Free Culture X!

Wednesday, 02.03.2010  –  Category: Events & Recaps

The second Free Culture conference, named Free Culture X (for 2010), is coming up! Details below. If anyone NYC-area is interested in attending, let us know!

Free Culture X Conference in Washington D.C., Feb 13-14. Pay what you want: http://bit.ly/fcconf #fcx

Free Culture X, a conference of Students for Free Culture, will be held February 13/14th at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Keynote addresses will be given by Harvard Berkman Center co-founder Jonathan Zittrain, the co-founder of the public interest group Public Knowledge, Gigi Sohn, and the director of American University’s Center for Social Media, Pat Aufderheide.

The conference is focused on developing greater openness among institutions of higher education by specifically investigating:

  • The politics of open networks
  • Global access to knowledge
  • Free software
  • Open education

Registration is pay-what-you-want, whether that’s $1 or $100. All proceeds will go directly to help projects of Students for Free Culture. The average registration is currently about $25. Gifts (such as signed copies of books by Lawrence Lessig and Henry Jenkins or custom voicemail recordings by Jonathan Zittrain) are awarded for bigger donations. Register now: http://conference.freeculture.org/register/

Hope to see you guys there!

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