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Monthly Archives: October 2010
Science Commons Seminar – 28 October, Canberra
For all those people in Canberra who expressed interest in a CC Roadshow in the nation’s capital, you will be happy to know that we have slated a roadshow for early next year. In the mean time, IP Australia and ccAustralia are hosting a Science Commons seminar with John Wilbanks from Science Commons and ccAustralia’s Professor Brian Fitzgerald. Details after the cut.
Credits—Photo: Adaptation (crop and resize) of ‘Science Commons http://sciencecommons.org/‘ by dullhunk, CC BY 2.0 Generic.
Posted in ccAustralia, Events, Science Commons Tagged Canberra, IP Australia, John Wilbanks, Prof Brian Fitzgerald, Science Commons Leave a comment
Don your red cape and support CC!
Yesterday (US time) Creative Commons launched the annual fundraising drive for this 
2010. Each year CC encourages its community to donate, to help them continue their important work. This year the campaign has a superhero theme. Although the CC logo might be sporting a shiny (Doctorow-esque) red cape, the campaign actually focuses on real-world CC superheros.
In Joi’s words:
Our challenge ahead is to join forces with this legion of CC Superheroes to fight the forces that don’t want an open web, or do not understand that sharing is a good thing. This fall, we’re recruiting a team of CC Superheroes to lead the world in the fight for creativity and innovation. We need to raise $550,000 by the end of the year to power up and support the work we’re doing. As a superhero, your role will be to donate, spread the word, and fundraise on our behalf. As an existing supporter of CC, you already believe that a sharing world is a good world. You have fueled our work and kept us going strong, and we thank you for that. It will take nothing short of a superhero’s strength to get us to where we need to go.
In the campaign’s announcement, CC CEO Joi Ito shared a few of the international CC Superheroes—including GlaxoSmithKline, Pratham Books and SoundCloud—so allow me to take this opportunity to tell you about some of our very own Australian CC Superheroes, using our amazing tools to save people from failed sharing.
Credits—Banner Photo: Adaptation (crop and resize) of ‘365_049‘ by Canned Muffins, CC BY 2.0 Generic. Image: ‘CC with cape‘ by Creative Commons Corporation, CC BY 3.0 Unported.
Posted in Creative Commons international Tagged ABC Pool, Andrew Garton, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Cape Town Open Education Declaration, Cory Doctorow, Creative Commons Corproation, EnageMedia, fundraising campaign, GlaxoSmithKline, Joi Ito, MCEECDYA, Peer 2 Peer University, Pratham Books, Sarawak Gone, SoundCloud, superhero campaign, XKCD Leave a comment
