The Wikimedia NYC Annual Meeting will be held on Saturday June 1, 2013 at
Jefferson Market Library (425 Sixth Ave / Avenue of the Americas) in Lower
Manhattan.
Business will include the election of a nine-member chapter board of
directors for the nonprofit Wikimedia NYC Chapter, supporting Wikipedia and
related projects outreach in the wider metropolitan area.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC
We'll start the official meeting at the library from 2 pm to 4:30pm, and
afterward we'll walk to dinner at 5 pm, probably at the nearby Sammy's
Noodle.
You can officially 'sign up' at that page, put yourself down as a candidate
for the board, and add your ideas and discussion topics to the agenda!
**We would like to encourage a greater diversity of voices participating on
the board of our nonprofit, and furthering the free knowledge mission.
Being an active editor of Wikipedia articles is not required. Feel free to
contact me personally if you potentially interested, and have more
questions about running for the board.**
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC#Agenda
Thanks,
Richard Knipel
(User:Pharos)
Wikimedia NYC
Hi Wiki-Americans,
Our next monthly Wikimedia US / WALRUS meeting will be Wednesday May 8, at
9pm Eastern Time / 6pm Pacific Time.
The venue will be the #wikimedia-us channel on IRC, and if you're not
familiar with IRC, please just use this easy web client:
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=wikimedia-us
This is a venue for all Wiki-Americans to share our many diverse
experiences in local outreach and coordination, so please add your ideas to
the agenda:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WALRUS/May_2013
Some items on our expandable agenda for next Wednesday evening:
*WALRUS Wikimedia User Groups, as informal interim step to future regional
chapters
*Emerging North American thematic orgs: GLAM-Wiki US Consortium and Wiki
Education Foundation
*Great American Wiknic 2013: Third Annual! - add your city (Saturday June
22 and nearby dates)
*Wikimania 2013 in Hong Kong for August
*Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 for September
*Developing partner chapters and thematics orgs for WikiConference USA in
Spring 2014
*Social media outreach and peer review
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiknichttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_USA
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
My fellow Wiki-Americans,
I hereby invite you to join in the third annual Great American Wiknic in
your city or town on or about Saturday June 22:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiknichttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiknic#2013_Wiknic
It's really easy to set up a local meetup, all you need is to pick a park
location and a time!
And it can be a nice jumpstart to future local outreach activities, with
GLAMs and education.
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
I'd like to let folks know about the awesome international Free Culture
Conference in NYC on Saturday/Sunday of this weekend at New York Law School.
Free Culture is the larger movement for knowledge sharing and open
education, of which Wikipedia/Wikimedia are an integral branch.
A relevant conference highlight is the Wikipedia and Education Panel on
Sunday, 10:30am-12pm.
Please sign up to our page on-wiki for the Free Culture Conference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC
And see the full details in the message below!
Thanks,
Richard (User:Pharos)
Students for Free Culture, the Institute for Information Law and Policy,
and New York Law School present-
*FCX2013: Free Culture Conference*
*
*
*Dates: *Saturday, April 20, 2013 - Sunday, April 21, 2013
*Location: *New York Law School, 185 West Broadway, New York, NY
*Registration:** *http://fcx2013.eventbrite.com
The Free Culture Conference is an annual gathering of students, activists,
thinkers, and innovators who are dedicated to advancing discussions on
technology, law, and public policy and advocating for a more free, open,
and participatory digital environment. Through panels, keynote speakers,
and workshops, FCX 2013 will focus on current issues in intellectual
property law, open access to educational resources, maker culture, digital
rights, and technology policy.
For more information about the conference, visit the conference website:
http://fcx2013.org
If you have any questions, feel free to email board(a)freeculture.org. Program
details are below. After party details to follow.
*Through the generosity of our sponsors, SFC is once again able to offset
students' and activists' travel costs for this year’s conference in NYC. If
you can’t afford the cost of traveling to NYC, please do not hesitate to
fill out the form to request travel funding. We have some money and we want
to give it to you. Here is the form: **http://bit.ly/fcx2013_travelfunding*
--
*Day 1 (April 20, 2013)*
08:30 a.m. – 09:30 a.m.
*Registration*
* *
09:30 a.m. – 09:45 a.m.
*Opening Remarks*
* *
09:45 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
*A.M. Keynote: Benjamin Mako Hill *(Berkman Center for Internet and Society)
* *
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
*Getting Past Gridlock: What does Tangible Copyright Reform Look Like?*
How can copyleft advocates and copyright reformists make progress in
effectuating change in United States copyright laws? This panel considers
what smaller, achievable reform looks like, how it can be accomplished, and
what next steps for the immediate future will be. Panelists will discuss:
Are the objectives of the Copyright Act being met in practice today? How
can reform, even at a small scale, benefit content owners, creators, and
users?
