phillips building communities isummit 2007

BUILDING COMMUNITIES

Moving Beyond Rhetoric toChanneling Peoples' Energies

Really...Building Online Communities Around Free and Open Ideas of

Geographically Dispersed People of <= 50 People

Jon PhillipsCC + 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

Install a wikiMaintain 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 TarkowskiCC Poland

alek.tarkowski@creativecommons.pl

CC Poland

SJ KleinOLPC + Wikipedia

sj@laptop.org

OLPC

Wikipedia

Nelson PavloskyFreeCulture.org

nelson@freeculture.org

FreeCulture.org

Bjorn WijersSimuze.nl, Stichting Open Media

bjorn@simuze.nl

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 Phillipsjon@rejon.org

jon@creativecommons.org