2005-06-05

Minutes
Free Culture Swarthmore summer conference call #1

Access number and code published via scdc-core mailing list

2005-06-05, 10pm EDT

Attendance: Nelson Pavlosky '06, David Benitez '06, Ben Blonder '08, David German '08

What to do next semester?

 * Luke dropped the ball on Cooper Grant for DJ Spooky - deadlines have passed


 * Continue to pursue Open Access
 * slow-moving, not very time-consuming


 * Push for Free licensing and archive.org sharing of Swat-made content
 * build support for a media server
 * begin drafting a proposal for SBC funding for server parts
 * server would require a maintainer.  might Jeff Kaufman like this job?


 * International Student Summit
 * bring people from lots of FC chapters to Swarthmore
 * Speakers? Debate?  Self-organizing discussion?

How to kick off the first week

 * Nelson will be back at Swat early
 * David G will ask scdc-core members to post about their return plans


 * Pre-Meeting (tentatively Saturday, Aug. 27, 3pm)
 * organize goodies for activities fair, believed to be Sunday pm
 * banners
 * CC stuff
 * flyers
 * Knoppix, OpenCD


 * First Meeting (Tuesday, Aug. 30, 10pm)
 * Science Center 101 has been reserved
 * Nelson will plan a presentation
 * advertising wil be needed
 * food would be nice

Web presence

 * Alex Benn was interested in Web design, unfortunately not on the call
 * Ben is willing to do web design also
 * Content is required
 * David G will draft an "about" page
 * Nelson will draft a "history" page
 * Ben will cover a "contact" page
 * deadline for content: two weeks from today
 * blog needs to be fixed, spam killed
 * bothersome issues with implementing our own blog on SCCS servers
 * perhaps easiest to go back to embedded LiveJournal?

Next conference call

 * Sunday, June 19, 10pm EDT
 * same access number and code
 * greater attendance would be nice
 * scdc-core list and swatmail have been unreliable - try to get word out by IM