Program Committee

Executive Committee of the ESIP Federation

Members

Jim Frew, President
Chris Lenhardt, Vice President
Charles Hutchinson, Chair, Ficom
Danny Hardin, Chair, Partnership
Michael Goodman, Chair, C&B
Marilyn Kaminski, Type I Rep
Peter Fox, Type II Rep
Tamara Ledley, Type III Rep
Margaret Mooney, Chair, Education
Karl Benedict, Chair, IT & I
Rob Raskin, Chair, Products and Services

Activities

Telecons

Next Telecon, October 8, 2010 at 2 pm ET
Agenda

1. Adoption of Minutes

2. Follow up to discusion on website content - Creative Commons(Brian)

3. Winter Meeting Update

Committee Reports
Breakout Sessions

4. Committee/Working Group Budgets

5. 2010 Elections

6. Other Business

Metrics
Water Cluster

Creative Commons Text Creative Commons Licenses – Options for Copyright protection.

In the words of Creative Commons,

Creative Commons is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to making it easier for people
to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyright.

We provide free licenses and other legal tools to mark creative work with the freedom the creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination thereof. They have six different licensing options, which are, in all cases, free. They do ask for donations. You can view the legal code, which is as comprehensive as any legal document, or the “Deed” which is a readable form for normal people (non-lawyers). To view the links you will need to go to the site http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/

The Licenses

Attribution This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered, in terms of what others can do with your works licensed under Attribution. View License Deed | View Legal Code

Attribution Share Alike This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial reasons, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to open source software licenses. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use. View License Deed | View Legal Code

Attribution No Derivatives This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you. View License Deed | View Legal Code

Attribution Non-Commercial This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms. View License Deed | View Legal Code

Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. Others can download and redistribute your work just like the by-nc-nd license, but they can also translate, make remixes, and produce new stories based on your work. All new work based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also be non-commercial in nature. View License Deed | View Legal Code

Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, allowing redistribution. This license is often called the “free advertising” license because it allows others to download your works and share them with others as long as they mention you and link back to you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially. In terms of what direction we should go, the Creative Commons supports our idea of open collaboration while maintaining the integrity of the creator of the product. The licenses have the full range from simple attribution up to no commercial use and don’t change it. There are other sites/groups that offer free copyrights but they are dot coms so there is an element of risk. I could not find any that offered the range that Creative Commons has nor their very transparent policies and website. Short of looking into a “cost” area, Creative Commons seems to be the way to go and given that we have had them speak and have a good idea of their reputation, we should feel secure in the fact that their work and ability to maintain the copyright license is trustworthy.

TO APPLY It isn’t a difficult process to apply for a license, you just sign up. The process would go like this for ESIP

1.Generally, works that are protected by copyright are: books, scripts, websites, lesson plans, blogs and any other forms of writings; photographs and other visual images; films, video games and other visual materials; musical compositions, sound recordings and other audio works. Do we fit under these categories?

2.Do we have the rights to what we have created? For example, Wiredcraft did our website, can we copyright it and do we need to talk with them?

3.We need to really be sure how we want to copyright it. Remember, there are six levels of licenses.

4.Several people should review what they do and how they work before a decision is made.

5.What if we change our mind or one of our members who has posted something there has changed their mind? From what I can see, once we copyright the website, it and its’ contents are copyrighted, but if someone who has posted something removes it, they can do what they want with it but as long as it is under the ESIP website copyright “umbrella”, it has to adhere to whatever type of copyright we use.

6.We sign up, we are given html to post on our site and it becomes copyrighted according to the type of license we decide upon.

7.There is no cost but they take donations and we should consider “paying” for it by donating at a level the board decides is appropriate. They deserve the support to keep open source going.

8.One caveat, the CC license is above and beyond US copyright, so if we feel that we need to have legal clout so to speak, we would need to copyright it through the copyright office. However, that should be something that was commercial we were thinking of marketing, software for example.

Minutes from recent telecons

Draft Excom Minutes
Approved Excom Minutes

Working Groups and Clusters

Strategic Planning Working Group

In response to the growth of the ESIP Federation during the past 3 years, one of the Federation's sponsors suggested that the organization undergo a strategic review. President Hutchinson organized a small working group from members of the Executive Committee to review the ESIP Federation's mission, vision, strategic direction and related activities. In addition to the input session on Vision for the Future held at the summer 2007 meeting, the Working Group held its first meeting on July 20, 2007. Check back here periodically to learn more about what is going on.

Members of the Working Group:

Chuck Hutchinson, Chair
Rob Raskin, ESIP Federation Vice President
Bruce Caron, ESIP Federation Finance & Appropriations Committee Chair
Chris Lenhardt, ESIP Type I Representative
Peter Fox, ESIP Type II Representative
Kerry Handron, ESIP Type III Representative
Stefan Falke, ESIP Commercial Development Committee Chair
Tamara Ledley, ESIP Educatino Commnittee Chair

Our sponsoring agencies have been invited to observe and participate in the Working Group's activities.

Timetable for Working Group Activities

Activity	Deadline	Accomplished
Agree on a general way forward	January 8, 2008	Yes
Review survey results	January 8, 2008	Yes
Define issues to pursue with partners over next two months within Decadal Survey framework	February 1	In Progress
Hold Strategic Partner meetings	March 1	Being Scheduled
Identify broad objectives from the direction of the member survey and partner interviews	mid-March
Review previous plan against results and refine mission, objectives, and structure as necessary	mid-March	In Progress
Draft plan for review by ExCom	April 10
Present final plan to Assembly	July 16

Next Meeting: February 6, 2008, 2 p.m. telecon

Background Documents:

Draft Survey Instrument
Timetable for Strategic Planning Benchmarks

Meeting Visioneering Working Group

At the November 2005 ExCom teleconference the Meeting Visioneering Working Group was set up to provide advice and support for the planning of the ESIP annual meetings. Bruce Caron volunteered to chair this working group.

The working group consists of the vice chairs from the standing committees, the vice president of the Federation, the ESIP Type representatives and any other ESIP members who care to contribute.

The working group will report back to the ExCom on a regular basis.

ESIP MV_WG <-- Link to working group Wiki branch