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[edit] Sapporo

The CC Japan team gave a short presentation on Sapporo, showed pictures of the city and conference center and hotel and listed a few of the issues they'd like to get input on.

Sapporo is the largest city on Japan's Northern island Hokaido It has roughly 2 Million inhabitants City of Sapporo has a lot of natural forest with a beautiful natural environment All commoners will be staying together at the Sapporo Grand Hotel and the summit takes place at the Sapporo Convention Center -- Fumi showed us the floor plan and showed some pictures of the conference center, which looks very sleek and fancy The hotel also has a special iCommons lounge that everyone can use, "for free" We are making a real effort to promote iCommons and the summit, to creators, students, companies, young students, schools, etc. Having a summit in Japan this year, we decided to run a Sushi project - with new ideas and new designs for sushi, which we will make for the Summit attendants: iCommons Sushi We hope that iCommons Sushi will then be introduced in many places around the world CC Japan presented Sapporo and some of their ideas for the Summit Everyone was duly impressed, when they whipped out a completed and printed flyer -- 6 months ahead of the event!!! -- which covers some of the attractions of Sapporo and is used to advertise for the summit. There will be 3 translators (English-Japanese) provided by the city of Sapporo, these translators are able to deal with legal terms - that also means we will only have one track that is totally bi-lingual. We are considering to hire another group of translators to cover other sessions, but it's not easy to find people that are familiar with all the technical terms, and we also need to find the budget. Some of the practical issues we need to decide are:

• Should we ask official support from the Japanes Government? (The downside might be an issue about including people who are engaged in un-authorised remix culture, e.g. Dojinshi)
• Should we invite the traditional copyright people? (This would bring more diverse views, and according to CC Japan the situation in Japan is not as black and white as in the US or Europe; on the other hand it could create some digging in and unproductive aggressive argueing)
• PR strategies and ideas (how do we reach newbies etc.?)