[FC-discuss] Hello From Your New Board Of Directors

Mon Aug 17 10:49:18 EDT 2009

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> Subject: [FC-discuss] Hello From Your New Board Of Directors
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> Writes Ben Moskowitz on our blog:
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> Hello!
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> The five of us are thrilled to join (and rejoin) the 2009-2010 board of
> directors. We're very excited about guiding Students for Free Culture
> over the next year?there's plenty of awesome stuff in store.
>
> You'll hear more from us over the coming days about what we'll be doing
> to re-energize SFC and the Free Culture movement. For now, we want to
> take the opportunity to (re)introduce ourselves:
>
> ![Kevin Driscoll][1]**_Kevin Driscoll_ completed a Master's degree in
> [Comparative Media Studies][2] at MIT last semester where he was a
> member of the MIT Free Culture chapter and part of the [YouTomb][3]
> research project. Kevin is concerned with encouraging everyday
> creativity and highlighting unexpected uses of consumer technologies by
> young people - especially in resistance to systemic oppression. In the
> fall, he will continue graduate work at the [Annenberg School for
> Communication][4] at USC. You can see his digital traces on his
> [superfeed][5].
>
> **
>
> ![Ben Moskowitz][6]**_Ben Moskowitz_** co-founded the?[SFC at Berkeley][7]
> chapter of Students for Free Culture and created a seminar on the
> cultural dimensions of piracy. He also co-organized the [Free Culture
> 2008 Conference][8] and the [Open Video Conference in NYC][9].
> ?He?is?currently a student of Mandarin language at NYU SCPS and serves
> as General?Coordinator?of the Open Video Alliance, promoting openness in
> online video. See [http://openvideoconference.org][10] for more. Ben
> wants to see SFC become a force on campuses all over the world?let's
> make it happen!
>
> ![Kevin Donovan][11]**_Kevin Donovan_**_ _is a rising junior at
> Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, majoring in Science,
> Technology & International Affairs with a certificate in International
> Development. He started the Georgetown chapter of SFC and has worked on
> technology policy issues at the World Bank's _info_Dev program and is
> currently working on an OpenCourseWare pilot program. He writes about
> technology policy at [Techdirt][12], his [personal blog][13], and on
> [Twitter][14].While in South Africa recently Kevin had the chance to go
> sandboarding, which is easily the coolest sport ever devised.
>
> ![Christina Ducruet][15]**_Christina Ducruet_** graduated from Brown
> University in May 2008 with a degree in Modern Culture and Media. While
> an undergrad, she founded the Brown chapter of Students for Free Culture
> in reaction to the RIAA lawsuits that hit 20+ campuses in Spring 2007.
> She's been involved with SFC ever since, creating resources and
> organizing campaigns to rally people to the Free Culture movement.
> Christina is excited and honored to serve on the SFC Board for a second
> term and thinks the best is yet to come for SFC. She currently lives and
> works in Connecticut.
>
> ![Parker Higgins][16]**Parker Higgins** is entering his senior year at
> New York University's Gallatin School for Individualized Study.? He is
> the president of the NYU chapter of Students for Free Culture. ?Stemming
> from his previous work with the Participatory Culture Foundation,
> creators of the Miro HD video player, he runs the occasionally updated
> internet TV channels [Free Culture TV][17] and[ Yes We're Open][18].
> ?The channels feature freely-licensed FC-related content and highlight
> emerging issues for the community. This summer he is volunteering for
> Creative Commons.
>
> ## So, what's next?
>
> You can review the notes of the first 09/10 board meeting [here][19].
>
> The [nominations page][20] contains each candidates' thoughts on SFC and
> its future. Here is where the five of us agree that our time should be
> focused:
>
>  * Ensuring that the Open University Campaign is a success, potentially
> through a stand-alone site or committee-based action;
>
>  * Collaborating with other organizations and establishing SFC as a key
> public voice on free culture issues;
>
>  * Planning the next Free Culture conference; and
>
>  * Making involvement in SFC as user-friendly and accessible to new
> members and chapters.
>
> Of course, SFC's strength lies in the awesome people and projects of its
> local chapters. Chapter leaders can expect to hear from us shortly as we
> work to bring everyone up to speed with our plans to revitalize SFC. In
> the meantime, we want to hear from you?what do you think is necessary to
> keep SFC going strong through this year and beyond? What's next for SFC?
> How can we improve? Sound off in the comments.
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>   [1]: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2369/2255271125_1bcc9bc210_o.jpg
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>   [2]: http://cms.mit.edu/
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>   [3]: http://youtomb.mit.edu/
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>   [4]: http://annenberg.usc.edu/
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>   [5]: http://kevindriscoll.info/
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>   [6]: http://freeculture.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/ben.jpg
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>   [7]: http://freeculture.berkeley.edu/
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>   [8]: http://conference.freeculture.org/
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>   [9]: http://openvideoconference.org/
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>   [10]: http://openvideoconference.org
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>   [11]: http://freeculture.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/donovan.jpg
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>   [12]: http://blurringborders.com/other-writing/
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>   [13]: http://blurringborders.com/
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>   [14]: http://www.twitter.com/kevindonovan
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>   [15]: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2230/2255271181_e6e01bf39f_o.jpg
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>   [16]: http://freeculture.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/parker.jpg
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>   [17]: http://freeculture.tv/
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>   [18]: http://freeculture.tv/yeswereopen
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>   [19]: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Board09/2009-06-30
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>   [20]: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Nominations
>
> URL:
> http://freeculture.org/blog/2009/08/07/hello-from-your-new-board-of-directors/
>
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> How about a Q&A session with all the chapters through the IRC? I'm sure
many chapters have a lot of questions for the new board.
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