[Advocacy Advisors] Mozilla Advocacy in Brussels

[Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov]

@Luis

I would be happy to try this platform and perhaps this group can be one of
the first use cases. The current issue I see with this mailing list is that
is makes it very hard for newcomers to catch up. The issue I have with Meta
is that it doesn't really appeal to non-wiki/non-techie crowds.

Dimi



2015-04-21 17:37 GMT+02:00 Luis Villa <lvilla at wikimedia.org>:

> I'm curious to hear what people think of the use of Discourse (
> http://www.discourse.org/) in this use case; I've been keeping an eye on
> that project for a long time and think it might be interesting for some of
> our discussion forums once their support for email <-> forum bridges
> matures.
>
> Luis
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 7:55 AM, Yana Welinder <yana at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> +1.  We've also chatted with their policy team in San Francisco a little
>> bit and they have interesting initiatives in the pipeline. They recently
>> launched an online discussion space for internet policy that you may want
>> to check out: https://discourse.mozilla-advocacy.org
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Yana
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 7:25 AM, Stevie Benton <
>> stevie.benton at wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Dimi,
>>>
>>> This is excellent news. I've done some work with Gervase in the past,
>>> including recently in some copyright workshops with Open Rights Group. He's
>>> really smart and I think he will be an excellent ally.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Stevie
>>>
>>> On 21 April 2015 at 14:21, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <
>>> dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello, everybody!
>>>>
>>>> Me and Karl just had a meeting with Mozilla's Jochai (San Francisco
>>>> based) and Gervase (UK based and on this list). Mozilla will very quickly
>>>> get active in Brussels hiring a full-time representative.
>>>>
>>>> Their policy goals will be published soon and are centred around "not
>>>> breaking the internet" and copyright, with a focus on goals such as having
>>>> an "open norm" (i.e. fair use), an audiovisual citation exception and
>>>> fighting against linking liability.
>>>>
>>>> We're also likely to experience similar organisational challenges, as
>>>> they're also looking into a way to ensure a coherent message and strategy
>>>> and involve their volunteer community.
>>>>
>>>> I personally am excited that we'll have another advocate for free&open
>>>> things on the ground here.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Dimi
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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