I’m checking in (at the urgings of Nelson) with some news for everyone from the University of Evansville in Indiana.

We had our first meeting September 22, with a whopping attendance of 4 people. The good news was that, of all the people I had talked to about Free Culture in the weeks before the meeting, only one was able to make it, so the other three had responded on the posters alone. For me, this was a good indication that this issue was something that was important enough for others to respond to.

For this first meeting, I used the “Building on the Past” video by Justin Cone to introduce Creative Commons and talked a bit about the reason why CC exists. After some brief discussion and clarification of what we would do, everyone signed up to be an official member on the roster, which gave us plenty of people to be an official student organization on campus. (The other requirement, a staff sponsor, had already enthusiastically signed on, but couldn’t make the meeting because she had another meeting already.)

We established our next meeting to be 6:30 on Tuesday, October 19. Seeing who will be able to make it this time will be interesting since the meeting is scheduled during homecoming week at Evansville (and evening times aren’t best for everyone in the first place), but that’s just one of the trade-offs any organization has to deal with. Whether people can attend or not, we keep communication via e-mail so that everyone can have a chance to participate, and since laws and other issues can come up in between our monthly meetings.

For our next meeting, I’m planning to get more discussion going of what we can do on campus as a group, both to raise awareness of copyright issues on campus, and activism that we want to be involved in as a group. To promote the event, I have created this flier that I’m posting around campus:

Download the .PSD (3.2 MB)

And for something to look forward to: once I get my roll of film finished up and developed, I hope to post some more about my Creative Commons backpack (I had to put all the buttons they sent me to use…) and some pictures from the meeting.
Update: You can see the Creative Commons backpack here.

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