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Proposed Names: (place your votes by asterisk, one p/ person please)

• We Share Books Coalition (there is an issue with using "sharing", yeah this might not play well in court)
• Free Library Congress  (it sounds like the library of congress is involved ;-))
• Free Library Collective*
• The Free Library Coalition
• The Free Library Initiative
• Free Library Commons
• The Public Library Coalition ** (this sounds like the public libraries are involved. Too civic. Pisses off librarians. Or: an opportunity re-appropriating that space. Risks being interpreted as "let the community take care of that".)
• The Amateur Librarian Coalition
• The shadow library coalition
• The society for the removal of obstacles to knowledge
• Shared, Society, Shard, Sharp S.Library.Access (SLAX).* (we should just act)
• The Society for Library Access (SLAX) (we should just act; dissassociate from Tom, Marcell, ... signees/of the letters, which is good. )
• Collective Reading Initiative/Coalition **
• Library Custodians association
• Radical ...
• custodians.online (easier to transfer, it is open; a follow up of the letter.)
• Public Library coalition for free access (sounds like MS project from the 90s)
• ...

Coalition better than collective. Should there be Library in the name? It restricts the space of action. Is this discussion happening too early? An identity crisis? Naming is a negative exercise; a name should not hurt.

Or: join an existing initiative (many of the projects, names do already exists) 

• http://www.archiveteam.org
• http://informationobservatory.info/
• https://rlc.radicallibrarianship.org/ k
• Radial Open Access network http://radicaloa.disruptivemedia.org.uk
• ...

Words we like:
collective reading, sharing, media practices, access, authorship, intellectual property, commons
    
Words to avoid:
piracy, shadow, radical, public library

Course / Cirrucular Ideas:

• An on-line course. "certified amateur librarian"
• Amateur Librarian course in MayDay rooms, connected to events (UK funded)
• http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/index.php/Amateur_Librarian_-_A_Course_in_Critical_Pedagogy
• Dennis's course https://github.com/denten-courses/hacking-archive
• Leuphana summerschool, activate http://www.leuphana.de/en/research-centers/cdc/digital-cultures-research-lab/events/summer-school-2016.html
• critical computing summer camp / school
• PZI connection to xpub http://xpub.pzimediadesign.nl/ -- a module with MA students (Rotterdam)
• Involve students into the coalition -- Amateur librarian curriculum (connect to: opening courses, on-line teaching, opening materials) http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/index.php/Amateur_Librarian_-_A_Course_in_Critical_Pedagogy Develop a one semester course based on http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/courtcases.amateurlibrarian + http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/index.php/Amateur_Librarian_-_A_Course_in_Critical_Pedagogy In Graz. Local funding available for this; art-based research PEEK. Workshops, book, conference. Austria a good context for this. International project based on Public Library. Course ran by Tom and Marcell and/or develop it to be done by others.

Possible Grants (small money is easier)

• Horizon 2020 (heavy grant, EU, academic)
• PEEK art-based research (Austria) Deadline: May 2016. Tom, Marcell, Milica
• Columbia Global Innovation (20-30k easy to get)
• "Creating Commons" (working title), Research Project by Felix Stalder & Cornelia Sollfrank, to be funded by SNF (earliest starting point, 11.2016)
• Erasmus+ (EU)
• Hivos
• Leuphana can apply for Hivos funding to develop multiplicity strand (check with project manager first)
• Gary: Already involved in 2020 grant on Open Knowledge. Changes in the library, future of the library. Use "Public forum" for dissemination

Community Development:

