I'm taking American Heritage this semester (just about the worst class I've ever taken, but that's beside the point), and as many of you know, students are required to complete a "citizenship project." Most people in the class are doing retarded stuff, but I figured I might as well do something worthwhile, something that I'd be interested in doing even if I weren't in the class, something that other people might want to participate in.
So here's the project (which due to nepotism will be officially sponsored by the UUG): let's educate BYU students about digital freedom--in particular the DMCA. Utah has been getting a bad name with the likes of McBride, so maybe we can help educate some small number of people about what's going on in our world. I don't want to impose too much on the resources of the UUG, so I'm planning small, though if I get a lot of feedback from UUG-ers that they're interested in participating I'd be more than happy to expand my plans. The idea is to reserve a table at the Wilk where a lot of students in general will be passing by and distributing a flyer or two about the DMCA, digital rights, and related issues. If the club is interested, we could distribute SSS CDs and talk about free software, too. My hope is that at least a couple of UUG-ers would be able to come help man the table. Based on the number of people that would like to help, we'll determine how long to have the table set-up. At minimum it will be most of a day, though we could make it longer. The current date I'm thinking of is Tuesday November 18 (two weeks from yesterday). I'm going to start working on concepts for flyers, and if any of you have ideas about what would hit home for BYU students feel free to let me know (but don't send a finished product as I'm required to do some work, too). Please let me know if you're interested or if you have any ideas about how to improve the project. Thanks. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868
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