OpenHatch.org Guest Speakers, Monday March 22

Sunday, 03. 21. 2010  –  Category: General

This Monday, March 22nd, we will be hosting Asheesh Laroia and Parker Phinney as they come and talk about the new start-up OpenHatch.org, an “open source involvement engine.” Both Asheesh and Parker are long-time members and active participants in Students for Free Culture, and this new project looks very exciting. They’ll be on their way [...]

FC X!

Tuesday, 02. 16. 2010  –  Category: General

If you were following our twitter feed (or @aditix, @thisisparker, @wachen, or others) you may already know that we had a great time. A more detailed post to follow, but feel free to peruse the #fcx hashtag on twitter or any of our twitter feeds to get a sense of the conference!
To everyone we [...]

Free Culture X (going on right now!)

Saturday, 02. 13. 2010  –  Category: General

Hey all,
We’re at Free Culture X right now! If you’re not with us and interested in following what’s going on, check out these resources (other than our website, of course):
http://twitter.com/fcnyu
http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23fcx
http://conference.freeculture.org/live/
Also check our Flickr for photos!

Free Culture 102: The Issues

Wednesday, 02. 3. 2010  –  Category: General

Continuing in the vein of my post from last semester, Free Culture 101, I thought I’d post a follow up post attempting to highlight the most significant issues implicit in the free culture movement. I know that by merely writing this list that I will be leaving some issues out, so let me emphasize that [...]

OLPC Jam Session

Friday, 02. 15. 2008  –  Category: Events & Recaps, General, Media, Meetings

A number of us have purchased OLPCs in the give one get one program and are interesting in building on it. So we’ve booked a room at ITP and are going to bring our laptops and have fun. We’re also going to talk about making the laptop more manageable as a [...]

Free Culture @ NYU Discuss

Tuesday, 10. 2. 2007  –  Category: General, Meetings, News

After the wonderful amount of discussion today we figured it’s time to re-instate a discuss list for Free Culture @ NYU. So click here to join it (apologies for relying on Google, but it’s cheap and easy).
Please sign up and feel free to discuss and post anything related to free culture (@NYU and otherwise) but [...]

Room Reservations Oh My

Friday, 09. 21. 2007  –  Category: General, Meetings, News

Through the courageous efforts of Parker, Free Culture @ NYU’s treasurer, we’ve secured room reservations and dates for our general meetings for the entire year. As usual, they’ll be at the Kimmel center, but we’ll have the luxury of our own private space from now on. (No more hassling for chairs in the lounge.) Check [...]

Free Culture 101

Saturday, 09. 8. 2007  –  Category: General, Links, Meetings, Meta

Have no idea what we are or what we’re doing? Here are some links for you to get started and read up about who we are and what we do:

FreeCulture.org : This is the “National Organization” as we refer to it. It’s basically a good place to see who is doing what else in the [...]

Jimmy Wales & Cory Doctorow Media Online @ NowPublic.com

Friday, 02. 2. 2007  –  Category: Events & Recaps, General, Links, Media, News

For any of you Free Culture @ NYU fans who missed the last two talks we sponsored: don’t despair, there is hope. First you should sign up for our e-mail list so you don’t miss any future presentations, and then you should watch the media that has been diligently recorded for us by the kind [...]

Jonathan Lethem Launches "The Promiscuous Materials Project"

Friday, 01. 19. 2007  –  Category: General, Links, Media, News

Free Culture @ NYU friend and critically acclaimed American writer Jonathan Lethem (Wikipedia bio here) has just launched “The Promiscuous Materials Project” that invites authors and remixers to use short works he’s created:
These stories are for filmmakers or dramatists to adapt. They’re available non-exclusively — meaning other people may be working from the same material [...]

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