Happy birthday CC! On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Khalid Albaih <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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 > > > > > [image: CC10-403.png] > 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 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P-bQB8zUSo>, or > this great poster by CC > Sweden<https://www.iis.se/docs/Creative-Commons-Webb.pdf> > . > - 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<http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Events>. > 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<http://www.flickr.com/groups/ccswagcontest07/pool/with/2101574481/#photo_2101574481> > * *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. > -- Hisham | هشام almiraat.com <http://www.almiraat.com/> Author, Global Voices <http://globalvoicesonline.org/author/hisham/> Co-founder, Mamfakinch.com <http://www.mamfakinch.com/> Twitter: @__Hisham <https://twitter.com/__Hisham> -- 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.
