Celebrate Free Culture with us on May 19th 2012
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!
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan@gmail.com>wrote:
awesome initiative.
started discussions for organizing events in Chennai, India.
really, really nice! started discussions in Nicaragua as well
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On 03/23/2012 10:40 PM, Leandro Gómez wrote:
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan@gmail.com <mailto:tshrinivasan@gmail.com>> wrote:
awesome initiative.
started discussions for organizing events in Chennai, India.
really, really nice! started discussions in Nicaragua as well
Thank you guys! We already made some web banners available if needed (I'm thinking blogs and community websites) which can be found here (svg source file as well): http://www.culturefreedomday.org/promote/become-a-supporter#banners Fred ps: we're uploading the source file as I'm writing this email...
Hi there, On Friday 23 March 2012 14:16:41 Frederic Muller - SFI wrote: [...]
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.
Great great news! One question, tho, do we really want this sentence in the website? "A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom." - L.L I can see people reading that and thinking that we're against free (as in beer) music like those from the netlabels, for instance...
PS: and SFD will still happen on September 15th 2012!
Yay! :-) -- Marcos Marado ANSOL
On 03/23/2012 10:44 PM, Marcos Marado wrote:
"A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom." - L.L
I can see people reading that and thinking that we're against free (as in beer) music like those from the netlabels, for instance..
The idea is again to make it clear that we care about copyrights and artists, and that we are not free loaders. We'll been facing similar issues as with Free Software vs freeware, or endless discussion about the inclusion of CC-BY-NC-ND licenses... LL is Laurence Lessig by the way, just didn't have enough space to put the full name (I'll probably add a link or something). Fred
On Friday 23 March 2012 14:52:40 Frederic Muller - SFI wrote:
On 03/23/2012 10:44 PM, Marcos Marado wrote:
"A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom." - L.L
I can see people reading that and thinking that we're against free (as in beer) music like those from the netlabels, for instance..
The idea is again to make it clear that we care about copyrights and artists, and that we are not free loaders. We'll been facing similar issues as with Free Software vs freeware, or endless discussion about the inclusion of CC-BY-NC-ND licenses...
LL is Laurence Lessig by the way, just didn't have enough space to put the full name (I'll probably add a link or something).
Yet, without context that sentence can be misleading, I would replace it... -- Marcos Marado
On 03/23/2012 10:58 PM, Marcos Marado wrote:
On Friday 23 March 2012 14:52:40 Frederic Muller - SFI wrote:
On 03/23/2012 10:44 PM, Marcos Marado wrote:
"A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom." - L.L
I can see people reading that and thinking that we're against free (as in beer) music like those from the netlabels, for instance..
The idea is again to make it clear that we care about copyrights and artists, and that we are not free loaders. We'll been facing similar issues as with Free Software vs freeware, or endless discussion about the inclusion of CC-BY-NC-ND licenses...
LL is Laurence Lessig by the way, just didn't have enough space to put the full name (I'll probably add a link or something).
Yet, without context that sentence can be misleading, I would replace it...
Are we against freeware? are we against NC-ND? Free Culture is not about promoting free stuff that people are happy to listen too for free regardless of its licenses. Besides from Wikipedia I read "netlabels typically emphasize free distribution online, often under licenses that encourage works to be shared (e.g., Creative Commons licenses), and artists often retain copyright." So why would we be against it? I am not sure I understand your concern in fact, or realize it (it's late here, and Friday night). What is shocking for you, or misleading? which context do you think is needed? We are already in the free culture context, which is about sharing and building upon other people's creations. We don't want to simply take stuff, any stuff and "steal" from those dear artists, like some would say. Fred
On Friday 11 May 2012 19:19:23 Frederic Muller - SFI wrote:
On 03/23/2012 10:58 PM, Marcos Marado wrote:
Yet, without context that sentence can be misleading, I would replace it... -- Marcos Marado
You'll be happy to know it's been replaced. We found something much more inspiring and less confusing hopefully.
Thank you.
Thanks. In the meantime: People in Portugal: CFD is happening *right now* in Portugal, today and tomorrow. Tomorrow I'll be present, giving a concert. If you happen to pass by, don't forget to talk to me and shake hands! :-) http://www.flausina.com/sonicarea.html#microestruturas Cheers, -- Marcos Marado
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@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@sf-day.org http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss
Hi! Thanks a lot for the tip. I was slightly battling with the registration application and wanted it people to be able to register before pinging them. So as the registration just went live I will start following up on spreading the word of CFD. Note that we already have a in-house list of several organization we need to contact. This is something that we will share on the CFD wiki and hopefully people will be able to ping similar organization in their own countries. We also have a countdown almost ready, which should be activated tomorrow I believe. so thank you and happy CFD! Fred On 04/12/2012 01:31 PM, julien forgeat wrote:
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@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@sf-day.org http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss
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Hi everyone I have a question, there is a wiki page as SFD? or subpage for teams ? tysm -- ========= Miembro Bogota Mesh ========== === Redes Comunitarias libres de Bogotá === Mi Identi.ca: http://identi.ca/ingforigua http://wiki.bogota-mesh.org/doku.php
Yes. CFD Wiki is at http://wiki.culturefreedomday.org . in fact the whole process is exactly the same as SFD (just on a different domain). you can read further explanations here: http://www.culturefreedomday.org/ (together with links) Fred On 04/20/2012 12:54 AM, Ingeniero Forigua wrote:
Hi everyone
I have a question, there is a wiki page as SFD? or subpage for teams ?
tysm
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@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@sf-day.org http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss
participants (8)
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C David Rigby -
Frederic Muller - SFI -
Ingeniero Forigua -
julien forgeat -
Leandro Gómez -
Marcos Marado -
Masafumi Ohta -
Shrinivasan T