[EU] Strategy on EU lobbying

[Till Adams]

Dear Maria,

cool that you were able to have even more beers after f4G ,-)

I guess you should put his thoughts 8or what you made outof it) into a
sub-section of the osgeo-eu-chapter wiki-page, so that the ideas are
better preserved, than just in an email.


Regards and greetings from Bonn!

Till


Am 24.07.2017 um 14:10 schrieb María Arias de Reyna:
> Hi,
>
> I had the privilege to meet one of the referent lawyers in EU (and
> Spain) about free software and open data last Friday:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_de_la_Cueva (the spanish page has
> more details)
>
> I told him about our idea of trying to lobby on Europe to move towards
> a better environment for free software and he gave me a lot of good
> ideas on the strategy to follow. It was a "free consultancy" between
> beers so I didn't took notes as it may seem rude, but we can go back
> to him if we need. This is a field he has worked on before and in like
> ten minutes he gave me a complete strategy without any obvious
> failures.
>
> The idea was to base our argument on scientific projects like H2020 or
> similar, which requires all outputs to be freely available (open
> access, no patents that may prevent further research, etc...). So, how
> can you be able to provide free outputs if some pieces in the project
> are closed or not completely open? Scientific research should be
> replicable and you should be able to debug it completely on a way you
> need even the source code, not only the protocols involved.
>
> I am not a lawyer, he told this with beautiful wording and mentioned
> several laws and stuff. But it is a start for a strategy.
>
> Cheers,
> María.
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