2005-03-30
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Agenda
No agenda was prepared before this conference call.
Minutes
Attendance:
Mike Wolk - Colby
Nicholas Bergson-Shilcock - Franklin & Marshall
Nelson Pavlosky - Swarthmore
Alex Benn - Swarthmore
Franklin & Marshall event
- discussion of moglen's speech (?)
- statistics brought up - triggered discussion
- 1/2 of people who share music illegally use P2P
- food was good to attract people
- was rainy - probably discouraged some people
- big paper banner
- press release
- got into afternoon paper (apparently)
- should get into paper 1-2 weeks in advance - attract community
- swarthmore has created a list of stuff to do when propping - trying to keep swat wiki out of google, so it's not linked here
- good idea: table ten (?) - adverts placed on tables in dining centers
- reserve space early
- nick will blog about it soon
aside: flag for Free Culture
- we need a professional graphic designer to redo our look
- lego logo & gray is good though
Eben Moglen - recently discussed at Swarthmore
- diff between Moglen's and Lessig's positions
- Lessig: if we don't do anything we will lose our rights
- Moglen: it will happen eventually - fatalistic - build it and they will come
- Lessig is more mainstream - better suited to an uneducated audience
- context at Swarthmore discussion: free culture isn't honestly a grassroots movement - we're not helping people organize what they already believe in - we need to inform them
- needs to be some central push outwards
- although we have been getting new groups, it's because of what we've been doing
- Gavin has been responsible for lots of attention
- we should ping the new campuses
Mike - Colby update
- film festival getting underway
- will be showing student films
- compare to "Frosh Life" at Duke - students submit films about being freshmen
- festival will be held on the 27th
- should add new blog to aggregator once it's up
- colby.edu/freeculture
- will soon have redirect from colby.freeculture.org
- officially live today
- should be added to map once someone has some free time
- posters are up
- octopus is "mascot" - visible on Contact page on site - from creative commons-licensed image from Flickr
- idea was to make competition seem less formal
- Mike has some people lined up to help
- needs to sit down with someone and get them on recruiting
FreeCulture.org's birthday is coming up - Apr 23rd
- Swarthmore is having a LAN party
- could be tied in with the Colby film festival
Nelson went to Grokster arguments
- was really cool
- took pictures - was in Wired News - picture 4
- lacks time to blog about it
We may be getting a new chapter at Princeton
Conference calls: are these worthwhile?
- people have been spending time working on local stuff
- If we don't get large turnout, should we call them off? Are we doing something wrong? Are they not useful?
- May be less than perfect, and almost no one might be able to come
- However, it's a good way to keep people in touch, up-to-date
- To have people actually talking is something that doesn't always work well in other formats
- Alternative is chats through AIM or IRC
- there is a power to the voice
- dead air makes people feel need to say something
- makes the national organization seem more "real"
- so we shall continue
How should we increase attendance at conference calls?
- have agenda online ahead of time
- has been done by Gavin in the past
- no one has picked up slack since he took sabbatical from doing that
- not much going on on national level since Gavin took sabbatical
- people should consider bringing someone with them to conference call
- people need to stop going to other countries
- we should create a standard structure for these conference calls
- we have minutes, which is good
- what else could we add to create more structure?
- efficiency = good
- need more focused discussion perhaps
- chaos of wiki is bad - disorganized
- internal blog for core people might be good
- better than digest emails
- need webmaster willing to do this for us
- internal blog for core people might be good
next call is Sun at 3 PM