2005-03-29

Minutes
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