Archive:Board Conference Call 03-26-08

=ByLaws & Incorporation=
 * Going ahead with Diane's suggestions
 * Asking about:
 * Voting over a period of time rather than at an annual meeting
 * Assign President/Secretary/Treasurer

=Bank Account=
 * Ask Nelson for check from old account.
 * Elizabeth is going to wait until she gets the check and then go to the bank and setup an account.
 * We need the certificate once we incorporate so we can open an account.
 * Bank of America

=Status Reports on Chapters=

Georgetown

 * Kevin Donnovan
 * Freedom of Expression Screening soon
 * Official club status gained

SU Law
The board is currently working on setting up a website and a working on recruiting more members. Next year we want to do three major events:
 * Brian Rowe
 * We have a chapter of 15 student three of which are board members. Events for this year have included a career panel for tech law. sponsorships of an event focusing on accessibility for the justice system online and an upcoming panel on open law resources (ALTLaw, Cornell, government websites).
 * 1) Blogging and access to the law event
 * 2) Something larger around open access law maybe designed to push the law reviews towards open access
 * 3) Partner with ACLU's tech liberty project to raise awareness about the intersection of Fair Use, copyright and civil liberty issues.

Major questions for national
When is the national conference this year?... SF summer? Did swag ever go out to chapters? We did not receive any. What happened to the idea of a national calender of events, any progress on that front?

RPI

 * Frank ???
 * Just getting started
 * Wiki editing RPI -- making it a featured article
 * National Campaign idea: Students communicating with their universities about RIAA's actions
 * Newsletter Idea++

Lima University

 * Software advocacy
 * All of them are engineering students
 * Linux install fests
 * Proposals for Google summer of code for free-culture friendly projects

Virginia Tech

 * 18 People
 * 8 people who come everytime
 * Haven't planned a movie screening
 * Have a meeting where people talk about current events that leads into watching a movie.
 * They're having RMS come talk this week.
 * Really into swing-dancing
 * 1st year
 * Good momentum
 * Newsletter?
 * Excited about the newsletter idea

Boston University
Active members: Rich Jones, 1 prof, and 1 assistant prof. 10 people come to meetings sometimes Recent/upcoming work: (1) founders of pandora came to speak - 200 people showed! (2) general work: building an opencourseware site for BU. Should talk in a few weeks about how we can help them at the national level

Chadwick
Active members: 4 Recent/upcoming work: quoting the email "a week from last friday, we had a fund raiser. we gave away cd's with free music on them and asked for donations (recommended $5).  we made a little over $500 (we gave away 100 cd's).  there's info on our site: chadwick.freeculture.org.  next on our agenda: we want to work with the tech department to make chadwick faculty and students more linux-savvy.  we want to start a dialog both with the tech dept and with the headmaster.  we might put the extra $300 from the fundraiser towards buying the school a dedicated linux workstation.  we also want to put together some informal film screenings (good copy, bad copy; steal this film; and others)"

Columbia
Active members: ~8 Recent/upcoming work: Wikipedia takes Manattan (w/ Free Culture NYU) http://www.freeculturecolumbia.org/archives/37

5C
Active members: 3 Recent/upcoming work: screening Steal this Film 2