Archive:2005-03-16

What is the vigil?
What is the point of doing candlelight vigils around the country? What are the ideas behind it? What do we want it to accomplish?
 * A pre-packaged event for local chapters that are trying to get started.
 * Comes with press release, flyers, graphics, slogans, ideas for the event.
 * Needs to sound interesting and cool to normal people.
 * Needs to attract new people to the club... has to come off really well
 * We can reuse ideas from Save the iPod and Save Betamax
 * A press opportunity
 * Media attention both for local chapters and the national movement.
 * Media attention on case
 * An opportunity to capture video for an eventual FreeCulture.org video presentation.
 * Chance to take pictures for local blogs
 * A forum for people
 * A chance to express how you feel
 * Opportunity to learn more about the issue

How are we doing it?
What's the gameplan? Who's doing what? This is supposed to help our local chapters, so there's a limit to how much we can ask our local chapters to help us write stuff etc., but on the other hand some chapters are in better condition than others.


 * Need to make care package for event
 * Press release, flyers, graphics, slogans
 * Need to attract press
 * Local chapters may not be good at handling press yet, hold their hands
 * Call nat'l press
 * Blog it, make sure our contacts in the blogosphere blog it

Is this a good model? http://www.moveon.org/vigil/ Are there other models we can look at?