+1 perhaps the wiki-work could be joined up with that of similar projects, to share the overhead involved in organizing, categorizing, cleaning up, &c.
SJ On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:15 PM, FreeCulture.org - Students for Free Culture <[email protected]> wrote: > [![HOW TO: Free Culture][1]][2] > > I would like to start a discussion regarding something I’m myself guilty > of. I feel there’s no communication between chapters. Sure, we meet > every two years at our conference, some are very active in the > discussion mailing list, but this is definitely not enough. Chapters are > at the battlefront of the issues we are fighting, like [closed > universities][3], net neutrality, and copyright law reform. > > Currently I feel we are working independently. I think this is not the > best approach. Chapters should be collaborating with each other. Sharing > ideas and planning activities together. Telling everyone else what they > are doing, and how they are doing it. > > This is very helpful for many reasons. First, for already established > chapters, it’s a way to organize new activities. We can copy and remix > what others have done. For new chapters, it is invaluable information. > It shows them what we are doing, what they can do too. We have already > prepared a chapter kick starter, [Year One][4], but more information is > always better. > > I also believe this speeds up the planning of activities. For example, > if I plan a [FOSS Gaming Night][5] for [...@uprm][6], I need to prepare a > flier to post in the bulletin boards around campus. But, if a chapter > decides to host a gaming night as well, or something very similar, they > shouldn’t need to make a whole new flier. They should be able to use the > same flier/art a chapter already used. It’s only a matter of changing > some text and, perhaps, a little bit of remixing. It’s the model we > support and sponsor, a bottom-up way of making things. Like Newton once > said “If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders > of Giants." > > [![free culture and mind 009][7]][8] > > This is not a new idea. I know there are a couple fliers somewhere in > the [wiki][9], but I have no idea where they are, and that’s a problem. > There should be a centralized place for all this, and something that is > chapter friendly. The wiki can be a good place, but it’s currently more > like a labyrinth. Perhaps a couple people from various chapters can join > the [webteam][10] and do something together. I recently joined the > webteam and I’m ready to work on this. Who’s with me? > > I propose many things: > > * The creation of a new mailing list for chapters. Think of it like > chapter news. We tell each other what we are doing. It might be short > and sweet. Something like “We are talking about ACTA next Thursday.” Or > better yet, attached to the message is some art for the activity. > > * UPDATE: Well, this mailing list exists. I had no idea about it. I > don’t know if I’m the only one that didn’t know about it, but, let use > that. It already exists [here][11]. > > * A centralized place for fliers. Something that’s organized and > usable. > > * Meeting in IRC. I miss the days when chapters would have meetings in > IRC. These were planned meetings, not just “Hey Sparragus, what’s up? > How’s f...@uprm doing?” It would also be awesome if the board attended the > meetings, too. > > * Blogging more! We should be blogging more. In the SFC website, under > [chapter news][12], I always see a couple posts every other month. This > is great. However, I would love to see more, and specially from more > chapters. Blog once for every activity you have. And this is not > necessarily blogging for SFC, but blogging for our members, our > university, and for the world. We need to make sure the name of Students > for Free Culture stands up high, and so does our chapters. Blogging is > the easiest and quickest solution for this. Once again, it’s a great way > to know what others are doing. > > Let’s start conversing with each other! I would love to hear your > thoughts on this. What should we do and how should we do it? > > See ya all around! > > [1]: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/2/3556250_449e2d42b2.jpg > > [2]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/scuddr/3556250/ (HOW TO: Free > Culture by Scuddr, on Flickr) > > [3]: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Open_University_Campaign > > [4]: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Year_one > > [5]: http://wiki.freeculture.org/UPRM_FOSS_Gaming_Night > > [6]: http://uprm.freeculture.org > > [7]: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/3/5140927_7d1770011b.jpg > > [8]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fcb/5140927/ (free culture and mind > 009 by mecredis, on Flickr) > > [9]: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Propaganda > > [10]: http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/webteam > > [11]: http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chapters > > [12]: http://freeculture.org/chapternews/ > > URL: http://freeculture.org/blog/2010/10/05/together-we-stand-divided-we-fall/ > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > -- Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
