Robert Schumann wrote:
What we are proposing instead is to send teams 1. One CD or DVD containing open source documentaries, interviews, music and any other open resources we can get hold of 2. A single copy of The Open CD, which can be replicated by teams if they wish to distribute this software 3. ...as well as the usual T-shirts and a few other little items!
All sounds good to me. I hastily put together some CDs of music and video for SFD2005 along those lines - all terribly dated now of course. I vote for including some video of Eben Moglen - he's awesomely inspiring. I'd have some misgivings about giving away home-made distro CDs to newbies. The last thing you want is to have someone's first experience of a free OS being a borked install process caused by dodgy media. It's not so essential for something like the OpenCD to be bit-perfect. Be careful where you source your music from. There are a distressing number of businesses (like Magnatune - http://business.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/11/16/1458249) who slap a Creative Commons button on their site for the karma it brings, while doing their best to ensure that users can't exercise the rights granted by the licenses that they are notionally using. Some sites even only distribute their "free" music streamed via Flash plugins, to prevent people copying and reproducing ostensibly freely redistributable works. I don't think we should be supporting people who believe in "free as in shareware". I can wholeheartedly recommend Jamendo (http://www.jamendo.com/, try these albums for starters: http://www.jamendo.com/en/user/mjdsawtell/albums/), who not only offer CC-licensed music (mostly by-nc-sa), but also embrace Ogg Vorbis and BitTorrent. Wish they would smoke less AJAX crack, though. Here's what was in the CD I put together in 2005 (I also had some music from Magnatune, which I wouldn't include now): Books * Three Novels by Cory Doctorow * Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Sam Williams * We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People by Dan Gillmor * Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity by Lawrence Lessig * Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing * Free Software Magazine - Issues 0-6 Audio * Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity by Lawrence Lessig (and friends) * LugRadio - 2 episodes * The Dangers of Software Patents by Richard Stallman * Copyright vs Community in the age of computer Networks by Richard Stallman Video From the Creative Commons Project * Creative Commons - Get Creative * Creative Commons - Remix Culture * Building on the Past * CC Brazil From archive.org * Richard Stallman - Rome - Interview (4-1-2003) Matthew. -- Alma Technology - The future is free and open http://www.almatech.net.au ... (02) 6658 1607 ... 0419 242 316 -- http://computerclub.cex.com.au http://www.clublinux.org.au -- "He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me." - Thomas Jefferson http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_8s12.html