Wow! We're 10! Happy birthday! Best, Khalid
everything should be as simple as it can be, but not simpler about.me/khalidalbaih On Sep 3, 2012, at 11:57 AM, "dd.r." <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey there > this is a great opportunity for our Region to organize cool parties, social > gatherings, light talks, events, about our 10th Birthday! Let`s celebrate all > together! > I was thinking about setting a community call in the next week where > everybody interested could talk about ideas, projects, thoughts concerning > the anniversary...a skype brainstorming...would this be a good idea to > coordinate better our regional efforts? > > Also, to keep everybody`s in the loop: I`m currently working on the funds to > set our CC Arab regional meeting #4 inshallah in Cairo this time, to > celebrate creativity, innovation, the soon inshallah launch of the Egyptian > licenses, and get to know better our Egyptian community > > We are thinking of dates that will be more or less the same of the CC > birthday so to have an event in Cairo, too..but this is only a thought for now > > The regional meeting format will be like last year in Tunis..everybody who > attended meeting #3 in Tunis was amazed by the energy, creativity there..and > the workshop format worked really well > > so stay tuned cause I`ll post asap a public call for workshops` proposal at > Cairo CC meeting #4 inshallah in fall 2012 > > Salam and pls send feedback concerning the anniversary party > dona > > > > > > More details on the 10th birthday celebrations, and how you can participate! > > As you know, CC will be holding its 10th birthday celebrations over the ten > days from 7-16 December (16 December being the day the licence suite was > launched in 2002). We've taken your feedback from the poll I sent around > earlier, as well as ideas from staff, our partners and the broader community, > and have come up with a plan for a broad series of activities and events. > We're still finalising some of the details where they involve external > partners (expect more on competitions later), but we're ready to start > publicising and collecting your contributions for the first things now. > > What's happening? > We're building a dedicated website at http://10.creativecommons.org which > will be the central hub for the birthday celebrations, featuring events, > resources, competitions and daily announcements both during the 10 days and > in the weeks leading up to the celebrations. > We've designed the great logo you can see at the top of this email and will > be using it to create banners, swag and other materials for our community and > friends (from individuals to large platforms) to spread the word. > We'll be running a twitter campaign with the hashtag #cc10. As well as daily > updates on what's happening, this will feature daily "CC factoids" - fun > facts about CC, its licences, and its users. > On each of the 10 days the website will feature one CC educational resource - > a fact sheet, video, app etc designed to teach people about or help them use > CC. We want these to be your materials. We'll use it as a chance to showcase > the great work you do as our affiliates, and to highlight the full language > and cultural diversity of our international community. Featuring affiliate > resources was what you voted as your top activity in the 10th birthday poll, > so we plan to make this a major part of our campaign. Examples of the kinds > of resources we might feature are this great animation by CC Qatar, or this > great poster by CC Sweden. > Each day we will also feature a piece of CC-licensed content from the general > community. Each piece of content will be accompanied by a blog post by a > prominent CC advocate explaining why they like it and think it is important > that it is CC licensed. > And finally, as announced previously, we'd like to see events and activities > happen globally over these ten days. HQ will be running a party in San > Francisco, but we need more events worldwide to reflect the full breadth of > CC's community. All of the events will be featured on the website, Twitter > and Facebook. > But for all of this we need your help! > Nominate your best CC resources to be featured on the website. We know you > all produce great materials - let us know what they are. In November we'll > choose the top 10 for showcasing. We'll also also use the material submitted > as the beginning of a CC resource archive, which we'll continue to develop > throughout 2013. > Similarly, nominate CC licensed content you think should be featured, or a CC > advocate you think should be asked to blog. Again, we want to make sure the > full breadth of CC's community is reflected, all around the world. > Send in your CC factoids for the Twitter campaign. If you know a piece of CC > history, a fact about the licences, or a great local user or use, let us know > by replying to this email. We'd like to make these as international as > possible, so it's important we hear from you about the history of CC in your > region. > Put the logo on your websites, circulate it to your network and facebook, use > it at your events and celebrations. And you can adapt it for your audience - > you might like to change the colour to match your website, or translate the > language for your local community. We only ask that you keep the basic design > the same (ie the three circles in a row) and that you upload any updated > versions you create to http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC10. You can find the > current versions there, and we'll have the adaptable illustrator file up > ASAP. > And of course, start planning your event now and, most importantly, let us > know about it by adding it to our events page. So far we've got events in > Indonesia, Sweden and Brazil, but we need more. > Is there something else you wanted to do? > Let us know if you want to run your own competition, activity etc and we'll > help you publicise it. > > For example, does anyone remember the old CC Swag competition we used to run > on Flickr? We'd love to run it again, and it was one of the top things you > voted for in the poll. But here at HQ we're a bit stretched with the other > plans to run it ourselves. Anybody want to volunteer to do it for us? > > Or you might like to run a local competition, or translation project, or > remix challenge. Just let us know and we'll do what we can to help. > > Public launch > Finally, later this week we will be publicly launching the celebrations via a > save-the-date teaser on our website, Twitter and Facebook. More details will > be provided in the newsletter next month. When we do post it, spread the word! > > > Jessica Coates > Affiliate Network Coordinator > Creative Commons > > creativecommons.org > [email protected] > > > -- > لقد تلقيت هذه الرسالة لأنك مشترك في المجموعة "CC Arab World المشاع الإبداعي" > من مجموعات Google. > للنشر في هذه المجموعة، أرسل بريدًا إلكترونيًا إلى > [email protected] > لإلغاء اشتراكك في هذه المجموعة، أرسل رسالة إلكترونية إلى > [email protected]. > للحصول على مزيد من الخيارات، يمكنك الانتقال إلى هذه المجموعة على العنوان > http://groups.google.com/group/cc-arab-world?hl=ar. -- لقد تلقيت هذه الرسالة لأنك مشترك في المجموعة "CC Arab World المشاع الإبداعي" من مجموعات Google. للنشر في هذه المجموعة، أرسل بريدًا إلكترونيًا إلى [email protected] لإلغاء اشتراكك في هذه المجموعة، أرسل رسالة إلكترونية إلى [email protected]. للحصول على مزيد من الخيارات، يمكنك الانتقال إلى هذه المجموعة على العنوان http://groups.google.com/group/cc-arab-world?hl=ar.
