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Contents 1 Full-time employee 1.1 Purpose of this job 1.2 Job descrip brainstorm 1.3 Skills 1.4 Salary? 1.5 Sources 1.5.1 Corporations 1.5.2 University 1.5.3 Associations 1.5.4 Foundations 1.5.5 Benefactors 1.5.6 Gov't 1.5.7 Models 1.6 How do we manage HR? 1.7 What is the pitch? 1.7.1 Two year goals 1.8 How would we pick this person? 1.9 Alternatives 1.10 How do other orgs work? 2 Making SFC visible 2.1 Building unlikely coalitions 2.1.1 Christian 2.1.2 AARP 3 Year one 3.1 Organizing 3.2 Official recognition 3.3 Faculty relationships 3.4 Social gatherings 3.5 Potential projects 3.6 Success stories 3.7 Fundraising 4 SFC and Academia 5 OUC report cards 5.1 Next steps 5.2 Friendly orgs 5.3 How do we proceed? 5.3.1 Lack of existing standards 5.4 Survey 5.4.1 Draft process 6 Todo 6.1 sub to yearone

Full-time employee

Sustainability

• Difficulty in scaling the organization

Purpose of this job

• Supporting the chapters
• Campaign structure: Open University Campaign

Job descrip brainstorm

• f2f campus contact
• chapter cultivation
• corporation administration
• reusable materials
• events that chapters can re-do easily
• PR, media connections
• fundraising
• incidental costs
• representing SFC at conference
• helping to generalize activities among campuses

Skills

• extensive fc knowledge
• design, web skills
• organizing
• charismatic
• tech
• grant writing

Salary?

Set a salary goal

• 35k$?

Can we set a 3-year goal?

• Connecting with bigger orgs

Sources

Corporations

• Google
• Mozilla
• Redhat

University

• Berkman
• Boalt
• Yale ISP
• Big Ideas Berkeley
• CITP
• Annenberg
• GU CCT
• NYU

Associations

• CEA
• IFTA
• Open Content Alliance
• IFPA
• One Web Day
• ISOC

Foundations

• Omidyar
• Open Society Institute
• Paople 4 the American Way
• CAP
• Cato
• Kusuma
• Knight
• Mellon
• NAF
• Warhol
• MacArthur
• Hewlett
• Shuttleworth
• Benton
• GFEM
• Sloan
• Ford
• ITIF
• Mozilla
• Canonical

Benefactors

• Gorton
• Ito
• Templeton
• Brin, Schmidt
• Thiel

Gov't

• Research grants
  • OCW

Models

• PIRGS
• Campus programs
• EFF
• Ashoka

How do we manage HR?

Contractor

• Higher salary
• Person has to buy their own benefits
• Pay their own taxes

Finding friendly org, univ

• Person works through a department or office
• Use their infrastructure for benefits, etc.

Employee of SFC

• Not the best because we lack infrastructure
• Difficult to manage this

What is the pitch?

• Student activism
• Tech, law, culture
• Internet freedom
• We should have a one-sheet demonstrating this in the past

Two year goals

• 75 active chapters

How would we pick this person?

• Election?
• Group task?
• Find employee of another org?

Alternatives

• Interns with part-time SFC tasks

How do other orgs work?

• Talking to other student-based activism

Making SFC visible

• Campus success stories
• Knowing what's up on every chapter
  • Making this visible broadly

Building unlikely coalitions

• Building interfaces with "strange bedfellows"

Christian

• Christian youth groups via copyright and net neutrality
  • ASCAP has been hitting up churches for public performance
  • Clean Flix DVDs edits out offensive scenes?
  • Resistance to liberal media elites
  • Would this be a stunt or would it be a legit lasting connection?
  • Where is blog post re: Christian and CC?
• Homeschooling, OCW, OER

AARP

• Orphaned works (film + music)
• End of life planning?
  • Tax break for public domain donations
• Evan Roth public domain sticker on yr driver's license
• WIPO accessibility license
• Online nostalgia act

Year one

Organizing

• Projects: YouTomb (MIT)
• Problems: RIAA lawsuits (Brown)
• Events: Wales presentation (Yale)

