Yoho, Rob and I met up with Dave and had a productive meeting. In brief:
- Rob and I explained a lot of the background info to Dave, who found it interesting and for the most part agreed. He did fine art at Goldsmiths and his dad publishes scientific journals (if I remember correctly, Rob?) so he had a personal interest from those angles. - He's keen to see the NUS take this up, both at a national level and in students unions around the country. Hooray! - We (myself, Dave and Rob) will draft a policy to be submitted to the next meeting of the NUS National Executive Committee. This will probably commit the NUS to supporting our goals, so that they can then commit resources to helping us. - Nationally, one way they might support us is to have their press office track the issues and comment when anything comes up! - Dave is also thinking about the best way to get material to the unions. Often officers ignore NUS mailouts, so he's thinking of ways that they will pay attention to. One example was for us to give a presentation to the NUS exec and other national staff, and then similar presentations to regional meetings. - I'm sending him a copy of Free Culture. - He'll let me know when the next NEC meeting is. When I get that info I'll update everyone. In the meantime, help drafting the policy would be appreciated, so if anyone wants to join myself and Rob in "the loop" then say so here. Regards, Tom On Wednesday 11 October 2006 15:20, Tom Chance wrote: > Ahoy, > > I've finally managed to get a meeting with my contact (Dave Charlesworth) > in the NUS. I'm meeting him at 3pm tomorrow in their HQ. Rob Myers will > hopefully be joining me, anyone else is welcome. Send me a text so I know > you're coming, and we'll meet outside ten minutes before. > > NUS, 2nd floor > Centro 3, > Mandela Street > London NW1 ODU > > We'll be discussing FC4S and ways in which the NUS can help us infiltrate > students' unions, since Dave is too busy to offer any reliable support > himself. > > Tom (07866 447075) -- 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
