[okfn-discuss] [LibrePlanet-US-MA] [cc-community] 4-YEAR PLAN ideas for LibrePlanet/Students for Free Culture @Hampshire College

Thu Dec 1 00:13:47 UTC 2011

Hi Dorothy,

Thanks for the feedback! This is great-- I forgot mention that we're also
looking for ideas that might reach beyond the scope of free culture, but
may be tangentially related. For example making more data open, as I
mentioned, or even helping Hampshire improve their scattered and
disorganized web services. Basically, making improvements to school
infrastructure with a mindfullness of free software and free culture
issues. Things that would make sense to do after turning Hampshire into a
free culture school.

Anyways, could you explain the Open Knowledge space a bit more? Hampshire
has a zine library as well as a freely licensed wiki called Hampedia. Are
you thinking more of a library of physical copies of freely licensed work,
or a hackerspace, or something else entirely? Physical spaces might be
really difficult to esablish...but that's exactly the level of
ambitiousness we want to be going for! [=

With regards to business models, what kind of exploration did you have in
mind? As a student group, we are aware of services like Kickstarter and
Flattr and other alternative payment models, but in what context do you
imagine us applying this to Hampshire College? We do plan on promoting
these platforms to students here, but we're really interested in permanent
institutional changes that we can fight for.

We are looking for more speakers so we'll put Maddogg Hall on the list. One
concern though: does he tend to come from this standpoint of "open" rather
than "free"? We tend to be a little careful about openwashing. It has
landed the FLOSS movement in a place where so-called "open" platforms are
used to restrict freedom. Stock Android, the primary example of Linux gone
mainstream, is based on free software, but is not distributed as such. Most
popular eBook readers are also Linux-based, but you can't buy an eBook
reader that doesn't come with DRM. We love Creative Commons, but we want to
avoid promoting things that endorse the non-free CC licenses or take a
wishy-washy stance as tends to happen with openwashing:
http://freedomdefined.org/Definition

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 17:18, Dorothy K. Gordon <
director-general at aiti-kace.com.gh> wrote:

> Dear Danny and team HampC, I am totally amazed that you are looking for
> more ideas after reading your really great list. But since you asked! I
> would say you should see if it is possible to get an Open Knowledge space
> both physically and virtually for HampC. I think you should also explore
> business models around CC and Open Culture in general. If you are looking
> for a good speaker you may want to contact Maddog Hall who is great on Open
> Source business models. Also explore links with other student communities
> in strong Open Culture locations such as Brazil and Kerala in India.
>
> best regards
>
> Dorothy K. Gordon
> Director-General
> Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT
> Mobile: 233 244 311 348
>  BB  : 233 265005712
> Direct Line: 233 302 683579
> Website: www.aiti-kace.com.gh
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Danny Piccirillo" <danny.piccirillo at member.fsf.org>
> To: cc-community at lists.ibiblio.org, "Discussion of Free Culture in
> general and this organization in particular" <discuss at freeculture.org>,
> chapters at freeculture.org, "SFC Core" <core at freeculture.org>, "LibrePlanet
> Massachusetts Team" <libreplanet-us-ma at libreplanet.org>, "Open Knowledge
> Foundation discussion list" <okfn-discuss at lists.okfn.org>,
> "gnugeneration-discuss" <gnugeneration-discuss at gnu.org>,
> libreplanet-discuss at libreplanet.org
> Sent: Wednesday, 30 November, 2011 7:53:21 PM GMT +00:00 Casablanca /
> Monrovia
> Subject: [cc-community] 4-YEAR PLAN ideas for LibrePlanet/Students for
> Free Culture @Hampshire College
>
>
> Hello!
>
>
> Reporting in from Hampshire College's LibrePlanet/Students for Free
> Culture Chapter, we're just getting our team off the ground and after a
> couple of meetings there's been lots of ideas and excitement (check out
> some pictures from student group signup day here ).
>
>
>
> We made a huge list of ideas (pasted below) and started talking about who
> we needed to get in contact with and other things needed to make them
> happen. What we realized is that lots of short term efforts even over a
> span of years may not add up to a cohesive and forward-thinking plan.
>
>
> IDEA: DRAFT A FOUR-YEAR PLAN!
>
>
> We're going to imagine what Hampshire College would look like as an ideal
> free software and free culture friendly school. We want to consider what
> would normally be considered impossible to accomplish. Our first
> compilation of ideas will probably happen on Tuesday. Form there, we'll
> combine similar ideas, rank them based on difficulty, and see what steps
> would have to happen before the change would be accepted. Ideas like
> requiring free and open formats for all assignments, using free licenses
> for all copyrights owned by the school, and making as much data as possible
> open.
>
>
> What ideas do you have?
>
>
> Is this a thing that more groups could organize?
>

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