On 3 Oct 2007, at 08:18, Conor Schaefer wrote: > That said, I would absolutely support an "artists for free culture" > organization, and would myself sign up. Crosbie, are you interested > in getting the ball rolling on that yourself, or would you need help?
I'm about to begin drafting a 'free art manifesto', and was planning to do this collaboratively on a wiki / iCommons node so that any interested parties could get involved. If anyone feels like they'd like to be involved with this, let me know! I'll make a proper announcement / call for participants (with more detail about the project) soon when it's a bit more ready. On a more general note however, I'm a little disappointed by this decision. While I recognise the value of having student focused FC chapters at Unversities, intentionally limiting FC.org (who I, rightly or wrongly ,have viewed as a sort of general 'umbrella organisation' for the FC movement) to campus-based chapters seems to be excluding a large proportion of (y)our supporter base. Since the bylaws were ratified by your campus-based chapters many who had been active FC.org supporters were excluded from the decision-making process by virtue of being non-students or students of universities without an FC chapter (both in the US and Internationally), and to systematically vote what is (as far as i can tell) a significant proportion of FC's supporter-base out of the organisation (without giving them a chance to voice their own views on the matter) seems rather counter-productive. Cheers, Tim _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
