Free your PC is this week! We’ll be tabling at the Reitz Union colonnades from 10am ’til 2pm on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday (10/28 - 10/30), installing UF licensed copies of McAfee anti-virus (free for students and faculty) and a wide assortment of free (open-source and zero-cost) software.
We’ll be playing some Creative Commons music as well, so even if you’re totally virus free and you’re an expert at using the GIMP, come out and hear some of our favorite publicly available musical selections. See you there!
Thanks for coming out, everybody! Here are some links to things we discussed:
Local Competitions with Prizes
Sparky Awards: www.uflib.ufl.edu/sparkyawards
Digital Literacy Competition: www.digitalliteracycontest.org/students/ufl
Free Media to Mash: uf.freeculture.org/wiki/mashupstuff
Free and Open Software
The GIMP: www.gimp.org
Blender: www.blender.org
Audacity: audacity.sourceforge.net
Inkscape: www.inkscape.org
Members of Florida Free Culture will hold a free workshop to show you how to use Open Source software programs (Audacity, Blender, Inkscape & The Gimp) to “remix” images, music, and videos licensed under Creative Commons to create new content. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own laptop so that they can bookmark and/or download these free resources and use them again. Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 5:30pm – 7:30pm. Light Refreshments will be served.
It’s time again for Florida Free Culture’s semesterly event: Free your PC. We’ll be at tables from 10 til 2 on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday (3/24 - 3/26), installing UF licensed copies of McAfee anti-virus (free for students and faculty) and a wide assortment of free (open-source and zero-cost) software.
Tuesday and Thursday (3/24 and 3/26): Bring your laptop to the Colonnades at the Reitz. We’ll have 3 tables and some computer savvy individuals to help you out.
Wednesday (3/25): We’re broadening our horizons and setting up at the Plaza of the Americas, south of Library West. Free your spirit with some Krishna lunch and free your PC with us.
When: Monday, November 10 @ 7:00pm
Where: Reitz Union 288
At Florida Free Culture’s next meeting, we’ll be having a mix-cd swap, discussing good copy/bad copy, and hearing from Grooveshark about their mission to reform the music industry. Bring several copies of a Mix-CD with your favorite music and swap with others at the meeting. The more you bring, the more music you’ll walk home with! We hope to see you there!
Free Your PC has concluded, and was a great success. Though we did have a few staffing issues, we were able to install software for and spread the word about Free Culture to almost 80 students. We were also featured in the Alligator! We couldn’t have done it without all of our volunteers’ help, so thanks much for all of your assistance!
We’ll be hosting the event again in the Spring, so if you didn’t get McAfee or the Free Software we were offering, be sure to look out for the event again in a few months.
Florida Free Culture will be hosting Free Your PC Tuesday through Thursday, October 28-30, between 10:00am and 2:00pm at the Reitz Union Colonnade. We’ll be cleaning up laptops, installing free McAfee anti-virus, and lots of other excellent software like Firefox, OpenOffice, and GIMP. Come get your computer cleaned free of charge and learn about what free software is and what it can do for you!
If you’re computer saavy, we need your help! Please RSVP to help us fix students’ computers and install quality free and open source software on our wiki. The process is completely streamlined, and there will always be someone to help you out if you need it, so there’s no need to worry about it being too complicated. We usually get greater traffic on later days, so lots of help on Wednesday and Thursday would especially be appreciated.
We’ll look forward to seeing you at the event!
Florida Free Culture is a student group at the University of Florida. Our mission is:
We are named for Lawrence Lessig's book, Free Culture, and are a chapter of FreeCulture.org.
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