Hello,
I would like to relaunch the discussion.
Taking in account everything that was told on this list, here is what I
suggest :
Ask some Members of the European Parliament (at last Yannick Jadot[1] which
we already know for having met him in June, but if you know about other MEPs
who might be interested, feel free to point me their names ;)) to book a
room at the European Parliament for us in December and do the following :
- A one-month (for example) exibition of the twelve winning pictures.
- the day of the inauguration, a conference on Freedom of Panorama for the
MEPs in late afternoon, followed by the opening of the exhibition. No need
to have all the winners present, or to pay for their fly, but we can tell
them they can come if they want.
The purpose of this would be both to communicate about WLM and do some
lobbying, and, incidentally, to maintain our contacts with members of
Parliament
Wikimedia France staff (namely, me and Adrienne) would handle all the
necessary work, and Antoine can organize a Wikimedia Takes Brussels at the
same time.
If there are no objections to this, I'll recontact Yannick Jadot's
personnal assistant - we met her back in June, and she is aware of the
opportunity to organize an event about Wiki Loves Monuments.
Best Regards,
Sylvain.
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2011/8/23 Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org>
Hi Sylvain, all,
although it sounds exciting, I'm afraid we have to be realistic.
1) it is rather impossible to fly in all winners - even if we have the
budget for that (which we don't) - because of the tight time frame. If we
fly nobody in, it would basically be a press conference, and no press will
be really interested in that I assume.
If by "all winners", you mean the 180 winners (10 selected pics * 18
participating countries), I agree, of course. But flying in the final
winners of the European contest (how many are they supposed to be, by the
way ? There is no indication about that in
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011/Concept )
can be realistic.
Basically, what we want to do is a combination of the following :
- Held a small award ceremony, giving their prize to the winners. No need
to have hundreds of people to come...
- An exhibition of the winning photographs
- A conference about some topic on which we want the eurodeputies to work
and which is relevant to the contest (the first thing that comes to mind is
Freedom of Panorama.)
- At the same time, a "Wikimedia Takes Brussels" :)
IMO, none of these would necesit more time or money than we can afford.
2) currently, we have no budget for a ceremony -
so you would have to
find that (there was money budgetted, but since we were not able to fill in
all budget with money from chapters, we have to limit ourselves)
I think Wikimédia France can pay for what is related to the event itself,
and maybe the other European chapters can help with the transportation and
accomodation of the winners ?
3) at least Maarten and I have no time to
organize such a meeting - it
requires quite a lot of work because you need to get an interesting program
to attract people in the first place.
Maarten and you have already done much, we don't ask you anything ;)
4) We got accepted at DISH 2011, and can do the
prize announcement in the
presentation there.
What is it ? I've never heard of that...
Regards,
Sylvain.
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Chargé de mission communauté et technologie de Wikimédia France
www.wikimedia.fr
06.18.90.71.04 - sylvain.boissel(a)wikimedia.fr
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Sylvain Boissel
Chargé de mission communauté et technologie de Wikimédia France