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 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l