Ladies and gentlemen. I want to take this opportunity to thank the man who made it all happen: Alex Roberts, Creative Commons Graphic Designer par excellence who:
a) put up with my incessant nagging;
b) didn’t even cough when we announced the inhumane deadline;
c) went beyond the call of duty to build us a beautiful logo and an even more fabulous website for us: the iCommoners of the world.
Thank you, Alex Roberts. You are our hero.
We’re thrilled to hear that Brazilian Minister of Culture, and rock star extronaire, Gilberto Gil, will address iCommons Summit participants on the first morning of the event (Friday, 23 June). Gil has been a driving force behind Creative Commons in Brazil, the cc Sampling licence, and the exciting Pontos de Cultura (”Points of Culture”) project which will be discussed at the Summit. Pontos de Cultura is described by Creative Commons Chairman, Lawrence Lessig, in a blog entry he wrote after attending the World Social Forum in Brazil last year:
‘The ‘Thousand points of culture’ project (aims) to build a thousand places around Brazil where free software tools exist for people to make, and remix, culture. The focus is video and audio; no one’s much worried about Office applications, or the like. It is an extraordinary, grass roots movement devoted first to an ideal (free software) and second to a practice (making it real).’
In the “Create” workshop, participants will be able to use some of the tools developed by Pontos de Cultura, along with a host of other projects and organisations, to develop ideas for creative hubs in their local coffee shops, community centres, schools and shopping malls.
Make sure you register for the Summit, iCommoners - this is going to be one inspiring event!