Hi Tom! I'm Jennifer Baek from the Students for Free Culture board. So glad you're looking to start a chapter at Washington College! Please read this email as it will help you start your new chapter, but before we get started...
We're having our annual *Students for Free Culture Conference, FCX2013* on *April 20-21st* in New York City. It would be great to have you and your members come join us. We have funds subsidize travel costs for students from your chapter to come to NYC for the conference. We'll be opening up a stipend application soon. Now down to business. We'd like to connect with you before listing your chapter on our website. It'd be nice to just take 10-15 minutes to learn more about your interest and answer any questions you may have and hopefully provide a helpful connection or two. My number is +1(646) 756-9783. Feel free to call any time, or we can schedule something specific. Just to start you thinking, here are the things I plan to bring up: * how did you first get interest in free culture? what issues are most interesting to you? * what can we the board do to help you out? * what, if anything, has your chapter done so far? * what are your plans for the rest of the year? * do you have a strategy for continuity through to next year? Next, you'll want to fill out the form<http://freeculture.org/starting-a-new-chapter/>for new chapters, so we can get to know a little bit more about you. * ===Tips for what to do with your chapter:===* No two SFC chapters are the same. In the past, chapters have hosted "Open Art" exhibitions, brought in speakers, and put on movie nights with documentaries relating to the movement. This page on our wiki is a great place to start looking for ideas for chapter programming: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Year_one But you don't just have to think in terms of campus programming. Some chapters just meet weekly to chat about their shared interest in freedom, sharing and openness. Some write really cool software, like youtomb.mit.edu. In the last couple years there's been an especially large movement among chapters to work as advocates for openness and sharing within their own universities (we call this our "Open University Campaign," and it's described here: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Open_University_Campaign). *===A few more logistics, including stuff to pass on to your chaptermembers:=== * * If you're interested in getting a chapter blog and/or mailing list, email [email protected] with your request. * If you or any of the members of your chapter are interested in helping out at all with maintaining and building our web resources, please please please email [email protected] to let us know! We could use all the help we can get, and not all of it is super technical (for example, to create chapter blogs all you need to do is log in to a webpage and press buttons, and it would be /great/ to have a volunteer that agreed to take charge on that) * Sign up for our [email protected] mailing list. This is really the place to be--it's where you'll hear about cool projects, upcoming events (like the recent Open Access Week), and increasingly it's a place where inter-chapter communication happens. Hopefully your chapter can help to facilitate more of that! And feel free to use it to ask questions! Subscribe as many other members of your chapter as you'd like here: http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss (if you have trouble, follow these simple instructions: http://wiki.freeculture .org/Fc-discuss) *===Here's some informational resources on our organization:**===* http://questioncopyright.org/what_is_free_culture http://wiki.freeculture.org/Free_culture http://wiki.freeculture.org/Free_Culture_Manifesto http://wiki.freeculture.org/Year_one *===Here are ways you can get involved generally:**===* http://freeculture.org/get-involved/ *===Here are some helpful tips for new chapter leaders:**===* http://wiki.freeculture.org/Category:For_chapter_leaders *===We have a freeculture Reddit that people should contribute to: **===* http://www.reddit.com/r/freeculture/ Let me know if you have any additional questions or concerns! Look forward to hearing more from you and your new chapter! Cheers, Jennifer Conference Coordinator, Students for Free Culture J.D. Candidate 2013, New York Law School On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Aditi Rajaram <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Thomas Fish <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I was wondering if there is a formal process to start a Students For Free >> Culture chapter or if anyone has any pointers on how to get a chapter >> started. >> >> thanks, >> >> --Tom Fish >> >> ________________________________________ >> Thomas Fish >> Washington College GIS Intern, Cambridge Impervious and Tree Canopy >> Anthropology and Philosophy Double Major >> Washington College Class of 2015 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Board mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/board > >
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