On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: I am glad to hear that. I didn't know we could do it through Wikimedia grants. Although in Brazil we need to analyse better what could be done, since lobbying it not (yet) legalised. But I must tell sometimes there are some people here that attempt to influence decisions made by officials in the government, most often legislators or members of regulatory agencies. And I know cases where we have made changes that were benefitial for the Wikimedia movement. @Wikimedia Brasil friends: please, see the thread "Question: How do we define lobbying?" at wikimedia-l mailing list. Tom -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."