyone doing live dance, acting, etc, that means you as well!

Open Salon Time

Similar to Dorkbot and others, it would be good to have 10-15 minutes at the end dedicated to an open mic session where people can come up to the mic and talk about their ideas/involvements.

Film Screening

Maybe rather than just have presenters, there could be some informal screening of CC licensed films along with the film makers.

Live Visuals

During the event someone or something should produce the visuals during the event through a secondary projector. More likely than not, there will be a projector in use by the presenters, so any visuals will have to be before and after the presentations.

Kiosk

Kiosk for adding names/emails to the wiki page and discussion lists. Also, another idea would be a kiosk for having paypal donate to artists, cc, and other nonprofits.

Burn Station

It could be easily done with some PCs with a database of CC licensed works. And visitors can get a "souvenir" of the Salon.

Background

The Creative Commons Salon is modelled after such successful endeavours as Remix Reading and Dorkbot which have helped to bring artists and developers together in the post-digital era, face-to-face.

While online meeting and creation are "par for the course" these days, nothing replaces face-to-face interaction and the rate of exchange that takes places from a good monthly event.

Also, the Salon model, which harkens back to 17th Century France is an apt model for this type of gathering which is half social and half intellectual.

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