tl;dr:
Let’s get active in Brussels! During a two-day meeting, an
international core group of Wikimedians agreed on launching the first
necessary steps: Establishing a monitoring system and launching task
forces on three hot topics: Free access to government works, Freedom
of Panorama and Orphan Works. You can easily join the initiative, even
if you feel you actually don’t have the time.
Dear fellow Wikimedians,
In February, we suggested [1] a “Big Fat Brussels Meeting” which
finally took place on april 5-7th. A dozen Wikimedians from several
countries like the Netherlands, Estonia, Italy, France, Bulgaria,
Belgium and Germany discussed [2] the basic challenges of an open and
transparent advocacy group which monitors EU legislation. This
includes keeping an eye on currently discussed issues that *might*
have implications on our work. Taking part in consultations launched
by the European Commission or the profound analysis of amendment
proposals in the European Parliament are an essential part of this
work. While these tasks might seem intimidating to some, we also need
people who monitor important issues by following Twitter accounts and
blogs of decision-makers in Brussels and on the national level. Join
the monitoring team [3] and decide for yourself how to get involved!
== Proactive advocacy ==
Apart of just being reactive to EU legislation, we also like to push
things forward in fields which aren’t at the heart of the Brussels
machinery. While the European Digital Agenda is basically
economy-driven, we need to develop a mid-term-strategy to get Free
Knowledge onto the agenda. In our view, there are at least three
Wikimedia-related topics that enjoy considerable community consensus:
Freedom of Panorama [4], PD-Gov [5] and Orphan Works [6]. Our job here
is to simply follow up on the discussions and proposals, map the field
and make out threats or desirable changes early on. If you fancy
removing obstacles in these particular policy fields, please add some
comments on the Meta page [7] or – even better – enrich our three
issue-specific task forces with your personal expertise!
There will be a debriefing of the Brussels meeting during the
Wikimedia Conference in Milan [8] on Friday afternoon. Those who
couldn’t make it to Brussels are warmly invited to join us there!
Cordiali saluti,
Nicole
[1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2013-February/124085.html
[2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_Policy/Big_Fat_Brussels_Meeting/minutes
[3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Monitor
[4] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Freedom_of_Panorama
[5] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/PD-Gov
[6] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Orphan_Works
[7] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Engage
[8] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_meeting_2013
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Hello,
Please find below the WMF Board of Trustees' draft agenda for the upcoming
meetings on April 17, 2013 - April 19, 2013.
== Wednesday, April 17, 2013 ==
'''16:00 - 18:00''' - Governance Committee Meeting
== Thursday, April 18, 2013 ==
'''09:00''' - Greetings and Introductions
'''09:10''' - Committee Reports
* Audit Committee Report
* Governance Committee Report
'''09:45''' - Committee Reporting Guidelines
'''10:00''' - Open Resolutions
* Resolution on guidelines on potential conflicts of interest
* Resolution on recognition of Wikimedia Armenia
* Resolution on the Board Governance Committee Charter
* Resolution appointing another trustee to the Board Governance Committee
'''10:15''' - Annual Plan Update
'''11:00''' - FDC Year Two Guidance
'''12:00''' - Lunch
'''13:00''' - WMF and FDC
'''13:45''' - Strategy Committee Proposal
'''13:30''' - Guiding Principles for the Wikimedia Foundation
== Friday, April 19, 2013 ==
'''09:00''' - Editor Retention
'''10:00''' - Transition Team Update
'''12:00''' - Lunch
'''13:30''' - Trustee Candidates
'''14:30''' - Executive Session
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Hello,
Please find below the WMF Board of Trustees' draft agenda for the upcoming
meetings on April 17, 2013 - April 19, 2013.
== Wednesday, April 17, 2013 ==
'''16:00 - 18:00''' - Governance Committee Meeting
== Thursday, April 18, 2013 ==
'''09:00''' - Greetings and Introductions
'''09:10''' - Committee Reports
* Audit Committee Report
* Governance Committee Report
'''09:45''' - Committee Reporting Guidelines
'''10:00''' - Open Resolutions
* Resolution on guidelines on potential conflicts of interest
* Resolution on recognition of Wikimedia Armenia
* Resolution on the Board Governance Committee Charter
* Resolution appointing another trustee to the Board Governance Committee
'''10:15''' - Annual Plan Update
'''11:00''' - FDC Year Two Guidance
'''12:00''' - Lunch
'''13:00''' - WMF and FDC
'''13:45''' - Strategy Committee Proposal
'''13:30''' - Guiding Principles for the Wikimedia Foundation
== Friday, April 19, 2013 ==
'''09:00''' - Editor Retention
'''10:00''' - Transition Team Update
'''12:00''' - Lunch
'''13:30''' - Trustee Candidates
'''14:30''' - Executive Session
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Stephen LaPorte
Legal Counsel
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Foundation. This means I may not give legal advice to or serve as a lawyer
for community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal
capacity.*
Hi everyone, Jessie plans to be available on IRC on April 15, 1800-1900 UTC. I plan to be there with questions about WMF program planning and evaluation, and I hope many of you are also able to attend the discussion.
Cheers,
Pine
In case anybody is interested in giving a talk and participating in a
workshop for the
European Marine scientific community. Probably most relevant for somebody
based in the EU.
--Kul
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EuroMarine (http://www.euromarineconsortium.eu/) is organising a
workshop to define a "Web Environment" that will provide services to the
European Marine scientific community as an effective mean to reach
integration among individuals, institutions and consortia across the
fields of 'omics, biodiversity and ecology (see the attached programme).
Services will address social networking, common/customisable directories
(white, yellow and blue pages), news and events posting, scholarly
publications (data and papers), education and outreach.
