Archive:2005-12-21 board meeting

Board of directors meeting on 2005-12-21.

Agenda

(see 2005-12-18 board meeting agenda)

Minutes

Attendance: Karen, Nelson, Gavin

• Email forwarder
  • Karen now has one at karen@freeculture.org

• Mission Statement:
  • Should incorporate the three Keystone ideas (see the second question) into a preamble of some sort
    1. We're specifically a student movement
    2. We have a strong presence on the local level
    3. We're trying to bring together PK, CC, EFF, etc into a coherent whole
  • What falls under it? What does it exclude? Testing
    • ie. One Laptop Per Child project--does this fall under the Mission Statement? Should it?
  • Uses language of "Intellectual Property"--may not be so good
  • Second principle--vague?

• Values:
  • "Sustainability"?
    • Making sure works won't be lost if a proprietary format goes bottom-up. Protecting the public domain from being fenced off.
  • Add a paragraph explanation for each value
    • The more we specify it, the harder it may be for everyone to agree with it.
  • Do we need a values statement?
    • Developed through reverse engineering situations we care about -- ie. Dmitri Skylarov. The list may not feel very coherent as a result.
  • Lower priority than other documents--table it for now

• Mission statement vs. Principles/ Policy paper
  • need mission statement for funding!
  • need legislative stuff for election cycle!
  • The mission statement's fine for now, but need a finalized version by end of term
  • Or by end of Harvard? How much work is it feasible to accomplish over break?

• Poke at documents on wiki tonight--meet again tomorrow 11 AM EST