Archive:2005-01-28

Minutes for the Friday, 28 January 2005 type of meeting IRC office hours by Gavin.

Copyright Office RFC
We should create a Web interface since nobody else has done this yet.
 * Gavin and J.C. will do
 * will be http://freeculture.org/orphans

Open Access Campaign

 * Get your school to sign onto Alliance for Taxpayer Access
 * Help your school & library in whatever concerns they have
 * Convince your school to be open access-friendly
 * FC.o will join Alliance for Taxpayer Access
 * Andy will sign us on
 * Web site with information
 * a page with links, a brief summary, a "this is how you can help"
 * a blog or wiki on the site to let people post progress updates
 * We will decide on domain name by next ofc. hours, and have a draft site up in 2 weeks

Contacts

 * Gavin reassigned as CC contact
 * Andy will sign us onto http://www.taxpayeraccess.org
 * Abhay secondary contact
 * signing on as official name "FreeCulture.org"

Video project

 * Mike has not produced a storyboard
 * Jeremy will be director
 * Demographic information of school will go in graphics
 * subtitle at beginning of each group's clip
 * speaker's name
 * school name
 * city, state
 * slide before each clip
 * map with location of school
 * student enrollment
 * public or private
 * coed or single-gender
 * established date

Eyes on the Screen
DHB received a C&D from Blackside and have taken down the torrents. This casts things in a new light. It won't be hundreds of screenings across the U.S.; it may be very few. It's back to the prior situation of those who happen to have copies in their library, along with the few who had the foresight to download it quickly. Nelson phoned DHB and got the scoop. Gavin will blog an update.