Archive:2005-06-19

= Minutes: 2005-06-19=

Attendenance

 * Nelson, Gavin, Cameron, Nicole, Eldo, Ben Li

Bank Account

 * Gavin set it up
 * Also set up PayPal Account

P.O. Box

 * We need someone to be in Gainsville

Wendsday Conference Call

 * There was going to be talk of organizational strucutre, but instead we moved more towards the idea of a mission

Nelson's To Do List

 * Andrea Rota - Goldsmiths College, University of London: Basically the only UK group ready to go
 * It might be premature to have a call with them, but it might also be beneficial to help them out
 * Asked Creative Commons for some help, also asked for PK to help out fiscally, make them our fiscal agent
 * PK is willing to be our fiscal agent, btu they just dont want to do any work to do it, it is in our hands
 * We need a fiscal agent in order to accept grants (through them)
 * We need to sign a contract and get it notarlized, and then we should be done (it looks like)
 * Florida Lawyer
 * Give him a week and a half, then call him

Counsel

 * What terms has Matt really "signed on for" what further communication have we had with him?
 * Suggested that we contact a cyberlaw clinic in terms of what? let's talk about this --elizabeth
 * Clinic doesn't exist during the summer some of them do. again, which issues are we looking to discuss?

Organizational Structure

 * Organizational Structure should take a backseat, we need to see it within our mission

Campus Groups

 * How do these groups relate?
 * Obviously student oriented
 * How close do we want the groups to be?
 * Should the mission be set for student groups?

Idea of FC.org

 * FC.org was providing a roadmap for the campus groups
 * Nelson - "Priming the pump...trying to get groups started"

Questions

 * What is the purpose of FC.org?
 * Outreach
 * Provide campus groups with resources
 * Community organizing
 * Big theme?
 * Participatory Culture
 * Campus Chapters
 * There is a certain ideology out there of Free Culture, and FC.org and the campus groups embrace and perpetuate this ideology
 * Promote awareness
 * Three things that are noncontroversial that bring us together
 * Resource
 * Outreach
 * Network
 * To what extent should FreeCulture.org do activism or lobbying?
 * People should be involved in each descision making process, from the campus groups
 * Does that need to go into the bylaws?
 * If we want to be a 501(c)3, you have to go at it two ways
 * For up to $500,000 expenditures anually, 20% of that can be lobbying
 * If you go over that, then you get in trouble from the IRS
 * Lots of the big lobbyits are split up into various different companies
 * PK does a lot of lobbying, and they are just a 501(c)3, and then get away with it through lots of certain aspects
 * We can never support a particular canidate, but we can do "reportcards" on certain canidates
 * ACTIVISM
 * How should, if at all, should FC.org run activism?
 * Central FC.org makes activist decisions, core team
 * Central FC.org would take stances on national and international issues
 * What about local and state wide issues?
 * Should FC.org send out alerts, or should it be up to the local chapter?
 * Create a good action alert system, that includes where people live

For Next Week

 * Helping FreeCulture students find internship opportunities and jobs w/ in FreeCulture.org
 * Job placement has to be open to everyone, not only to our own members ( becasue of 501(c)3 )
 * As long as it is not exclusive it should be fine
 * Supporting or conducting our own research
 * Would it be appropriate for FreeCulture.org to make sort of spin off groups? Groups that don't fall under our umbrella
 * We could start awareness for stuff like, extensions for firefox
 * Do we want to start other projects to start other awareness? Or just point people towards other resources?