Stepping into the Commons

Lunchtime

Originally uploaded by mikecogh

The Creative Commons Roadshow rolled into Adelaide last week (I am only now getting around to writing about it because of such a busy week and a trip to Melbourne) and for a great summary of what went on the Wrap Up on the CC Australia site has the best info. The usual Adelaide crowd were there and the buzz in the room was brilliant. The chat at lunch was really captured by Michael Coghlan’s image (shown on this post) and was remarked upon by @adelsali.

For me this day was a wonderful learning experience. It added a lot of pieces to the puzzle of how to get the CC licensing happening on the new site for my employer. Particularly valuable was the fact that my boss came along and she too can now see the benefits of applying CC licensing to content, especially government content. These are great steps for our journey and coupled with the links stories and information that came out of the day we are already making some more baby steps on the road. Today a meeting about the new website contained quality discussion about CC with key people in the organisation. A road map is starting to emerge and the word is starting to get around in the organisation.

Some non CC observations:

• the delegates and speakers were a mix of State Government employees, educators, lawyers, champions, practioners, inovators, online producers and bloggers among others. I know this because a couple of the speakers talk a quick census.
• the speakers were all interesting and had great stories
• Local Government was under represented
• Adelaide is tiny….. the usual six degrees of separation is cut in half in Adelaide