Archive:FCX/Unconference/Year one

Organizing

 * Projects: YouTomb (MIT)
 * Problems: RIAA lawsuits (Brown)
 * Events: Wales presentation (Yale)

Official recognition

 * Difficult bureaucracy? Fake/feed/cheat it til you make/need it!
 * Talk to other organizations, find out what works for others
 * Benefit: table space at activity bazaars, access to space + money
 * Good idea: recurring room (NYU), or booking space in public space (library, patio)
 * Drawbacks: budget, planning ahead, restrictions on spending

Faculty relationships

 * Opening doors
 * Networking
 * Invite good people to campus
 * Make plans with people coming anyway
 * Interfacing with institution
 * Organize around a related class
 * e.g. Is there an internet law class? Media studies? Intro to CS?
 * Find out about internal mailing lists. Subscribe!

Social gatherings

 * "Free as in beer" (Yale)
 * Free (computer) gaming (VT)
 * House party w/ stenciling (Brown)
 * Silk-screening at NYCresistor (NYU)

Potential projects

 * Blitzmail archive and history (Dartmouth)
 * What makes a project "exportable", "replicable"?
 * How to mobilize the group at large? How to involve many members?
 * Making 1 single (favorite) class "open"
 * ccLearn archive on university copyright policy
 * Compare with your school?
 * Workshops
 * OpenCourseware topic
 * Free software for students
 * Social media in the classroom
 * Linux installfest
 * Rockbox
 * Wikipedia editing session (plus pizza)
 * Wikipedia takes Manhattan photo scavenger hunt (NYU)

Success stories

 * Open Courseware (Georgetown)
 * Sharing successes, 1 page writeup, blog post
 * Could we have a SFC historian?

Fundraising
Making and selling objects
 * T-shirts
 * Pins
 * Stickers