Hey Michael, Moving this thread to our discuss mailing list. We generally just use the chapters list to make announcements that need to get disseminated to all of our chapter leaders. Your introduction will meet a broader audience here on the discuss list.
Happy to have you aboard! I like the collaborative painting idea. Let us know how it goes! If it goes well, one thing you could do to follow up is organize an "open art" show featuring a bunch of community-created and CC-licensed work. I know that at least one chapter has done this in the past. On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Michael Pagnotti <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, everybody. I just wanted to introduce myself to the list. My name is > Michael Pagnotti. I am in the process of beginning a chapter at University > of Central Florida in Orlando. I am a Social Sciences Education major at > the end of my junior year and have a deep interest in what this movement > could do and is doing for public education as well as the politics of free > culture including public policy, transparency, and privacy. > > I got started in Free Culture with GNU/Linux OS. I started with Fedora, then > Debian, and I have been using Ubuntu for a few years now. I got interested > in the Free Software Foundation and from there I found Creative Commons, > EFF, and other forms of open standards in different aspects of culture. > > I am in the process of getting the chapter officially registered with the > school and will begin holding meetings in January. I am open to any and all > ideas, suggestions as to what is effective and proven, and to best practices > for chapters. I have studied the wiki carefully and I modified a few flyers > to use before the first meeting. > > I'm thinking about holding a little event in front of the student union with > a huge blanket canvas, so people can contribute to a collaborative painting. > We will give out info on the first meeting and about SFC. Goal One for me > is informing as many students as possible and getting people to notice what > this is all about. > > Whatever, I can do for SFC and fellow chapters I would be happy to > contribute. I don't have any coding skills but I can help with > documentation, the wiki, and can use GIMP pretty well. > > Thanks so much for everyone's time and good work. > > Michael Pagnotti > University of Central Florida > > > _______________________________________________ > Chapters mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chapters > -- http://www.madebyparker.com _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
