Hello everybody As promised, we're writing again with more details for our public policy meetup at Wikimania later this week: it will take place on Sat 8/12 from 12:30 to 2 p.m. in *room #722 on the 7th floor* of the conference hotel.
Everybody's welcome and we're looking forward to seeing you soon. Best, Dimi (Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU) Jan (Wikimedia Foundation) On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 2:46 AM Jan Gerlach <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all > > At this year’s Wikimania conference > <https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania> next month in > Montréal, we’re again hosting a public policy meetup for folks interested > in advocacy for laws that promote free knowledge and the Wikimedia > projects. The gathering will take place on Saturday, August 12, from 12.30 > to 2.00pm in a room on the 7th floor of the event hotel. We will announce > the room number once it is available. > > We’d like to invite you to join us for a conversation and exchange about > ongoing and upcoming policy challenges and campaigns. The goal for this > meetup is to learn about regulatory trends and developments directly from > other Wikimedians from different countries. We’re also inviting people from > other organizations who are participating in Wikimania and would love to > use the meetup to connect them with you. > > Some topics that we can discuss include: > > - > > Copyright reform in the EU, South Africa, and Australia; > - > > Access to knowledge and enforcement of national laws across borders; > - > > Public domain status for publicly funded works. > > > The meetup will take place over lunch, so feel free to grab food and bring > it with you to the room. > > If you’re interested in participating, please send us an email off-list. > We look forward to seeing you! > > Best, > > Dimi (Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU) > > Jan (Wikimedia Foundation) > >
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