Free Culture UK Meeting 2006-04-08
Contents
When
Saturday 8th April 2006, 11am - 7pm.
Where
Limehouse Town Hall, 646 Commercial Road, London, E14 7HA
The venue is in east London near the docklands and about 30 mins from central London by bike or public transport.
See http://www.okfn.org/wsfii/wiki/WsfiiGettingThere for details on how to get there.
Any difficulties contact Rufus Pollock on 07795 176 976.
About
The meeting will be:
- An informal get-together for discussion and hacking
- Fun and friendly, no speakers, panels, lectures, etc.
Sharing experiences, things that did & didn't work
- Facilitated discussions about what we think a free culture movement should actually do.
- There will be food! (pizza at lunchtime and joint meal in the evening)
Workshops/Sessions
FreeCultureConstitution ratification
- What could/should the free culture movement be doing
For background, read this talk on Remix Reading
- I is just about licenses?
- Non Commercial clauses
- how do we engage (better) with artists, academics etc
PublicDomainBurn update and hacking session
- Getting data
- Work on the database
- Funding proposals
- 14plus14 petition system:
- improving code
- changing text
- Event and contact management (?)
- what do we want
- what software is there (civicrm ...)
- BBC Creative Archive
Schedule
- Introductions
- lightning demos:
- public domain burn
- node london
- around the regions (deptford, reading, leeds)
- magnatune
- creative archive
- 1330: Pizza
- 1400: Constitution
- what is free culture
- public domain burn
- 14plus14
- 1830: supper
Who's Coming
Please put: (v) after your name if you would be willing to volunteer to help with organizing (for example sorting out food); (s) if you could provide sofaspace to someone for the friday or saturday night; your email address so you can be contacted about any changes
TomChance, Remix Reading (v)
RufusPollock (v)
AdnanHadzi (v)
Tim Cowlishaw (v, and potentially s, if I am moved in time.) timcowlishaw@gmail.com
MattLee (is a no meat or fish kinda guy)
- Prodromos Tsiavos (v)
TomCroucher (v)
RobMyers (v) rob aaaat robmyers dott org
AliClark, Remix Reading
- Rob Scott
- Sarah Fenlon, Remix Reading
Liam Smith, Dangerous Records
John Buckman, Magnatune
- Simon Roe
- David Berry
- MJ Ray (?)
Zahid Malik, Fry IT (if available to come)
Crosbie Fitch Digital Productions Ltd
- Dot
Publicity
Add a note here if you've publicised the meeting somewhere so we don't step on each others' toes:
rr-proj and rr-announce (Remix Reading) and remix-bton (Remix Brighton) - TomChance
People & Planet key organisers list and Reading Campaigns Forum list - TomChance
ORG-Discuss and ORG-Announce (Open Rights Group) - TimCowlishaw
CNUK news (going out in the week of 12th) - MattLee
CC community mailing list, Rhizome mailing list, free culture UK newsletter. - RobMyers
Tom's Original Email
Ahoy, This is just a quick follow-up announcement with details on the proposed practical free culture meet-up. To recap, the meeting will be: * fun, friendly, no contrived arguments set-up or decisions to be made * more than the usual geek-conf and artsy-OpenCongress suspects * no speakers, panels, lectures, etc. * sharing experiences, things that did & didn't work * catered, if possible, to entice people down I'm hoping that we will get a reasonable crowd of people interested in facilitated discussions about what we think a free culture movement should actually do. What, promoting besides licensing schemes, do we bring to existing arts communities? The answer is less obvious than you might think. The issue has contributed IMO to the difficulties in Remix Reading / Brighton / Deptford, and to our lack of certainty about what we want FC-UK to stand for and actually do. Thanks to Rufus we now have the use of the Limehouse Town Hall in London for the 8th April. It's a bit out of the way, about 30mins from central London train stations, so if anybody has a better offer of a venue for a full day then now is the time to pipe up. Also complain if that date is totally useless for you... if enough people object we can move it. Everyone is also welcome to come down to our fortnightly open media labs in Reading, where you can play with free software, teach others how to use it and chat about free culture is a friendly setting. See our calendar for dates: http://www.remixreading.org/events
Minutes
Present:
- Adnan Hadzi
- Robert Scott
- Tom Chance
- Ali Clark
- John Buckman
- Rob Myers
- Crosbie Fitch
- Rufus Pollock
- Tim Cowlishaw
- Liam Smith
- Matt Lee
- Ryan Alexander (mid-afternoon)
- Nathan Lewis (mid-afternoon)
- Kristoff Axelson (mid-afternoon)
- Julio Oliveira (mid-afternoon)
- Dot
Lightning Talks
Public Domain Burn
- summary of what we have been doing over last six months
- sort out legal situation
- meetings (e.g. with Julien Masanes from European Archive)
- build prototype of db and investigate metadata sources
- we are now focusing on metadata and building a db
- once you have that can do things like 'sponsor a burn'
- need help with both data collection and webapp coding
- funding application deadline the 13th April (very near!)
- possible match funding from OSI
- john buckman: interested in this since would provide source of classical work for licensing and db would be useful for
- john buckman: should speak with last.fm
Node.london
Rob Myers and Adnan Hadzi:
- Very interesting set of events.
- Focused on (electronic) art
- Not that much explicitly on free culture.
Deptford.tv
Adnan Hadzi:
- Really interesting overview of what has been going on
- Boundless
- Backspace type setup
- deptford.tv:
- open footage. Long term storage and archival as well as tagging
- license: nc-by-sa (why the nc?)
- ACTION: Adnan to write a short summary and post to the list/newsletter
Around the regions
Tom Chance's talk about RemixReading, the experience of Remix Brighton
- Matt Lee's not here yet so nothing about CNUK
- Adnan's already talked about Deptford and liquidculture
Magnatune
- has everyone heard of magnatune? almost everyone has heard of magnatune
- brief overview of what they have done
Creative Archive
- CA people came and talked at open content forum
- They've been gradually releasing material, tying it in to specific events
- with their radio 1 video djs stuff they had over 600 remix submission which is a huge amount
- while we are quite unhappy with some of their terms (esp UK only) they get quite a lot of submissions the other way (e.g. saying that UK only is important)
- thus especially important we write to them
- RP has prepared a letter that he will post up
RobMyers: wrote to them a lot last year but without noticeable effect
Constitution
- The constitution was read out
FreeCultureConstitution3 was passed unanimously as the FCUK constitutiont with one minor amendment to article 8
Thus FreeCultureConstitution3 v.8 is the current official constitution of FCUK
TimCowlishaw was add to the list of Active Members
list of Active Members equates to the membership of the coord mailing list whose membership can be see at http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/roster/fc-uk-coord
What could/should the free culture movement be doing
14plus14
- It had been agreed at the previous meeting that this campaign should be changed to only be about term extension
RufusPollock: would be nice to keep the option of people being able to sign up to 14plus14 stuff as well as statement against term extensions (almost everyone so far who has signed has signed both statements)
RobMyers: be that as it may we did agree at last meeting to take that down so we should abide by that
TimCowlishaw/TomChance: perhaps better to move this somewhere else altogether
- DECIDED (unanimously): 14plus14 to be moved else (OKF) with a redirect