Sorry for not live-blogging the conference! We were too busy doing activist things and enjoying ourselves to write. I would like to say that despite the variation in attendance, from 60-70 people on Friday night to a handful left by Sunday morning, we were able to accomplish most of what we had hoped to accomplish with the conference.

It was awesome to see the sheer number of chapter representatives at the summit on Friday night. There were at least 14 schools represented there, more if you count alumns, and people came from as far away as California, Florida, and Canada. It would not have been possible to put together such a broad group of student activists as recently as two years ago… I don’t think that many students were aware of the issues before we were founded, and I hope that we’ve helped to raise the visibility of problems with copyright etc. among our peers as we set out to do. Lawrence Lessig was inspirational as always, producing a few new converts with his reality distortion field, while Peter Decherney gave a talk that I think was extremely accessible and relevant to the “man on the street”. Even I received some compliments on my Lessig-inspired presentation, and one of my profs told me that he might be interested in having me teach his students how to do slideshow talks. All the credit goes to Lessig himself, who showed us the way towards presentations free of boring Powerpoint bullet points.

More posts about the fallout from the summit will arrive soon, but until then I will leave you with some pictures (so that all the people who didn’t come can see what they missed)! See Friday and Saturday on my Flickr.

Our friends over at reddit have now created what they term a “subreddit” — a place for people interested in a particular topic to share links and thoughts about them — for supporters of the free culture movement.

So, you are all cordially invited to join us at http://freeculture.reddit.com. Check it out, post and rate links, comment on others’, and spread free culture far and wide.

Thanks to Alexis for the super cool freeculture reddit alien!

“The Pirate Party: Because kidnapping and killing people on the high seas is exactly the same as sharing music with your friends!”

On the evening of Saturday, April 22nd Friday, April 21st, Free Culture Swarthmore will be hosting a Pirate Parrrty for summit-goers and others. There will be costumes, dancing, eyepatches, and plenty of ARRR. There will also be pirate video remixes projected during the party–which is where you come in!

FreeCulture.org is calling for video remixes to be used for the upcoming party and future Pirate Parties. The videos should be set to danceable music, have at least ten seconds of pirate footage, and be in a VLC-friendly format. The remixes need to be in by 5pm on April 21st to be used for the first Pirate Party, though we will accept submissions later than that for other pirate parties.

Check out the details at the Pirate Party webpage!

P.S. We will be organizing video remixing workshops at Swarthmore where we will no doubt produce some entries for the pirate video contest!

If you’ve been considering applying for an internship at Creative Commons, the official due date is today. You should definitely apply, because they have set aside an internship specifically for members of Free Culture chapters, as we’ve mentioned in the distant past, and it is a *paid* internship!

Creative Commons’ Free Culture Marketing/Media Internship

This internship is open to college students or recent college graduates involved in their respective schools’ FREE CULTURE club. Creative Commons is currently accepting résumés from those students interested in interning in CC’s San Francisco office. This paid internship will work closely with the Creative Director and focus on grassroots efforts and/or media development to encourage the reuse of content. Duties will also include working on a “street team” campaign to recruit other Free Culture club members. This position will be offered to a non-law student. Some basic graphic/web design skills are desirable.

If you were not aware of this opportunity, it is most likely our fault… send your application ASAP, preferably today, and we’ll put in a word in your favor if you hadn’t heard about it until now.

UPDATE: For your references, all you need is a list of names and contact info for people who can testify that you would be an asset to Creative Commons.  For your cover letter, Creative Commons would like to see how people know about CC, and how they are involved with their local FC chapter or the FC movement.  Highlight what is not in the resume, or elaborate on something interesting that you do touch upon in the resume.