2007-08-01
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- A meeting for those interested in volunteering with FreeCulture.org -- come if you want to help!
- 1 August 2007 (Wednesday), 9 pm EDT (convert to your time zone)
- in #freeculture (see IRC for help)
- Volunteers mailing list: Join it!
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RSVP
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Agenda
Administrative note
- How to run meetings better
- Start on time
- Tools to better communicate meetings
- Volunteers to remind people of meetings
- Team or project contacts:
- Be there (or send a representative)
- Add your news to the agenda in advance
- Prepare in advance
- Attendees: Read the agenda in advance
Reports from existing volunteer projects
Web Team
- Progress on existing projects (see bugs on Launchpad)
- Bugs closed since last meeting:
- Progress made on bugs since last meeting:
- Other accomplishments:
- Help wanted
- How to get involved
- Meetings:
- Next meeting is ___
- Net architecture strategy meeting: Schedule TBD
- Mailing list: [1]
- Launchpad: [2]
- Meetings:
Fundraising
- Progress on existing projects
- Help wanted
- How to get involved
- Mailing list: [3]
Free Culture Labs
- Progress on existing projects
- Opensearch: public domain texts search for college students
- Swapnotes: interactive open access repository of student e-prints and working papers
- Help wanted
- Contact Congress system
- Package stet
- Package Gobby for OS X
- Maintain CULATOR
- Maintain Free Your PC CD
- Maintain Free Thesis Project
- How to get involved
- Mailing list: [4]
Help wanted
Post requests for help (that are not specific to a team) and new proposals here
Old
- Blog:
- (upcoming) New York Times article about FreeCulture.org and open access to research (watch here)
- This might not be "upcoming" very soon, or ever -- the Education Life supplement was released on 2007-07-29, sans the story on FC.o.
- (upcoming) New York Times article about FreeCulture.org and open access to research (watch here)
- Campus concerts
- With Future of Music Coalition, re: Net neutrality (Rock the Net)
- With Digital Freedom Campaign re: p2p
- Wiki cleanup
- Hill visits
New
- Blog:
- (2007-07-25) Sparky Awards video contest for students on information sharing. FC.o board of directors member Karen Rustad is a judge for the contest
- (2007-08-03) Complaint to Federal Trade Commission about deceptive copyright notices which FC.o signed
- Outreach
- Break the Inter.net (see iCommons node)
- "Flex Your (Copy)Rights" (cf. Flex Your Rights)
- Contest for student papers on access to government information (with Sunlight Foundation / grant)
- Congressional pressure on universities re: p2p
Minutes
Log
A log of the IRC chat is available at $log.
Attendance
- Gavin Baker, University of Florida (alumnus)
- Nick L., Swarthmore College
- Asheesh Laroia, Web Team
- (parially) Mark Sisley, University of Florida
- (partially) Nelson Pavlosky, George Mason University Law / Swarthmore College (alumnus)
Reports from existing volunteer projects
Web Team
Fundraising
Free Culture Labs
Help wanted
Next Meeting
The next volunteers meeting will be $next at $time (convert to your time zone) in #freeculture (see IRC for help).