If you would like a full-time, paid internship this summer in sunny San Francisco, look no further! Creative Commons is offering an internship for students in their San Fran office, and they want you to apply (by March 1st). It’s worth noting that they especially prefer members of FreeCulture.org chapters, but they can’t pick you if you don’t apply! See the description of the internship:

Community + Media Development Internship

This internship is for an eager student who is interested in building Creative Commons and Free Culture communities. The internship will focus on a grass roots effort, and/or media development to encourage the reuse of content. While FreeCulture.org club participation is encouraged for this position, a practical enthusiasm is a requirement. This position will be offered to a non-law student. Particular skills in media creation (video, audio, software) are desired, as well as demonstrated community involvement in and around Creative Commons and FreeCulture.org

Help us help Creative Commons help you!

UPDATE: Heh, some people apparently thought that leaving comments on this post was the correct way to apply for the Creative Commons internship. That is incorrect, unfortunately. The correct way is mentioned on the opportunities at Creative Commons page:

How to apply

If you are a college or graduate student interested in our internship program, send us your:

* Cover Letter explaining your relevant interest in Creative Commons and in the position.
* Resumé
* Two References; please include email and phone number.

Applications and questions can be sent to:

Jennifer Yip
Office Manager
fax: 415.946.3001

Thank you for your interest in our organization. Please no phone calls.

Antenna Alliance (AA) is a “no-profit record label/recording collective” put together by students, musicians and DJ’s in the Boston/Cambridge area. Their deal? They give bands FREE recording time and space, with one stipulation: the music must be liberally licensed.

Not such a bad trade. And once tracks are down, they’re sent to affiliate stations in the region for airplay. The kids at AA even claim “[i]f it’s really, really good we sit around making nice CD cases with construction paper and glue.”

The project’s roots are deep in free culture, and it only makes sense for chapters outside Boston/Cambridge to participate. If you’re interested in helping to expand the scope of AA, check us out and let us know!

-The Boston Phoenix on AA
- AA on MySpace
- A Free Sound: my (closed-source, I know) blog on the label’s progress, and relevant issues of free culture and music

UPDATE: Antenna Alliance was recently covered on public radio, on the show Here and Now on WBUR:
Music Sharing Program For Musicians.

I, Nicholas LaRacuente, am a current Swarthmore freshman (class of 2010). My initial interest in the Free Culture movement came from the open source software that has allowed me to grow as a hacker and developer. I am proud to announce that I will be leading a new project on FreeCulture.org, Free Culture Labs.

Free Culture Labs will be a network for open source hackers interested in assisting development of open source, Free Culture-related software. Free Culture Labs will work to recruit interested programmers, primarily (but not exclusively) from college campuses. We will provide resources for entering members and suggest projects for experienced developers. These projects will include both those directly maintained by FreeCulture.org and some from external organizations that relate to our mission.

We are interested in suggestions as to what specific software we should use for the project, including bug trackers, repositories, blogs, wikis, forums, and version control. We are currently considering Wordpress and bbPress for the blog/forums and expect to host projects externally. The current wiki page is at http://wiki.freeculture.org/Free_Culture_Labs.

One of the most active parts of the FreeCulture.org community over the years has been the discuss@freeculture.org mailing list. Students, faculty, and non-academics have long discussed Free Culture, software freedom, and related issues there, as well as highlighted web links of interest. We’ve seen subjects range from the Pirate Party through copyrighted laws to Open Access policies for scientific publication.

Three months ago, our old web hosting provider (Leafyhost) suffered a disk failure and didn’t have backups of our data, so we lost our subscribers list. So we want to take this chance to re-invite you all to discuss Free Culture!

Visit our list information page to sign up (or unsubscribe, if you choose). You can read the archives on the web, too.

UPDATE: Check out the full details of the event, including our agenda here at Free Culture @ NYU.

Freeculture.org will be holding an organization-wide Open Access event in NYC on Sat., Jan. 13, 2007 from 12-5pm at NYU’s Courant Institute in Room 101. We have some great guests lined up from PLoS, SPARC, and Science Commons.

All chapters are invited and encouraged to attend.

The event will be free and is open to anyone interested in advocating for Open Access and Free Culture on university campuses. There will be food and refreshments and we’re hoping to record the entire session to post online.

As opposed to last year’s Freeculture.org NYC regional summit, this event will be more specific and focused. We’ll be tackling the issue of how to advocate for Open Access on university campuses. We want to take action and start targeting faculty and professors whose work is publicly (or university funded) but is published in closed journals that charge exorbitant prices to libraries and students. There is an alternative out there and we want to make sure everyone knows about it. Access to Knowledge isn’t just important, it is your right as a student and member of a larger academic community.

The event will be interactive, with presentations from influential professionals working in the Open Access world followed by smaller working groups.

Interested in coming? Just RSVP to oa [at] freeculturenyu.org right now — we’ll have an official list and page set up soon, but we just wanted to get the word so that you could be sure to save the date.

UPDATED: The meeting room is L6 at 6 pm on Saturday.

I’m organizing an informal “free culture” caucus at the National Conference on Media Reform this weekend in Memphis, Tenn. Since the conference is large and broad in scope, we want to create an opportunity for people with a particular interest in Internet policy and intellectual property to meet and socialize.

The tentative time of this meeting will be during dinner on Saturday night, 6-8 pm. I’ll ask the conference organizers for a room where everyone can meet at 6 pm, and we’ll move on to a restaurant from there. Details will be posted at the information desk throughout the conference, as well as updated on this post. If you would like me to email or call you when the details are finalized, email me at grbaker@ufl.edu (with your phone number, if applicable).

If you’ll be in Memphis, I hope you’ll join us!