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Date: 2013/3/5
Subject: [FC-discuss] Register for FCX2013!
To: discuss(a)freeculture.org
Students for Free Culture will be having its annual conference at [New
York Law School][1] on April 20-21st!
The Students for Free Culture Conference is an annual gathering of
student and non-student activists, thinkers, and innovators who are
dedicated to advancing discussions on technology, law, and public
policy. Through panels and keynote speakers, FCX 2013 will focus on
current issues in intellectual property law, open access to educational
resources, maker culture, and technology policy. Through workshops, the
conference will revisit the core pillars of the free culture movement,
examine the success stories from our movement, and identify new ways in
which Students for Free Culture can advocate for a more free, open, and
participatory digital environment.
For more information about the conference, visit the conference
[website][2].
Registration is [open][3]!
Through the generosity of our sponsors, [Students for Free Culture][4]
is once again able to offset student travel costs for this year’s
conference in NYC. Our first priority is to provide funding to at least
one student from every active chapter in the organization – but funding
is available to _all_ student activists and leaders who would like to
attend FCX2013.
If you can’t afford the cost of traveling to NYC next month, please do
not hesitate to fill out this [form to request travel funding][5]. We
have some money and we want to give it to you.
If you have friends at schools that do not currently have an active SFC
chapter but you think they should be at the conference, please pass
along [this link][5] to them, too. Sometimes attending the conference is
just the spark that someone needs to get out there and start a new
chapter on their campus!
[1]: https://www.google.com/maps?q=new+york+law+school&hl=en&sll=40.6
97488,-73.979681&sspn=0.69759,1.233215&hq=new+york+law+school&t=m&z=15
[2]: http://freeculture.org/feed/fcx2013.org
[3]: http://fcx2013.eventbrite.com
[4]: http://freeculture.org/
[5]: http://bit.ly/fcx2013_travelfunding
URL: http://freeculture.org/blog/2013/03/06/register-for-fcx2013/
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Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom)
OKFN Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre
http://br.okfn.org
On 4 March 2013 12:40, Laurentius <puntoesclamativo(a)email.it> wrote:
> In data lunedì 4 marzo 2013 10:38:49, Fae ha scritto:
>> [...]
>> I'll aim to book my travel to arrive on Thursday afternoon [...]
>
> Note that the WCA council meeting is currently planned for Thursday (as
> discussed in a WCA meeting some time ago).
Okay, I haven't booked flights yet so I should be able to include all
of Thursday. Discussing the agenda in any detail will have to defer
until after the current election for Chair, however I suggest
arranging an afternoon meeting so that people can arrive in the
morning without too much hassle. As previously discussed, we should
aim to keep material of general interest to the main schedule, however
programme status resulting from actions from the last coordination
meeting and getting the best out of the conference are suitable to
walk through.
If there are a few of us available on Thursday morning, we might be
able to workshop some details from the WCA action teams (research,
peer reviews etc.).
Thanks,
Fae
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Ashley Van Haeften (Fae) faewik(a)gmail.com
Chapters Association Council Chair http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WCA
Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/mfae
Hello,
just a quick reminder that nominations for the upcoming 2013 WCA Chair
election can still be made until Wednesday, 7th of March, midnight UTC.
If you are a member of the WCA Council, please consider putting your
name on the nominations list.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Elections/201…
We already have one candidate, cheers to Kirill :)
Best,
Markus
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Markus Glaser
WCA Council Member (WMDE)
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Hello all,
I'm currently working at Doual'art (Douala, Cameroon) for the WikiAfrica
project [1].
I'm also a Wikimedia France board member (and treasurer), so I want to make
this information public.
Obviously I've warned the WMFr board before the beggining of my contract.
It's a short term (three monthes) contract and there is no interaction
between Wikimedia France and WikiAfrica, so we conclued there is no
conflict of interest.
If you have any question, you can ask it on this mailing list or in private
(to contact directly WMFr board: ca(a)list.wikimedia.fr).
(And I think we should have a better way to report these situations)
If you want more information about WikiAfrica Cameroon, we'll communicate
about this project soon.
Best,
Guillaume
[1] : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiAfrica
Hi all,
I would like to invite you all to help to improve this page on
possible and actual collaborations between the Open Knowledge
Foundation and Wikimedia Foundation.
http://wiki.okfn.org/Open_Knowledge_Foundation_and_Wikimedia_Foundation
In Brazil, Germany and UK, we have already seen some projects where we
had OKFNers and wikimedians collaboration with each other. I invite
you all to think how to improve it for the sake of the awesomeness of
both organizations and their visions.
http://okfn.org/about/vision/http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Vision
Hugs,
Tom
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Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom)
OKFN Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre
http://br.okfn.org
Hello,
Yesterday Wikimedia Israel held its annual general assembly. After hearing
a description of the financial report and the audit report the assembly
approved the financial statement of the chapter to be submitted to the
public authorities.
The General Assembly elected the following members to its board:
1. Itzik Edri (Chairman, Spokesman) (reelected to board, new chairman)
2. Shani Evenstine (reelected)
3. Lior Golgher
4. Yael Meron (Secretary)
5. Yan Nasonov
The general assembly also selected two new audit committee members:
1. Oved Cohen (reelected)
2. Ido Ivri
***
Yan is an active Wikipedia editor since 2004. He was involve in Wikimania
2011 and WLM-IL (and even developed the voting system who been uses by most
of the chapters in less than a week!). He also active in OpenStreetMap
project and works as a system administrator & a developer in an internet
company. He loves to listen to political interviews in his free time.
Lior, Medical Physicist at the Oncology Institute of Rambam Medical Center,
editor on Wikipedia since 2006. A 2007 dispute in a Wikipedia talk page
eventually turned him into a research assistant on the oral heritage of the
Beta Israel community. And a raven once puked on him midflight on the Alps.
Yael joined to Wikipedia only two years ago, but since then she is active
in many of ours projects –GLAM, tutorials and WLM. She holds a Bachelor's
degree in physics from the Israeli Technion and from some reason she really
hates cilantro. (I really like to cook with cilantro seeds!)
****
In a board meeting held after the general assembly, the board had reelect
Sara as treasurer, and select Yael as secretary.
The board also approved the hiring of the new Executive Director (after 4
months process and more than 500 applications). A separate announcement
will be sent in the coming days, when the process will be formally end.
Good luck!
Regards,
Itzik Edri
Chairman
Wikimedia Israel
In the light of Asaf's news about Wikimedia Kenya, it seems timely to
highlight one of the positive tasks I agreed to at the last Wikimedia
Chapters Association coordination meeting. This was to start chapter
peer reviews. In a couple of weeks I plan to put out a call for
involvement and set up a meta page to get this going.
As well as using practical (and cheap to do using virtual meetings)
and non-bureaucratic peer reviews, better to understand governance and
share best practice for Wikimedia Chapters, it would be great to
extend this as a means of learning about best practices for Wikimedia
User Groups. If the WCA can adapt to helping provide better engagement
with User Groups and other Wikimedia organizations, this will be a
positive step for the movement; though it may require quite a bit of
patient help from friendly Wikimedia volunteers :-)
If anyone who is in a Chapter or User Group (or a prospective User
Group), would like to get involved at the start in receiving or
delivering peer reviews, please drop me a note and I'll ensure you get
an early notice when I kick off this, interesting but tricky, bit of
international teamwork. Expect me to be depending on you for help.
Cheers,
Fae
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Ashley Van Haeften (Fae) faewik(a)gmail.com
Chapters Association Council Chair http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WCA
Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/mfae