In case you haven’t already heard, the schedule is up for the National FC Conference to take place on Saturday, May 26, at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.

The conference will run from 11am to 7:30pm in Austin Hall on the Law School campus. We have a lot of great speakers and people coming in, including representatives from the Free Software Foundation, One Laptop per Child, WMFU, DJ/Rupture, WikiEducator, Creative Commons, Science Commons, the Institute for Infinitely Small Things, Freedomdefined.org, Binary Freedom, and more.

It’s not too late to register, so please email freeculture at hcs.harvard.edu or respond to our Facebook Event to sign up.

And watch out for the post-conference Dance Conspiracy…

UPDATE: Here are more details regarding the Conference:

(1) Pre-conference events

(a) Defective by Design Protest Today

Defective by Design will be organizing a protest against proposed changes to the copyright law *today* at 5pm in Boston. Many free culture members will be in attendance.

On Friday May 25th, Disney launches “Pirates of the Caribbean, at World’s End”, a movie about a diverse community coming together to fight the far-reaching and oppressive East India Trading Company to preserve their freedom-loving lifestyle (sound kind of familiar?). DefectiveByDesign.org, Free Software
Foundation and Free Culture activists will be heading to the Boston Common theater (175 Tremont St., Boston, MA) to help educate the movie-going public about the horrendous “Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2007″ as advocated by
disgraced US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

We will gather at the Free Software Foundation office (51 Franklin Street, 5th Floor, at the Downtown Crossing T stop) at 16:00 on Friday, May 25th. We will collect literature and HazMat suits, and head over to the Boston Common at 17:00. We expect to stay until around 20:00.

(b) Freeculture.org Administrative Meeting Tonight

All members of Freeculture.org chapters are invited to the administrative meeting *today* at 8pm at the Berkman Center, 23 Everett St, Cambridge, MA 2nd Floor.

(2) Check-in

We’ll have a simple check-in system starting at 10:45 AM. It will be in front of the Austin North classroom, where the main discussions will take place.

(3) Working Groups and Presentations

(a) Working Groups

We’ll break up into groups at the event. We’ll send around a sign-in sheet so that we know who attended each group. The location and leaders of the working groups will be included in the program and will be up on the wiki page later today — http://wiki.freeculture.org/National_Conference.

(b) Presentations

We will have a sign-up sheet for 5 minute, informal group or project presentations at the check-in table. Any person working on a free culture-related group or project is welcome to present. Please note that spaces are limited, so we may not be able to accommodate everyone.

We also ask that a representative from each Freeculture.org chapter in attendance make a 5 minute, informal presentation about the group’s activities.

(4) Food

(a) Lunch and the ice cream snack will be provided by us.

(b) Dinner will follow the event. We will break up into dinner groups by cuisine. Think about your favorite choice from these selections:

(1) Thai — Smile Thai
(2) Tex/Mex — Border Cafe
(3) American — John Harvard’s
(4) Ethiopian — Addis Red Sea
(5) Pizza — Pinocchio’s then JFK Park

A leader will have a sign with the respective cuisine at 7:30 and we will break up into groups then. Please note that *you* will be responsible for paying for whatever you order. (But you did already get a lot of free food, right?)

(5) Dance Conspiracy After Party

(a) We will meet by the Harvard Square T station (the main entrance by the “pit”) at 9:30pm. If you are planning to attend the Dance Conspiracy (please do, it will be a lot of fun!), and you don’t yet have your own Charlie Card for the T, we’ll be collecting $2 for the fare so that we let people in more efficiently.

(b) Also, if you have them, you can bring your own headphones. (We have portable radios and cheap headphones.)

Please let us know if you have any questions, and we’ll see you tomorrow!

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