Archive:2005-12-21 board meeting

Board of directors meeting on 2005-12-21.

Agenda
(see 2005-12-18 board meeting agenda)

Minutes
Attendance: Karen, Nelson, Gavin


 * Email forwarder
 * Karen now has one at karen@freeculture.org


 * Mission Statement:
 * Should incorporate the three Keystone ideas (see the second question) into a preamble of some sort
 * We're specifically a student movement
 * We have a strong presence on the local level
 * We're trying to bring together PK, CC, EFF, etc into a coherent whole
 * What falls under it? What does it exclude? Testing
 * ie. One Laptop Per Child project--does this fall under the Mission Statement? Should it?
 * Uses language of "Intellectual Property"--may not be so good
 * Second principle--vague?


 * Values:
 * "Sustainability"?
 * Making sure works won't be lost if a proprietary format goes bottom-up. Protecting the public domain from being fenced off.
 * Add a paragraph explanation for each value
 * The more we specify it, the harder it may be for everyone to agree with it.
 * Do we need a values statement?
 * Developed through reverse engineering situations we care about -- ie. Dmitri Skylarov. The list may not feel very coherent as a result.
 * Lower priority than other documents--table it for now


 * Mission statement vs. Principles/ Policy paper
 * need mission statement for funding!
 * need legislative stuff for election cycle!
 * The mission statement's fine for now, but need a finalized version by end of term
 * Or by end of Harvard? How much work is it feasible to accomplish over break?


 * Poke at documents on wiki tonight--meet again tomorrow 11 AM EST