yes, sure! my engagement is very slow, but steady. just catched up with
some months of posts & can definitively say that i'll stick around as
well & next mail is regarding that :-)
free culture is i guess nothing you can turn on or off, it is an attitude...
adnan
Timothy Cowlishaw wrote:
Hi all,
While I understand completely Tom's reasons for making this decision,
I fail to see how the absence of one (admittedly pivotal member)
should mean that the whole organisation should fold. Admittedly FC-UK
has been almost inactive for several months, however perhaps this is
an opportunity for a reboot rather than an excuse to fold completely.
The FCF looks like an exciting initiative - I will be closely
following your progress, and am certainly willing to help out in any
way I can. As concerns FC-London, we never really got off the ground,
but am going to attempt to nudge it back into life with a cc-salon /
minibar-ish model of monthly discussion / social events for those
involved in Free / CC work locally.
I am keen to continue working with FC-UK, however, I feel that it is
important to discuss our aims as an organisation, and set out tangible
and practical goals, as the recent lull in activity appears to me to
be a consequence of the procrastination that tends to go on on this
discussion list. I personally would like to see a greater emphasis on
the practical business of creating Free Culture works, alongside the
discussion and campaigning elements of our activity. Perhaps our
campaigning work could be carried out in partnership with the other
organisations Tom mentioned - I have been involved in DBD and ORG
campaigns in the past, as I'm sure many others on-list have. This
would improve our efficiency, leaving time to work on additional
projects, and would present a united front for the entire
anti-term-extension / anti-DRM / whatever-else lobby, rather than a
series of disparate smaller groups - something that might make our
campaigning more effective.
Any way, I wish all those leaving the best of luck, however I will be
sticking around for the time being. Is anyone else joining me?
cheers,
Tim
On 27 Jan 2007, at 11:46, Tom Chance wrote:
Ahoy,
I've not done anything active with FC-UK for quite a while. I seem to
recall
that we were planning to have an AGM last weekend, which never happened.
Nobody else has been active at all for months, so far as I can tell.
I'm now too busy with my job [1], being the Green Party Speaker on IP
and Free
Software [2], and soliciting essay contributions for the Free Culture
Foundation [3] to really do anything more on free culture anyway.
Given the circumstances I think now is a good time to bow out. But I
would
also suggest that we formally fold FC-UK, redirecting people's energy
and
projects into organisations with more momentum such as ORG (copyright
extensions -> Release the Music), the OKFN (PD Burn is joint
already), the
FSF (DRM -> Defective by Design), iCommons (for CC work), the FCF
(where Rob
and I intend to take our free culture 4 students work), Libre Society
(for
discussions & debates) and so on.
As for local groups, RAVE (in Reading) are happily steaming along with
workshops and a big festival planned for this summer, and can
collaborate
with other free culture groups through iCommons. How are the groups
in Dundee
and London?
I'd suggest that anyone who still wants to work on free culture has a
look at
the other organisations in the area. If people still want to do
something
with FC-UK then identifying an area of work that is feasible, and
that you're
willing to put sufficient time, energy and money into, is the way
forward.
Otherwise it would be best to put up a placeholder on the domain
pointing
people away, and encourage people to migrate to other mailing lists.
It's been fun :)
Kind regards,
Tom
[1] http://www.bioregional.com
[2] http://tom.acrewoods.net/node/501
[3] http://www.freeculturefoundation.org
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forgetting
- Kundera
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