Dear Friends,

Small Lean Brussels Meeting now has a meeting point!

Thursday, July 1st, 17:00-20:00 CET

Small Lean BXL Meeting: “Brave New EU”

We also have an enriched program, which is presented below. The general idea for any contribution is that there is 5-7 minutes to present - then we decide if:

- this is something to discuss in more depth in the meeting (beyond questions of clarification that are always welcome and possible, that is) - then we just dive right in

- this is something to discuss right away between a few interested participants - then we create a breakout room for that purpose

- this is something to discuss at a later date - the person presenting will collect interest and get back to those interested separately

So, we are grateful to the following people:

- Allison Davenport who will pick our brains on a very important issue: how to best get feedback on and consult policy positions in our community?

- Justus G. de Bruijn who will present and issue WMNL has come across in the Netherlands: what kind of an animal a Wikimedia entity is in the eyes of policy makers?

- Liam Wyatt, alias Wittylama, who will discuss the Enterprise project: what are its potential implications for public policy work?

- Lilli Iliev who will engage us around knowledge equity: this issue is one of the fundamentals of the 2030 Strategy, how do we incorporate it in things we do?

Along with these updates Dimi and I will bring you up to speed on the most important developments in the Brussels Bubble across our work plan.

Also, since we last saw each other we have gained new colleagues taking on public policy and advocacy roles in chapters - welcome, and we hope that you will make yourselves known!

And don't forget, if you have any other topic you would like to present or discuss, we can take that on! You can let us know before - especially if you want us to focus on something and that we would need to prepare - or just bring it up during the meeting.

Looking forward to seeing you all soon!

(and don't forget there might be a contest! :))

Anna & Dimi

On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 12:49 PM Anna Mazgal <anna@wikimedia.be> wrote:

Dear Friends,

you have spoken (and thank you for that)! We will convene online on
Thursday, July 1st, 17:00-20:00 CET
Small Lean BXL Meeting: “Brave New EU”
We want to:
Hear how you have been and what you are up to
Tell you briefly about this year’s biggest developments in Brussels
Talk about whatever else you want to talk about
Open a drink of choice and be merry
Have “the best working from home outfit” contest (only half joking :))

How do I get access?
If you plan to participate we need to ask you to confirm this again to provide you with access details to the meeting. Apologies, we just don't want to be gate-crashed with any content that would spoil our good spirit. There is no deadline, just hit respond to this email and we will know to let you in in due time.

Where do I join?
We are now working out the details of which platform we will use to meet. We will share it with everyone who confirms participation (for example by hitting respond to this email).

I want to tell you about exciting news!
If you have news to share - wonderful! No need to prepare any of that - unless you want to show something on screen, have a paralel chat with interested people, or have any other special request - then please let us know before we meet so that we can accommodate this.

We are very excited to see you in July!
Cheers,
Anna

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Anna Mazgal
EU Policy Advisor
Wikimedia
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