2005-08-14
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Here be the record of another conference call.
14 August 2005, 3 p.m. EST
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Agenda
Introductions
Please give us your:
- Name, school, class year
- One question that you'd like to ask about FreeCulture.org or starting/running a local chapter
Quick responses to each question, then moving on.
Week in review
- Comments on Comment on 37 CFR Part 202, anyone?
Events
- What sort of events might our local chapters want to do next year? Brainstorm.
- Jimbo Wales campus tour
- Screenings of Thought Thieves contest winning films
- Mixtrade (see proposal)
- Speakers, discussion panels, debates, film screenings, lectures, concerts, reading circles, LAN parties, open source beer brewing parties, brown-bag lunches, listening parties, leafletting, public demonstrations, agit-prop street theater, revolutionary knitting circles...
- Organize volunteers to work on free software, Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg / Distributed Proofreaders, etc.
- Create content (and release it under a Creative Commons license) : produce a podcast or show on your campus radio station or low-power FM, film or photograph campus events and share the files online
- Activism: meet with your Congressman; organize call-ins or letter-writing campaigns; circulate petitions; pressure your university or local community for change; etc.
- see also Local projects
- Do any of these events require national coordination?
Minutes
Attendance
Gavin, Nelson, Andy Scudder, Andy from Emerson, Rebekah Baglini, Becky, Karen from Scripps, Inga at NYU, Lauren from MIT, Stephen
Introductions
- Inga is a sophomore at NYU
- Question: What evens are other chapters planning?
- Andy is a senior at Emerson (his favorite color is lime green)
- Question: Are there specific guidelines and expectations for groups?
- Every group should be in contact with freeculture.org: make conference calls regularly, respond to e-mails and mailing lists, and get people involved with freeculture.org
- Each member should be added to your group's mailing list and the freeculture.org announce list.
- We recommend that each group has a blog on campus webspace or otherwise (we can provide blogs if needed), a mailing list, and a wiki for meeting notes, etc.
- We like to have information and documentation from your events! Publish them to the web and let other chapters know what you're doing.
- Question: Are there specific guidelines and expectations for groups?
- Karen is a sophomore at Scripps College
- Question: How much money can groups expect for budgeting activities?
- It depends on your school...
- At NYU, you only get a token amount of money for your first year, but then can have access to more funds later
- At U of Florida, you can get funding for events, but have to be around for a year before you can have a budget
- Be prepared to pay out of pocket for advertising and printing fliers
- Look for co-sponsors! They can help you organize, get funding for, and run events, get speakers, etc.
- Question: How much money can groups expect for budgeting activities?
- Lauren is a sophomore at MIT
- Question: How do you find other people who are interested?
- We discussed this last week and Rebekah has been working on some guidelines for this topic.
- Question: How do you find other people who are interested?
- Andre from Free Culture UK
- Question: How can we organize campaigns together that involve an international audience (e.g. both the US and the UK)
- There is some common ground between the US and UK, e.g. calling for expanding copyright terms, the issue of software patents, etc.
- Question: How can we organize campaigns together that involve an international audience (e.g. both the US and the UK)
- Stephen Compall is a Senior at the University of Evansville
Week in review
- Comments on Comment on 37 CFR Part 202?
- No comments on the call, so make any more comments on the wiki, otherwise it will go out essentially as-is.
Events
- Let the climate of your school determine the balance between activities, activism, etc.
- Non-specific events: debates, lectures, brown-bag lunches, LAN parties, get people to contribute to a free software project or wikipedia, put on a campus radio show/podcast/low-power FM station, screen public domain or CC films (e.g. the winners of the Thought Thieve$ competition; our activist packet should help provide resources and information for this, but we need more organization/resources)
- Activism: participate in petitions of laws, write to your congressmen