Gathering Creative Commons project leads from around the world (around eighty in all) at Harvard Law School, the iCommons Summit had several objectives including reporting and sharing ideas on past successes and challenges in the license porting process, developing strategies for furthering the Creative Commons mission around the world, and building consensus on what a truly international and distributed Creative Commons would look like. I also can’t forget to mention a few great parties, one in which Larry Lessig was unfortunately (or fortunately) thrown into the swimming pool (it’s never a great party until someone goes in). See pictures from the whole event here.

Collecting a large group of people who have been working together, virtually, towards the same goal over the past two years, is truly something to see. The energy of the conference was amazing. Great ideas were produced and shared throughout the meeting, and it is hoped that together we can build an organisation that meets the diverse needs of a highly committed volunteer base, while furthering the mission of a “some rights reserved� approach to copyright.

Text by Neeru Paharia, first published on the Creative Commons blog under a CC BY 3.0 licence, on 28 June 2005.