Participants will include representatives of past and present EU
projects/initiatives/infrastrutures, and web service providers, such as
Google, Facebook, Twitter, Skype, LinkedIn, Thomson Reuters, Elsevier
and Wikipedia.Invited participants will benefit from free accommodation
& meals at the ATLANTIC HOTEL UNIVERSUM - CONFERENCE CENTRE BREMEN
(http://www.atlantic-hotels.de/universum/de/Start.html), and EuroMarine
will
reimburse in part their travel expenses (maximum amount to be determined).
*We would like to invite a Wikimedia representative to**give a 20'
talk**and participate in **workshop discussions. *
*Invited participants from commercial service providers / foundations
are expected to present (20 min) and discuss:
1. The range of services that they can offer to a research community;
2. Case studies of how apps, tools and services are customized by their
users.*
Invited participants from past and present EU Projects are expected to
present (15 min) and discuss:
1. Services that they provide(d) on the web to their partners and/or to
the public in general;
2. Their experience with commercial services such as Google, Facebook,
Twitter, Skype and LinkedIn (e.g. How they were used, how effective they
were, what was lacking);
3. How the project plans to archive/maintain the
services/products/deliverables that it developed (EuroMarine could act
as a central archive for past projects).
/Additional cont//extual information/: Euromarine (currently a project
funded by the European Commission) will become a self-sustained
consortium (with potentially 121research memberorganizations)in 2014.
Taking advantage of its durability, it will coordinate / promote the
development of the envisioned web environment (which short-lived
projects or networks are not able to achieve).
*Please let us know rapidly if you can join us in Bremen on 21-23 May
2013. An online registration form is available at
http://www.euromarineconsortium.eu/registration.*
Best regards,
Pierre-François Baisnée (and Stéphane Pesant, for the organizing committee)
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Jan-Bart,
I reserve the right to speak with anyone at any time on any subject.
Thank you for your reply:
> my gut feeling is that you are asking an impossible question (and aware of this) and I assume that Garfield
> has much better things to do, but I guess if Sue wants to sound time on this, she will get back to you.
It took me about half an hour to derive an answer to the question
which I am confident is accurate to within an order of magnitude. In
short, the CFAA amendments alone would likely cost readers, editors,
and the Foundation more than 500 times as much as SOPA or PIPA could
have cost, under what I believe is a very reasonable set of
assumptions.
If Sue or Garfield share your opinion that the question is
unanswerable, please let me know right away. Thanks again.
Sincerely,
James Salsman
On Apr 13, 2013, at 5:03 PM, James Salsman <jsalsman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Garfield,
>
> Would you please find out how much the CFAA and CALEA amendements
> would be expected to cost readers, editors, and the Foundation
> compared to what SOPA or PIPA would have cost if they had passed, and
> let the wikimedia-l and advocacy advisors lists know?
>
> Best regards,
> James Salsman
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Forwarding for Dirk. WikiSym/OpenSym will be in Hong Kong this year, just
before Wikimania; submissions are still open for the community track of
this research conference.
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Date: Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 8:56 AM
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Call for Submissions: Community Track at WikSym + OpenSym 2013, the Joint
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WikiSym, the 9th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
OpenSym, the 2013 International Symposium on Open Collaboration
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open source software, open access, open data and open government research.
WikiSym is in its 9th year and will be complemented by OpenSym, a new
conference on open collaboration research and practice and an adjunct to
the successful WikiSym conference series. WikiSym + OpenSym 2013 is the
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Marc Pelletier wrote:
>
> On 04/13/2013 07:25 PM, James Salsman wrote:
>> In short, the CFAA amendments alone would likely cost readers, editors,
>> and the Foundation more than 500 times as much as SOPA or PIPA could
>> have cost, under what I believe is a very reasonable set of assumptions.
>
> {{cn}}
>
> -- Marc
I will gladly show my work if the Foundation agrees to explain their theory
about why May 2013 fundraising results were disappointing, indicative
of contraction, or any other reason to expect a decline in their growth rate.
I have repeatedly been told that such reasons exist, but nobody has been
able to find them. I think a decimal was misplaced by one.
Since the CFAA problem is less important than it was this morning per
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/04/huffington-post-credits-internet-acti…
\o/
... I will instead give you my cost estimate of the proposed CALEA changes:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/03/26/andrew_weissmann_fbi_wan…
How much is a person's privacy worth?
How will this affect article quality?
Will there be chilling effects on editing?
Will there be chilling effects on reading?
The first scenario which springs to mind is about the different decisions
editors make when they think they are being watched by law enforcement.
How many more editors are likely to be potentially subject to criminal
prosecution if they actually are being watched by law enforcement.
That is not a negative number.
The second scenario is, what does this allow in the way of joe-jobs if
someone finds out that they can make law enforcement watch other
people more closely by emailing them keywords? That one probably
spirals into corruption, so we can assume an asymptotic value of
"unaffordable."
Therefore the cost is greater than SOPA+PIPA, which would have
added the necessary staff to process URL take-down notices, in
proportional to the likelyhood that people in different countries would
start doing that to each other to try to prevail in content disputes.
Best regards,
James
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Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 12:23:21 -0700
From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org>
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To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi,
We were missing a way to notify tech contributors and volunteers about
new activities, and after some discussion [1] we have decided to recycle
the unused
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Subscribers will receive CALLS FOR ACTION ONLY e.g. for activities like
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announcements of new releases, features removed, etc. We have channels
already for that.
We will sync the announcements at wikitech-announce with with wikitech-l
and wikitech-ambassadors.
While this is not a big deal for current contributors following already
wikitech-l and a number of wiki pages etc, it will help potential
volunteers willing to get involved and know about opportunities to
contribute.
[1]
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