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