barcamp/creative commons

I have recently become an expert on starting and not completing posts. So I’ll bang out this mix of memes double quick.

Auckland Does Community
Firstly there is a BarCamp happening in Auckland, well Botany Downs, on December 15. Get involved.
Some of those attending can be seen at the Auckland Web Meetup - which is a fantastic forum, much kudos to John and Karl for orchestrating such positive, productive, fun evenings. Next one is Feb.

Creative Commons
I got myself down to the launch of Kiwi Creative Commons licence(s) a few weeks ago. It was interesting, the speaker talks are available online for viewing. The workshop I attended was great - meet a bunch of people doing intriguing things and we had some robust discussion around how CC would affect our collecting institutions. In some small gesture I have licensed the contents of syntho.org as NY-NC (NZ). This means you can do anything you like with the content, unless you’re going to turn a profit off it, and if you do use it - then give me credit for what you do use. As I say it’s a gesture. There hasn’t been much real CC NZ action. I believe Otago Poly are CC licensing some of their course materials. Are there other examples to cite?

The licences are are available on the main CC site at http://creativecommons.org/license/. Select NZ from the ‘Jurisdiction’ menu. I’m not sure why the Creative Commons NZ site appears to contradict the availability of the NZ licences (as of Nov 20 2007).

BTW: CC is on a fund raising drive, why not donate a monthly utility bill worth towards CC?