[A2k] FC National Conference Details May 26)

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From: "Elizabeth Stark" <emstark@gmail.com>
Date: May 16, 2007 2:40:53 PM EDT
Reply-To: Discussion of Free Culture in general and this organization
in particular <discuss@freeculture.org>

Hi all,

I'm writing with more details for the National Conference to be held
on Saturday, May 26, in Austin Hall at Harvard University, Cambridge,
MA ( http://map.harvard.edu/level3.cfm?
mapname=camb_allston&tile=F7&quadrant=A&series=N).

Registration is still open and free of charge. Please email us
(freeculture@hcs.harvard.edu ) or reply to the Facebook Event (http://
harvard.facebook.com/event.php?eid=2265844153) 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!

Elizabeth