I think your ideas sound very interesting. I'll keep an eye out in case you start to implement them On Jun 23, 2016 7:33 AM, "Erik Moeller" <eloque...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks, > > I'd like to get a dialog going about reviving both freeculture.org > itself and potentially the idea of a Free Culture Foundation. > > This list was originally set up for the Students for Free Culture > organization, which was later announced to be transformed into a > foundation [1]. Unfortunately, since that announcement more than three > years ago, not much has happened (as far as I can tell). Indeed this > listserv was unusable for a few months due to a diskspace issue on the > server it runs on (this is now fixed; thanks to Asheesh & Kyra for > looking into this). > > (If you don't remember subscribing to discuss@freeculture.org , > you can unsubscribe at the bottom of: > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ) > > I suspect I'm not alone on this list in believing that the concept of > "Free Culture", especially when qualified in terms such as the > Definition of Free Cultural Works, is one of the most important > animating ideas for the 21st century's information society. So I would > love to see freeculture.org become an organizing space that helps us > solve pressing problems of the free culture movement. > > As the blog post in [1] noted, there are a lot of organizations in > this space already, and I personally don't believe that yet another > 501(c)(3) is a critical need right now. But I would like us to use > this list, and a wiki, to put some thought into what the most urgent > priorities for the free culture movement are, right now, and how we > can work together to address them. > > The FSF has a "list of high priority projects" [2]. I'm not aware of a > similar list in the larger free culture space, and if there's no such > effort already, I'd love to begin taking a crack at it. My take is > that this would be more focused on creating free/open platforms for > the creation of free cultural works (alternatives to the likes of > Soundcloud, Yelp, and other walled gardens). But I'm curious what > others think. > > I'm also working on a couple of projects right now that I'd be happy > to have identified under the freeculture.org umbrella for the time > being: > > - freeyourstuff.cc, which is a browser extension for downloading one's > own content contributions from closed platforms and releasing it under > a DFCW-compliant license; > - lib.reviews, which will be a free/open platform for reviews. > > We could revive the idea of teams on the wiki, and use the list to > announce new initiatives that are consistent with some criteria that > we set out. The closest parallel I'm aware of is the Open Knowledge > Foundation, but this would be more focused on cultural works like > photos, music, writing, etc. > > Ultimately, I do think a FCF 501(c)(3) may prove valuable, to > incubate/fundraise/campaign, but to begin with, I would suggest we > just use the list and the wiki for this purpose. I'd propose moving > the wiki to the main freeculture.org domain, cleaning it up a little > bit, and going from there. > > After some prodding, Asheesh kindly gave me access to the server, so > I'm happy to get that overall process going, though some > support/encouragement would be appreciated. ;-) I will be at Wikimania > in Italy for a couple of days in case anyone on this list will be > there and would like to connect in person. > > Warmly, > > Erik > > [1] > http://freeculture.org/blog/2013/04/22/after-9-years-of-free-culture-advocacy-students-for-free-culture-is-now-the-free-culture-foundation/ > > [2] https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects/ > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@freeculture.org > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
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