Free Culture @ NYU

We’re happy to announce the board for next year (or at least next semester) of Free Culture @ NYU:

• President: John Randall
• Treasurer: Wesley Chen
• Vice President: Max Salzberg
• Secretary: Aditi Rajaram
• Documentarian: Gabe de Urioste (who gets the above photo credit)
• President of Berlin in NYU Free Culture: Parker Higgins

Keep an eye out for some events we’ll be doing over the summer, but we’ll definitely see you in the Fall.
Signing off,

Fred Benenson, President Free Culture @ NYU 2004-08

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Free Culture @ NYU has the wonderful opportunity to be sponsoring a fantastic panel next week.

We hope you can make it!

The Futures of The Internet

What will come of the next decade on the Internet? We often take for granted the state of the net today, but there’s no guarantee that it will remain this way. Will the digital future be dystopian, or is there a brighter outlook ahead than some may believe? Our panelists — thinkers and net visionaries — will provide their perspectives on the future of the net, with backgrounds ranging from art, law, technology, politics, media, culture, and entrepreneurship. We will tap in to each speaker’s knowledge to provide a unique vision of the digital future, and will engage with members of the audience to further the exploration of what lies ahead.

Speakers:

Lauren Cornell
Executive Director, Rhizome
http://www.rhizome.org/

Clay Shirky
Author, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Adjunct Professor, NYU ITP
http://www.shirky.com

Tim Wu
Professor, Columbia Law School
http://www.timwu.org/

Jonathan Zittrain
Professor, Oxford University, Visiting Professor, NYU Law
Author, The Future of the Internet — and How to Stop It
http://www.jz.org

Plus a very special guest!

Date:	Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Time:	6:30pm - 8:30pm
Location:	Vanderbilt Hall 206, NYU Law
Street:	40 Washington Square South
Facebook:	The Futures of the Internet Event

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Don’t worry folks, our event is still very much on tomorrow. Check out our newly created page for more information, and don’t forget to register!

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UPDATE: Looks like rain on Friday the 28th, we’re rescheduling until April 4th. Please tell your friends, and apologies for any confusion!

On Friday, March 28th April 4th, join Free Culture @ NYU and Free Culture @ Columbia on a quest to get the best shots of NYC. Bring your camera and a way to get around town for the biggest scavenger hunt in Free Culture’s history.

Each member of the winning team will receive an iPod shuffle loaded with Creative Commons music! Second and third place teams will win copies of “Wikipedia, The Missing Manual” donated by O’Reilly.

All photos will be uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons for inclusion into Wikipedia articles about NYC that need photos. We’ve got hundreds of locations, sites, and things to document for Wikipedia and it should be a really fun day.

Register here, and just show up at either:

NYU
Friday, March 28th April 4th
12pm until 7pm
Union Square
In front of Washington’s Statue

OR

Columbia
Friday, March 28th April 4th
11:30am
The Sundial
(free bagels)

Facebook Event.

For those of you that don’t get the tagline, click here.

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Sorry to everyone that tried to sign up via the e-mail link on our e-mail list page. It wasn’t working and it now is. Please subscribe now and you should receive a confirmation e-mail.

Thanks!

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A number of us have purchased OLPCs in the give one get one program and are interesting in building on it. So we’ve booked a room at ITP and are going to bring our laptops and have fun. We’re also going to talk about making the laptop more manageable as a machine to use everyday for adults — you’ll be able to learn how to hack your OLPC and install XFCE (a lightweight GUI), Ubuntu, and take advantage of its unique hardware configurations.

This session will also be for those people who are interested in learning more about the OLPC in general, and what they can expect if they’re expecting a special delivery. Come with a jump drive, and of course if you have one — your OLPC.

Here’s the info for those of you who can’t be bothered to read non bolded sentences:

NYU OLPC Jam Session
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
12pm-5pm
721 Broadway, 4th Floor
Room 442

Please RSVP here (registration required) here. If you are not NYU and have not registered by Saturday AM, we will not be able to accommodate you.

Having an OLPC is not a requirement but please come prepared to do work and learn.

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I recently did an interview on Hardfire, a Brooklyn Television show about Libertarian politics and talked about free culture and the copyright issues motivating our movement.

It’s about half an hour and you can watch it here:

I was previously on the show last year talking about bagels and trademark.

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Hi There! Just a friendly reminder that Free Culture @ NYU will be meeting tonight. Here’s the info:

Monday, January 28th, 2008
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM
General Meeting in Kimmel Center Room #907

There will be food.

We’ll be discussing the latest and greatest happenings in the world of free culture, Creative Commons, and Free software. We’ll also be talking our future plans for the semester, the OSA Club Fest, our screening on Thursday, and a Tisch film remix contest.
Feel free to come even if we haven’t seen you in a while, or if you’ve never been before!

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In cooperation with the Media Education Foundation and La Lutta, Free Culture @ NYU is screening Freedom of Expression®: Resistance and Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property at 9pm on Thursday, January 31.

Narrated by Naomi Klein, the film features interviews with Stanford Law’s Lawrence Lessig, Illegal Art Show curator Carrie McLaren, Negativland’s Mark Hosler, UVA media scholar Siva Vaidhyanathan, and Free Culture @ NYU co-founder Inga Chernyak, among many others. This 53-minute documentary will be preceded by selections from Negativland’s new DVD, Our Favorite Things, and it will be followed by a Q&A with Freedom of Expression® author and director Kembrew McLeod and co-producer Jeremy Smith.

Freedom of Expression Screening and Q&A with Creators
Sponsored by Free Culture @ NYU, NYU ACM, and WiNC
Free and Open to the Public (bring ID if non-NYU)
Thursday, January 31, 2008
9:00pm
NYU’s Courant Institute
Room #109
251 Mercer Street b/w Bleecker and W. 4^th

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The second Students for Free Culture board member election debate is taking place on IRC tomorrow, Sunday Dec 2, 3PM EST. Specifically the #freeculture channel of irc.freenode.net. (Did I just goof on the nomenclature? I’m a little shaky on the whole IRC thing.)

Missed the first debate? Worry not! It’s available for your perusal on the Students for Free Culture wiki, conveniently broken into candidate responses. Should you not be available for this debate, you’ll definitely find a log and a transcription on the wiki sometime in the next few days. Should you be available, you should come! They’re great!

See everybody at the meeting on Monday.

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