[Wikimedia-l] Big Fat Brussels Gathering

[J Alexandr Ledbury-Romanov]

An area perhaps for the Legal and Community advocacy department ?

Alex


2013/2/20 Balázs Viczián <balazs.viczian at wikimedia.hu>

> 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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