2005-03-29
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Attendance: Lisa Benson '08, Andrew Lacey '05, Nelson Pavlosky '06, David German '08, Alex Benn '08, David Benitez '06
Spring Budgeting
- David C. isn't here, so all we can do is hope he submitted our budget
Promoting and Preparing for the LAN Party, cont.
- an op-ed talking about the copyright troubles a LAN party can entail
- a series of progressively less cryptic posters
- an FC.o birthday cake from Sharples
- Lisa will be headed to SAC to get $150 for food
Open Access
- Luke contacted second potential speaker, also unavailable, moving on to third
- Lisa has e-mailed Peggy Seiden, no response yet
- Peggy was going to take Budapest Initiative matter to library committee
- if we can't get Swarthmore College to sign on, maybe the Trico Libraries will
- We don't want this to be anonymous or unknown, or to take anyone by surprise
- We also recognize that we won't make much progress in the balance of the semester
National FC.o Organization
- much talk about what freeculture.org has been/could be/should be doing, and how we interface with it
- set up a rotation of FCS people besides Nelson to join weekly conference call?
- Alex will join in this week, tomorrow at 10:45
- conference call number is 413.200.7075 - ask Nelson for the access code
- Nelson also wants people to blog

