The time has come to announce our Northeast U.S. regional summit, which will take place in New York City at Columbia University‘s Lerner Hall on January 13-14, 2006 (that’s Friday afternoon through Saturday afternoon). If you are a member of a Free Culture chapter, or you are interested in starting one at your school, you are invited. NYU professor and commentator Siva Vaidhyanathan has agreed to be our keynote speaker, and this will be an excellent chance to get involved with FreeCulture.org if you haven’t been before.

This is the first summit since the launch of FreeCulture.org in April 2004 (when no real chapters yet existed). We would like to organize a national/international summit, but that will take significant financial resources due to travel costs, which would prevent many students from attending without travel grants. Therefore, we are organizing regional summits, starting with the Northeast, with plans for California and Southeast, in the hope that since attendees are in geographical proximity, travel costs will be reduced. Perhaps we will find the funds to do a national conference by the end of next semester…

At any rate, I will post again with the website and registration form for this NYC conference very soon. Until then, mark your calendars and save the date!

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