Great post, Aditi! On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Aditi Rajaram <[email protected]> wrote: > > 1. What are some cool, free culture esque projects going on right now?
CASH Music hits a sweet spot for me at the intersection of music and tech: "CASH Music is a nonprofit organization that builds open source tools for musicians." http://cashmusic.org/ I really like their "Tweet-for-Track" tool. The basic premise is that fans can download a song for the social cost of tweeting a link to their followers. https://github.com/cashmusic/Tweet-for-Track I'm also really excited that both Mozilla/Firefox and Canonical/Ubuntu are working on building free/open mobile software. This has been an area of considerable frustration for me, particularly after Nokia abandoned the MeeGo operating system. > 2. Who do you guys think are some cool people working on FC stuff? I'm > looking less for the Lessig type answer and more for cutting > edge/up-and-comers. Lately, I've been most excited by the work of archivists, librarians, and some of the scholars affiliated with the "digital humanities." While these folks might not be embedded in the same copyfighter/freeculture discourses that we're familiar with, they are dedicated to preserving and growing a public commons. This is pretty broad, but on the more activist side, you might look at the Archive Team website. They are a loose network of DIY archivists with big harddrives and lots of bandwidth who try to mirror entire commercial sites (like Geocities or Yahoo! Video) before their parent companies take them off-line. http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page Kevin _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
