rejon.org is Jon Phillips.

So, first off, looks like Democrats are taking control of the House and Senate hopefully repealing and changing the current bad state of the United States. Then Rumsfeld resigns his post! What a great day!

I’m also feeling optimistic about the Microsoft/Novell deal now as well, as the complexities of it unfold.

Then, come to find out, one of my areas of major interest, Open Source Cellphones received a major boost with the announcement of the OpenMoko phone and Harold Welte’s involvment. This is great because I will be speaking at a conference in Taiwan in January, so hopefully can connect them up with Creative Commons Taiwan so we can get some properly licensed content onto these phones.

Oh, and to top it all off, tonite is the 10th Creative Commons Salon in San Francisco where the Homebrew Mobile Club, featuring Matthew Hamrick (who works for ACCESS, used to be palmsource) will be presenting about the “Complete Open Phone.”

UPDATE: The good news doesn’t end now that I see this post that Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt is calling for making data EXPORT a key strategy and encouraging others to do so, similar to something I wrote in the past. This is so great. I want to work with Google more!

I’m going to verbatim quote the CC blog post I just wrote. This is going to be a great salon, and hope that everyone in the bay can make it out:

REMINDER: CC Salon San Francisco this WED 6-9 PM at shinesf.com

Don’t miss the next CC Salon
at shinesf from 6-9 PM on Wednesday, November 8
in San Francisco. This salon features famed
blogger and
SF Bay
Guardian writer,
Annalee Newitz. Also,
Homebrew Mobile Club’s, Matthew Hamrick and
other HB Mobile Club members will be on hand to discuss his project’s
“Complete Open Phone,” a project to produce open source cellphones with CC licensed plans and content accessible on them. Finally, Wendell Davis is going to present the new
on-line music editor and mash-up community,
Splice. And, just added to the dynamic
line-up is Steve from
Alive in Baghdad, an amazing videoblog
of interviews and stories by Iraqis directly from the streets of Iraq, bypassing
corporate media. Throughout the salon the
Kleptones are going to spice up the
evening with music and interludes.

So come on out on Wednesday, bring a big stack of business cards,
some cash for drinks, and lets talk about the Commons. This is the last salon of
the year, as our regular 2nd-Wednesday December salon is combined with a special
birthday party for Creative Commons on FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15. Stay tuned for more info.

You may track this CC Salon on upcoming.org. See you this Wednesday!

UPDATE: Come to the special Creative Commons Publishers’ Association meeting at 5 PM at the same place, Shinesf.com. NOTE: This is one hour earlier than the salon starts. From the even’t wiki page, it is characterized as a “A collection of representatives from organizations that publish content under a Creative Commons license.”

That’s right, don’t miss this week’s CC Salon at http://shinesf.com from 6-9 PM. The line-up is stellar: Homebrew Mobile Club releasing their open source cellphone plans, Flickr.com, Music by the Kleptones, and Annalee Newitz. We are probably going to have 1-2 more speakers added in the next couple of days, as our dec. event is going to be moved to a FRIDAY to celebrate CC’s birthday at a special (free) party.

Oh, to all you ubuntu dev summit goers at google this week, this WED, please come to the city for this event and lets have drinks and talk shop!

I think this will be a good event as well to give out free shirts to people who take footage, video, record audio of the event. Hold me to my word!