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* Travel fund, so group leaders / the board can meet, and so students can travel to conferences, etc. | * Travel fund, so group leaders / the board can meet, and so students can travel to conferences, etc. | ||
* Speaker's bureau, to help coordinate bringing speakers / presenters to campuses | * Speaker's bureau, to help coordinate bringing speakers / presenters to campuses | ||
| − | * Help placing students in internships, work or | + | * Help placing students in internships, work, volunteer, research, or training opportunities |
* Scholarship to provide OSS-loaded PCs to students | * Scholarship to provide OSS-loaded PCs to students | ||
| + | * Help researchers, promote research in our sphere, produce original research (summer research internships?) | ||
* Provide FC.o & other merch. to new campus groups (along with [[Activist Packet]]) | * Provide FC.o & other merch. to new campus groups (along with [[Activist Packet]]) | ||
* Action alerts | * Action alerts | ||
| − | * Style guide for blog, announce emails, etc. | + | * Style guide for blog, announce emails, etc. ([[How to:blog]]) |
* Press section on Web site with readymade info | * Press section on Web site with readymade info | ||
* Info on Web site in other languages (French, Spanish) | * Info on Web site in other languages (French, Spanish) | ||
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* Provide funding for grant-writing workshops for students | * Provide funding for grant-writing workshops for students | ||
* Provide small bounties / stipends / mini-grants for students to work on FC.o (e.g. Webmasters, blog writers) | * Provide small bounties / stipends / mini-grants for students to work on FC.o (e.g. Webmasters, blog writers) | ||
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==Questions== | ==Questions== | ||
Revision as of 03:16, 13 June 2005
Hi, I'm Gavin Baker, a history major c/o 2007 at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Fla. I founded a chapter of Free Culture at UF, called Florida Free Culture, in Spring 2005. Feel free to contact me at grbaker -@t- ufl .dot. edu or on AIM at gavin baker 42. I have a Web site at gavinbaker.com.
You can also join Florida Free Culture's mailing list by sending a message to LISTSERV@LISTS.UFL.EDU with subscribe FFC-L Your Name in the body of the email. It's a one-way announce list, and low traffic. There is also a Facebook group called "Florida Free Culture."
To-do
edit this list - add to watchlist
Ideas
- Travel fund, so group leaders / the board can meet, and so students can travel to conferences, etc.
- Speaker's bureau, to help coordinate bringing speakers / presenters to campuses
- Help placing students in internships, work, volunteer, research, or training opportunities
- Scholarship to provide OSS-loaded PCs to students
- Help researchers, promote research in our sphere, produce original research (summer research internships?)
- Provide FC.o & other merch. to new campus groups (along with Activist Packet)
- Action alerts
- Style guide for blog, announce emails, etc. (How to:blog)
- Press section on Web site with readymade info
- Info on Web site in other languages (French, Spanish)
- Merch. / pamphlets for influential people outside the org
- Business cards for directors
- Better integration of wiki with Web site
- Shared address book(s)
- Revamp password system
- Provide funding for grant-writing workshops for students
- Provide small bounties / stipends / mini-grants for students to work on FC.o (e.g. Webmasters, blog writers)
Questions
- Is "FreeCulture.org" the best name for our organization?
- Should we claim to be "international" when all our groups, and almost everyone involved, is in the U.S.? Should we try to be international -- or let those outside the U.S. start their own national group naturally?
- Should our blog be for FC.o news only, or also for action alerts, or commentary? Should we be encouraging students to write commentary? Can we rely on a regular production of commentary? Would the commentary work better in its own blog (or its own RSS feed, but the same blog)?
- We're about participation. We seem to have given up on being "radically decentralized"; how can we stay decentralized enough that creativity and innovation flourishes? How can we be "radically transparent" (but still professional) instead?
- How can we recognize the contributions that people have made to us (volunteers, money, in-kind donations)? How can we track people so we know who did what?
