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 of 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