Announcements related to Remix Reading

[Tom Chance <tom AT acrewoods.net>]

Hello,

This is the second issue of Free Culture UK's new fortnightly newsletter. 
Please pass this on to others who might be interested. To get your upcoming 
events, hot news or event reviews in add them to the relevant wiki page [1]. 
Feel free to make suggestions on how to improve this as well.


March 2006, no.1
Stable URL: http://www.freeculture.org.uk/newsletter/2006/mar06


UPCOMING EVENTS
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Node.l

  * What: A festival of open, collaborative media arts and infrastructure in 
London.
  * When: Throughout March 2006.
  * Where: Venues thoughout London.
  * More information: http://nodel.org


Remix Reading open media lab

  * What: Come and learn how to use arty free software, or show off your 
skills to others, at our first open media lab. Just turn up with an open 
mind. From 11am-1pm there will be workshops with kids from a local refugee 
support group.
  * When: Saturday 18th March 2006, 11am-4pm
  * Where: Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading (www.risingsun-artscentre.co.uk)
  * More information: http://www.remixreading.org/node/710


Copyfighters' Drunken Brunch and Talking Shop

  * What: Meet for a brunch and drinks with other free culture / digital 
rights / copyfighters activists, then walk across to Speakers' Corner in Hyde 
Park to bewilder passers by with your rhetoric.
  * When: Sunday 19th March 2006. Food from 11AM to 1PM; Speakers' Corner 
excursion 1PM-~2PM.
  * Where: Stanhope Centre (Stanhope Centre, Stanhope House, Stanhope Place, 
London W2 2HH)



FREE CULTURE IN THE UK NEWS
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"CNUK has set-up a free software lab and has some volunteer openings to work 
on RemixAnywhere, the tool to allow musicians to quickly publish remixes to 
their weblogs and Jammr, the tool to grab some interesting data about you and 
your friends from Last.fm and display a Web 2.0 compliant tag cloud"
 * http://cnuk.org/jobs


EVENT FEEDBACK
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The OKFN Forum on Open Content was a success. Here is some coverage:
  * review: http://tinyurl.com/jl85j
  * reflection: http://tom.acrewoods.net/node/412
  * podcast: http://parkylondon.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=61935

That's all folks!

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