For now, we are keeping the original time slot at noon US Central, but we might eventually move that slot to an afternoon slot.
All tracks must be on YouTube due to limitations of Jit.si. You can play 5 minutes of your selected video. Artists must release under a #CreativeCommons license. We made this decision after one of our chats (back when we did chats instead of listening parties) got blocked in Denmark.
It's that time again. We are looking for regional judges for the Creative Commons Community Music Awards. Please let me know if you would be interested in taking a region.
The regions we have available are as follows (two regions are already taken): Mid-West - #ND, #SD, #NE, #KS, #MO, #IA, #MN, #WI, #IL, #IN, #MI, #OH Southwest - #OK, #TX, #NM, #AZ
In the future, we would love to break the regions up more, but having smaller regions this year has proved unmanageable. How much of that is due to covid? Who knows.
I have been told in the past that once-a-day posts are fine but any more than that gets tiresome. I doubt I will post daily, but if I post about this too much, please let me know!
It's that time again. We are looking for regional judges for the Creative Commons Community Music Awards. Please let me know if you would be interested in taking a region.
The regions we have available are as follows (two regions are already taken): Mid-West - #ND, #SD, #NE, #KS, #MO, #IA, #MN, #WI, #IL, #IN, #MI, #OH Southwest - #OK, #TX, #NM, #AZ
In the future, we would love to break the regions up more, but having smaller regions this year has proved unmanageable. How much of that is due to covid? Who knows.
I have been told in the past that once-a-day posts are fine but any more than that gets tiresome. I doubt I will post daily, but if I post about this too much, please let me know!
Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Sep-2020 18:10:23 UTC
Douglas A. WhitfieldI would really appreciate shares to get the message out of this. Also, please feel free to translate. I would love to have native Spanish speakers in particular involved as South America is predominantly Spanish-speaking. I know Brazil is Portuguese and one of the smaller northeast countries is English-speaking, but we just need diversity in general and I think having native speakers of other languages is one way to do that.
It's that time again. We are looking for regional judges for the Creative Commons Community Music Awards. Please let me know if you would be interested in taking a region.
The regions we have available are as follows (two regions are already taken): #Canada Rocky Mountain - ID, MT, WY, NV, UT, CO Mid-West - ND, SD, NE, KS, MO, IA, MN, WI, IL, IN, MI, OH Southwest - OK, TX, NM, AZ Southeast - AR, LA, MS, AL, GA, FL, TN, SC, NC, KY, WV, VA, DC (if someone really wants to do Northeast with DC, sure, take it) #Mexico, Central America, and Carribbean (we haven't decided if PR will be here or in US Southeast) #Asia (minus Russia) #Oceania (including #Australia) #SouthAmerica #Africa
In the future, we would love to break the regions up more, but having smaller regions this year has proved unmanageable. How much of that is due to covid? Who knows.
I have been told in the past that once-a-day posts are fine but any more than that gets tiresome. I doubt I will post daily, but if I post about this too much, please let me know!
The regions we have available are as follows (two regions are already taken): #Canada Rocky Mountain - ID, MT, WY, NV, UT, CO Mid-West - ND, SD, NE, KS, MO, IA, MN, WI, IL, IN, MI, OH Southwest - OK, TX, NM, AZ Southeast - AR, LA, MS, AL, GA, FL, TN, SC, NC, KY, WV, VA, DC (if someone really wants to do Northeast with DC, sure, take it) Northeast - NY, MD, DE, PA, NJ, CT, RI, VT, NH, ME, MA #Mexico, Central America, and Carribbean (we haven't decided if PR will be here or in US Southeast) #Russia - realistically, this is probably taken, but I haven't heard back yet. #Asia (minus Russia) #Oceania (including #Australia) #SouthAmerica #Africa
In the future, we would love to break the regions up more, but having smaller regions this year has proved unmanageable. How much of that is due to covid? Who knows.
For the last couple of months, I have been hosting a Quarantine #Music Chat. I am not going to post weekly topic updates here, but this week the topic is #netlabels, which seems like a topic that might interest people here.
THE DETAILS The chats are at noon US Central (currently UTC-5). This is in part to accommodate both the US west coast and Viktor Van River in Kazakhstan.
Password: kazoo (although I am not sure this actually works...I think maybe the first one in the room can set a password and then if you leave the password is gone. It seems weird)...I feel like going public with a password will still help against bots. idk.
Although many (though definitely not all) of the people in the group are CC Community Music Awards judges, the chat topics are not limited to Creative Commons music.
A DIFFERENT TIME? We have had people in Japan and in Eastern Europe ask about a different time. I would love for someone to host a different time, so if noon on Sundays US Central does not work for you, you can use the Jitsi room we have and the facebook group, and people can pick the time they like. If someone wants to coordinate a time through Diaspora, go for it. Just don't pick something close to noon US Central. I can post the time to the facebook group in case others want to join.
WHEN WILL IT END? I don’t know how long we will do this. The NBA starts back July 30. MLS is back July 8. European matches have already started back. There’s a “complete” list for sports at https://nu.federati.net/url/271049
Idk how much the chat crowd overlaps with the sports crowd. I know we have one MLB fan who is a regular attendee. Sports, I think, are much more TV-driven than music. If you want to listen to music at home, you can just go to Jamendo.com or blocSonic.com. You don’t need an event like sports do.
I suspect we will keep going as long as people are willing to show up. I suppose at some point we might have to change the name…
JULY! I had originally planned to not attend in July, but my plans for July have changed some. I will definitely be out July 12. I will probably try to come on July 5 as I suspect attendance will be low due to holiday weekend.
Please share with anyone you think might be interested. You do not need to live in the region to be the judge for the region. There are still 10+ months in the year, so whoever takes the region is not that far behind.