Cory Doctorow leaves the EFF
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Net activist Cory Doctorow is leaving the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation).
What’s he going to do now?
"Well for starters, I’m going to be getting a full night’s sleep every night," he says on boing boing. "I’m going to stop travelling three weeks a month. I’m going to join the gym and get the hundred and a half household chores I’ve neglected while working three full-time jobs for the past two years done. I’m going to get a checkup and have my teeth x-rayed. All that overdue stuff I’ve put off and put off and put off."
And then, most importantly, "I’m going to write. More blog posts, and longer ones. I have three novellas in the pipe. I’m tripling the pace of work on Themepunks, my fourth novel, and plan to have it in the can by early spring. I’m going to do a fix-up novel with Charlie Stross, completing our ‘Huw’ stories (Jury Service and Appeals Court) and publishing them between covers. My podcast is going thrice weekly. I’ve got articles in production for a bunch of magazines and websites."
So is that it for the EFF where he’s worked for the past four years?
Nope, says Doctorow. " I’m delighted to announce that EFF has named me a Fellow of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an honor I share with attorney James Tyre. As a Fellow, I’m still within the scope of EFF’s attorney-client confidentiality and hence able to contribute on active cases."
But, he says, "I’m not giving up on travel altogether," adding:
"I’m still going to be speaking at various companies and conventions and seminars on technology, authorship and copyright, but a lot less of that. I’ll be spending most of April in Australia, New Zealand and Japan at various speaking gigs and conventions like ConJure, the national Aussie SF con in Brisbane; I’m a guest of honor at Boskone in Boston in February; I’ll be at the LIFT conference in Geneva in January and a Red Hat con in Nashville in June. But for all that, I’m going to be spending approximately 1000 percent more time sitting in one place, concentrating on one task. I can’t wait.
"I’m also going to be working on numerous civil liberties causes. I’m proud to serve on the Boards of Directors for two great charities, the Participatory Culture Foundation, creators of the indie Internet TV platform DTV and the MetaBrainz Foundation, which oversees development of the MusicBrainz system for distributing free, rich metadata about music.
"There’s also some big plans for a long, nonfiction DRM-book/research project lurking around here. With any luck I’ll be able to announce more about that in late January or early February.
"This is the most exciting day of my life — the day I quit my day-job. Thanks to everyone who made this possible, all the readers and bloggers and friends and editors and agents. I’ll do my best not to screw it up!"
But what about that full night’s sleep? ; )
Cheers, Cory, and all the best …
Also See:
boing boing – Cory quit his day-job, Januaryt 1, 2006
