[Advocacy Advisors] Mozilla Advocacy in Brussels

Tue Apr 21 15:37:42 UTC 2015

I'm curious to hear what people think of the use of Discourse (
http://www.discourse.org/) in this use case; I've been keeping an eye on
that project for a long time and think it might be interesting for some of
our discussion forums once their support for email <-> forum bridges
matures.

Luis

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 7:55 AM, Yana Welinder <yana at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> +1.  We've also chatted with their policy team in San Francisco a little
> bit and they have interesting initiatives in the pipeline. They recently
> launched an online discussion space for internet policy that you may want
> to check out: https://discourse.mozilla-advocacy.org
>
> Thanks,
> Yana
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 7:25 AM, Stevie Benton <
> stevie.benton at wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi Dimi,
>>
>> This is excellent news. I've done some work with Gervase in the past,
>> including recently in some copyright workshops with Open Rights Group. He's
>> really smart and I think he will be an excellent ally.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Stevie
>>
>> On 21 April 2015 at 14:21, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <
>> dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello, everybody!
>>>
>>> Me and Karl just had a meeting with Mozilla's Jochai (San Francisco
>>> based) and Gervase (UK based and on this list). Mozilla will very quickly
>>> get active in Brussels hiring a full-time representative.
>>>
>>> Their policy goals will be published soon and are centred around "not
>>> breaking the internet" and copyright, with a focus on goals such as having
>>> an "open norm" (i.e. fair use), an audiovisual citation exception and
>>> fighting against linking liability.
>>>
>>> We're also likely to experience similar organisational challenges, as
>>> they're also looking into a way to ensure a coherent message and strategy
>>> and involve their volunteer community.
>>>
>>> I personally am excited that we'll have another advocate for free&open
>>> things on the ground here.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Dimi
>>>
>>>
>>>
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