Creative Commons Malaysia Chapter

NOTICE: MINUTES OF THE FIRST MEETING ARE PUBLISHED HERE

The CC Malaysia Chapter

Welcome to the Temporary Website for the CC Malaysia Chapter.

Please note that this website's sole purpose is to prepare for the First Meeting of the Chapter where the governance board and other positions will be elected. As the Chapter builds up it will have its own website and other management and outreach tools.

You can safely ignore the side menu.

Statutes

As the Chapter gets constituted a clear Statue document must be implemented and observed for its functioning. This will be part of the agenda during the First Meeting.

Members

Currently the CC Malaysia Chapter does not have official members as it's undergoing its official constitution process. The current 2 persons organizing and facilitating this process are Jean F. Queralt (The IO Foundation) and Suma Jayachandran (Wawasan Open University). The final composition of the governance board and the rest of the Chapter members will be elected during the upcoming First Meeting. For more information on this process, please refer to the this page.

Upcoming Election

The current election process is to take place on Saturday 20th March 2021, from 14:00 to 16:00 (UTC+8 - Malaysia time). The event will be hosted by The IO Foundation under its TechUp initiative. It will include the First Meeting session and a booth for CC Malaysia Chapter where people can gather for more information during the weekend.

Timeline

The following timeline has been set to move forward with the constitution of the CC Malaysia Chapter:

• Candidacies to be open from 1st to 14th March.
  • Submission of candidacies here
• Info uploaded to Temp CC Chapter website (this page)
• Preparation and publishing (this page) of candidacies on D-7 (Saturday 13h March)
  • Candidacies will be published here
• First Meeting to be held online during TechUp event (Saturday 20th March - 14:00 to 16:00 UTC+8).
  • See agenda.
  • Vote for candidates here
• Submission of results to CCGN
• Formalization of the chapter and beginning of activities

Presentation of candidacies

The process of presentation of candidacies opens on the 1st of March 2021 and closes on the 14h of March 2021 EoD UTC+8.

There will be 2 main positions to be filled during the constitution of the CC Chapter, namely:

Chapter Lead Description and responsibilities: See the official CC documentation.

GNC Representative IMPORTANT: The GNC Representative can ONLY BY a registered GNC Member. Should you want to initiate that process, please read this guide.

Description and responsibilities: See the official CC documentation.

Before submitting your candidacy, please make sure to:

• Read the position descriptions (above) and make sure that you understand them and comply with their requirements.
• Keep in mind that theses are NOT remunerated positions
• Ensure that you will have enough time to properly fulfil your obligations and to help the Chapter solidify and grow

NOTICE: CANDIDACIES HAVE BEEN CLOSED. LIST OF CANDIDATES IS PUBLISHED HERE

Candidates

For Chapter Lead THIS SECTION WILL BE POPULATED WITH THE CANDIDACIES STARTING 14th MARCH.

For GNC Representative THIS SECTION WILL BE POPULATED WITH THE CANDIDACIES STARTING 14th MARCH.

Voting

THE LINK TO THE VOTING PLATFORM WILL BE PUBLISHED ON THE 20th MARCH.

Join the Chapter

The CC Malaysia Chapter will need of your collaboration to create a strong team who can build the chapter, disseminate knowledge on the CC movement and organize events. A good number of skills are required and no help is small. During the First Meeting we will be analyzing the different needs and you will be able to evaluate if you can contribute with your expertise. So far, the expected (yet unconfirmed) roles would be along the lines of:

• Chapter secretary
• Website manager
• Comms coordinator
• Events coordinator
• Partners coordinator
• HR (including Membership) coordinator

Activities

For the time being, the only scheduled event is the First Meeting, where the CC Malaysia Chapter is to be officially constituted. One of the items in the agenda is to discuss what should be the next events for 2021. Come and propose!

Proposing Activities

See above.

Calendar

One of the action items to be implemented by the CC Malaysia Chapter should be publishing its events through a publicly accessible calendar.

Media Channels

Currently, the following media channels are being considered:

• Website (Wordpress - likely to be provided by CC GNC)
• Twitter (currently unclear who is handling this - working on it - If you know, please reach out to us: [email protected])
• LinkedIn (recently registered)

All these will require proper management, for which the Chapter will need to source adequate tools.

Website

While we Chapter is constituted, the Temp Website will be a combination of:

• Wiki page
  • To publish information on the ongoing processes
• Start.me page
  • to publish a collection of relevant links

Once the Chapter obtains its own website all this information will be migrated there.

Media Policy

Another relevant policy that the Chapter will need to establish will be its Media Policy.