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• A meeting for those interested in volunteering with FreeCulture.org -- come if you want to help!
• 22 July 2007 (Sunday), 8 pm EDT (convert to your time zone)
• in #freeculture (see IRC for help)
• Volunteers mailing list: Join it!

RSVP

If you plan to attend this meeting, please RSVP here! Please list your chapter, and link to your userpage on the wiki if you like.

Agenda

Reports from existing volunteer projects

Web Team

• Progress on existing projects (see bugs on Launchpad)
  • Bugs closed this week:
    • (#109407) Need an off-site status blog
    • (#125467) wordpress produces invalid blog markup, (#125310) invalid xhtml: We're 100% valid now!
    • (#125194) Add favicon
    • (#125661) We don't do backups
    • (#125582) Old feed URL is now broken
    • (#125470) google maps thingey uses invalid markup
    • (#125357) footer doesnt stretch across at /chapters
    • (#126203) Old chapters database web interface is missing
    • (#102351) Authorship on blog posts hard to find
  • Progress made on bugs this week:
    • (#125195) Add CC licensing: Triaged (added link, still need metadata)
  • Other accomplishments:
    • Improved Contact page (cleaned up, bulleted, added/updated information)
    • Improved footer on Web pages (added link to CC license, clarified language about attribution, added link to validate Web standards, added link to status blog)
    • Started agenda for Net architecture strategy meeting
• Help wanted
  • (#125185) New chapter registration system & database, (#125291) Chapters registration page missing: These need to go live by 2007-07-29
• How to get involved
  • Meetings:
    • Next meeting is ___
    • Net architecture strategy meeting: Schedule TBD
  • Mailing list: [1]
  • Launchpad: [2]

Fundraising

• Progress on existing projects
• Help wanted
• How to get involved
  • Mailing list: Google Group FreeCulture.org

Help wanted

Post requests for help (that are not specific to a team) and new proposals here

• Blog:
  • This story about a statement FreeCulture.org signed, about NBC's comments to the FCC that recommend breaking the internet
  • NIH Public Access policy passed the House. FC.o is a member of the Alliance for Taxpayer Access, which lobbied for the bill
  • New York Times article about FreeCulture.org and open access (upcoming)
• Swapnotes
• Opensearch
• Campus concerts
  • With Future of Music Coalition, re: Net neutrality (Rock the Net)
  • With Digital Freedom Campaign re: p2p
• Wiki cleanup
• Hill visits

Minutes

Log

A log of the IRC chat is available at 2007-07-22/log.

Attendance

Reports from existing volunteer projects

Web Team

Fundraising

Help wanted

Next Meeting

The next volunteers meeting will be 2007-08-01 at 9 pm EDT (convert to your time zone) in #freeculture (see IRC for help).