Hello Conley, Nelson and everyone else, Free Culture News is a great idea. I applaud that you are making it happen.
FC News could be more then students + news. I see no reason why it would have to be a student blog, FC news has a broad appeal to several communities. BoingBoing would not be where it is today if the authors changed every year. To make a team blog work you need a committed group of people that will blog consistently. A chapter is the ideal starting point, but may not be the ending point if the idea works. As a student with less then 18 months left I see a need for projects that continue and let alumni or even none SFFC members contribute. The UK has the Open Rights Group (ORG), by contrast the US is greatly lacking in grass-roots member driven FC like organizations to contribute to. GL with the idea. Best, Brian Rowe 3L Seattle University Law PS tried to post to chapter l On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Nelson Pavlosky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Conley, > > I disagree with what you said over private e-mail, that this general > free culture news is something that doesn't belong on the SFC blog. If > students are blogging about free culture news, then that falls under the > heading of "students + free culture". I would encourage you to post > general free culture news to the SFC blog, and I oppose splintering off > into a separate website. Posts to the SFC blog do not have to be about > SFC itself. Every time you fork stuff off into a separate website, you > tend to lose some momentum / manpower. > > I think that posting free culture news is a good idea, I liked the news > that you discuss at VT, but I think you should do it on > <http://freeculture.org/blog/> so long as it's SFC students posting to > it. Our blog already has pretty good pagerank and people are following > it, which means that your posts will immediately have an audience. > Also, if our blog were updated more frequently, that would look better > for SFC and bring more people to our website / help spread our message. > > The only reason I would fork such a news source off into a separate > website is if you wanted to get significant numbers of non-students to > post to it (about issues not clearly related to students or SFC). > However, it sounds like you're mostly using people from your SFC > chapter, and you're encouraging students from other chapters to get > involved, so I don't see an immediate need for a fork. > > Incidentally, I encourage anyone and everyone who is involved with an > SFC chapter to post on the SFC blog. I can give you a blog account if > you want, or just ask Asheesh or the web team for access or ping > #freeculture and someone will hook you up. There are unofficial > editorial standards (e.g. have someone else look at the post before you > post it to catch spelling mistakes etc.) which I've been meaning to > write up, but they're just guidelines which can be bent freely when > appropriate. > > Peace, > ~Nelson Pavlosky~ > Co-founder, Students for Free Culture > > > Free Culture @ VT wrote: > > We are probably going to shift the hosting, but I think it's a good idea > > to keep the domain separate, as I don't think it should look like SFC > > news, so much as Free Culture news, even if it is SFC people updating it > > (but whatever, I'm flexible). > > > > The reason I started this (and started it without getting a bunch of > > input first...I kind of have the impression that some people think I > > should have asked around before doing this), is that my chapter posts a > > ton of news up on our wiki every week, and we spend about 75% of our > > meeting talking about it (a random meeting from last semester: > > http://vt.freeculture.org/wiki/Meeting_2008-03-12#News). As I said > > previously, there's no definitive news source for free culture, and that > > is what our wiki has become for us, so why not just make a blog out of > > it, and share it with you all? Though I understand why you all see this > > differently, to us, this is just the same old thing we were doing > > before, just in blog format instead of wiki. > > > > It may be a little dead over the summer, but even if it was just our > > chapter making posts, and we posted like we did on our wiki this past > > year, it shouldn't die during the school year. > > > > If anyone wants to chat about this, I'm always on #freeculture. > > > > Later, > > ~Conley > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Chapters mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chapters > -- Brian Rowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] (206) 335-8577 (Cell) Access To Justice Technology Principles www.ATJWeb.org Freedom for IP www.FreedomforIP.org
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