2006-01-17

A whole new year of meetings to attend!

New Business

 * Can we get a board in Parrish?
 * Workshop for the Beyond the Box conference?
 * Maybe something about working with the media and producing independent media? Or perhaps open access journals and textbooks?  Maybe even open source software and cheap computing? ^_^
 * The description of what they're looking for reads: We very much encourage you to consider submitting a workshop proposal that addresses either the theory behind structural inequality in higher education (or in the wider society), or one that imparts the concrete skills necessary for successfully organizing on campus or affecting institutional policy.
 * Cooper proposal?
 * Work w/ Anime club on fansubbing/AMV event?
 * Summit at Swarthmore in April?
 * Harebrained DIY projector project for Parrrty, perhaps work with Engineering students?

Old Business

 * LAN Party - We decided that it will be Sat January 28th in Sci 199.
 * Parrrty
 * Report from NYC summit: how did it go? What did we learn?
 * Michener
 * Films of Fury: when did we decide the event with them would be?

Board in Parrish

 * Missed that boat--next year, let's get a board

Beyond the Box

 * A how to make a Free Culture chapter workshop proposal?
 * A "theory-based" workshop about Free Culture?
 * Nobody wants to do it currently

Cooper Proposal

 * This would be for next year--who could we ask?
 * Jimbo Wales?
 * DJ Spooky?
 * Debate: Lessig v. RIAA? Jimbo v. Britannica?
 * We would need a faculty co-sponsor
 * Alex Benn and Eric Loui will work on it
 * Proposal due on Monday, February 20th-- go here

Anime Club

 * Fan-subbing not happening
 * Perhaps get someone prominent from the fansubbing community to talk about it--talk to anime club again

New York Summit

 * The New York summit worked!
 * We have cool anti-DRM flyers
 * Should we flyer in front of Tower Records on South Street in Philly some day soon?
 * We could go sometime during the first weekend of February
 * We would have to print up a bunch of flyers
 * We could go on the free van
 * Alex Benn and Nelson will work on it
 * The Harvard chapter wants to work on getting around "The Great Firewall of China"
 * We could send town criers running around World of Warcraft and shouting things the Chinese government wouldn't like
 * We can't use bots because they'd get shut down, but we need human volunteers
 * There's also the idea of having "citizen journalists" walking around volunteering to get information for those beyond the firewall
 * Sign up for the mailing list if you're interested
 * Could we get the idea wanged with Penny Arcade?

Swarthmore Summit?

 * We could ask the President's Office for money
 * Transportation is the problem
 * Do we want a national summit?
 * Nelson will send something out to the core list to see if there's interest
 * What would the theme be?
 * The vision for the organization as a whole-- where are we going?
 * We need a point person for the project

Releasing Michener novels

 * Eldridge likes the idea; he's talking to the people he needs to talk to
 * Nelson will e-mail the list the next time he talks to Eldridge so that we can come and give support

LAN Party

 * Alex Benn has an X-Box
 * A freshman named Amber has a DDR pad and a PS2 for us
 * David is handling the TVs
 * What PC games are we going to have?
 * Nelson wants to have open-source games
 * There will be a wiki list of games to be distributed
 * Somebody needs to make a flyer and send it to SAC

Parrrty

 * Still happening
 * We will use Electric Sheep graphics to project on the wall
 * Date: Saturday, April 15

Films of Fury

 * Ben will ask Matt Singleton when the event will be

Creative Common kits

 * Eric and Alex will hand them out to Olde Club band

MPAA threat to SWILmovie

 * The library has a license that allows us to show library movies on campus
 * SWIL wants to show a bunch of movies that they can't get a license for
 * Can we show them without asking permission, or will we get in trouble?
 * The MPAA has threatened to come after us if we don't have licenses
 * Can we just buy copies of the DVDs we want and give them to the library?
 * No, "library copies" of DVDs are generally more expensive
 * Options: make own movies, show independent films, show movies in dorm rooms
 * Option: get sued. THIS IS NOT A GOOD TEST CASE.
 * Ask movie committee about what they do.
 * Publicize the outrage AND publicize SWILmovie at the same time
 * Take all the movie-showing-clubs and have some sort of united front--a petition? a letter to the MPAA?
 * SWIL, Movie Committee, Anime Club, Films of Fury
 * Would there be a way to get a blanket license for the college so that everyone could show movies?
 * We need to talk to the college
 * Will put together meeting between our four movie clubs and Free Culture