[FC-discuss] Nelson’s mini-tour of SFC chapters: UW Madison

[FreeCulture.org - Students for Free Culture]

Writes Nelson Pavlosky on our blog:

[![A flyer for the Culture of Sharing symposium][1]][2]I have just
completed the first stop on a little mini-tour I am taking of Students
for Free Culture chapters, beginning with UW Madison this past Saturday,
[continuing with Georgetown][3] tomorrow on April 16th, and [concluding
with Virginia Tech][4] a week from tomorrow on April 23rd. I would have
blogged this earlier (i.e. before the first stop) if my laptop's hard
drive hadn't died, but better late than never!

I spoke this Saturday at the brand spanking new Students for Free
Culture chapter at the [University of Wisconsin-Madison][5], along with
former SFC board member and co-founder of our U Florida chapter, Gavin
Baker. We were both guest speakers at a symposium called [Culture of
Sharing][6], where we also led breakout sessions (mine was on Open
Source and ended up being a free software installfest) and co-hosted a
post-conference workshop on how to start and operate a Students for Free
Culture chapter. Our UW Madison chapter's co-founder, Angela, was kind
enough to take notes for the chapter-starting workshop and send them to
us, so some of that material may end up in a "how to start a chapter"
kit someday. It resulted in [a short article][7] in campus newspaper The
Daily Cardinal and positive blog coverage on sites like [the UW infolit
Community][8], and a good time was had by all :)

If you're from UW Madison and you'd like to join their chapter, you
should sign up for [their mailing list][9].

[![The new UW Madison SFC chapter + me and Gavin][10]][11]

Here's [a picture][12] of me and Gavin with the founding members of the
UW Madison chapter. From left to right: Chris, Justine, me (Nelson),
Angela, Gavin, and Hannah on the bottom.

Some of the new UW Madison recruits expressed some interest in guest-
blogging, so if we're lucky you may see some of them on here in the near
future!

   [1]: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3245/2417302415_7883e227a7_m.jpg

   [2]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/skyfaller/2417302415/ (A flyer for
the Culture of Sharing symposium by skyfaller, on Flickr)

   [3]: http://georgetown.freeculture.org/2008/04/10/nelson-pavlosky-
speaks-at-georgetown/

   [4]: http://vt.freeculture.org/?p=1579

   [5]: http://www.wisc.edu/

   [6]: http://cultureofsharing.library.wisc.edu/

   [7]: http://www.dailycardinal.com/article/2695

   [8]: http://mcsarah.wordpress.com/2008/04/12/culture-of-sharing-
forum/

   [9]: http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uwmadison

   [10]: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2272/2417300667_865d30637c.jpg

   [11]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/skyfaller/2417300667/ (The new UW
Madison SFC chapter + me and Gavin by skyfaller, on Flickr)

   [12]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/skyfaller/2417300667/

URL: http://freeculture.org/blog/2008/04/15/nelsons-mini-tour-of-sfc-chapters-uw-madison/