dear Rufus, thanks for this, it seems like a good idea and something that can be done very quickly.
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 02:11:53PM +0100, Rufus Pollock wrote: > We should update and resend the open letter which was sent before the > ENVI committee meeting: > http://www.publicgeodata.org/Open_Letter http://publicgeodata.org/Open_Letter_Second_Reading is a start at this. Trivial edits to reflect change in time, plus added an extra paragraph describing ENVI's rejection of the Council position, with a quote from the Rapporteur's recommendation for second reading. [[On March 21st the ENVI Committee of the European Parliament voted against many of the Council's amendments to the original wording. The ENVI Rapporteur recommends "intellectual property rights to be deleted from the list of exceptions that would restrict access to environmental information... access free of charge, must be guaranteed not only for search services but also for view services."]] The original had 2 appedices one of which we should definitely keep - the summary of studies in support of open access to geodata - the second was a detailed breakdown of the most crucial amendments coming before ENVI. Some of this would still be re-usable, but we're unlikely to have time to go through all the new amendments (will they be published online long before the 12th if at all?) I'm completely perplexed by the rapporteur's statement that INSPIRE is going to go through conciliation and third reading no matter what happens in the vote in plenary on the 12th. If the vote makes no difference at all to the outcome, then why is it happening? Simply as a vehicle to collect a final batch of amendments before conciliation? Will third reading involve another vote in plenary? ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detailed_walk_through_the_codecision_procedure#Second_reading may not be the most definitive description, but it's definitely the clearest one i have read ;) ) > wants to have a go first please feel free. We should then send it no > later than thursday (next week is a plenary week and will be very hectic I'm in California right now, but would be up for doing this very late this evening / early your subjective morning. Another email mailout of a PDF, or is on-the-ground pigeon-holing in any way possible? (Benjamin, is this even something that FFII have fax facility set up to do already?) http://okfn.org/geo/mep_email_addresses.txt is the last list of email addresses I have for MEPs, these were screen-scraped from an FFII page with slightly dodgy encoding that had links to all the MEP member pages. Of 732 members, 489 published an email address on their profile page in March. I noticed some have URLs but not email contact details. One can predict [EMAIL PROTECTED] for the rest, and a lot of them will probably get through. jo _______________________________________________ geo-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/geo-discuss
