Archive:2007-08-01

• 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!

RSVP

If you plan to attend this meeting, please RSVP here! Please list your chapter, and link to your userpage on the wiki if you like.

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]

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.
• 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
  • Create an entry on Campus Activism
    • Add a mailing list
    • Add an event
    • Add a campaign
    • Add an issue
  • Update entry on idealist.org
• 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)

Next Meeting

The next volunteers meeting will be $next at $time (convert to your time zone) in #freeculture (see IRC for help).