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Minutes of our IRC chat in #FreeCulture on Jan 6, 2005

Internal Policy Paper

Spring 2005 Strategy Paper

• We wanted to refine our current projects down to the ones that concerned the national organization
  • So, the more local projects were jettisoned to their own page
• We decided to focus on three campaigns for this semester:
  • Opposing DRM, the broadcast flag, and trusted computing
    • Somewhat limited in scope, but time-sensitive.
    • Education of the dangers and weaknesses of DRM and avoiding the broadcast flag, etc.
    • We need to educate people on danger the broadcast flag poses to their freedoms and then direct them to channels that allow them to do something about it on a larger scale, because we don't necessarily have the resources to fight the FCC directly.
  • Free Culture Tour
    • Primary goal: to entertain.
    • Also helps to raise awareness of FC, get the artists involved, and get people thinking about the commons on campus.
    • Funding is a motivation to have this happen this semester.
  • "Be the Media" Project
    • Encompasses participatory culture. Changing the mindset of media from being just consumers to being a producer as well.
    • Self-Publishing
      • The Creative Commons Publisher makes it stupidly easy to host your own Creative Commons content on The Internet Archive. Get others to use it.
      • Torrentocracy is testing out an easy-to-use content delivery system for individuals called Prodigem that allows people to publish their stuff via BitTorrent.
      • Podcasting

Next Meeting

Conference Call: Moved from Sunday to Saturday, Jan 8 at 3 PM EST because most people wouldn't be available on Sunday.