Call / Plea / Beg for Responses: What If Creative Commons Certifications?

Like I’ve done in the past, to some degree of success, I am asking for people to help out on a project with a video response to questions related to my new project with Creative Commons, helping to design/build a system, process for offering a “certification” in Creative Commons.

Yes, I put that in quotes, because we are still figuring out what a certification really is or means. Your responses will help! Part of the work I hope to finish this week is to get our web site up that will document thew project progress openly, as we go. I have nothing but feeble excuses why it is taking me so long.

The idea I had was to ask people these questions before I fully explain the project, so I do not seed them with expectations. I want to hear their ideas as to “What If…” such a thing existed, what they might expect of it or think how it should work.

I tried it out Monday on a video call with Bill Fitzgerald— he kind of sets a high bar with his thoughtful responses!

This is not something I want to necessarily do myself or as interviews. So soon there will be a site on our new blog with a form where you can send us a URL for your own video (it should be licensed creative commons shared via YouTube or vimeo). I have it close to worked out (meaning in my head) so the submitted videos (done in WordPress with Gravity Forms) will populate a gallery of the videos.

It will help tremendously if I can seed it with a good set of existing responses, so that’s where YOU come in. Yes YOU. Do not try to hide from me. Some of you will get direct nag messages. Some of you I will see and thrust a camera in your face.

Do you have 5 minutes to record, 5 to upload, and send a link? You can put in the comments below, send me a tweet (@cogdog), or fold it up and send it to me in an envelope. These are the questions I’d like you to answer in your video, done in whatever format you prefer, but something 2-5 minutes is awesome.

• Who are you? Introduce yourself, first name fine, where in the world you live, what kind of work you do.
• What role does Creative Commons play in the things you do? This could be related to work/teaching, but also in terms of media sharing for content created. Or it could be “none”.
• What would it mean to you to have a Creative Commons certification? What would you do with it, how would it play into the things you do. What is its value? And like in Bill’s video, that answer might be “nothing”.
• What might it look like to earn a certification? Imagine, project a vision for what it would take for you to get a Creative Commons certification, how/where is it done (in person, workshop, course, online)? How long does it take? What kinds of things are you doing to earn it?

The responses, hopefully from a wide range of people, will help our design process (which you will read about SOON on that site, SOON!)

What if? a Creative Commons Certification existed? What if? I asked for help? What if!

Creative Commons licensed image from Wikimedia Commons

Top / Featured Image: The search in Google Images (the only way to do it, with the option set for results licensed for reuse. They won’t make it the default, but you ought to) was for the words “What if”.

I went back to the well, and found the image you see is from a Creative Commons licensed YouTube video “WHAT IF | Cinematic Music (Emotional Piano) | Joachim Heinrich”

(of course the credits there for the image is a broken link to a wall paper image at alphacoders, where there is, from what I can see, no kind of license/usage provided). I have to stop somewhere…

This image credit is almost a blog post on its own!

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