[Advocacy Advisors] Your Public Policy Schedule for Wikimania

Mon Jul 13 12:14:17 UTC 2015

Thank you both!

I have updated the Meta-Wiki page.

2015-07-13 14:02 GMT+02:00 Yana Welinder <yana at wikimedia.org>:

> Thanks for putting together this, Dimi. There will be many regional and
> global policy groups represented at Wikimania this year, so this schedule
> of the different policy events will be very helpful.
>
> Minor modification to the list of events: the featured panel
> <https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania> on Latin America
> Internet Freedoms
> <https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Latin_America_Internet_Freedoms_Panel> with
> Katitza, Paz, et al. will be at 16:30 on Friday (not Sunday).
>
> Thanks,
> Yana
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 6:46 AM, L.Gelauff <lgelauff at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Dimi,
>>
>> I think you got the date wrong for the comeback day, isn't it Thursday
>> 16th?
>>
>> Best,
>> Lodewijk
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Stevie Benton <
>> stevie.benton at wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Dimi,
>>>
>>> Thanks for sharing this. There's lots going on!
>>>
>>> Unfortunately I won't be at Wikimania but is there going to be a central
>>> place where resources will be collated so I can take a look afterwards?
>>>
>>> Thank you, hope you all have a great time!
>>>
>>> Stevie
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 13 July 2015 at 10:56, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <
>>> dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi everyone!
>>>>
>>>> My social media timelines are overflowing with posts about packing,
>>>> flying and eating tacos and cats in suitcases, which can only mean
>>>> Wikimania is just around the corner.
>>>>
>>>> As last year, we have a pretty generous amount of public policy events
>>>> set up. Here are some (but not all) of them. Conveniently ordered
>>>> chronologically.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - Wikimedia Conference Follow-Up Day
>>>>    <https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMCON_Follow-Up_Day>,
>>>>    Wednesday, July 15, 13:00hrs, Conference venue
>>>>    Inform people about the movement goals we want to set, get the
>>>>    conversation going and people thinking so they have some time to reflect
>>>>    ahead of the talks.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - The Twilight of EU Copyright Reform, or, How to reform with a
>>>>    hammer,
>>>>    <https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/The_Twilight_of_EU_Copyright_Reform,_or,_How_to_reform_with_a_hammer>
>>>>    Friday, July 17, 15:00hrs
>>>>    Once again we're looking at how crowd-sourced advocacy works, but
>>>>    this time expect concrete examples of what Wikimedia did in Europe to try
>>>>    and influence the copyright reform to include text that supports free
>>>>    knowledge. You will see legislative texts proposed and by us and also get
>>>>    an explanation why certain parts didn't make it to the final version. We'll
>>>>    also discuss the question of how an international public policy structure
>>>>    should look like.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - #npbmex <https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/npbmex>, Friday
>>>>    July 17, 20:00, Gathering at the lobby of the One Almeda Hotel (Av.
>>>>    Juárez 88)
>>>>    - Informal and social meet-up of all people interested in net
>>>>    politics (copyright, network infrastructure, data protection, telecoms
>>>>    regulation, etc.). Will mingle Wikimaniacs with local net activists.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - Public Policy Meetup
>>>>    <https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Public_Policy_meet-up>,
>>>>    Saturday, July 18, 10:30, Conference venue (Chapters' village)
>>>>    Wikimedians interested in public policy are invited to get to know
>>>>    each other, discuss the issues, plans and solutions at Wikimania.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - Amplify Free Knowledge with Public Policy
>>>>    <https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Amplify_Free_Knowledge_with_Public_Policy>
>>>>    Sunday, July 19, 11:00hrs, Conference venue
>>>>    The WMF legal team will discuss the core policy issues lay out some
>>>>    initial next steps that to better articulate our positions and make it
>>>>    easier for volunteers to work locally to build better public policy for the
>>>>    Wikimedia movement.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - Copyright reform in the EU - What you can expect to happen
>>>>    <https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Copyright_reform_in_the_EU_-_What_you_can_expect_to_happen>,
>>>>    Sunday, July 19, 11:30hrs, Conference venue
>>>>    The inside scoop by Julia Reda, Member of the European Parliament
>>>>    and rapporteur on the copyright implementation report. What are the
>>>>    European Parliament and the European Commission likely to propose?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - Panel Discussion on regional policy, politics and freedom of
>>>>    expression Sunday, July 19, 16:30hrs, Conference venue
>>>>    with Katitza Rodriguez (EFF), Paz Peña (Derechos Digitales from
>>>>    Chile), Renata Avila (Web We Want), Article 19, R3DMX
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> More information about the discussion regarding our public policy goals
>>>> and up-to-date events changes at:
>>>>
>>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Advocacy/Movement_Goals
>>>>
>>>> See you all very soon!
>>>>
>>>> Dimi
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
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>>>
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>>> Head of External Relations
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>>> @StevieBenton
>>>
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