Hi Nemo and thank you for your good wishes!

I have just started looking into WLPA and the first step is to identify what we lack knowledge about and need to get a deeper understanding of. To do so I have just created a list on WMSE's wiki where you can write up any legal questions that you think is relevant when organizing the competition. You can find the list here. I will then bring your questions to Europeana and see if they can help us out answering them. They have something like an judicial help desk for their partner organizations (of which WMSE is one) where we can send questions.

Also, I have a few good news! I talked about the idea of organizing this competition with a number of people at the Europeana Plenary in Leuven (which I and two other people from WMSE attended last week) and I received very positive responses. Amongst other a representative from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism in Greece showed great interest in cooperating with us on this. To cultivate this we would of course need someone from Greece to carry the torch and get in contact with them. Is there anyone from Greece on this list that would be interested in helping out with this? Do you know anyone that might?

Finally, if you are interested in helping out with organizing this competition in your home country, please write me an email about it! It would be great if we could start working with this a little bit as soon as possible to make the most out of the event and not miss any opportunities!

All the best,

John Andersson
Wikimedia Sweden
Event Manager, Europeana Awareness
Email: john.andersson@wikimedia.se