I have just completed the first stop on a little mini-tour I am taking of Students for Free Culture chapters, beginning with UW Madison this past Saturday, continuing with Georgetown tomorrow on April 16th, and concluding with Virginia Tech a week from tomorrow on April 23rd. I would have blogged this earlier (i.e. before the first stop) if my laptop’s hard drive hadn’t died, but better late than never!
I spoke this Saturday at the brand spanking new Students for Free Culture chapter at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, along with former SFC board member and co-founder of our U Florida chapter, Gavin Baker. We were both guest speakers at a symposium called Culture of Sharing, where we also led breakout sessions (mine was on Open Source and ended up being a free software installfest) and co-hosted a post-conference workshop on how to start and operate a Students for Free Culture chapter. Our UW Madison chapter’s co-founder, Angela, was kind enough to take notes for the chapter-starting workshop and send them to us, so some of that material may end up in a “how to start a chapter” kit someday. It resulted in a short article in campus newspaper The Daily Cardinal and positive blog coverage on sites like the UW infolit Community, and a good time was had by all 
If you’re from UW Madison and you’d like to join their chapter, you should sign up for their mailing list.
Here’s a picture of me and Gavin with the founding members of the UW Madison chapter. From left to right: Chris, Justine, me (Nelson), Angela, Gavin, and Hannah on the bottom.
Some of the new UW Madison recruits expressed some interest in guest-blogging, so if we’re lucky you may see some of them on here in the near future!
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