Hi Asaf,

This is an answer to your request: "Is there somewhere I can read a brief summary of current copyright issues related to Wikipedia in Greece?  Just an outline or a few bullet points would be great."

Please use an automatic translator if you want to check what is written in the links which contain Greek text or try your best with your Homeric Greek -see how far you can get.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Freedom_of_panorama#Greece

Request of several members of the Wikipedia community to the Greek State to allow free use of the works of Greek civil servants (as is the case for US state employees)

Request of a member of the community to discuss issues related to the FOP in Greece

Letter by a few members of the community to the Greek authorities to allow FOP in Greece

This answer is my contribution to this discussion. I hope that there will be others which might want to give you a better overview.

Regards,

FocalPoint

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 4:58 AM, Asaf Bartov <abartov@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi, Geraki and everyone.

On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 1:38 AM, Konstantinos Stampoulis <geraki@geraki.gr> wrote:
Hello Asaf,

regarding your visit in Greece it seems that there are already enough activities. goo.gl/nbgcv
We indent to merge some of the thematic community meetings with meetings with other officials, doing something between round table discussions and panel presentations, calling some officials (ministry of culture/education) and some people relative to open content. The proposed thematics are 

* "Open content and copyright issues in Greece, related with Wikipedia", 

Is there somewhere I can read a brief summary of current copyright issues related to Wikipedia in Greece?  Just an outline or a few bullet points would be great.
 
* "Wikipedia education projects", 
* "Greek Wikipedia community and relations with third parties". 
* A separate, more informal open discussion about the organisation of the community for outreach activities will be done without calling other people than wikipedians.

These discussions should be finished during Saturday 13th.

A more general central meetup of the community can be done in Saturday afternoon or Sunday morning, still leaving some time during the weekend to arrange some more meetings.

Please tell us 
* if this schedule covers the scope of your visit,

Yes, this sounds very good to me.
 
* if you would like to be the initial speaker on the meetings about education projects and about relatations with third parties,

I have no particular preference, and am happy for my talk to be put wherever it would be best, in the program.  On education, I am preparing an overview of the modes of engagement with Wikipedia in education around the world (including the WMF's Global Education Program, but also a number of interested chapter or community initiatives), and will of course leave discussing the efforts in Greece to the local community.
 
* if you would like to add any other presentation/workshop/meeting.

I am particularly eager to ensure there is enough time to seriously discuss community issues in the Wikipedians-only forum.  That's what I called the "workshop" part in earlier communications.  Note that this is quite apart from a more social gathering, which can take place in a more relaxed (or noisy) atmosphere, and which I would hope would not be exclusive of anyone.

Cheers,

   Asaf
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