Students for Free Culture » fc2008 http://freeculture.org Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:19:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Free Culture 2008: Post-Mortem http://freeculture.org/blog/2009/03/20/free-culture-2008-post-mortem/ http://freeculture.org/blog/2009/03/20/free-culture-2008-post-mortem/#comments Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:17:53 +0000 ben moskowitz http://freeculture.org/?p=673 It’s been about six months since the Free Culture 2008 Conference—time flies! Berkeley is happy to report that the conference was a great success. We got some good press, made some great connections, and generated a little money for the national organization. We were also treated to a barn-burner of a talk by Larry Lessig and finally got everyone together in one room. We’re so grateful to everyone who made the trip and can’t wait for the next event; we hope you had as much fun in the Bay Area as we do on a regular basis. Get hyphy.

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What follows is an extremely tardy wrap-up post—call it a post-mortem. Many folks wondered where to find resources, so read on to see what’s available online.

Videos of the conference are now available in three ways. First, check out Free Culture @ Berkeley’s Blip channel (http://freecultureberkeley.blip.tv). Like any good video site, Blip will let you embed the videos on your blog and also download them for archival. They’re available in OGG at archive.org—search “free culture.” Alternately, you can check out FreeCulture.tv on Miro. The videos are licensed CC-BY, so go nuts—spread them all over the world, chop and screw them, burn them on DVDs and sell them. Just make sure SFFC gets a shout out. If you’d like source files, drop us a line at berkeley@freeculture.org.

Also, Alaskan FC-warrior Jacob Caggiano has some great interviews from the conference up on his Vimeo page.

Some great summary posts were written by Tim Hwang, Kevin Donovan, and others (if you’re ever in Mexico and need a Spanish translation of Lessig’s speech, look no further).

Lastly, you should also check out the fc2008 Flickr pool (just watch out: we share #hashtags with FurryCon 2008). I’m particularly fond of the lewd dancing at the afterparty—thanks again to Lone Wolf, ripley, Kid Kameleon, and Refusenik for spinning on the one’s and two’s.

By now everyone who needs reimbursement for travel should have received a check. If you haven’t, contact berkeley@freeculture.org and we’ll check the status. We apologize again for the delay in processing; the travel grants made possible by our generous sponsors Google and Mozilla required that we work with UC Berkeley’s business services, resulting in a longer-than-average reimbursement period. It’s definitely something that SFFC will be working to improve on for future events.

Speaking of future events—it’s about the right time to start plotting the next one. What should we focus on? Who should be there? What are our goals? Speak your mind in the comments!

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(photocred: thanks, mecredis!)

]]> http://freeculture.org/blog/2009/03/20/free-culture-2008-post-mortem/feed/ 2 Live Blogging Free Culture Conference 2008 http://freeculture.org/blog/2008/10/09/live-blogging-free-culture-conference-2008/ http://freeculture.org/blog/2008/10/09/live-blogging-free-culture-conference-2008/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:43:48 +0000 brian rowe http://freeculture.org/?p=543 Can’t make it to the conference, here are a few ways to follow along at home.

Live Blogging:
Tim Hwang blogging @ The US Bureau of Fabulous Bitches
Brian Rowe blogging @ Freedom for IP
Luis G. Lira @ Scitechbizdev.blogspot.com in Spanish

Wraps ups are being published by:
Kevin Driscoll @ todo mundo
Kevin Donovan @ Blurring Borders

Micro Blogging:
Identica search for #fc2008
Brian Rowe, 3L Seattle University Law, Twitter: Sarterus Identi.ca: Sarterus
Tim Hwang, Harvard Berkman Center, Twitter: TimHwang
Mike Linksvayer, VP for Creative Commons, Identi.ca: mlinksva
shizhao Twitter: shizhao

I‘m twitter @shizhao
(I am sure there are other mircobloggers out there and I will update this list over time)

Post a comment or respond on the list to be added to the blog list.
The tag for the conference is fc2008 the hashtag is #fc2008

Additionally our IRC channel on freenode is #freeculture

]]> http://freeculture.org/blog/2008/10/09/live-blogging-free-culture-conference-2008/feed/ 6 Feeling So Free: Free Culture Afterparty Saturday in Berkeley! http://freeculture.org/blog/2008/10/09/feeling-so-free-free-culture-afterparty-saturday-in-berkeley/ http://freeculture.org/blog/2008/10/09/feeling-so-free-free-culture-afterparty-saturday-in-berkeley/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:07:17 +0000 kevin driscoll http://freeculture.org/?p=540 Feeling So Free, Oct 11, Berkeley, CA

Saturday October 11th
Feeling So Free @ Blake’s On Telegraph
8:00pm-2:00am
18+ (Bring the above flyer to get in after 10pm.)
21+ to drink
No cover

Three srsly sick DJs (and me!) on two floors:

DJ Ripley (Baltimore Club/ Dancehall/ Dubstep)
Kid Kameleon (Mashit/ XLR8R)
Refusenik (Thug Rave)
Lone Wolf (Hip Hop)

Video artist or VJ? We’d like to have your video running during the party. Get in touch with me via kevin//at//freeculture.org if you’re interested!

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