[Wikimedia-l] Big Fat Brussels Gathering

[Balázs Viczián]

I've replied on two things: regarding "info collecting", that you were
discussing, I believe WMBE can handle it (collecting names and numbers), no
need for a "chapter to the EU" there imo. Regarding actual lobbying,
representation and stuff - an international cooperation, like WCA (but not
in its current state) should do the job.

Balazs


2013/2/20 Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov at gmail.com>

> Hi again,
>
> if there ever will be a WCA or something like that, then this will be a
> > task for them imo. For the time being, "mapping" could be done by the
> > future Belgian chapter or by some interested local volunteers.
> >
>
> I strongly disagree. As a local volunteer doing monitoring and as someone
> who is currently very actively involved in the founding of Wikimedia
> Belgium.
>
> There are two reasons for that:
>
> 1. We're not talking about Belgian legislation or the Belgian
> government/parliament here. We're talking about the EU institutions. And if
> you want them to listen to you, you need to represent an European
> community. Otherwise the French will talk to the French government, the
> Germans to the German and the Bulgarians to the Bulgarian. This is by far
> not the best way to proceed and is why this initiative is very necessary.
>
> 2. Even if we'd decide that WMBE should lead this initiative (and that is
> in fact a discussed option), in Belgium we're at best at least a year away
> from having that kind of infrastructure. We're still to subit our statutes
> to the AffCom. At the same time I just had it confirmed from a Commissoin
> employee tonight that they plan to table the new copyright legislation
> proposal at the beginning of next year the latest.
>
> As a local volunteer who is doing monitoring my opinion is that there is
> dire need an international group of wikimedians to rely on support. I
> oftentimes feel overwhealmed.
>
> Cheers,
> Dimi
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