Official recognition

• Difficult bureaucracy? Fake/feed/cheat it til you make/need it!
• Talk to other organizations, find out what works for others
• Benefit: table space at activity bazaars, access to space + money
  • Good idea: recurring room (NYU), or booking space in public space (library, patio)
• Drawbacks: budget, planning ahead, restrictions on spending

Faculty relationships

• Opening doors
• Networking
  • Invite good people to campus
  • Make plans with people coming anyway
• Interfacing with institution
• Organize around a related class
  • e.g. Is there an internet law class? Media studies? Intro to CS?
• Find out about internal mailing lists. Subscribe!

Social gatherings

• "Free as in beer" (Yale)
• Free (computer) gaming (VT)
• House party w/ stenciling (Brown)
• Silk-screening at NYCresistor (NYU)

Potential projects

• Blitzmail archive and history (Dartmouth)
• What makes a project "exportable", "replicable"?
• How to mobilize the group at large? How to involve many members?
• Making 1 single (favorite) class "open"
  • ccLearn archive on university copyright policy
  • Compare with your school?
• Workshops
  • OpenCourseware topic
  • Free software for students
  • Social media in the classroom
  • Linux installfest
  • Rockbox
  • Wikipedia editing session (plus pizza)
    • Wikipedia takes Manhattan photo scavenger hunt (NYU)

Success stories

• Open Courseware (Georgetown)
• Sharing successes, 1 page writeup, blog post
• Could we have a SFC historian?

Fundraising

Making and selling objects

• T-shirts
• Pins
• Stickers

SFC and Academia

Publishing in open access journal

• Law reviews, frequently student-run
• Is it harder to start a new OA journal or to turn a closed journal OA?
• How do OA journals rise in their status?
• Lots of p2p of aca publishing, also peer-2-author

Opening the conversation

• Aca-blogging regarding specific papers
• Aca-wiki summaries
• "Informal peer review"

Widespread collaboration

• Disincentivized by original methodologies
• How do you cite or ascribe authorship?

Solutions?

• "Critical mass" of people who will not wait for institutional change
• Practicing according to your ethics

Scholarly publishing roundtable

Future of peer review

• Anonymity
• How would openness and transparency change this?
• What about specialized areas in which peer review isn't very anonymous?
  • e.g. certain areas of mathematics

OUC report cards

• Based on http://greereportcards.org/

Next steps

• OA survey to five schools, administrators
• Pilot, dry run

Friendly orgs

• Communia
  • Conference in Verona, Open Ed and Italy
  • Turino, conference coorganized with Berkman and Nexus center at Turino, open education, cyberspace
  • http://www.communia-project.eu/

How do we proceed?

• Provide report card materials and get chapters to run it?
• Create centralized database

Lack of existing standards

• Big difference between us and OSI or Green Report Cards
• We have develop criteria and the report card

Survey

• Status: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Open_University_Report_Cards
• How to implement, make meaning of this information?

Draft process

• Implement current survey in Qualtrics or some other platform
• Plan analysis
• Distribute to friendly orgs for feedback
• Tighten up questions
• Run pilot with 5 universities
• Validate constructs
• Test analysis
• Revise survey and analysis accordingly
• Create HOWTO materials for student leaders
• Create feedback mechanism (2nd survey?)
• Distribute HOWTO and survey to students
• Students run research on their campuses
• Students run analysis
• Results collected in database
• Meta-analysis prepared
• Meta-analysis report publicized along with feedback mechanism for targeted institutions

Todo

• Send out articles, bylaws
• We need a "one-sheet" on our history
  • Measurable outcomes
• 2011-12 budget
• Goals for two years
• Wholesale
• Email Kat and Katie about wikipedia notability guidelines
• Unapologetic mathematician blog
• Polymath paper, Tim Gowers
• Scholarly publishing roundtable, provost of Georgetown on it
• SFC book club
• http://www.ladyada.net/make/conway

sub to yearone

paul.ramirez@yale.edu maria.hibbard@vanderbilt.edu