Archive:2005-11-20

2005-11-20: Core Team conference call at 6 pm EST.

Agenda

 * Shipping - update on shipping stuff to chapters
 * Regional summits - update
 * RIAA-free top 10 lists - idea
 * Volunteer opportunities
 * Board of directors - applications due Nov. 23. Questions?
 * Cereal Solidarity - update
 * Jimbo Wales tour - update
 * December / January meeting scheduling - decision
 * Questions, comments, concerns - open the floor

Minutes
Attendance: Gavin, Nelson, Elizabeth, Amanda, and Karen -- first FC.o female majority anything ever! Yay!

RIAA-free CD gift-giving guide

 * make a webpage: different folks' top 10 lists
 * make .pdfs to give to retailers
 * Check that they're also non-DRM
 * RIAA-free labels v. RIAA-free distribution?
 * Easier to just look at labels, and that's where policies're made
 * Different releases of the same CD can be from different labels...
 * Meant to be useful, not super-dogmatic
 * Criteria--just personal taste
 * Link to a place to buy the CDs? Amazon? Half? CDBaby? Audio Lunchbox? Band website?
 * Online music stores (iTunes et al) usually have DRM
 * Don't want to show favoritism...
 * Are we raising awareness or encouraging purchase?
 * Let's just get this thing started... As long as we're not explicitly endorsing a vendor, we're not evil.
 * Deadline--how about posting it Thursday? So send them to Gavin by Wednesday, we can update the page later.

Shipping status

 * Downhill Battle says they can probably do it... waiting them to get back to Nelson
 * Chapter shipping--no progress
 * Need spreadsheet.

Regional summits

 * Nothing's happened in CA
 * Not much in NY--set to start advertising, no speaker yet, make wiki page for agenda
 * Announce it on the blog
 * How many people read our blog?
 * No idea. Until we have a webmaster. We should figure that out...
 * Who's coming?
 * Who in Free Culture *lives* in the NY area (as opposed to going to school there)?
 * Send out an email as well

Volunteering opportunities

 * They're there, they're listed in the agenda, they were sent out in an email...

Dec/Jan calls

 * No decision made yet for Jan. 15--we'll send an email out the first week of January to see if people can come or not

Cereal Solidarity

 * Still need to send out a letter for that...
 * They have another three months before we find out about their patent
 * Cereality-patent office conversation: mentioned Cereal Solidarity to them!
 * Also in UK Telegraph--misquoted us, though...
 * Well, *someone's* reading our blog, eh? :)
 * Need final count on petition signatures--have folks send Gavin their hard copies