[EU] Strategy on EU lobbying

[Dirk Frigne]

Great!

(I see he has the same age as I have)
Maybe we should invite him to work on a H2020 project together with
OSGeo-Europe where we address the topic.
Setup a follow-up skype meeting to see how we can involve him and his
experience into some practical results?

+1 for a section on the wiki about strategy.

Dirk

On 2017-07-24 14:29, Till Adams wrote:
> 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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