[okfn-discuss] Jesse Dylan's new video for Science Commons

Wed Dec 10 16:26:44 UTC 2008

Kaitlin Thaney of Science Commons recently pinged me about their new
video by Jesse Dylan, who created the 'Yes We Can' video for the Obama
campaign:

  http://sciencecommons.org/about/science-commons-dylan-video/

The announcement is below.

Jonathan

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Supporting the Commons: Jesse Dylan and Richard Bookman

December 8th, 2008 by Kaitlin Thaney

Today, we are proud to announce the release of Science Commons' first
informational video. The video was directed by renowned director Jesse
Dylan, the director of the Emmy- award winning "Yes We Can" Barack
Obama campaign video with musical artist will.i.am from the Black Eyed
Peas. The video can also be seen on the front of sciencecommons.org.

"I believe Science Commons represents the true aspiration of the web,
and I wanted to tell their story," Dylan said. "They've changed the
way we think about exploration and discovery; the important and
innovative ideas need to be shared.  I believe it's vital to
revolutionizing science in the future.  I hope this is just the
beginning of our collaboration."

This video is launched in conjunction with a letter of support from
Richard Bookman, the Vice Provost for Research and Executive Dean for
Research and Research Training at the University of Miami. Bookman
joins a group of esteemed Commons supporters featured in this year's
"Commoner Letter" series, including this year:  Eben Moglen of the
Software Freedom Law Center and Columbia University, Renata Avila - CC
Guatemala Project Lead, and singer/songwriter Jonathan Coulton. More
information and an archive of past letters can be found at
http://support.creativecommons.org/letters.

In his letter, Bookman writes:

"We need to find ways to make sharing research results and tools easy,
trackable, and useable by scientists on a day-to-day basis. Science
Commons is working on these problems in a way that few other projects
contemplate: they don't write papers, they release "running code" like
contracts for sharing biological materials and open contracts for
biological tools like stem cells and  genetically modified mice. [...]

I support SC/CC because I think it's the right approach at the right
time. It's vital that we as a community support the organization - the
 interstitial nature of what gets done at CC makes it harder than many
 might think to raise money, which can leave the most important work
dying for lack of funds.

I hope everyone in the community can dig deep and support CC during
this campaign. When you support CC, whether because of the cultural
work, or the education work, or the science work, you're supporting an
 organization that is much more than contracts and websites and
videos.  You're supporting an umbrella organization working around the
world that lives and breathes the "some rights reserved" philosophy."

Our thanks to Jesse Dylan, Professor Bookman, and the broader CC
community for their ongoing support. For more information about the
campaign, or to show your support, visit
http://support.creativecommons.org. Every little bit counts. Help
support the Commons.

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