Hi, my name is Mike Linksvayer and I work for Creative Commons. I presented at n2y1, looking forward to being back.

This year I'll be running a session on mashups and the commons (writ large), currently scheduled just before lunch on day 2. All mashups rely to varying degrees on various commons -- open protocols, formats, data, source, content, community. I will be giving a presentation, but this is also an opportunity for you to bring your project, understand how it builds upon and contributes to commons, and how to grow that space.

The 2006 conference was great and I think the organizers had a great idea to make N2Y2 focus on 20 great projects. Everyone is going to learn a ton.

Here are my top 7 proposals:

In my part of the Turning Communicatons Technologies Into Tools For Free Speech And Free Culture session I'll cover:

• Technologies that enable free, participatory, sustainable, democratic culture
• Threats to the full flowering of these technologies
• Free culture as free speech and vice versa
• Creative Commons legal and technical tools
• How your nonprofit can leverage CC and other technologies to spread its message and involve its constituency

For an introduction to Creative Commons please visit  the Creative Commons home page and in particular watch the five minute intro Get Creative.