Archive:2006-08-16

This is one of many meetings.

Agenda

 * Fall plans
 * Software Freedom Day - 9/16/06
 * in Peru my group is planning a conference Lglira
 * OneWebDay - 9/22/06: WE SHOULD DO SOMETHING!
 * Maybe a conference or outside activity Lglira
 * National events
 * Integrating chapters
 * Replace this item with a real one, I just wanted the list to look longer.

Minutes

 * What are YOU doing this fall?
 * Software Freedom Day
 * CNUK: partay!
 * Northwestern: op-ed piece
 * UF: Ubuntu/etc giveaway and amateur beatboxing
 * Checking up on Firefox availability at your school would be a good idea
 * Is Firefox free enough? EULA, non-free artwork, talkback agent
 * Sure.


 * Blackboard
 * NYU's got an anti-Blackboard agenda for this year -- first, how much does NYU pay for it? second, get rid of it!
 * What are the alternatives?
 * eduPlone, other opencourseware...?


 * Yet another argument about FC.o federalism...
 * Plan:
 * Nelson takes a year off from school
 * Nelson gets an office at Swarthmore
 * Nelson gets the 501c3 stuff done (with help of CC and Amanda B-S)
 * ROAR LESSIG FAN CLUB IS FOR NO
 * Noted.
 * Nelson finds grants to get paid/give FC.o a budget
 * Nelson takes all the administrivia we haven't gotten around to yet out back and shoots it
 * Bylaws, core/chapters, stuff below...
 * Problems to be addressed
 * PO Box expired
 * Late sales tax report
 * No corporation re-registration paperwork... do we exist now?
 * So... go Nelson go!


 * New Chapters!
 * Northwestern: mashup club?
 * Free Culture club as leader/hub of other, smaller clubs/causes
 * Social networking!
 * DOPA would be a major issue

Attendance
Fred (NYU), Asheesh (CGNU), Nelson (Swat), Karen (Claremont), Steven (UToronto), leventhal (UToronto), Christina (Harvard), Elizabeth (Harvard), Erin (UNC), Matt (UNC), Aphid (UCSC), JJ (Northwestern), Eldo (UF), Chris (UF), Gavin (UF), Matt (CNUK), Christopher (Northeastern)