<div dir="ltr">Hi Dimi,<div><br></div><div>I think you got the date wrong for the comeback day, isn't it Thursday 16th? </div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Lodewijk</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Stevie Benton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stevie.benton@wikimedia.org.uk" target="_blank">stevie.benton@wikimedia.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Dimi,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for sharing this. There's lots going on! </div><div><br></div><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you, hope you all have a great time!</div><div><br>Stevie</div><div><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On 13 July 2015 at 10:56, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov@gmail.com" target="_blank">dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="2">Hi everyone!<br><br>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. <br><br></font></div><div><font size="2">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. <br><br></font><ul><li><font size="2"><a href="https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMCON_Follow-Up_Day" title="wm2015:WMCON Follow-Up Day" target="_blank">Wikimedia Conference Follow-Up Day</a>, Wednesday, July 15, 13:00hrs, Conference venue<br>
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.</font></li></ul><ul><li><font size="2"><a href="https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/The_Twilight_of_EU_Copyright_Reform,_or,_How_to_reform_with_a_hammer" title="wm2015:Submissions/The Twilight of EU Copyright Reform, or, How to reform with a hammer" target="_blank">The Twilight of EU Copyright Reform, or, How to reform with a hammer,</a> Friday, July 17, 15:00hrs<br>
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. <br></font></li></ul><ul><li><font size="2"><a href="https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/npbmex" title="wm2015:npbmex" target="_blank">#npbmex</a>, Friday July 17, 20:00, Gathering at </font><font size="2">the lobby of the One Almeda Hotel (Av. Juárez 88) <br></font></li><li><font size="2">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.</font></li></ul><ul><li><font size="2"><a href="https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Public_Policy_meet-up" title="wm2015:Public Policy meet-up" target="_blank">Public Policy Meetup</a>, Saturday, July 18, 10:30, Conference venue (Chapters' village)<br>
Wikimedians interested in public policy are invited to get to know each
other, discuss the issues, plans and solutions at Wikimania.</font></li></ul><ul><li><font size="2"><a href="https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Amplify_Free_Knowledge_with_Public_Policy" title="wm2015:Submissions/Amplify Free Knowledge with Public Policy" target="_blank">Amplify Free Knowledge with Public Policy</a> Sunday, July 19, 11:00hrs, Conference venue<br>
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.</font></li></ul><ul><li><font size="2"><a href="https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Copyright_reform_in_the_EU_-_What_you_can_expect_to_happen" title="wm2015:Submissions/Copyright reform in the EU - What you can expect to happen" target="_blank">Copyright reform in the EU - What you can expect to happen</a>, Sunday, July 19, 11:30hrs, Conference venue<br>
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?</font></li></ul><ul><li><font size="2">Panel Discussion on regional policy, politics and freedom of expression Sunday, July 19, 16:30hrs, Conference venue<br>
with Katitza Rodriguez (EFF), Paz Peña (Derechos Digitales from Chile), Renata Avila (Web We Want), Article 19, R3DMX</font></li></ul><p><br></p><p>More information about the discussion regarding our public policy goals and up-to-date events changes at:</p><p><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Advocacy/Movement_Goals" target="_blank">https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Advocacy/Movement_Goals</a><br></p><p>See you all very soon!</p><p>Dimi<br></p><font size="2"><b><br><br></b></font></div></div>
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