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Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 15:33:17 -0500 From: "Fred Benenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Free Culture @ NYU's list serv" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [free-culture] January Free Culture Events: Taking Access on Open Access and Cory Doctorow Greetings Free Culture @ NYU, I hope you are enjoying your winter breaks and are looking forward to a fantastic new year. Free Culture @ NYU has some great events lined up for January and we wanted to make sure you knew about them. First is our "Taking Action on Open Access" event: http://www.freeculturenyu.org/oa/ Taking Action on Open Access Freeculture.org <http://www.freeculture.org/> will be holding an organization-wide *Open Access event in NYC on Jan. 13, 2007 from 12-5pm at NYU's Courant Institute <http://www.cims.nyu.edu/> in Room 101.* All chapters are invited and encouraged to attend. The event will be free and is open to anyone interested in advocating for Open Access and Free Culture on university campuses. There will be food and refreshments and we're hoping to record the entire session to post online. As opposed to last year's Freeculture.org NYC regional summit, this event will be more specific and focused. We'll be tackling the issue of how to advocate for Open Access on university campuses. We want to take action and start targeting faculty and professors whose work is publicly (or university funded) but is published in closed journals that charge exorbitant prices to libraries and students. There is an alternative out there and we want to make sure everyone knows about it. Access to Knowledge isn't just important, it is your right as a student and member of a larger academic community. The event will be interactive, with presentations from influential professionals working in the Open Access world followed by smaller working groups. Interested in coming? Just RSVP to *oa [at] freeculturenyu.org* or via our facebook event post <http://nyu.facebook.com/event.php?eid=2226452845>. Agenda Here is the agenda for the day: 12:00pm Registration / Lunch 12:30pm Introductions 1:00pm Jennifer Mclennan from SPARC 2:00pm Gavin Yamey Public 2:50pm Break 3:00pm Actual Training --- Second is Cory Doctorow: January 19th 2007 @ 5pm : Cory Doctorow <http://www.freeculturenyu.org/2007/01/03/january-19th-2007-5pm-cory-doctorow/> *photo by Bart Nagel* On *January 19th at 5pm* Free Culture @ NYU and NYU ACM<http://www.cs.nyu.edu/%7Eacmweb/>are hosting a talk by Cory Doctorow. The event will be at the Courant Institute <http://www.cims.nyu.edu/> in *Room 109 at 5pm-7pm*. Cory will be speaking on "*State of the Copyfight 2007: Looking up, not out of the woods yet.*" Cory co-edits the massively popular blog BoingBoing.net<http://www.boingboing.net/>, writes sci-fi novels <http://craphound.com/index.php?cat=5> that are released under Creative Commons licenses, and is a dedicated copyfighter who serves on the board of numerous organizations. Read his bio here<http://craphound.com/bio.php>or his Wikipedia entry <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow>. The event will be free and open to the public. -- Hope to see you there! Fred Benenson Free Culture @ NYU -- The content of this email message is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License, Some Rights Reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ </blockquote> Distributed poC TINC: Jay Sulzberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Corresponding Secretary LXNY LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization. http://www.lxny.org _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
