Ahoy, I've not done anything active with FC-UK for quite a while. I seem to recall that we were planning to have an AGM last weekend, which never happened. Nobody else has been active at all for months, so far as I can tell.
I'm now too busy with my job [1], being the Green Party Speaker on IP and Free Software [2], and soliciting essay contributions for the Free Culture Foundation [3] to really do anything more on free culture anyway. Given the circumstances I think now is a good time to bow out. But I would also suggest that we formally fold FC-UK, redirecting people's energy and projects into organisations with more momentum such as ORG (copyright extensions -> Release the Music), the OKFN (PD Burn is joint already), the FSF (DRM -> Defective by Design), iCommons (for CC work), the FCF (where Rob and I intend to take our free culture 4 students work), Libre Society (for discussions & debates) and so on. As for local groups, RAVE (in Reading) are happily steaming along with workshops and a big festival planned for this summer, and can collaborate with other free culture groups through iCommons. How are the groups in Dundee and London? I'd suggest that anyone who still wants to work on free culture has a look at the other organisations in the area. If people still want to do something with FC-UK then identifying an area of work that is feasible, and that you're willing to put sufficient time, energy and money into, is the way forward. Otherwise it would be best to put up a placeholder on the domain pointing people away, and encourage people to migrate to other mailing lists. It's been fun :) Kind regards, Tom [1] http://www.bioregional.com [2] http://tom.acrewoods.net/node/501 [3] http://www.freeculturefoundation.org -- The struggle against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting - Kundera _______________________________________________ fc-uk-discuss mailing list fc-uk-discuss@lists.okfn.org http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/fc-uk-discuss
