This is a quick intro to the panel I created at iSummit 2007 in dubrovnik. The gist is, as a last resort create/build a new community, otherwise, merge merge merge!

2. BUILDING COMMUNITIES Moving Beyond Rhetoric to Channeling Peoples' Energies

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

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

7. Inkscape.org

8. Inkscape.org

9. The Ideals (an example)‏

10. 1. Make the source open

11. 2. Release Early, Release Often

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

13. The Reality

14. 1. One Goal (to rule them all)‏

15. 2. Synchronization (Communication)‏

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

17. 3. Group Growth Rule

18. Keep the barriers for participation as low as allowable

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

20. Before Starting...

21. 1. Survey

22. 2. Consolidate

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

25. Alek Tarkowski CC Poland [email_address]

26. CC Poland

27. SJ Klein OLPC + Wikipedia [email_address]

28. OLPC

29. Wikipedia

30. Nelson Pavlosky FreeCulture.org [email_address]

31. FreeCulture.org

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

33. Simuze.nl

34. The Possible Projects

35. There can only be one...(right now)‏

36. 1. Spread Open Media

38. 2. cc-violations.org

40. 3. FreeCulture.NET

41. FreeCulture.org

42. What's Next?

43. http://wiki.creativecommons.org/

46. Jon Phillips [email_address] [email_address]