Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [cc-community] Australian Federal Government commits to CC BY as default

2010-05-04 Thread Craig Franklin
What can I say, this is absolutely awesome! Will this take effect retroactively, or will it only be new stuff that's CC-BY? Either way, it's a tremendous step forward! -Original Message- From: wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org]

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [cc-community] Australian Federal Government commits to CC BY as default

2010-05-04 Thread Craig Franklin
Incidentally, to add some content to my earlier post, here is the government's official response to the recommendations (which got chopped out of John's email): http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/govresponse20report/index.html#recomm endation-06 As Jessica pointed out, 6.3 is a particularly

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [cc-community] Australian Federal

2010-05-04 Thread Jessica Coates
Well, the Gov2.0 report itself was very specific that it should be retrospective - in fact recommendation 6.5 is all about retroactive licensing of already published material. But the Government response has only agreed to this 'in principle' - they've left it up to a set of guidelines to be

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [cc-community] Australian Federal

2010-05-04 Thread Kimberlee Weatherall
Heh. Yes,even drafting guidelines seems to be a bit 'all too hard', given that we still only have *draft* guidelines from all those urgent criminal copyright reforms done in 2006 :) -Original Message- From: wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikimediaau-l] grants application this year?

2010-05-04 Thread private musings
G'day all, does the chapter have any grants proposals heading in this year? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Index Do we have any structure for creating / supporting a chapter grant like this? I have a few ideas and opportunities - for wiki use in education, hopefully in partnership with