I’m at the Students for Free Culture conference, catching up with old friends — including the current leaders of Florida Free Culture, which I realized is 5 years old this month. This morning a phrase popped into my head that I’d never heard before, but could be valuable to the free culture movement going forward: [...]
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Ada Lovelace Day: Celebrating women in technology
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a day to call attention to the achievements of women in technology. Despite its stereotype as a field dominated by men, women have made significant contributions to the field of computing since its inception, back to Lovelace herself, the first computer programmer, having designed a program for Charles Babbage’s analytical [...]
Reflecting on Open Access Day
Yesterday was the first Open Access Day — and what a day it was. What follows are my personal reflections.
I wasn’t able to be as involved with OA Day as I would have liked, due to a variety of personal matters, but I still think of it as (in some part) my baby. I was [...]
One less hat to wear
Today was the final meeting of Students for Free Culture’s old proto-board, on which I’ve served since 2005 (give or take — as Facebook would say, it’s complicated — or, it was). Best wishes to the new board. I look forward to great things.
My $0.02 on the future of Students for Free Culture
As I announced some months ago, my term on the board of Students for Free Culture will expire with the upcoming election (scheduled for Jan. 14 – Feb. 3), and I’m not running for re-election. Instead, I’ll be (as I called myself in September) “an alumnus who’s willing to lend a hand if asked”. As [...]
Upcoming presentations in Tallahassee, Fla.
I’m giving a few presentations and appearances during a visit to Tallahassee:
I have a poster at Campus & Community Sustainability conference, 14-16 October. I’ll be by the poster during the poster session on Monday, 4:30 – 6 pm, in the ballroom of Oglesby Student Union. The presentation is Sustaining Scholarship: The Case for Open Access [...]
Comments on the FreeCulture.org draft bylaws
FreeCulture.org, the student free culture organization, released the second release candidate (RC2) of its bylaws last week. I am a board member of FC.o and was very involved in preparing RC2; I consider it my last effort as a member of the organization. The following is a guide to the draft bylaws, with my comments. [...]
