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Open/Free Access - Καταγραφή της πραγματικότητας*
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| From..: "Joi Ito" <[email protected]>
| To.....: [cc-info] <[email protected]>
| Sent...: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 2:32 AM
| Subject: $12k to go -- an important Creative Commons update
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| Happy Holidays -- I hope many of you are getting a chance to
| relax after an incredibly difficult year for most people.
| However, take heart, I'm writing with good news. We're now
| entering the last couple of days for the Creative Commons annual
| fundraising campaign just $12,000 short of our $500,000 goal.
| In such a harsh fundraising climate, we're coming very close to
| reaching our goal thanks to the generous support of our
| community -- we need your help in getting all the way there.
|
| My work this year has been primarily focused participating in
| Creative Commons as its new CEO, which has had its challenges
| and its reasons for hope this year.
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| Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organization run mostly by
| volunteers all over the world. The board and the CEO role are
| volunteer jobs and in fact each board member is also a financial
| supporter. Even with the support of a network of volunteers,
| Creative Commons requires a small number of underpaid staff and
| some basic infrastructure to survive and continue its mission.
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| Creative Commons started as a primarily author and musician
| focused idea from the United States and has grown to a global
| 50 jurisdiction project in contact with 80 countries making
| impact in the sharing of scientific materials and data to
| helping teachers to share teaching material. We have forged
| alliances with rights collection societies and other
| organizations that have been, at times, critical of our work.
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| We worked together with the dedicated team at the Free Software
| Foundation to permit the FSF licensed wikis (including Wikipedia)
| to relicense to a CC license. We have many more countries to
| bring online and many more fields to cover, but I am very proud
| of our work and extremely confident of our ability to become the
| basic infrastructure to "save failed sharing" as our Chairman
| Jamie Boyle puts it. I believe that we will soon be another basic
| layer of interoperability, similar to the World Wide Web or the
| Internet Protocol.
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| It has also been a tough year for Creative Commons. It has been
| particularly challenging for us as corporations and major donors
| have had to slash, if not completely cut, their philanthropic
| support. However, we have had more individual and smaller
| corporate donors than ever in our history. I would like to thank,
| from the bottom of my heart, all of our current donors who
| decided to stick with us through this tough period and all the
| new donors who have chosen to give this year.
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| In addition, our project funding has become difficult in many
| areas and needs more support to survive and any funds past our
| annual campaign target will go to providing very needed resources.
| I apologize for continuing to pester you through the year and
| especially during this fundraising campaign, but your
| participation and contribution are extremely important for our
| future. I promise you that every yen, dollar and rupee is well
| spent on supporting and furthering the cause and I beg you (only
| if it helps) to consider making a donation if you have not done
| so this year -- go to
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| http://support.creativecommons.org/join
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| Thank you in advance.
|
| - Joi
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-"Support Freedom - Free Software Foundation":
http://www.fsf.org/
2
-"Wikipedia needs you - Support the largest non-profit project
on the web - An appeal from Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
3
-"MIT - Your Donation Makes a Difference - OpenCourseWare is
supported through the generosity of people like you,
who believe that unlocking knowledge can empower minds":
https://giving.mit.edu/givenow/ocw/MakeGift.dyn
4
-"DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals - Support the development
and operation of DOAJ.":
http://www.doaj.org/
Πέτρος Ζιμουρτόπουλος
http://creativecommons.net/pez/
http://www.openantennas.org
Ερευνητική Ομάδα Κεραιών. Ξάνθη, Θράκη, Ελλάς, ΕΕ.
http://www.antennas.gr
Antennas Research Group. Xanthi, Thrace, Hellas, EU.
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Founded in 1985. Sci, Edu, R&D CC Net. On the WWWeb, since 1996.
* Από το μήνυμα:
| To......: /F/L/O/S/S/ <[email protected]>
| .........: Antennas RG <[email protected]>
| .........: EECE <[email protected]>
| From...: Petros Zimourtopoulos <[email protected]>
| Sent....: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 9:19 AM
| Subject: Καταγραφή της πραγματικότητας
