[Wikimedia-l] Big Fat Brussels Gathering

[Christophe Henner]

I'm sorry but Ii tend to disagree to some extent.

We're non-political in the sense we don't pick side. We don't support
one or the other party. But that doesn't mean we must not get involved
regarding legislation that could tamper with our ability to achieve
our goals.

Quick exemple, in France there's no Freedom of Panorama, Wikimedia
France is working on that. Explaining to representatives what it is
and why we should have it. This is lobbying, but it's non partisan
(I'm not sure that's correct in english, hope it's understandable).

The EU Agenda for 2013 - 2014 contains many "little" things that have
impact on our projects. Of course there's the IP thingy, but they're
also working on e-commerce and privacy, and those contains really
little parts that could harm the project to some extent or at least
create more obligations for us (I don't know if it's still on the
table, but there's the shortening of the reaction to take down notices
from 48h to 24h and the data retention that was lengthenned).

All of this, if we want to protect the projects, needs our attention.
Such group is needed. But, and on that I agree with you, that group
must be totally non-partisan.

As said earlier, the EU agenda is so dense, diversed and complicated
that it needs a lot of sustained work hence, imo, it needs to include
paid employee and if possible people with experience or at least the
political "fiber".

Sorry for the long email ^_^

--
Christophe


On 20 February 2013 13:53, Mathieu Stumpf <psychoslave at culture-libre.org> wrote:
> Le 2013-02-19 23:59, rupert THURNER a écrit :
>
>> hi jan,
>>
>> nice to hear that! i am wondering how such very active advocacy fits
>> with wikimedia's educational, non-political mission statement,
>
>
> I wonder how one may split education and politic as they are – in my humble
> opinion – deeply intertwinned.
>
> There's no doubt that a goal like "the sum of all human knowledge accessible
> for all" is a goal that will conflict with agenda of all the wannabe "I have
> the one great Truth so obey me and don't listen to miscreant and terrorists
> who tell otherwise" and other independant cultural dissemenination control
> freak.
>
>
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