2006-04-27

It's a Meeting!!

=Agenda= There will be serious food at this meeting! Please come!

Summit Post-mortem

 * Alex has written up a list of things to keep in mind for planning large events in the future
 * Free Culture Summit 2006
 * need to track down all of our money
 * Any other input?

Need to give money to people!
 * Which speakers have we contacted already?
 * Curtis
 * Wilson
 * Slater
 * Lessig's office
 * who do we need to contact?
 * Sassaman
 * Benenson?
 * Who covered food? Bring receipts!

Rest of This Year

 * Should we have any more meetings?

Nasty legislation in the works
We should do something about the Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2006 and maybe the PERFORM Act. Is there any way we can raise awareness on campus given the proximity to finals? Table at Sharples with flyers?

Next Year

 * Who will do the Nelson Show?

Webcomic artists event

 * We need to write up an application and give it to FFFS *now*, letting them know that Maurice has promised to match any money they give us and that he encourages them to help us plan events ahead of time.
 * We have Howard Tayler booked... we now need to hunt down and book others.

=Minutes= It was decided we will be tabling on Monday dinner, and making the poster earlier on in the day. We will be getting a large number of the main Pirate poster on multiple different colors of paper. Miles Skorpen will be modifying the poster to add "Free Culture Swarthmore: http://swarthmore.freeculture.org/"
 * We need to create a one or two sentence soundbyte. We will talk about this next year.
 * Do we want to put up flyers (modified, unmodified?). Will we be tabling? There was some discussion. Eric and Nelson suggested that if we put up posters on the new law (Do you own any of the following? ...,...,.... If so, next year you could be a ***criminal***, under the XXXX.) we should be tabling.

Webcomic Arists

 * Get FFS funding (Need Howard Taylor's money. He thinks he is coming 22nd-23rd. Maurice Eldridge will match whatever FFS gives us. Yay!) ABenn will be doing it. Many, many, many thanks. Eldridge wants us to plan this ahead of time. We want to know if they will guarantee us that they *will* give us money next semester. If they don't...we go to Eldridge.
 * Confirm web comic people
 * WE NEED TO RESERVE SPACE (Alex will be emailing them about trying to do it now.)
 * Eric Astor will be working on emailing webcomix people within the next month to see if they are interested in coming.
 * Posters need to go up during orientation
 * We need to talk to Environmental Services about putting stuff up in strange places that other groups cannot. We probably would need special permission. Alex Benn will do this.