Hi, There is an oportunity - no: necessity - for active lobbying for Free Knowledge in the European Union. The Proposed European Commission Directive on European Spatial Data Infrastucture (INSPIRE) is endangered to put more intellectual property rights on geographica data in the European union. See http://publicgeodata.org/WhatIsInspire and http://space.frot.org/docs/inspire_directive.html Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia chapters and Wikipedians obvoiously should be interested in changing the European Directive to free Geographic Data. In my point of view more than a petition or contacting members of the parliament is needed (but of course these are basics). We need creative ideas of lobbying[1], simple examples why geographic data needs to be free etc. Wikipedia is known and loved so maybe we could use it's popularity to advert free geographic data. Last but not least ideas also have to be implemented - that's the worst problem: in my experience Wikimedia project's community members are lazy and slow in doing something that is not *directly* related to their everyday work in Wikipedia and Wikimedia organisation's community members like me are busy, busy, busy. Any suggestions? I'm still searching for an occasion and easy example [2] to convince your grandma, get into the media etc. The discussion can be held at the public foundation-l mailing list, can't it? Greetings, Jakob [1] for instance influencing the people at this conference http://www.direktportalen.com/dynaweb/gavlekongress/index.asp?page=2748&… [2] I'm sorry but the reasons given at http://publicgeodata.org/WhySignThePetition and http://space.frot.org/docs/uninspired.html and http://space.frot.org/docs/why-free.html anre not very convincing - you need something that influences Mr. average in his normal life. For instance show Wikipedia (free, amazing, growing, flexible) and how navigation systems could be with or won't be without free geographic data. Well, there should be better examples...