At least speaking from Harvard FC's experience and some of the talking I've been doing with other SFC groups, I've been thinking lately that, strategically, one really promising thing to pursue much more aggressively in the future is to build up partnerships with pre-existing communities that are already poised to be part of Free Culture without actually being part of it. As a whole, chapters (not surprisingly) seem to have created good outreach to the techie world, but on a whole we've got less consistent relationships with the world outside of that.
I think that the international development community might be great space for this kind of teaming up on projects. They're plugged in with a massive ecosystem of organizations who are dealing with a bunch of intellectual property issues (pharmaceuticals, technology transfer, cultural product distribution) where restrictiveness is causing real problems. These are natural allies, and I think Free Culture can play a big role A) as a connector to the tech world and B) in helping these groups join up with Free Culture more generally. In any case, been scheming up some stuff for HFC in the fall. I know we already have some existing connects with Gavin and the UAEM (http://www.essentialmedicine.org/) folks -- but wanted to see on the list if any of the the chapters had any protips/experiences to impart or had ideas on FC-friendly orgs worth getting in touch with/teaming up with. Alternatively, if you want to join up with us on projects in this vein next year -- let me know! Best, Tim _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
