FYI. Hungary might be able to join on a last minute basis. If they don't make it in time we at least started a heritage project in Hungary :-)

Maarten

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Van: Mészöly Tamás meszoly.tamas@wikimedia.hu Datum: 25 augustus 2011 22:14:10 GMT+02:00 Aan: Maarten Dammers maarten@mdammers.nl, Lodewijk <lodewijk@effeietsanders.org

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Onderwerp: Antw.: Reminder - WLM in Hungary

Hi Maarten, Lodewijk,

We had a meeting at the National Office of Cultural Heritage on Wednesday. It was a long discussion about the Hungarian Wikimedia chapter, the Wikimedia movement, the WLM and the Hungarian legal situation of the database of the Cultural Heritage, because there is a new (2010) law about the national data properties, and this law is much stricter than any earlier (all the national databases have to be handled only by the government, anybody who violate this law risk a 5-year prison punishment).

The delegation of the Office (president, legal expert, PR manager, head of the register department) was very helpful and positive, but after the meeting we were unsure could we get the data for the competition or not.

Today afternoon we got a positive answer: the Office can give us the data we need, after we signed a contract about or cooperation. The legal department of the Office is working on the draft of the contract and we are waiting for their answer.

Best regards, Tamás

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 23:18, Maarten Dammers maarten@mdammers.nl wrote: Hi Tamás,

This sound a bit like how we organized it last year in the Netherlands ;-) Good luck Wednesday!

Maarten

Op 22-8-2011 17:36, Mészöly Tamás schreef:

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Dear Maarten and Lodewijk,

I'd like to report on our progress of WLM:

• wikilovesmonuments.hu domain is registered (at this moment it is

a redirect to http://wikimedia.hu/wiki/WikiLovesMonuments page)

• our external partner responsible for infrastructure (http://indafoto.hu/

) is ready for the competition (and our contract is ready for signature)

• after two weeks mailing, we got an appointment (this

Wednesday) to the president of the National Office of Cultural Heritage (first we got an answer with the official prices of supplying of data: over 400.000 Euro!); I hope we can obtain the national database of cultural heritage as a donation of the Office.

I will know more on Wednesday.

Regards, Tamás (User:Samat)

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 21:06, Maarten Dammers maarten@mdammers.nl wrote: Hi Samat,

Good luck!

Maarten

Op 7-8-2011 18:38, Samat schreef:

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Hi Maarten,

Thank you for the European contact.

I will contact her direcly after I arrived home from Israel and I inform you without any additional delay. Samat

On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 08:29, Maarten Dammers maarten@mdammers.nl wrote: Hi Samat,

Op 6-8-2011 9:01, Samat schreef: Dear Maarten,

As we talked yesterday, the Hungarian chapter would like to join to Wiki Loves Monuments program.

We will do our best to comply with all the requirements and will update you on our progress.

Thanks for your help, Samat I got in touch with one of my European contacts. Not sure if that will work so in the meantime you should get in touch with:

Ms Margit Kertész Councillor Kulturális Örökségvédelmi Hivatal National Office of Cultural Heritage Társadalmi Kapcsolatok Osztálya Public Relation Department

Szentháromság tér 6. HU - 1014 BUDAPEST +36 1 2245586 +36 1 2245581 margit.kertesz@koh.hu Web: www.oroksegnapok.hu (from http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/heritage/EHD/partners_en.asp#HU )

Please mention the fact that we're endorsed by the Council of Europe and some others (logos at http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu/).

Can you keep me posted about this?

Maarten