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
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Kat Walsh kat@mindspillage.org wrote:
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
It looked interesting, and I tried to attend last night, but when I showed up at Teaism, I could not find the group. I expected that it would be a smaller group than our Meetups, since it seems the Meetups are too big for Teaism to work as a venue, but I saw nothing that looked like a group, and since the place seems to be counter service there wasn't someone to ask. I stood awhile outside hoping to spot someone I knew or someone who knew me, but didn't find anyone.
I'm still curious about the big secret -- as soon as you can reveal details, please let me know.
2010/1/26 Bruce R. Gilson brg1942@gmail.com:
It looked interesting, and I tried to attend last night, but when I showed up at Teaism, I could not find the group. I expected that it would be a smaller group than our Meetups, since it seems the Meetups are too big for Teaism to work as a venue, but I saw nothing that looked like a group, and since the place seems to be counter service there wasn't someone to ask. I stood awhile outside hoping to spot someone I knew or someone who knew me, but didn't find anyone.
I'm still curious about the big secret -- as soon as you can reveal details, please let me know.
Hm -- we were in the downstairs section, with a little sign on the table saying "CopyNight"! If you came too long before 6:30, probably no one was there yet...
But I can say a bit more about the "big secret" now (not that big, really). Carl Malamud from public.resource.org is looking for volunteers to commit to shifts of 3-4 hours or so at NARA (in College Park) to do DVD duplication of several thousand gov't videos that are in the public domain but haven't been released online yet, which he'll then put online in the "Fedflix" collection. There will be a kickoff event at Sunlight Foundation offices on Feb. 11 at 1 pm (supposedly with some fanfare and thank-you swag for volunteers).
If you are interested and can make a firm commitment to taking at least one shift, let me know and I'll pass on the info to the organizer; we're hoping to get about 30 people. If you know other people who may be interested, let me know as well--the main concern is that people who sign up actually are going to show up for a full shift.
Cheers, Kat
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