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When: 17th to the 18th of January, 2008

What: A planning workshop with iCommons stakeholders to develop a strategic plan for the iSummit 2008. More at iSummit 2008/Planning Workshop/Agenda

Where: The workshop took place at Triba [1], Craighall Park, Johannesburg

Who: Participants included:

From iCommons: Heather Ford, Kerryn McKay, Daniela Faris, Rosanne Hack, Rebecca Kahn, Paul Jacobson, JC Bukenya, Stephanie Traynor

From the Local Context Global Commons Project: Prashant Iyengar, Allison Fish, Sarah Kansa, Paula Martini

From the iCommons board: Paul Keller, Tomislav Medak, Ronaldo Lemos

From USC Annenberg School and SL volunteer: Anna Berthold

From the 07 Education Track: Phillipp Schmidt, Eve Gray, Karien Bezuidenhout, Andrew Rens, Mark Surman

From Digital Garage: Fumi Yamazaki

From ccJapan: Yuko Noguchi, Ken Suzuki

From Sapporo City: Yas Matsushima

From Free Culture.org: Fred Benenson, Kevin Driscoll

From IDRC: Khaled Fourati

As facilitator: James Cairns

This workshop was kindly funded by the Ford Foundation as part of the Local Context Global Commons Project.

[edit] Workshop goals

The goal of the workshop is to develop - within a representative group of global commoners - a structure and plan for a creative, engaging and impactful iSummit programme in 2008.

More specifically:

1. Designing the broad structure, themes and goals of the event
2. Developing the content/detail/script of the various tracks
3. Developing an engaging process to get the right people involved

And then smaller working group meetings on:

4. The iSummit website and video footage/media
5. Fundraising and sponsorship
6. Second Life at the iSummit

[edit] Target audience

There are 3 main types of people attending the Summit:

a) newbies/students who want to learn what the foundations of open content are and how they apply to their work, have some fun and get to know the movers and shakers of the open content movement;

b) "practice" people/activists/entrepreneurs who want to:

i) get to know who is doing what, ii) learn something new from the practical experiences of others, iii) and work on how they can collaborate with one another.

c) "academic" people who want to:

i) get to know who is doing what, ii) learn something new from the research of others, iii) and work on how they can collaborate with one another.

d) project-specific groupings such as the Creative Commons International network who want to discuss their projects and get to know one another better within smaller, more intimate groupings.

There are also other grouping who have traditionally used the iSummit in some way to develop projects and collaboration e.g.

- Education track participants
- Asia Commons, Communia (Europe), Latin America
- Artists in Residence

And other ideas that have come up for 'tracks' or 'side events':

- iSummit Academy: for students - especially locally - to learn about free culture from the experts

- Regional panels: facilitated by key community members

- DIY Video Summit: from http://www.video24-7.org/

- Free culture funding: for funders, foundations, business people to discuss different models for funding open content and discussing the role of public funders in mandating open content for projects that they fund

and others How the workshop played out