> From: Benj. Mako Hill > No, it doesn't. Not to 100% of the unscientific sample I just > ran it by.
Jolly good. > If your problem is that you don't want Free Culture to be an > organization to target students, that's fine. But you're arguing for a > change in what the organization has always been -- even if > it's not how you've always imagined it. It's not about my problems, but FC's. The problem that was originally mentioned concerned a confusion from some people as to whether FC.org was student centric (some were surprised to find it was). The proposed solution is to emphasise FC's student focus in its organisation/mission title "Students for Free Culture". I'm simply suggesting that it may not be the best solution - and I mean the best solution from the student members' perspective. I suggested an alternative would be to simply abandon the student focus from the mission. One can still acknowledge that students formed 90% of the corpus (or whatever it is). Students may also be the only class of member permitted to staff campus based chapters. It just seems a little overly parochial to implicitly reject consideration/representation of any citizen in pursuit of cultural freedom except its student membership. I'm reminded of "Surfers Against Sewage". There are swimmers, scuba divers, and fishermen too. http://www.sas.org.uk/ now has to use the tag "Not just surfers - not just sewage". FC.org will no doubt eventually also have to say "Not just students - not just freedom" (life, truth, and privacy are vitally important too). _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
