rejon.org is Jon Phillips.

It is interesting to hear how much software costs. I forgot this until yesterday when in a SFAI faculty meeting, different faculty discussed the costs of various 3D apps.

Schools should take the cost of one of their software licenses and setup a freedom toaster for students to download and burn high-quality free and open source sofware as well as free and open content.

iCommons Summit, Rio de Janeiro, 23-25 June, 2006
www.icommons.org
“Towards a global digital commons”

The past few years has seen the burgeoning of a number of initiatives
aimed at opening the fields of creativity, science and knowledge in
communities around the world. Practitioners from these movements
currently identify themselves as falling within a particular community
– ‘free and open source software’, ‘open access’, ‘open content’ and
‘open science’, amongst others – but they share key processes and
values whose common elements are yet to be fully realized.

This year’s iCommons Summit aims to bring together, in a creative,
stimulating and cooperative environment, the pioneers from these
communities – to inspire and learn from one another and establish
closer working relationships around a set of incubator projects. With
participation by commons communities from Creative Commons, Wikipedia,
Science Commons, Ubuntu, A2K and others, this year’s Summit is set to
be one of the most exciting events for creative and knowledge commons
pioneers from around the world.

Check it! There is me and Randall Christopher from Kleemanandmike.com fame at Chris Willits b-day celebration.

Willits and Other Bald Guy and Phillips Chilling

This the “Jedi Circle” at Creative Commons.

All of these lovely images were shot by Ryan Junell.

Also, Creative Commons Salon 2 went quite well. The attendance was a tad lower, but that is to be expected post the first event. Don’t forget to post up your blog posts, podcasts, photos, etc to the CC Salon site (a wiki).