*Moderator:*
*· **Parker Higgins* (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
*Panelists:*
*· **Patricia Aufderheide *(Center for Social Media, American University)
*· **Karen Sandler *(QuestionCopyright.org, GNOME)
*· **Sherwin Siy *(Public Knowledge)
11:45 a.m. – 01:00 p.m.
*The Future of Open Access Advocacy*
Open Access has been of great interest and importance to SFC for several
years. This panel focuses on what open access means and what kind of
advocacy work is being done in this area, as well as clarifying
misconceptions of what open access is really about. Panelists will talk
about their experiences with and perspectives on open access advocacy and
discuss: What is the impact of OA on academic research and publishing? What
are the core principles behind OA? How can people effectively advocate for
open access causes?
*Moderator:*
*· **Adi Kamdar* (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
*Panelists:*
*· **Nicole Allen* (Student PIRGs/Make Textbooks Affordable)
*· **Nick Shockey *(SPARC/Right to Research Coalition)
·* **Timothy Vollmer* (Creative Commons)
01:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
*Lunch*
* *
02:00 p.m. – 02:45 p.m.
*P.M. Keynote: James Vasile *(Open Internet Tools Project, New America
Foundation)
* *
02:45 p.m. – 04:00 p.m.
*Makers, Hackers, and the World They Build*
Maker and hacker culture, highly collaboratory and extremely prolific, both
adopt free cultural ideals, such as sharing, open source, collaboration,
and remix. This panel explores how maker and hacker culture puts into
practice these free culture ideals, as well as how makers and hackers build
community and work towards social good.
*Moderator:*
·* **Trystram Spiro-Costello* (Rutgers University)
*Panelists:*
*· **Catarina Mota* (NYU ITP/openMaterials)
*· **Alicia Gibb *(NYCResistor/Open Source Hardware Association)
*· **Daniel Reetz *(DIYBookScanner.org)
04:00 p.m. – 05:15 p.m.
*The Changing Landscape of Online Speech and its Regulation*
Free speech is held as one of the central tenets of many online
communities, but what is meant by it? In many online communities,
censorship, freedom of speech, pornography, harassment, and hate speech are
often conflated without consideration of who is given the power to speak.
This panel will consider if, how, and when speech online should be
regulated, and by whom. Panelists will also discuss whether Internet
service providers should be held liable for user-generated content, and
what such liability would mean for free expression online.
*Moderator:*
*· **Jennifer Baek* (New York Law School)
*Panelists:*
*· **Molly Land* (New York Law School)
*· **Gabriel Rottman* (American Civil Liberties Union)
*· **Ari Waldman* (New York Law School)
05:15 p.m. – 05:30 p.m.
*Closing Remarks for Day 1*
*Day 2 (April 21, 2013)*
09:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
*Registration*
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
*Unconference Welcome*
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
*Workshops Session I*
· *Open Access Advocacy*
*Moderators:* Nick Shockey (SPARC) and Matt Cooper (NAGPS)
· * **Wikipedia & Education*
*Moderator: *Lane Rasberry (Consumer Reports)
12:00 p.m. – 01:30 p.m.
*Workshops Session II*
· *Free Culture & Civic Engagement *
*Moderator:* Noel Hidalgo (Code for America)
*· The Future of the Org. *
*Moderators:* Kÿra (SFC), Jennifer Baek (SFC), and Adelaida McIntire (SFC)
01:30 p.m. – 02:30 p.m.
*Lunch*
* *
02:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
*Lightning Talks/Presentations*
* *
3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
*SFC General Body Meeting*
Students for Free Culture will be having its annual conference at New York
Law School<https://www.google.com/maps?q=new+york+law+school&hl=en&sll=40.6%2097488,-7…>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<http://fcx2013.org/fcxabout.html>
.
Registration is open <http://fcx2013.eventbrite.com>!
Through the generosity of our sponsors, Students for Free
Culture<http://freeculture.org/>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<http://bit.ly/fcx2013_travelfunding>.
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 <http://bit.ly/fcx2013_travelfunding> 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!
P.S. This is a great group of activists very closely aligned with the wiki
ethos, and I have been proud to work with them directly on many Wikimedia
NYC projects. There are also planning a Wiki-Workshop on better use of
Wikipedia at universities for one of the days, so please look forward to
that! (I very much regret I won't be able to join due to the overlapping
International Wikimedia/Chapters Conference also that weekend.)
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Wikimedia NYC
Hi Wiki-Americans,
Our next monthly Wikimedia US / WALRUS meeting will be Wednesday March
13, at 9pm Eastern Time / 6pm Pacific Time.
The venue will be the #wikimedia-us channel on IRC, and if you're not
familiar with IRC, please just use this easy web client:
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=wikimedia-us
This is a venue for all Wiki-Americans to share our many diverse
experiences in local outreach and coordination, so please add your
ideas to the agenda:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WALRUS/March_2013
One topic of discussion, possibly planning for a WikiConference USA
for next year:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_USA
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)