Thanks all for a great meetup and to the people who had the bright idea of finally starting a mailing list! Thought you might be interested in knowing about the monthly CopyNight gatherings in DC; it's a group of people who meet monthly to talk about news and issues in copyright and digital rights. There have been several guest speakers, including Carl Malamud and Jonathan Band, and usually we get a pretty good group (if slightly lawyer-heavy!) I recommend this month's in particular because our organizer is looking for people for a volunteer opportunity that he'll talk about at the meeting, involving making more of the public domain accessible. "If [you're interested], please come to this month’s CopyNight DC. It will be held at our usual venue, Teaism in Penn Quarter (accessible from the Chinatown/Gallery Place or Archives metro stations), at 6:30PM this coming Monday, the 25th of January. I cannot discuss details, here, but trust me when I say this is a chance to be part of an exciting new volunteer project that will directly benefit the public domain. I will have more details on Monday for anyone interested as well as an explanation (I promise) as to why, at least for now, I am sworn to keeping any more public information under wraps." Mailing list: http://copynight.org/dada/mail.cgi/list/was Blog: http://copynightdc.wordpress.com/ Cheers, Kat -- Your donations keep Wikipedia online: http://donate.wikimedia.org/en Wikimedia, Press: kat(a)wikimedia.org * Personal: kat(a)mindspillage.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mindspillage * (G)AIM:mindspillage IRC(freenode,OFTC):mindspillage * identi.ca:mindspillage * phone:ask