Archive:2005-07-10

Just another Sunday Conference call... July 10, 2005.

Getting more people involved
How can we get more people to join the organization, with a minimum of effort?
 * AIM meeting
 * Easy to invite people... just invite whoever you see on your buddy list who might be interested in the movement.
 * Many non-geeks already use AIM.
 * Get an outreach coordinator

Getting more people doing work
How can we get more people to do things for FreeCulture.org?
 * Each person should have a public to-do list on the wiki, perhaps like mine: Nelson. Advantages include:
 * Other people can edit it (or at least make suggestions on your Talk page)
 * It's specifically for FreeCulture.org stuff, not all your personal to-dos.
 * You can track what everyone is doing through the Special:Recentchanges page
 * It might get more people using the wiki, which would be a good thing
 * It would get more people used to the wiki software (if you don't know how to use Mediawiki, perhaps you should look through the Wikipedia introduction)
 * There should be more lists of tasks and jobs on the wiki which people can take up
 * People should make a time commitment, perhaps starting with one hour a week and working their way up. I'm going to start with a commitment of two hours a day, and work my way up from there, but other people don't have to follow my possibly extreme example. -- Nelson 16:22, 10 Jul 2005 (EDT)

DefCon

 * Elizabeth and Fred have submitted the abstract along with a bunch of media for inclusion on their CD.
 * We're in the process of researching Hotels/Airfare. Looks like either the Boardwalk or Hard Rock Cafe
 * Going to start work on actual lecture this week.

T-Shirts
http://www.fasinphotoblog.com/mono_standing_front.jpg http://www.fasinphotoblog.com/back_standing_almost4.jpg
 * Fred is going to order shirts tomorrow at CC with money raised from HBTY funraiser: http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/happybirthday/
 * 200 Shirts, CC might pick up the entire tab even if our money runs a bit short. Fred will talk with Fran @ CC tomorrow.
 * Speak now or forever hold your peace regarding the design.

Minutes
Attendance: Matt Lee, Ben Li, Nelson, Stephen, Rebekah, Elizabeth, Melody, Fred, Eldo, Andy, Sid

Gavin is in Canada this week meeting with FC-related people.

Website

 * Matt Lee is the new webmaster. Hi Matt!
 * Web site is using plone for static pages
 * Matt welcomes you to add TODO items to his user page
 * Blog aggregator created

International groups

 * Met Andy in Canada, who is interested in a Canadian FC organization
 * Issues: Could kill FC name with actions
 * We can treat intl orgs at the moment like we do locals: mostly independent
 * international groups: message should be same across borders, even if activities are otherwise independent
 * Legally independent as local groups are currently
 * list of things we care about and don't care about

Getting more people involved

 * hey, we need to expand
 * AIM meeting to bring in more people
 * Nelson reports success with a Swarthmore AIM meeting for brainstorming
 * ours is at Wednesday 10pm EDT by the way
 * (welcome Melody)
 * create global task lists, TODO lists on user pages for each person
 * cross out instead of deleting from TODO ( like this )
 * "Office hours": everyone working on it at the same time
 * last time, everyone ended up chatting on IRC instead
 * blog team to keep things happening on the blog
 * Matt volunteers
 * should be more of a commentary blog than the announcement blog it is now
 * many people have taken a job because they were asked
 * create more team leaders

(I cut out here)

Email nomenclature, blog

 * forward cron output to Matt, make freedom a separate account
 * everyone on core should have a blog
 * maybe blog team leader should be separate from web, but it is Matt for the moment

T-shirt design

 * design by committee is too hard
 * on the back: bad because of hair
 * on the sleeve: maybe too small
 * current design graphics looks good
 * 3 colors means more expense (+3/shirt perhaps)
 * Fred and Elizabeth will confer on the design
 * (Fred made some open-source beer, and Nelson thinks we should sell it as a fundraiser)
 * should have FreeCulture.org on the front
 * FC.o-specific design

DEFCON

 * Why the people there should get more involved with copyright/patent issues
 * going to be self-promoting around the conference