[Advocacy Advisors] Right to Research Coalition and EU lobbying on Open Access

[Yana Welinder]

Hi Dimi,

Great to hear that you're talking with SPARC. Heather Joseph (their ED)
provided very helpful feedback on the Wikimedia Open Access Policy.

I would recommend Daniel Mietchen
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen> as a speaker. You may
also want to reach out to the Wikimedia Open Access mailing list to see
what we already have by way of material: openaccess at lists.wikimedia.org.

Best,
Yana

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 7:21 AM, Stephane Coillet-Matillon <
stephane.coillet at wikimedia.ch> wrote:

>  Hi Dimi,
>
> Re: point 3 (EP speaker): we have a lawyer here who's very much into
> CC-licensing and open access. He does present very well in French and
> English (and German, for that matter). He's probably a reference on the
> issue here in Switzerland (which can or cannot be an asset in a EU
> context), but before I reach out to him, what would you guys actually
> expect from such a speaker?
>
> Point 2: risky (I wouldn't just send anyone on a scholarship - they need
> to know their talking points inside out, and there aren't this many of us
> around).
>
> Point 4: a good product would take time and money. Do we have either?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Stephane
>
> Le 21/04/2015 16:08, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov a écrit :
>
>   Hi all,
>
> This morning I met Nick Shockey from SPARC [1] and the Right to Research
> Coalition [2]. He's in Brussels to set up their Advocacy strategy and
> campaign on OA and OER.
>
> What we have have very much in common with them is that we're both worried
> that the term "Open Access" might be diluted to mean just having access.
> They also like to have more and more things put under a cc-by license,
> which overlaps with our goals. (As a reminder, here are our positions on
> the topic: [3][4])
>
> The R2RC is organising an Open Access, Open Education and Open Data
> conference in Brussels coming November [5] and have asked us for some help:
>
> 1. Advise them on their advocacy targets and strategy. (I am already doing
> that.)
> 2. Participate in the conference by sending Wikimedians on scholarships.
> (Do you think we could/should do it and if yes how?)
> 3. They're planning a reception in the European Parliament in November and
> need a speaker. (Can we recommend someone?)
> 4. Struggle for interpretation: They have a brochure in the US explaining
> and defining OA in line with the Budapest Declaration. (Should we work with
> them on creating a European version and disseminating it?)
>
> Thanks!
> Dimi
>
> [1]http://www.sparc.arl.org/about/staff/nick-shockey
> [2]http://www.righttoresearch.org/
> [3]http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/18/wikimedia-open-access-policy/
> [4]http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/20/free-open-access-and-wikipedia/
> [5]
> http://www.righttoresearch.org/blog/opencon-2015-details-announced.shtml
>
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