It could be a possibility but it would be a tradeoff with identity. What we need is more active participation. If the most realistic answer is to merge with another group, perhaps as you said as the student "front", then so be it. The decision should be left to the new board and the rest of the movement as a whole.
> > A thought: > > Has SFC considered merging with another global free culture network, > to share resources, default workspaces, and convenings? Perhaps as > the 'student' facet of a society-wide movement? CC and Wikimedia come > to mind, but there are also others more focused on the arts. > > We need to work together more to be heard. > > SJ > > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:37 AM, Matthew Senate <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Two things, apologies for the length but I'd **really** appreciate some > > feedback (and cc'ing discuss on this): > > > > 1. Workflow (Process, Knowledge-sharing, Etc) > > At the FCsummit, we observed some patterns of behavior for SFC. Chapters > > sometimes have a thriving group of folks, and even a whole network in the > > case of NYC's FC Coalition. Others seem to be just an individual or > maybe a > > few folks, friends possibly roped in to working on events or initiatives. > > Given the growth of SFC internationally, and the current processes and > > interactions taking place as we speak, it seems that SFC, as an > > organization, acts like a network of resources, groups, and individuals. > > Folks share projects, ask questions, get advice, give feedback, and all > work > > on awesome things in the Free/Libre Cultural space. From an > organizational > > standpoint, the incoming board needs to do some hard thinking and work to > > update the purpose, mission, and direction of the org in the FC movement. > > Functionally, we already see that this is a network of valuable resources > > sharing knowledge amongst themselves and with new folks. Email is the > > primary conduit by which this sharing takes place. But there are other > > options and opportunities out there. We all see how valuable they could > be! > > > > The draft I'm presenting (attached) should be somewhat consistent with > SFC's > > current behavior patterns, but in order for it (or something like it) to > be > > effective, we need to get folks in this community on the same page and > > commit to putting in a bit of time and investment to make it valuable for > > ourselves and for new people joining the FC movement. If we build a > > knowledge base, we need to be sure those who could contribute are able to > > (they have access) and that information can be organized, and categorized > > for intuitive and sufficient discovery (e.g. browse and search). There > are > > various other constraints, but to me, the most critical change needs to > be > > social--this community needs to adopt a process for working together > because > > that's what it does--SFC is all about sharing! ;) > > > > The workflow - Work is done by chapters, individuals, the board, and > > external contributors. This work can be published anywhere (maybe your > > chapter has it's own wiki or blog, awesome!), or it could be unpublished > at > > this time. At some point, either this work should be posted, in some > way, on > > the SFC wiki (or at least linked to your chapter's blog for example). > There > > are two routes. One is to start some email threads with relevant folks, > > communicate, and perhaps feedback into the work for some time, but > > eventually post to the wiki. The other is to post straight to the wiki, > > which can then feedback into further work. > > > > (Question: Does it seem intuitive that information posted on the wiki > can be > > related to SFC the organization, individual chapters, or Free Culture > > itself? Anyone have thoughts about this?) > > > > 2. Github > > Okay, on this note, what email address should I use to set up the github > > account? > > > > freeculture is taken, studentsforfreeculture is available, and > libreculture > > is available. > > > > I think using [email protected] is a security risk since anyone > can > > sign up for it and we only really need the account to sign up and create > a > > few repos. Do we have any admin/info accounts for the freeculture.org > > domain? > > > > Repos to create: > > > > FreeCulture.org Wiki > > FreeCulture.org Site > > FreeCulture.org Support - This may be a convenient place to openly manage > > and document work on the site as it exists, then retire it once we move > over > > to the new site, but it's not totally necessary. Thought it might be > useful > > for consolidation purposes. > > > > // Matt > > > > On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Eddie A Tejeda <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> As long as we use git and publish the source code, the details on host > >> don't concern me too much. > >> > >> Github is nice though! > >> > >> Sent from my iPhone > >> > >> On Apr 28, 2012, at 8:26 PM, Asheesh Laroia <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > >> > On Sat, 28 Apr 2012, Alec Story wrote: > >> > > >> >> I know when we discussed this in the past we favored gitorious > because > >> >> it's > >> >> open. ?Anyone feel strongly about this? > >> > > >> > I used to be a big Gitorious partisan, but my main project (OpenHatch) > >> > just switched to Github for the following reasons: > >> > > >> > * Better bandwidth > >> > * More installed user base > >> > * "Web hooks" that let you get pinged when the repo changes > >> > > >> > Full conversation here: > >> > > >> > * > http://lists.openhatch.org/pipermail/devel/2011-November/002521.html > >> > * > http://lists.openhatch.org/pipermail/devel/2012-February/002658.html > >> > > >> > Do note that this makes me sad in some ways. > >> > > >> > -- Asheesh. > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > Webteam mailing list > >> > [email protected] > >> > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/webteam > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Webteam mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/webteam > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.freeculture.org/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://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > > > End of Discuss Digest, Vol 65, Issue 2 > ************************************** >
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