Archive:2005-07-03

Conference call on 7 p.m. EST, 03 July 2005.

Week In Review

 * Grokster
 * Gavin's out of town
 * Mailing list changes
 * Reminder to Wiki more!

Gavin's Farewell Homework

 * This is a good guideline on what he has left on the table, and what we have to do. Anything up yet?


 * Finish and post the Grokster FAQ
 * Finish and post an About page
 * Finish and post an FC.o FAQ
 * Make a decision on mission activities
 * Make a decision on organizational structure
 * Get started on making the by-laws
 * Work with some of the people who contacted us to improve the look of the Web site
 * Make some progress on the organizing manual and activist packet
 * Print T-shirts

Jobs

 * Wiki Page @ Jobs
 * Haven't defined all responsibilities yet
 * Still need more volunteers/need to assign more people
 * Check out the Wiki and edit accordingly
 * Important someone needs to pickup the Finance/paperwork responsibilities now that Gavin's away

T-Shirts

 * When do we need this out? When do we need to make a decision?
 * Who is on this right now?

DefCon

 * What's going on here?
 * Banner?

Mission Statement

 * Mission Statement Wiki Page @ Mission Statement
 * Check in your Comments/Proposals in the Wiki

Research into other Orgs

 * Org Structure Wiki Page @ Organizational Structure
 * Check in your Findings/Comments in the Wiki

Attendance

 * Matt L from England, UK,
 * Andy, Ian, Aaron, Kieran from Emerson, Boston, MA
 * Nelson, Elizabeth, Ben Li

Jobs

 * Matt available for webmaster!
 * Nelson will make necessary arrangements

T-Shirts
Mission & Org Structure tabled Defcon/Tshirt tabled

Emerson Group

 * Intro'd to Free Culture at a class in Emerson
 * Emerson is a media and communications school
 * Prof Eric gordon - taught class on Studies in Digital Media and Culture.
 * Currently working on a 'craiglist' for the school
 * Also trying to educate the community on the problems of copyright
 * Public knowledge has material, can try to get from there

UK Groups

 * Nelson will set up mailing list for the UK: discuss@uk.freeculture.org
 * Matt has a contact with a UK t-shirt printer
 * Nelson will give Tshirt contacts to Matt so he can print if he can print tshirts in UK if needed
 * Nelson will give UK contacts to Matt

Youth vs Students Organization debate
Should we be a Student or Youth Group?
 * UK - many youths not in college
 * Germany - more community oriented
 * We want to be inclusive
 * need to define student/youth


 * Qn: Why just youth? Why not FC movement?
 * Nelson's reply: FC.o started as a student group; we need a unique, independent voice

Literature

 * For defcon/ gavin @canada
 * Need to work on general flyer!

Tabled

 * Mission & Org Structure
 * Defcon / T-Shirts