<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 11:54 PM, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov@gmail.com" target="_blank">dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hi Luis,<br><br></div>About the mid-term reports on all four work groups, I can tell you more on Friday, as they're beeing presented tomorrow. <br>
<br></div>About the withdrawals from the text and data mining work group, there is a short Communia article on it [1] and the letter sent to the European Commission is also published [2].<br></div></div></div></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>That was my main interest (though I am also curious about the rest); thank you for sending the links.<br><br></div><div>Speaking for myself and not necessarily for WMF, I think that the Wikimedia movement has an important role to play in copyright reform, since we are the biggest and most high-profile example of how a broader information commons can benefit everyone. I'm just not sure how we get there yet :) So I'm very curious about what other similar groups are doing.<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div></div>Furthermore, I am in touch with somebody from Open Forum Europe [3], who has been participating in this work group. If you have any questions I'd be happy to ask for you or even just make the connection. <br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I would be happy to be introduced! That said, I of course can't promise much - we need more consensus here before taking any actions.<br></div><div><br>Thanks-<br>Luis<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div></div>Dimi<br><div><div><div><br><br>[1] <a href="http://www.communia-association.org/2013/05/25/research-sector-smes-civil-society-groups-and-open-access-publishers-withdraw-from-licences-for-europe-dialogue-on-text-and-data-mining/" target="_blank">http://www.communia-association.org/2013/05/25/research-sector-smes-civil-society-groups-and-open-access-publishers-withdraw-from-licences-for-europe-dialogue-on-text-and-data-mining/</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://www.libereurope.eu/sites/default/files/Letter_of_withdrawalL4E_TDM_May%2024_1.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.libereurope.eu/sites/default/files/Letter_of_withdrawalL4E_TDM_May%2024_1.pdf</a><br>[3] <a href="http://www.openforumeurope.org/" target="_blank">http://www.openforumeurope.org/</a><br>
</div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/7/2 Luis Villa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lvilla@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">lvilla@wikimedia.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 3:37 AM, Dimitar Dimitrov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dimitar.dimitrov@wikimedia.de" target="_blank">dimitar.dimitrov@wikimedia.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:italic;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold"></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:normal">The
midterm report for the four work groups will be presented <span><span>July 4th</span></span>.
Meanwhile several major non-for-profits, like Communia and the Open
Knowledge Foundation, have withdrawn from the work group on text and
data mining, complaining mainly about the narrow scope of discussions. </span></p></blockquote></div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">Hi, Dimitar-<br>I'd be curious to hear more about this. Any pointers or links? Thanks!<span><font color="#888888"><br>
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