Ahoy there, On Tuesday 01 August 2006 15:09, Rick Moynihan - Common Ends wrote: > I am conscious of not replicating the wheel, so this is a heads up, > signalling our interest in potentially becoming "Free Culture > Scotland" and/or "Free Culture Dundee". This said I also have an > interest in promoting some potentially international projects > (including the possibility of one in Africa).
Both sound great :) If you both live in Dundee and you're likely to do most of your "real world" work there, I'd suggest sticking to Free Culture Dundee, or some other name to do with that city. Others might be interested in doing local free culture stuff in Edinburgh, Glasgow, St Andrews, etc. It doesn't stop you doing other Scotland-wide projects, of course; they could be "run by FC Dundee" or perhaps just "a project of FC-UK". The same goes for international projects. > * What hoops do we need to jump through to become an affiliated group? We've not yet decided on any formal process. I think basically we just ask that you contribute to, and don't work against, the objectives described in our constitution (article 3): http://www.freeculture.org.uk/FreeCultureConstitution > * Would it be ok if we created a few wiki pages about us and our > projects on www.freeculture.org.uk? Go ahead! Add your group name to the following list, then follow the general layout of other group pages if it suits: http://www.freeculture.org.uk/LocalGroups > * Is there anybody already doing freeculture projects in Scotland who > is interested in collaborating with us? Not that I know of. > Our current strategy is to borrow infrastructure from elsewhere and > address the community building issues first, as I feel that technology > is the smallest challange. That sounds like a wise strategy. Are you going for a local community, online, Scottish, or some blend? There's lots of useful advice in our group guide, so please do have a read, add any info of your own and ask lots of questions on this list. http://www.freeculture.org.uk/GroupGuide Some suggested activities: * Run a Remix Dundee flickr group (see http://cnuk.org/projects/remixleeds) * Use Remix Commons for sharing work (you get RSS feeds of local work, and we can help host your web site and do other interesting things if you want) * Find existing CC licensed work made by Scottish people and organise an exhibition / DJ night to showcase it We're also currently working on a FC-UK starter pack, which we'll be sending out to every university in the UK. I'll post more about this in a few days, but we could probably send you one too. It should include free CDs, DVDs, flyers etc. from major free culture projects. Kind regards, Tom -- The task of critique is not to denounce the ideals, but to show their transformation into ideologies, and to challenge the ideology in the name of the betrayed ideal (Fromm – Beyond The Chains Of Illusion) _______________________________________________ fc-uk-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/fc-uk-discuss
