Fwd: Wikimedia Chapters and Creative Commons- how it works in NY
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From: Pharos <pharosofalexand...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:12 AM
Subject: Re: [Chapters] Wikimedia Chapters and Creative Commons:
advise
please
To: chapt...@wikimedia.ch
> From: Pharos pharosofalexand...@gmail.com
> My understanding is that Wikimedia Germany and the Creative Commons
> affiliate share office space in Berlin, but that they are separate
> organizations.
>>> Uhmm, I think what they have in Berlin is CC International, funnily
>>> enough we did our communication with the one (I think) in Berlin but the
>>> agreement goes back to the CC in SF, California. So honestly, I know
their
>>> different but how different is still unclear to me.
I think that the Berlin office is closely tied to the central
organization, but I'm not 100% sure.
> In New York City, we have worked closely with the local Creative Commons
> office (and the Free Culture groups in the city), but there is no formal
> relationship.
>>> So Richard, let me get this right - so NY have local Creative Commons
>>> office aside from the central one in SF. Are the NY office branch? Or
hosted
>>> by other organization as in other countries?
It's the NY branch office of Creative Commons. The office has only
one person, but he's a great guy to work with. They're not hosted by
any other organization.
>>> Can you define worked closely? In HK - I believe they met several times,
>>> do events together, give advice on some cases (legal). I wonder if there
are
>>> any events together, would it be like, you initate it together, or one
>>> initiate the other participate? And how did you get funding/ volunteers?
We work together mostly on events, not legal stuff. We got
substantial help from Creative Commons and other groups with the
"Wikis Take Manhattan" and "Wikipedia Loves Art" projects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Manhattan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Loves_Art
So far, we haven't had any funding of our own, but have concentrated
on projects with other organizations.
A great place to get volunteers here is the Students For Free Culture
clubs at universities; we have two of them in this city, at NYU and
Columbia University. The guy at the Creative Commons office is
actually a former President of the student club at NYU, and the guy at
The Open Planning Project who helped us with "Wikis Take Manhattan" is
a former President of the student club at Columbia University.
Thanks,
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