Talk:Classrooms for Free Culture

Stuff we could make

for teachers

• A guide for teachers on how to teach students about free culture
  • lesson plans?
  • hand-outs?
  • videos?
• lists of good local speakers willing to visit a class
• project stipends/minigrants

for students

• project stipends/minigrants (even loans)
• A guide for students on how to start/run/contribute-to free culture projects
  • college-student-centered version of ESR's "how to become a hacker"
• match with mentors
  • older students from their school who have done open license projects in the past
  • people outside their school, but in the open content/source community

general

• networking/idea-sharing space online
• local gatherings in person
• a section on instructables for fully open-sourced or public domain projects
• tshirts, because you can always make tshirts.

Resources

• ccLearn
• ESR's "how to become a hacker" manifesto
• How to run a successful free software project book

potential partners

• Olin College
• MIT?
• Creative Commons
• OLPC
• Wikipedia/Wikibooks (Wikimedia in general)
• Make Magazine
• Instructables
• Sourceforge?
• O'Reilly