Hey Stevie,

Absolutely great to hear it has already received some positive replies. I am getting excited. Make sure you follow up on the people who replied and try to build up a relationship with them.

Could you perhaps  give us a short presentation about this initiative at the Big Fat Brussels Meeting Vol. 2? I believe this is a project that can very well be upscaled and made in other EU countries. What a great chance to transfer know-how across the movement and build capacity to represent our interests.

Cheers,
Dimi

2014-04-02 15:19 GMT+02:00 Stevie Benton <stevie.benton@wikimedia.org.uk>:

Hello everyone,

Nikolas, sorry I didn't respond to this before, I must have missed your message. Your point is certainly valid and I'll bear it in mind for any future activity.

On the Wikimedia UK letter to local MEPs, we've had four messages of support so far, representing the three largest political parties here. This is just a start and I am sure more will follow. I'll offer an update at a later time.

Thanks and regards,

Stevie

On 21 March 2014 18:19, Nikolas Becker <nikolas.becker@wikimedia.de> wrote:

Hey everyone,

Thanks for the initiative! A point that might be taken into account for future initiatives: Instead of talking just about "our" situation (we can't use), we imho should frame this as a general problem: "Free and open media can't use ..." or s.th. like that ...

Cheerio

Niko

Nikolas Becker

Chair of the Board/Vorsitzender
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V.

Tempelhofer Ufer 23/24
10963 Berlin

www.wikimedia.de

Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B.
Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

2014-03-21 9:12 GMT-07:00 Stevie Benton <stevie.benton@wikimedia.org.uk>:

Hello again,

Thanks once more for the useful feedback. The letter has now been sent. The final print version can be seen at https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/File:Letter_to_MEPs_with_images.pdf

Thanks and regards,

Stevie

On 19 March 2014 12:56, Stevie Benton <stevie.benton@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:

Hello again,

Just to pick this up once more. 

Matthias, I take your point about the turnover of MEPs. But the sooner we get this out, the sooner people begin paying attention. If we wait for a perfect time - like some other groups - we will likely get lost in the noise. There's no reason we can't follow-up with newly elected MEPs in the summer. Also, I see what you mean about Big Ben potentially being misinterpreted. It's also not a great example as it would be out of copyright anyway, so am going to use a different image.

Bence - that was a useful spot, thank you. The updated version has the links as footnotes.

I'm going to make some changes to the letter today and I'm hoping to get the final version printed and sent by the end of the week.

Thanks and regards,

Stevie

On 14 March 2014 09:28, Stevie Benton <stevie.benton@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:

Thank you everyone for your thoughtful comments. These will be taken into consideration for the final version of the letter which is likely to be printed and posted today.

Thanks and regards,

Stevie

On 14 March 2014 09:11, Mathias Schindler <mathias.schindler@wikimedia.de> wrote:

2014-03-14 9:54 GMT+01:00 Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov
<dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov@gmail.com>:

> As to Mathias' comment on the MEPs: Yes, there will be some considerable
> turnover, but at the same time politicians are most likely to pay attention
> to such a thing before election time. Sending it out just to the ones we
> believe might get reelected would be - diplomatically speaking - bad
> diplomacy. Can't we just resend it after the elections to just the newly
> elected MEPs?

There is already too much bad diplomacy out there, so thanks for Dimis
argument. As you can see from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament_election,_2014_(United_Kingdom)#Current_MEPs_by_European_Political_Group,
the number of parties who did send MEPs to Brussels was considerable.
It would be possible to send such a letter to the parties before the
election and to the specific elected MEPs afterwards.

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