2005-11-20
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2005-11-20: Core Team conference call at 6 pm EST.
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Agenda
- Shipping - update on shipping stuff to chapters
- Regional summits - update
- RIAA-free top 10 lists - idea
- Volunteer opportunities
- Board of directors - applications due Nov. 23. Questions?
- Cereal Solidarity - update
- Jimbo Wales tour - update
- December / January meeting scheduling - decision
- Questions, comments, concerns - open the floor
Minutes
Attendance: Gavin, Nelson, Elizabeth, Amanda, and Karen -- first FC.o female majority anything ever! Yay!
RIAA-free CD gift-giving guide
- make a webpage: different folks' top 10 lists
- make .pdfs to give to retailers
- Check that they're also non-DRM
- RIAA-free labels v. RIAA-free distribution?
- Easier to just look at labels, and that's where policies're made
- Different releases of the same CD can be from different labels...
- Meant to be useful, not super-dogmatic
- Criteria--just personal taste
- Link to a place to buy the CDs? Amazon? Half? CDBaby? Audio Lunchbox? Band website?
- Online music stores (iTunes et al) usually have DRM
- Don't want to show favoritism...
- Are we raising awareness or encouraging purchase?
- Let's just get this thing started... As long as we're not explicitly endorsing a vendor, we're not evil.
- Deadline--how about posting it Thursday? So send them to Gavin by Wednesday, we can update the page later.
Shipping status
- Downhill Battle says they can probably do it... waiting them to get back to Nelson
- Chapter shipping--no progress
- Need spreadsheet.
Regional summits
- Nothing's happened in CA
- Not much in NY--set to start advertising, no speaker yet, make wiki page for agenda
- Announce it on the blog
- How many people read our blog?
- No idea. Until we have a webmaster. We should figure that out...
- How many people read our blog?
- Who's coming?
- Who in Free Culture *lives* in the NY area (as opposed to going to school there)?
- Send out an email as well
- Announce it on the blog
Volunteering opportunities
- They're there, they're listed in the agenda, they were sent out in an email...
Dec/Jan calls
- No decision made yet for Jan. 15--we'll send an email out the first week of January to see if people can come or not
Cereal Solidarity
- Still need to send out a letter for that...
- They have another three months before we find out about their patent
- Cereality-patent office conversation: mentioned Cereal Solidarity to them!
- Also in UK Telegraph--misquoted us, though...
- Well, *someone's* reading our blog, eh? :)
- Need final count on petition signatures--have folks send Gavin their hard copies