Hey guys,
I want to share details about an event next week in D.C. We want to
get the word out to as many people as possible, including Wikimedians,
Creative Commoners, Mozillans, hackers, academics, and geeks of all
stripes.
This is guaranteed to be a really fun event, and we'd appreciate if
you'd tell your friends and colleagues, tweet like crazy, and spread
the word.
Free Culture X Conference in Washington D.C., Feb 13-14. Pay what you
want http://bit.ly/fcconf #fcx
Free Culture X, a conference of Students for Free Culture, will be
held February 13/14th at the George Washington University in
Washington, D.C. Keynote addresses will be given by Harvard Berkman
Center co-founder Jonathan Zittrain, the co-founder of the public
interest group Public Knowledge, Gigi Sohn, and the director of
American University's Center for Social Media, Pat Aufderheide.
The conference is focused on developing greater openness among
institutions of higher education by specifically investigating:
The politics of open networks,
Global access to knowledge,
Free software, and
Open education.
Registration is pay-what-you-want, whether that's $1 or $100. All
proceeds will go directly to help projects of Students for Free
Culture. The average registration is currently about $25. Gifts (such
as signed copies of books by Lawrence Lessig and Henry Jenkins or
custom voicemail recordings by Jonathan Zittrain) are awarded for
bigger donations. Register now: http://conference.freeculture.org/register/
Cheers,
Ben
SFC Board of Directors
Thanks all for a great meetup and to the people who had the bright
idea of finally starting a mailing list!
Thought you might be interested in knowing about the monthly CopyNight
gatherings in DC; it's a group of people who meet monthly to talk
about news and issues in copyright and digital rights. There have been
several guest speakers, including Carl Malamud and Jonathan Band, and
usually we get a pretty good group (if slightly lawyer-heavy!)
I recommend this month's in particular because our organizer is
looking for people for a volunteer opportunity that he'll talk about
at the meeting, involving making more of the public domain accessible.
>From the announcement:
"If [you're interested], please come to this month’s CopyNight DC. It
will be held at our usual venue, Teaism in Penn Quarter (accessible
from the Chinatown/Gallery Place or Archives metro stations), at
6:30PM this coming Monday, the 25th of January.
I cannot discuss details, here, but trust me when I say this is a
chance to be part of an exciting new volunteer project that will
directly benefit the public domain. I will have more details on
Monday for anyone interested as well as an explanation (I promise) as
to why, at least for now, I am sworn to keeping any more public
information under wraps."
Mailing list: http://copynight.org/dada/mail.cgi/list/was
Blog: http://copynightdc.wordpress.com/
Cheers,
Kat
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Thank you to Aude and others for organizing this list. Hopefully
it'll grow into a useful resource for DC-area Wikimedians, and maybe,
at some point down the line, we can get ourselves a proper Wikimedia
chapter. The number of people at the most recent meet-up demonstrated
the viability of such, at least.
If all goes well, at some point I suspect we may begin to want to
organize some outreach activities (and being in the nation's capital,
we are well-placed for it). Anyone up for some lobbying?