Free Culture conference, Washington DC, Feb 13/14

Cory Doctorow 9:41 pm Sun Jan 31, 2010

Fred sez, "Students for Free Culture has organized another awesome Free Culture conference on February 13th and 14th in Washington D.C. and registration is open.

Public Knowledge's Gigi Sohn and cyberscholar Jonathan Zittrain will be keynoting on the first day, and the second day will be an unconference tackling all the cutting edge issues of the free culture movement.

Everyone is welcome to register and pay whatever they like (though last conference's median fee was $26) so signup today and see you in two weeks!"

Man, I wish I could get to this!

Update: Fred adds:

SFC just let me know that they just announced incentives for registration levels (the JZ voicemail is particularly awesome):

If you register at $50 or more, get a DVD with the complete Free Culture 2008 videos archive

If you register at $75 or more, get a signed copy of one of these books:

* Remix by Lawrence Lessig OR
* Convergence Culture by Henry Jenkins

If you register at $100 or more, get one of these badges of coolness:

* a yourname@freeculture.org email address OR
* a custom answering machine greeting by none other than cyberscholar Jonathan Zittrain

Free Culture Conference 2010

(Thanks, Fred!)

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