National Blog
- Share your vision of a free culture future (2007-06-29)
The movement toward a more free culture has united the strangest assortment of characters. Hip-hop DJs mingle with free software hackers, ivy league lawyers… [Read More]
- Protect Your Students and Your Privacy: A New Project (2007-06-22)
Hi Everyone- My name is Brendan Ballou, and I’m from the Free Culture chapter at Columbia. Some of you may have already heard about EFF’s… [Read More]
- FreeCulture.org In Dubrovnik (2007-06-21)
Thanks to some generous sponsorship from iCommons, many FreeCulture.org students were able to make it to the Summit in Dubrovnik Croatia this year. Here’s a… [Read More]
- Photos and Notes from the National Conference (2007-05-29)
First I want to thank everyone who came out to the conference this weekend, and made it such a success. To see so many new… [Read More]
- Free Software and Free Culture (2007-05-29)
Something I’ve been thinking about lately - what role should Free Software play in Free Culture? Who am I? I’m Matt Lee - a… [Read More]
- One Week Till the National Conference at Harvard (2007-05-20)
In case you haven’t already heard, the schedule is up for the National FC Conference to take place on Saturday, May 26, at Harvard University… [Read More]
- University DMCA Policies (2007-05-18)
Yesterday, Ray Beckerman, one of the attorneys behind the Recording Industry vs. the People, posted the new Stanford DMCA policy. The new policy has been… [Read More]
- Our crafty plan for FreeCulture.org’s future (2007-05-16)
FreeCulture.org depends on its local chapters, but without an national organization to serve those chapters, many of those free culture campus groups would not exist… [Read More]
- FreeCulture.org signs Philadelphia Consensus Statement (2007-04-30)
In light of their National Day of Action on April 18, FreeCulture.org has signed Universities Allied for Essential Medicines‘ Philadelphia Consensus Statement. The statement calls… [Read More]
- Free chapter web hosting, part 1 (2007-04-26)
FreeCulture.org has begun an ambitious program to offer free web hosting to all of our registered chapters. On the web, we’ve seen a lot of… [Read More]
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- Peru: Dile NO al formato de Microsoft Office como estándar ISO (2007-07-06)
Solicitamos al Indecopi que voten "NO" a ISO DIS 29500 (formato documental Office OpenXML, OOXML) por las siguientes razones principales:
1. Ya hay… [Read More]
- Peru: Concurso de Blogs - BBC (2007-07-01)
BBC Mundo lo invita a un nuevo concurso de blogs.
En esta ocasión, la convocatoria está dirigida a personas que hayan decidido adquirir un pasatiempo nuevo… [Read More]
- NYU: NM judge says students can respond to RIAA John Doe suits (2007-06-21)
In a victory for college students who are also file-sharers (at last count, nearly all) and the American justice system, a judge in New Mexico… [Read More]
- Peru: Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources (2007-06-18)
Learning resources are often considered key intellectual property in a competitive higher education world. However, more and more institutions and individuals are sharing their digital… [Read More]
- Peru: iSummit 2007 - Dubrovnik (2007-06-16)
Once a year, about 300 people from over 50 countries come together to celebrate and strategise around a free Internet for all.
Leaders of the Creative… [Read More]
- UFlorida: FSM sighting (2007-06-14)
Hello everyone! Hope your summer is going well. We’ve been somewhat dormant, as most student groups are during break, so I thought I’d share… [Read More]
- Peru: Negroponte in Lima (2007-06-14)
Negroponte: Computadoras portátiles de $100 se podrán pagar en 5 años. El cientifico de la computación de los Estados Unidos, Nicholas Negroponte, indicó que en… [Read More]
- USC: “Of course, they’re lying to us” - G8 Protestor [& MPAA/RIAA Thugs-Bullies-Gangsters] (2007-06-07)
An activist’s answer, protesting the G8 summit in Rostock, Germany, to the question on why he traveled 500 miles. He was talking about the “leaders”… [Read More]
- Peru: Rising Voices Seeks Micro-grant Proposals for Blog Outreach (2007-06-07)
Rising Voices, the outreach arm of Global Voices, is now accepting project proposals for the first round of microgrant funding of up to $5,000 for… [Read More]
- USC: USC Free Culture Alert: Murdoch and GE “Charming” New Suit Further Threaten our Democratic Values and Media System (2007-06-03)
Two recent news items raise alarming signals that the Free Culture movement needs to confront.
One, according to The New York Times, the Bancroft family, who… [Read More]
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