Re: documents to be reviewed

[Pockey <pockey beijinglug org>]

Hi Brian, 

Thanks for your comments and I will forward it to COSCUP team. 

Pockey


On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 11:42 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote:
> Pockey:
> 
> > Please find below two documents to be reviewed (I already had a look at
> > the documents, hence your comment is welcome on or before July 10.
> >
> > Document one: ** Slides / Video CC license
> > COSCUP / GNOME.Asia 2010
> >
> > Dear speaker,
> >
> > Thanks for speaking in COSCUP / GNOME.Asia 2010.
> 
> I would say "Thank you" instead of "Thanks".  "Thank you" is a bit more
> formal, which is probably more suitable for this sort of document.
> 
> > Your talk will be
> > recorded on video during the event. In order to promote Free and Open
> 
> I would say "Your talk will be recorded during the event"
> 
> This form should be useful for all kinds of recording (audio or video)
> so it doesn't make sense to limit the form to only video.
> 
> > Source Software and sharing, do you agree to release the video recording
> > of your talk under the license of "Creative Commons Attribution
> > Non-Commercial No Derivatives 3.0"?
> 
> Instead of asking a question ("do you agree to release the"), I would
> say "please sign this form in order to release the"
> 
> I think we should instead use the "Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported"
> license.
> 
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
> 
> We should include "ShareAlike" in the license, and these videos may
> be useful for commercial purposes, so I disagree with making it
> non-commercial.
> 
> > In case you are not familiar with
> > the license, it means that anyone can play and redistribute the video
> > file without modification for non-commercial use as long as he/she
> > attributes it to you and COSCUP / GNOME.Asia 2010.
> 
> I do not think we should try to define the license.  Just provide the
> link and explain that they can refer to the Creative Commons website
> to understand the terms of the license.
> 
> I do, however, think it is useful to explain how to Attribute the
> file.  Perhaps you should explain that any media files should have the
> Attribution text in the media Comment tag, if the media type supports
> tagging, and that the Attribution text should be "Your Name at Event 
> Name".
> 
> To make this form useful to future events, it might be better to say
> "COSCUP / GNOME.Asia 2010" on this form, but to just say "Event Name".
> 
> > The terms of the
> > license can be found at
> > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0.
> 
> 
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > I agree to release the video recording of my talk in COSCUP / GNOME.Asia
> 
> I would say "to release any recordings of my talk".  Again, no need to
> limit this to video.
> 
> > 2010 under the license of "Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial
> > No Derivatives 3.0".
> >
> >
> >   Signature  ______________________________
> >
> >
> > Date of signature:            August, 2010
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > Document two: ** Reminder for speakers
> >
> >
> > Dear Speaker,
> >
> > We would like to remind you that COSCUP / GNOME.Asia 2010 will be held
> > on August 14th and 15th,
> 
> This email doesn't really explain why this email is being sent to them.
> It might be nice to explain that this email contains both information
> about the upcoming event and details some actions the speaker needs to
> complete for the event to run smoothly.
> 
> > please
> > check http://coscup.org/2009/en/program for the time slot of your talk.
> 
> I would make "Please check" a new sentence.
> 
> > 1. Please consider to mail us your slides before 17:00 August 12nd (GMT
> 
> I would say "Please mail us your slides".  You don't provide the email
> address to mail the slides.  Would be better to be clear.
> 
> > +8). We would like to put your slides on the web site, so that please
> 
> "so that please" does not make sense.
> 
> > include the copyright notice in your slides, eg: all rights reserved,
> > CC-BY, CC-BY-SA ... etc.
> 
> The above seems a bit confusing.  You say to include a copyright notice
> however CC-BY, CC-BY-SA are licenses not copyrights.  I think that
> we should recommend what licenses are acceptable for this event.  I
> think we can highlight that any CC license is okay, and other licenses
> will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
> 
> > 2. Your talk will be recorded on video. In order to share your
> 
> No need to specify video.
> 
> > expertise, if you agree to release the video record of your talk under
> 
> I would say "Your talk will be recorded on video in order to share your
> expertise with the wider free and open software community.  If you
> agree"
> 
> It reads better broken up in sentences like this I think.
> 
> > the license of CC-BY-NC-ND
> > (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0), please consider to
> > sign the
> > form (https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVuXLsanO-xAZGRoN2Qzd3RfNjU2Z3Z6d2JkZA ) at the counter of COSCUP.
> 
> It might be better to not specify the license here.  The license is
> specified in the form.  Over time, we may change the license, and it
> might be better to just mention the license in one place to avoid
> documents getting out-of-sync.
> 
> > 3. There will be WiFi in the conference and Ethernet cable dedicated to
> 
> I would say "at the conference and dedicated Ethernet cables for
> speakers"
> 
> > speakers, but we can not guarantee the quality or bandwidth of the
> > network.
> >
> >
> > 4. The venue is located at the International Conference Hall, Humanities
> > &  Social Sciences Building, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan ( No.128,
> > Sec. 2, Academia Rd., Nangang Dist., Taipei City 115, Taiwan ). For
> > details, please visit http://coscup.org/2010/en/venue.
> >
> > 5. We will have a Birds-of-a-Feather session in the evening of August
> 
> I would say "on the evening"
> 
> > 14th. You are welcome to join us or propose your own topic
> 
> I would say "or to propose"
> 
> Brian