Free Culture @ NYU

National FreeCulture.org Conference.

Wednesday, 05.16.2007  –  Category: News

The Free Culture.org National Conference to be held on Saturday, May 26, in Austin Hall at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Registration is still open and free of charge. Please email us or reply to the Facebook Event to register. Housing is also still available, but please email ASAP to secure it.

The schedule is below. We will provide lunch and a snack, but dinners will be split by attendees. We still may have some additional speakers, but the format is fairly solidified.

The “Chapter/Project/Group Reports” will be informal, 5 minute “lightning-style” talks. We ask that each chapter in attendance make one of these talks. The Project/Group portion is for anyone that is working on an FC-related project or with an FC-related group and would like to give a 5 minute intro. Please think about these, as we’ll have a sign up sheet for them at the beginning of the event. Also please think about which workshops you’d like to attend, as we’ll split up into those groups at the event as well.

Here’s the full schedule:

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11:00am — Welcome from Harvard Free Culture

11:15am Discussion 1: Access to Research and Education
Science Commons, Wiki Education, OLPC

12:15pm Discussion 2: Code, Freedom, and Control
Free Software Foundation, Ubuntu, Defective By Design

1pm: Interlude — Institute for Infinitely Small Things

1:15 pm LUNCH

2pm Discussion 3: Creating Free Culture
DJ/Rupture, Creative Commons, WFMU

3pm Chapter/Project/Group Reports

4:30 Working Group Session 1
(a) Open Access, (b) Free Software, (c) Digital Media

5:30 Break

5:45 Working Group Session 2
(a) Activism and Digital Disobedience, (b) Communication and Collaboration, (c) Forming a Vision for Free Culture

6:45 Working Group Reports and Summing up

7:30 DINNER at Various Harvard Square Restaurants

9:30 Dance Conspiracy — Meet by the Harvard Square T

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See you on May 26th!