Archive:2010-12-11

Chapters meeting in IRC at 4pm Eastern!

Introductions
What's your name? Where are you from? How's your chapter doing? What got you interested in free culture in the first place?

SFC NYC 2011
We'll probably want to talk about the upcoming conference in NYC, Feb 19-20! How can we get lots of SFC members there? How can you help?
 * http://conf11.freeculture.org/
 * http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/conf11

How can we better aid chapters?
Care packages? Webspace? What does your chapter need that it doesn't have?

Why are we here?
I think one thing the SFC website has been missing is a good statement about what the organization is and what it does. We used to have the Free Culture Manifesto on the website, which was based on the older SCDC manifesto. I'll be the first to admit that this was a flawed document, but at least it made some attempt at explaining what free culture is about. Can we come up with a modern, updated mission statement for Students for Free Culture? What should such a mission statement contain? It needs to go further than the "purposes and goals from the Bylaws. If nothing else, I'd be happy to write a blog post about this to kick off some conversations. --Nelson 16:00, 11 December 2010 (EST)

Hacking Ideas

 * Interesting uses for the new hacking list serv?
 * Interesting projects?

Minutes
Transcript http://wiki.freeculture.org/2010-12-11/transcript

Students for Free Culture chapters meeting!

Introductions

 * Nelson Pavlosky, New York Law School
 * Tom Levine, Cornell University
 * Alec Story, Cornell University
 * Jimmy Kaplowitz, Fordham University School of Law
 * Adi Kamdar, Yale University
 * Joe Dempsey, Fordham University School of Law
 * Parker Phinney, Dartmouth College
 * Ben Moskowitz, ex-Berkeley

Conference 2011
Couch surfing should be available for anybody who needs it. Need to organize couch surfing - has been ad hoc in the past - benmoskowitz could start a group at couchsurfing-benmoskowitz Registration system should include a field indicating whether you need crashspace

Registration: Eventbrite? Wufoo? Doing it by hand

Building is already reserved at NYU

DVswitch as possible video software: http://dvswitch.alioth.debian.org/

What the heck are we doing at this conference? We need to sort out the schedule of the conference. Tentative schedule on Google Docs at: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ArFV1FoRMhuzdEVqdkZLbHVNMmtQcEdueUZMS1NLWmc&hl=en&authkey=CLaSkb0J#gid=0

We need to figure out what we want the theme of each panel to be, and recruit speakers for them. Speakers are the biggest concern for the conference right now. We will discuss further on the mailing list for the conference, which can be found at http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/conf11