2012/7/24 Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.org:
Would it make sense to start a more thorough long term lobby on this issue? Considering that this will be a returning issue every two years, I guess that would be worth the trouble...
Generally, I think that it would be a good idea. I'm just not very comfortable with the fact that I'm not so good myself at political and commercial strategies and that I expect other people to actually do the lobbying, but as far as ideological campaigns go, it seems that this one is quite right for Wikimedia.
Maybe it doesn't even have to be confrontational ("the IOC is evil") or preachy ("all information must be free"). Maybe somebody who is an experienced researcher in social and commercial media can simply convince the IOC that releasing some photos or giving Wikimedians a permission to take photos and to publish them under a free license is beneficial to the IOC itself. Maybe I'm just fantasizing.
Most of all, I'm still curious about the reasons that the IOC (or whoever is in charge) provided for the refusals.
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore