Gavin sez, "I'm running for Student Senate at the University of Florida. I've developed a personal platform of free culture issues — which might make the first candidate anywhere to run on a free culture platform. Besides advocating for a student voice in university tech policy, I'll fight the anti-filesharing software deployed in campus housing, advocate for open access to university research and journals, promote free/open source software and open file formats — you get the drift."
* Investigate ICARUS, the Department of Housing's anti-filesharing software, and invite students into a public debate for the first time
* Work with the university to establish guidelines for the use of specialized proprietary software in classes, so students won't be stung by expensive class software that they can't re-sell
Gavin's the president of Florida FreeCulture and a director of FreeCulture.org, and if I got a vote, it would be for him, in a heartbeat.
