BUILDING COMMUNITIES Moving Beyond Rhetoric to Channeling Peoples' Energies

Really... Building Online Communities Around Free and Open Ideas of Geographically Dispersed People of <= 50 People

Jon Phillips CC + Inkscape.org + Open Clip Art Library

Inkscape.org

Inkscape.org

The Ideals (an example)‏

1. Make the source open

2. Release Early, Release Often

3. Reward contributors (with praise or some material reward if possible)‏

The Reality

1. One Goal (to rule them all)‏

2. Synchronization (Communication)‏

Holy Trinity I nstall a wiki Maintain group chat Use mailing list

3. Group Growth Rule

Keep the barriers for participation as low as allowable

“ ...don't build a house for 20 people if there are just 2 that will live in the house...”

Before Starting...

1. Survey

2. Consolidate

3. IFF (#1 & #2) == FALSE) Create New Community

Alek Tarkowski CC Poland [email_address]

CC Poland

SJ Klein OLPC + Wikipedia [email_address]

OLPC

Wikipedia

Nelson Pavlosky FreeCulture.org [email_address]

FreeCulture.org

Bjorn Wijers Simuze.nl, Stichting Open Media [email_address]

Simuze.nl

The Possible Projects

There can only be one...(right now)‏

1. Spread Open Media

2. cc-violations.org

3. FreeCulture.NET

FreeCulture.org

What's Next?

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/

Jon Phillips [email_address] [email_address]