Executive Summary: I know we're all over the globe and perhaps this isn't the first event of this nature. If you've participated in an "open music" festival I'd love to hear how things went for you. Anyway, here in Madison, Wisconsin, USA we're planning our first open music festival. Tom Ray, lead singer of Lorenzo's Music (http://alpha.dev.libre.fm/artist/Lorenzo%27s+Music), is the lead on the project.
Details: You can get more info at http://identi.ca/group/ommad and http://openmusicmadison.tiddlyspot.com/. I'm planning to make a Google Group as soon as Tom and I agree upon a name for it. Even though the page has been up 9+ months, we are just now really getting started. We are aiming for a November or December date. We do have a ***tentative*** venue: http://madisonfrequency.com/ The format of the show has yet to be determined, but I'm pretty certain that one of the stipulations of the event will be that the live recording of the show will be BY-SA. We may end up allowing bands that do not typically record with a CC license (free or not) participate, to allow them to experiment with a different licensing framework and to hear successes of other free artists. Lorenzo's Music has sold more albums since going CC (they were -NC for a while, but are now a totally free license). What You Can Do: We are by no means limiting this to local artists, but I also have no idea what sort of money we plan to bring in. It may be nothing, where the bands donate their time and the venue gets alcohol sales. I'd assume bands would be able to sell merch. So, if you're local, or pseudo-local and are in a band, let us know and we'll sign you up. If you know people, let them know and have them contact me if interested. If someone non-local (Boston, London, Madrid, where evs) is planning on doing a midwest tour (Chicago area) and wants to stop by I'm sure we could arrange a place to stay. Last but not least, you can come! Again, we'd love for people to come from far off for the event. We don't have any sort of budget at the moment, but just like bands, if you want to come as an audience member, I'm sure we can find you a place to stay for the night (subject to limited availability of course). Douglas A. Whitfield Co-President Madison Linux User Group http://madisonlinux.org/ New Project Coordinator - http://openeverything.us Worldwide Open Everything event, October 31, 2009 _______________________________________________ Libre-fm mailing list [email protected] http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/libre-fm