• One more meeting, focus on multiplicity. Hivos? Sooner the better. Organise it as a conference, through Leuphana? Gary finds out. "collective media practices".
• To organise a follow-up of the current meeting
• a domain name, a title for the project -- Society for library access
• a web site as a resource, that serves as giving visibility to a loose collective of related projects in the free library space, useful for grant writing and creates a support network for those at personal risk of litigation, a place to publish documents / links / museum of media practice . Publishing in proximity (Marcell, Dennis set up wiki on SLAX.net). An advanced state of disorganisation.
  • Forensis. Build argumentations. A repository of research materials: bookmarks and documents; action defense portfolio (Ted, Marcell, Dennis, Bodo; Rosemary adds material from MayDay)
  • a page on geneology http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/courtcasesfromthefuture_genealogy (Dubi, Alan, Tom, Milica; Rosemary adds material from MayDay)
  • An archeology section of things that are not there any more. textz.com, gigapedia, ... (Dennis)
  • Build a public record of affiliations through statements of support : create a list of individuals, institutions that are involved; work on extending the list . (Dennis, Felix, Femke, Bodo, ...)
  • a collection of documents related to the courtcase (and similar ones). Protected somehow; be careful what can damage the case. (Marcell; Femke checks whether CRIDs/sciencespo people want to follow; Gary)
  • a list of courses, curricula, teaching resources (Femke)
  • museum of media practice
  • write a "communication" document, project description(s)
  • Annotating and documenting court documents and related data (develop an interface for this?) Develop a project on "the Interface of law" (Femke, Ted, Dubi)
    • creating a network graph of legal and no legal documents, individuals and institutions related to the aaaargh court case.
      • tool: http://influencemapping.org/blog/
  • bodo works on a scrapbook to document the growing discontent in the domain in which shadow libraries are also active: academic publishing, libraries, peer review, etc. 
• mailing list, irc
• An itemized list of types of programs that might be interested in the curriculum, and in what way

Press/communication Strategy

• Use ZKM, Solitude network to communicate the project. Needs a document.
• publishing with CUP, OH, Post Media Series, Meson Press; An anthology of the subject (ref. the pirate book). Make sure this book is framed outside of piracy. A book series. Post-media series? Multiple publishers.
• quick and dirty exhibition; including genealogy, difference from Public Library exhibition? www.wkv-stuttgart.de/programm/2014/veranstaltungen/public-library/
• A collective timeline of the public library, just do it
• "inflitrating" an existing festival

People / Partners:

• Kathleen Fitzpatrick (MLA)
• Shannon Mattern https://twitter.com/shannonmattern
• OR Books
• OH Press
• Verso
• Work with EU politicians, ie Julia Reda (Greens, pirate party)
• The Pirate Book people, anybody know them
• INVITE MORE LIBRARIANS

Models:

• Exhibition (ref. world-information.org) general public
• matt fuller (every single dialog in ms word)

Public events

• Connect to Elevate.at festival in Graz; attract a lot of people. https://elevate.at/ (contact Daniel Erlacher)
• A long-term collaboration between academic and cultural institutions, a series of public fora travelling across Europe, US: Graz, Brussels, Stuttgart, Paris, Coventry, London, Columbia http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/courtcases.forum
• Build collaboration with Sciencepo http://www.sciencespo.fr/ and Crids http://www.crids.eu/ (Constant, connecting collaboration to public events)
• 20th anniversary of ubu web in croatia. july 2016
• an event celebrating, bringing attention to a ridiculous patent (close reading, peer review)
• events, activities "do something" critical computing. In Mumbai? (Dennis)

Research projects

• EU research, copy right infringements. Funding large-scale academic work. Bodo will write an application. Statistics, history ... producing evidence
• Leuphana: description under which most of these ideas could pass the administrational "The University for the 21st century"
• MayDay room research into geneologies (match funded)
• A data-driven report on how texts are being used in academia (study about to come out)
• Lawyers, research group

Misc: (please help organize according to the above categories)

• publish a book in one (ala wu tang)
• sales data particularly regional data
• legal project?
• data project?
• network of mirrors o f ubu web, monoskop, aaaaarg, libgen (safe space)
  • MayDay rooms hosting mirrors, and event around the deposit
  • Ubu already mirrored in Zurich University of the Arts, Art & Media
  • Gary looking into this in Coventry
• Develop the mirrored sites into a distributed infrastructure
  • Open Media Library
  • library-on-a-stick
• library virus: a linux stick that can be plugged into a wall socket to "infect" a building with a free library (re-pirate librarybox?---yeah build off librarybox--perhaps no need, if it covers the use case! anybody familiar with librarybox? please ping denten---would it be possible to create a hands free zero configuration thing---software only tested on cheap hardware From Librarybox about page: "the idea to make a PirateBox without the Pirate, so to speak" emailing them now)
• Agonistic performance, based on the aaaarg courtcase
• What about The ideological factory of the EU Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights
• A why do you want aaaarg twitterbot
• A bodo podcast YESSSSS

Priorities:

• PEEK application in May
• Diversity meeting, Leuphana with Hivos
• Research team in support of future legal cases