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April 2012

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Re: [SFD-discuss] Celebrate Free Culture with us on May 19th 2012

by Masafumi Ohta

Fred, thanks noticing and CFD would be great event for our FLOSS culture. I will try to do something for the event for CFD. -masafumi 2012/3/23 Frederic Muller - SFI <fred(a)softwarefreedomday.org> > Dear all, > > It is with great pleasure that we are announcing a new celebration in > the lines of Software Freedom Day focusing on Free Culture. Over the > years SFD gradually promoted Free Culture next to Software Freedom and > we believe it is now time to have a specific event for Free Culture. > > Why is that so you may ask? > > We feel for starter that the audience and participants are quite a > different audience from the people interested in software. In fact > artists from the Free Culture movement often use proprietary software > for plenty of reasons and wouldn't feel compelled to participate in SFD > (or event know about it). Then the format should probably be different. > While SFD tries to showcase Free Software and explains all the great > things you could do with it, a day to celebrate Free Culture should > definitely showcase Free Culture work, that is: > - exhibitions > - concerts > - movie projections > - surely more > > What we have envisioned is a day where all the Free Culture artists > around the world could walk in the street and play, act or showcase > their work and explain to people what Free Culture is and why they have > chosen to contribute to the movement. Of course there could also be some > amount of discussions and debates, but we should definitely stay away > from long presentations and make it a real festival where the general > public would come and simply enjoy the show while learning about those > artists. > > The side idea is also to give free culture artists one international day > where they can unite and make themselves heard all together. We are > seeing way too many attacks on culture these days with copyright > extensions and abuse of consumer rights of fair use, or lobbyists trying > to lock away public funded work for example. > > So 2012 will be the first year and we will start contacting various Free > Culture supporting organizations to get their support. In the meantime > we have launched the Culture Freedom Day website at > http://www.culturefreedomday.org and hopefully should have the > registration and the wiki up and running fairly soon. > > So if you have any connections with Free Culture Artists, Art schools or > universities, art galleries, pubs that organize live music, restaurant > which do photo/painting exhibitions maybe you should talk to them to see > how they feel about organizing a CFD event. > > Discussion about CFD will be happening on the CFD forum at > http://www.culturefreedomday.org/forum and we also have an IRC channel > on Freenode @ #cfday for the geeks among us. > > So thank you all to spread the word, 'identi.cate', twit, blog and tell > your family and friends! > > > ----------- > Digital Freedom International (newly renamed to encompass our new > activities) > > PS: and SFD will still happen on September 15th 2012! > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss >

April 12, 2012

Re: [SFD-discuss] Celebrate Free Culture with us on May 19th 2012

by julien forgeat

Hi Fred and list, I ran into the following yesterday: http://lpc.opengameart.org Seems to be an effort to create free gaming oriented resources (sprites, tiles, sound, music) for a free video game Could be of interest for Free Culture related events Julien On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Frederic Muller - SFI <fred(a)softwarefreedomday.org> wrote: > Dear all, > > It is with great pleasure that we are announcing a new celebration in > the lines of Software Freedom Day focusing on Free Culture. Over the > years SFD gradually promoted Free Culture next to Software Freedom and > we believe it is now time to have a specific event for Free Culture. > > Why is that so you may ask? > > We feel for starter that the audience and participants are quite a > different audience from the people interested in software. In fact > artists from the Free Culture movement often use proprietary software > for plenty of reasons and wouldn't feel compelled to participate in SFD > (or event know about it). Then the format should probably be different. > While SFD tries to showcase Free Software and explains all the great > things you could do with it, a day to celebrate Free Culture should > definitely showcase Free Culture work, that is: > - exhibitions > - concerts > - movie projections > - surely more > > What we have envisioned is a day where all the Free Culture artists > around the world could walk in the street and play, act or showcase > their work and explain to people what Free Culture is and why they have > chosen to contribute to the movement. Of course there could also be some > amount of discussions and debates, but we should definitely stay away > from long presentations and make it a real festival where the general > public would come and simply enjoy the show while learning about those > artists. > > The side idea is also to give free culture artists one international day > where they can unite and make themselves heard all together. We are > seeing way too many attacks on culture these days with copyright > extensions and abuse of consumer rights of fair use, or lobbyists trying > to lock away public funded work for example. > > So 2012 will be the first year and we will start contacting various Free > Culture supporting organizations to get their support. In the meantime > we have launched the Culture Freedom Day website at > http://www.culturefreedomday.org and hopefully should have the > registration and the wiki up and running fairly soon. > > So if you have any connections with Free Culture Artists, Art schools or > universities, art galleries, pubs that organize live music, restaurant > which do photo/painting exhibitions maybe you should talk to them to see > how they feel about organizing a CFD event. > > Discussion about CFD will be happening on the CFD forum at > http://www.culturefreedomday.org/forum and we also have an IRC channel > on Freenode @ #cfday for the geeks among us. > > So thank you all to spread the word, 'identi.cate', twit, blog and tell > your family and friends! > > > ----------- > Digital Freedom International (newly renamed to encompass our new > activities) > > PS: and SFD will still happen on September 15th 2012! > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss

April 12, 2012