3rd Binaryfreedom Meeting, April 12th, 2007
From BinaryFreedom.INFO
Rough, Rough notes - to be cleaned up later
Deb: better to ask 1 person 3 times than 3 people 1 time -
MIT - set up club - free culture
Mass Art - examples of CAD/CAM, screen with examples,.
- What's wrong with Vista? flyer - that was the major question
- Deb: Less technically focused flyers
- free alternative to Adobe Illustrator is Inkscape www.inkscape.org
- Deb: Flyer specifically about DRM
- Talking points: 3 talking points / items on fliers
- Audiance-based fliers: defensive people vs. curious people
- Deb: totally crazy costumes? Idea: borg,
"What's with the giant fortune cookie"? - bush - you get a big raise - if you are already rich
- Spaceman - "we are from the future - we all use free software" (FSF decals)
- in the future, Microsoft is studied by archaelogy students
-> Google gnuart - vector and bitmap
what kind of future do you want? - morlocks vs eloi - owned by corporate vs. free spirit "you must listen to this music" - ads all over someone vs. free - or ads weighing down someone
MS patents as FUD
boston group - copynight.org
michael geist www.michaelgeist.ca
rek going to free culture meeting tomorrow (link) freeculture.org (is this link correct?)
(another free culture site is at freedomdefined.org ; this was mentioned in a talk at the FSF associate members meeting 2007 mar 24)
"software freedom day" softwarefreedomday.org
US Pirate party / Ringo www.pirate-party.us
Deb - RMS sent Brazil some activism books - which ones?
Rek wants in writing - BF mission - 10 points to fight for
Deb - lay out big picture - vision statement
want to accomplish
essay about using small words for crisp expression, itself written in small words (seen in print many years ago, apparently not available online)
-> Work day / half day / Sat once a month - MIT (AKA Sprint? - find pycon link) pycon.org
NESFA - new england sci fi business meeting every month (reports) nesfa.org
-> Grow membership
-> Write thing about BF for FSF Bulletin
-> Research - DB of local events (college stuff etc) where we can do advocacy
Table at "wake up the earth" - in JP (near MassArt) - May 5th (Sat) www.spontaneouscelebrations.org/earth.html
-> Get light table <- Danny Danny Danny
-> Ask Bryan Conner about signage
"Binary Freedom"
on the 4rd - raid fsf offices for swag (Shoot 5pm)
Plastic stickers - people like to put on nagelene bottles
Freely Creative in VT http://www.freelycreative.com/aboutus.htm
Scooter Promo http://www.demsign.com/artwork.php for stickers - FSF
Pro Print - what BF used
John Sullivan does magazine stuff - drop john a note
MassPIRG - random groups will www.masspirg.org/
Contact City of Cambridge re: putting table outside, permits for subway stuff
Each person think of 2 or 3 more places to do stuff
Outdoor concerts in Boston
During political rallies (get people who are already political)
During outdoor events - plenty of water etc for volunteers
Be good, or Chris will Shit Down the Firewall!
