CC Salon Montreal
22 Nov 2010 by celine
The first Creative Commons Salon Montreal is taking place on Dec 21st at Sala Rossa!! Mark your calendars, doors open at 17:30. Don’t be there too late because there will be some delicious foods, and awesome people to meet!
Do not be afraid!!!! This is not just for musicians but all artists have a role in this whether photographer, painters, bloggers and writers alike.
This is a Sharism presents event.
Are you wondering WTF is Sharism? And does it fit into the sharing community?
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We are so excited to bring together passionate people to talk about open culture.
Creative Commons Salon Montréal
Schedule: 18:30
Martha Rans, CC Legal Lead
Mark Surman, Executive producer, Mozilla Drumbeat
Karl Dubost, Web Pimp
Gil de Saint-Exupery, Propriété intellectuelle, juriste
Michelle Thorne, Creative Commons International
Christopher Adams, Freesouls and Sharism
Christine Prefontaine + Emily Rose-Michaud, Artefatica Open Publishing
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22:00
DJs
VJ
celinecelines
Theme
The main theme for this first Salon is openness.
We are going to talk about:
Open education, open web, web standards, licensing and the change that occurred on the internet, open publishing, open culture, remixing, video, Djing and food.
Frequency
The CC Salon Montreal will happen every six month. This Salon is mainly focusing on raising awareness, like a call to action to creators in Montreal, getting people together, and hopefully set the base for future events in Canada.
Cost
It is free.
However you can always donate to help us make these events as recurrent as possible. Our goal is to set this first Salon in Montreal as recurrent event coast to coast in Canada.
Format
There will be a series of sprint talks of 20 minutes each. Although most speakers will be present, we will have a skype conference call with Mark Surman projected on the big screen, he will be joining us from Toronto.
The event is meant to be cool so there will be foods and snacks as well as a bar, so people can mingle, network and talk about open culture while sipping on a whiskey or bourbon.
After the talks we will have DJs playing records and distributing their tracks under CC on the CC Montreal SoundCloud. Everything produced during the Salon will be under CC and distributed eventually online.
We encourage you to bring a photo that you wish to display on the CC WALL of photos, and allow people to reuse it, you too can use other people’s images and make art with it.
CC Salons tend to be run in an open manner, allowing people to mingle and socialize as they see fit. Outside of this there are often two to three presenters who will speak to their own use of CC licenses, be it personal or for a larger organization they are part of. This is by no means a rigid guideline but rather a starting point – feel free to screen a film, hold a panel discussion, have a live music performance, or anything else that may be relevant. Most importantly, remember to have fun!
How to keep in touch with the Creative Commons Salon Montreal?
Hello Jeremy,
I for sure know Global Voices, I am friends with Boris, and am very familiar with the project.
You want to talk at the CC Salon? Why not!
We are looking for 20 minute talks. 
Are you interested?
Thank you,
email me: celinecelines at gmail dot com
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Hi Celine, I am the web developer for an epic Creative Commons licensed project called Global Voices. We are an international community of bloggers who report on blogs and citizen media from around the world, and we have over 60,000 posts about citizen media all licensed as CC-BY (attribution only). We encourage re-use of our work by both other citizen-media and also mainstream media, taking advantage of Creative Commons to make this sharing as easy as possible.
Members of our community have been to several iSummit events before and Joi Ito is even on our board of directors (he is close with the academics who started our project). Global Voices was also founded at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard like Creative Commons. We are passionate proponents of open culture and open content.
So that’s Global Voices. I am of course not Global Voices, I am just the designer and coder, but I am planning to be at your salon. If you would like a presentation about GV and our successful use of Creative Commons then please get in touch, I would love a chance to talk about both subjects.