[FS-UK-announce] [Free-sklyarov-uk] Minutes of IRC Meeting (15 August)

[Julian T. J. Midgley]

Present:

Richard Atkinson
Andy Clark
Peter Clay
Phil Hunt
Julian Midgley
(Jason Clifford - by proxy)


Agenda Items Discussed
======================

Preliminary votes
-----------------

0. The ideas and plans presented in the summary of the meeting held on
   11 August were basically sound?

Unanimously in favour.

1. J. Midgley seems to have ended up as the defacto leader.  Were
      those present happy with this?

Unanimously in favour.

(The primary reason for these two votes was to check that those who
met on Saturday 11 August weren't pushing the group/organisation in
some direction people didn't want it to go.  Secondly, to allow Julian
Midgley to represent the group (when necessary) with some legitimacy.)

2. Calendar
-----------

It was decided to postpone the leafletting event proposed for 17/18
August in order to allow time for leaflets targetted at the UK
audience to be written.

The following two events were proposed and agreed upon:

First leafletting event to be held in Cambridge on 25 August, meeting
at 1300 in Lion's Yard.  Leaflets to focus on the EUCD, using the
DMCA, Sklyarov, and Felten cases as an example.

A protest to be held outside the US Embassy on Thursday 30 August.
This coincides with numerous US protests which will be held on the
same day.  This protest will focus on Dmitry Sklyarov and the DMCA.


3. Contacting other organisations
---------------------------------

Phil Hunt agreed to contact Eurorights, introducing us and promoting
the events on 25 and 30 August.

Peter Clay agreed to contact the various Cambrdige University
Computing societies.

Julian Midgley agreed to contact as many UK/Linux user groups as
possible.


4. Writing of leaflets, website material
----------------------------------------

Jason Clifford and Julian Midgley have leaflets in progress; at least
one will be needed by Saturday 25.

Andy Clark and Phil Hunt to revamp the website.


Other Business
--------------

Renaming the organisation/campaign: since the thrust of our
campaigning will rapidly move away from the DMCA and the particular's
of Dmitry Sklyarov's case to tackle the more direct threat of the
EUCD, it was proposed that the organisation was renamed accordingly.
After much discussion, the "Campaign for Digital Rights" was chosen.
An application for the domain "cdr.eu.org" has been submitted.



Apologies for the delay in writing these up - I will try to be more timely
in future- last week was abnormally busy at work, and I was away from a
computer for most of the weekend.

Julian

Reminder: Next IRC meeting - 2000 Wednesday 22 on #sklyarov-uk
         (server: slashnet.org)

-- 
Julian T. J. Midgley                    http://www.xenoclast.org
Cambridge, England.                       PGP Key ID: 0xBCC7863F
UK Free Dmitry Protest:              http://uk.freesklyarov.org/



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