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Here is Chris's note followed by the article, Invitation to Wholeness: Healing and Empowering the Perceptive/Creative Capacities:

Invitation to Wholeness: Healing and Empowering the Perceptive/Creative Capacities

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Ed Morrison presents at Re-employment summit in Baltimore MD

http://reemploymentworks.workforce3one.org

10:45AM SESSIONS - WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 2009
 
Room Session Session Description Speaker(s)/Moderator(s)
Baltimore
Ballroom A Accelerating Practice Across Networks
 
SUPER SESSION
Building your network and building the networks of the
people with whom you work are two of the most effective
reemployment strategies available.  Who and what you
know both make a BIG difference in the successful
reemployment of your customers.  This interactive pre-
conference session will explore a range of strategies for
expanding your networks, and will offer new opportunities
to use network-building to advance program design and
service delivery.  ETA Atlanta Regional Administrator Helen
Parker and networking maestros Rick Maher and Ed
Morrison will help you hone and deploy your skills...and you
will leave with an action plan that will make a true
difference for you and for the people you serve.
Ed Morrison
Economic Policy Advisor,
Purdue Center for Regional
Development
 
Rick Maher
President & CEO, Maher &
Maher
 
Moderator:
Helen Parker, Administrator,
Region II, Department of
Labor, ETA

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CiviCRM is an open source and freely downloadable constituent relationship management solution. CiviCRM is web-based, open source, internationalized, and designed specifically to meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental groups. Integration with both Drupal and Joomla! content management systems gives you the tools to connect, communicate and activate your supporters and constituents.

Recent email from Chris Gibbons Economic Development Director for Littleton CO and co-founder of Economic Gardening:

In Northeast Ohio and across the US, the I-Open team and many others leading in education, economic and workforce development, have been building online collaborative communities in economic development. 

I-Open works in collaboration with Strategy-Nets -- our technology partner located in Research Triangle Park, NC -- to strengthen the economic development efforts of entrepreneurs in the "Civic Space" - everything outside the four walls of any organization. Online collaborative communities sustain the important conversations between face to face meetings and amplify every individual's effort as a part of a larger effort to build enterprise and strengthen economic development.

I-Open also works in collaboration with Livestream, the Internet Television provider, located in New York City, NY. Internet television captures live broadcasts and chat of open conversations, gatherings, and interviews: the practical research for every business, government, academic and government leader today.

By integrating Web 2.0 tools with the Near-Time platform (such as Internet television, video, blogs, Twitter, Facebook, etc.) face to face/online community members can learn anywhere anytime and are able to connect and re-deploy information with increasing levels of transparency and speed to spot opportunities faster.

Each web space is inspired by individuals or organizations working in collaboration to identify and connect people, ideas and initiatives for enterprise development in communities and regions. Online communities may be regionally or nationally based and every community is at some level of maturation and change. The I-Open Civic Forum process (center) creates the neutral spaces for leaders to learn about Open Source Economic Development and may subsequently spin out face to face/online communities of interest, practice and commitment. All of the communities included in the map below are open to the public.

The map below shows I-Open collaborative communities today -

From Ed Morrison's Garage :

Innovation zone pilot initiative

Adapting the Innovation Zone pilot initiative I designed for Cuyahoga County. Need to modify the idea for Kokomo and Inventrek: http://www.inventrek.com/

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From Ed Morrison on Twitter with special thanks to author, Toni Tease at Intellections:

In the first reported decision to directly address the enforceability of open source licenses, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled on August 13, 2008, that the grantor of an open source license for software code that is publicly available had a cause of action not only for breach of contract but also for copyright infringement when a member of the public used such code without abiding by the notice and attribution requirements of the license. According to the Federal Circuit, "[o]pen source licensing has become a widely used method of creative collaboration that serves to advance the arts and sciences in a manner and at a pace that few could have imagined just a few decades ago." In exchange and consideration for this collaborative work, the court stated, the copyright holder "permits users to copy, modify and distribute the software code subject to conditions that serve to protect downstream users and to keep the code accessible." In Jacobsen v. Katzer, 535 F.3d 1373 (Fed. Cir. 2008), the Federal Circuit reversed a District Court holding that the open source license at issue was "unlimited in scope" and therefore did not create liability for copyright infringement. Jacobsen managed an open source software group called Java Model Railroad Interface ("JMRI"). JMRI had created a software application called DecoderPro, which is used by model railroad enthusiasts to program the decoder chips that control model trains. The DecoderPro code is made publicly available under the Artistic License-one of many open source code licenses pursuant to which source code is made available to the public. The Artistic License grants to users the right to copy, modify and distribute the software, provided that certain notices are included in the source code files for the new program and that the new program is not distributed outside of the user's organization. In this context, the term "new program" means a program that includes modified DecoderPro code. Katzer offered a competing software program called Decoder Commander that http://www.teaselaw.com/newsletter/2008_december.html

was also used to program decoder chips of model trains. The Decoder Commander code base incorporated DecoderPro source code files, but Katzer had not complied with the notice requirements of the Artistic License. Katzer made a technical argument, namely, that the notice requirements of the Artistic License were "covenants" and not "conditions." The significance of this distinction is that if the notice requirements were merely covenants and not conditions of the license, then the only remedy would be breach of contract—not copyright infringement. Katzer also argued that copyright law does not recognize a cause of action for non-economic rights and that there were no economic rights at issue because no fee was charged for the DecoderPro code. The Federal Circuit rejected both of Katzer's arguments. As to the economic rights issue, the court held that consideration in the form of compliance with open source requirements of disclosure and explanation of changes made by the user to the code is no less legitimate than consideration in the form of a license fee. Further, the court held that the notice requirements of the Artistic License were conditions (and not merely covenants) to protecting the economic rights at issue in the granting of an open source license. Specifically, "[t]he attribution and modification transparency requirements directly serve to drive traffic to the open source incubation page and to inform downstream users of the project," which the court characterized as a "significant economic goal" that is legally enforceable. The significance of this case to software development firms is that it emphasizes the need to establish a system for policing the use of open source code by developers to ensure that if open source code is used, the license governing use of that code is identified, and the terms and conditions of that license are complied with. The terms of open source licenses vary, and it may be advisable to avoid certain open source license altogether in order to maintain the proprietary nature of the software.