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SO!(aP) a success - raffle winners announced

Posted by Becky in ORG Events, ORG News, Stuff at April 12th, 2007

Dave and Becky, awed by the list of rallfe ticket buyersLast night’s inaugural Support ORG! (and Party) event was a huge success - thanks to everyone who came. We signed up over a dozen new supporters, with dozens more walking away with supporter forms tucked inside their free culture goodie bags. Danny O’Brien’s speech was characteristically rousing, and Dave Rowntree did a great job as our raffle puller. A pool of photos is growing on Flickr, as revellers recover from their hangovers and get uploading their photos (if you’re uploading photos of the night to Flickr, please tag them “openrightsgroup”).

Thanks to all the volunteers who made the night go so smoothly - Glyn, Sheila, Chris, Janita, Felix - and to Tim, Andrew and Johnny V for sounds and visuals. Thanks to Ian and Lee at Bar Kick, to No2ID, Genewatch, Magnatune, Canonical, O’Reilly and Beatpick for their contributions to the goodie bags, and to EFF and Mind Candy for some last minute schwag. Thanks to all our celeb raffle donors, and big, big thanks to Michael for pulling the whole thing together so artfully.

And now for the moment you’ve all been waiting for… the ORG raffle winners:

  • A signed copy of Lawrence Lessig’s Code 2.0 goes to Kimberley Gahramt
  • A signed copy of Bruce Schneier’s Beyond Fear goes to Karen Molden
  • A signed copy of the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property goes to Grant Slater
  • Neil Gaiman’s signed keyboard goes to Ben Goldacre
  • £90 of O’Reilly vouchers goes to Laurie Rich
  • £60 of O’Reilly vouchers goes to Zach Robinson
  • The 12 CD Beatpick compilation goes to Lawrence Lessig (you should have heard the cheers that one got on the night)
  • And the chance to be written into Cory Doctorow’s next book and receive a signed author’s galley goes to Graeme Sutherland

Congratulations to all our winners. Michael will be getting in touch with those of you who weren’t at the party to collect your prize soon to arrange delivery. Commiserations to those who were less successful, but take heart in the knowledge that the money you’ve spent on raffle tickets is going to a very good cause.

New ORG Theme

Posted by Mike Little in Stuff at May 16th, 2006

As you can see, we now have a new ORG theme. We hope you like it.

Thanks to Matt Oakes for the theme design, Denise Wilton, Chris Morrison, et al for the new ORG logo. The WordPress theme was built by me, Mike Little, any errors or mistakes are therefore mine. Let me know if you spot any problems: o r g at zed1 dot com.

Mapping the digital rights landscape

Posted by Suw Charman in Stuff at September 17th, 2005

A while back, when we first started talking about setting up ORG, I thought it would be a good exercise to explore the existing digital rights landscape in the UK. I wanted to create a mindmap which would allow me to see visually relationships between the various organisations working in this area (even if only very peripherally), and I based my map on work already done by Jo Walsh.

Unfortunately, events overtook me before I got to finish it, as you can see:

UK digital rights landscape

You can get the full-sized image from Flickr.

It really is a very much unfinished work, and I need your help to fill in all the gaps. For each organisation I need the key people, the issues that organisation addresses, and their website URL. Please leave info in the comments, rather than email me directly, so that then everyone can see what’s already been found.

Right, over to you!

Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3

Posted by Suw Charman in Stuff at September 2nd, 2005

Er, hello? Can you hear me at the back there?