SA Free Culture Tour – take part!
Free your culture … come to the braai, Friday 20 April 2007
WHERE: The Armchair Theatre, Obsevatory, Cape Town
WHEN: 8pm, Friday, 20 April 2007
BRING: cds or dvds to braai, R40 door charge,
R100 to buy a cool SA Free Culture tee shirt.
Rip, Mix, Burn – South African style … on Friday, 20 April 2007
The SA Free Culture Tour, an initiative of iCommons, is inviting all artists, musician, bleeding-edge bloggers, technofreaks, culture jammers, free culture kids, and webheads to join us in creating a digital archive of content.
We want your artefacts – be it a sample, a song, a photo, a piece of art, a poster or some writing. As long as you’re happy share it and let other people remix, build upon and generally mix it up, we’re happy to host it. Think of it as a digital bring ‘n braai – we all bring something, slap it on the flames, stand around drinking some beers, and wait to see what comes out.
All you need to do is get your content, licence it under the appropriate Creative Commons licence, go to the ‘upload‘ tab on this site, and load it up! Idiot proof, really.
Selected content that’s been loaded will be put onto a Freedom Toaster that will be at the Independent Armchair Theatre on the night of the 20th of April, the night of the cc Salon. You’ll be able to bring along a disc, a drive or a USB stick, pop it into the Toaster, and download all the content you want. Pretty cool, huh?
The SA Free Culture Tour includes:
Wednesday, 18 April
Internet Society of South Africa meeting
Creative Commons founder, Lawrence Lessig will speak to the members of the Internet Society of South Africa to raise awareness about issues of copyright and patents – an important topic in the context of South Africa’s need for access to, and education around, internet technologies.
Thursday, 19 April
The Digital Freedom Exposition
The Digital Freedom Exposition, hosted by the University of the Western Cape, will examine the notion of ‘freedom’ in the digital world.
The Exposition will include exhibits, guest speakers and round table discussions. Speakers include Lawrence Lessig, Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, Heather Ford, Executive Director of iCommons and Rishab Gosh, Open Source Initiative board member and FLOSS expert, amongst others.
For more information check out the Digital Freedom Expo site.