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Heute erreichte mich auf Umwegen ein Mail aus Neuseeland, welches ich hier einfach mal unbearbeitet hinquote:

Hi all,

As Don has mentioned, I'm the coordinator of the FreeACTA coalition in NZ
(our website is www.acta.net.nz). The coalition is made up of a number of
NGOs focused on creative freedom, open source, and Internet freedom.

We helped organise and promote the PublicACTA event, however it was largely
driven by one of the coalition members, InternetNZ. InternetNZ has about 10
fulltime staff, and is funded through membership, and revenue from the
management of the .nz domain.

The PublicACTA event involved low tens of thousands of dollars to put
together, primarily venue hire and live streaming, travel costs for Michael
Geist and Kim Weatherall, and the development of the web site.

InternetNZ in developing the web site (and the process for running the
event) aimed to hand this over to groups in other countries to run similar
events at the time of ACTA negotiations in those countries.

They've asked me to help facilitate the handover of this. As such, we can
provide admin/editing access to the web site (but InternetNZ will retain the
domain name), and can give you guidance on the programme and process we used
to prepare for, run the event, and come up with the Wellington Declaration.

As you've started discussing, the key things are:

   1. Find out the exact dates for the event
   2. Get some funding (I'm guessing you'll need 20,000 Euro or so?)
   3. Make sure you've got a core group of two or three people who can
   organise the logistics, write blog posts in the 2 or 3 weeks up to the
   event, and manage things on the day
   4. Get two or three people who can handle communications with the media,
   and feed information to sympathetic politicians
   5. Ensure you've got a larger group (10-20 people), ideally representing
   a number of NGOs etc, who can market the event to their networks, facilitate
   discussions on the day etc
   6. Get a really good facilitator to run the day (ideally someone who
   cares about the topic, and has the respect of the communities that will be
   there)

It would be fantastic if you're able to pull this off, as there's nothing
like handing the negotiators a declaration and thousands of signatures. It's
concerning that there's no commitment yet to release the next negotiating
text, so it seems really important to keep up the pressure for transparency.

Yours, in hope,
Julian

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