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work out policy strategy #324

Closed skasberger closed 8 years ago

skasberger commented 8 years ago

regarding EU commission lobbying:

jcmolloy commented 8 years ago

@petermr @rossmounce @Blahah @GrahamSteel we have this week only to do something. I have posted the advocacy case studies to the website as a draft which @GrahamSteel will publish tomorrow and suggest we work hard to get people to contribute on Twitter their own uses of text mining and any problems they've had like ChrisH. I can send these to all of our advocacy contacts. I don't have time to do anything around letter writing. Are we going to do something?

petermr commented 8 years ago

I was planning to write to East Of England MEPs today using WriteToThem and asking them to write to OEttinger supporting the Reda reforms. I'd publicize the letter and this can act as a format that others could use. Our information is that multiple signatories to a letter only count as one, and that it's more beneficial for several individuals to write individual letters. I think sending the MEPs the case studies and making them public, is probably the most cost-effective way to proceed.

blahah commented 8 years ago

Yes, let's do this. We should write to all UK MEPs, and to contacts at UK universities around the country, asking them to contact their MEPs. I agree that we should provide a template letter that links to a body of evidence.

I can put some time into writing the letter towards the middle of the week.

jcmolloy commented 8 years ago

Here is the link to Chris Hartgerink's letter which could act as a starting point https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YiMpdcWrZNl8Y3Pyls67OuBySAZEdLHuBylh38Urc58/edit

On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Richard Smith-Unna < notifications@github.com> wrote:

Yes, let's do this. We should write to all UK MEPs, and to contacts at UK universities around the country, asking them to contact their MEPs. I agree that we should provide a template letter that links to a body of evidence.

I can put some time into writing the latter towards the middle of the week.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/ContentMine/old_site/issues/324#issuecomment-160411848 .

petermr commented 8 years ago

Have opened a GDoc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l4AwNhBcpBmiMbkspDWuRZAeH_ifKGVRU-Fzq9714q0/edit#

petermr commented 8 years ago

We may have more than one document - it can be a good idea to send several letters to MEPs as long as the wording is significantly different. I am writing this with a Cambridge perspective as I think that personalises it.

jcmolloy commented 8 years ago

I sent to the Cambridge MEPs. Now should probably wait until it comes to the parliament and revisit in the lead up to that vote. Will keep informed with advice from LIBER!