PS: What I tried to say: it is good to get more attention for the subject of FOP in Europe.

--- On Mon, 9/19/11, Sylvain Boissel sylvain.boissel@wikimedia.fr wrote:

From: Sylvain Boissel sylvain.boissel@wikimedia.fr Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] European WLM Awards Ceremony To: "Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition" wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Monday, September 19, 2011, 2:30 PM

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. [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yannick_Jadot

2011/8/24 Sylvain Boissel sylvain.boissel@wikimedia.fr

2011/8/23 Lodewijk lodewijk@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.