[euopendata] [ITRE Nov 29th] PSI votes on Open Formats tomorrow at EUparl 10am

Thu Nov 29 17:49:33 UTC 2012

Hello Benjamin!

I just read on the @RegardsCitoyens Twitter account that amendment 18 
passed and 65 did not. Which is mostly great news -- thank you all 
involved in this effort! Can you provide a link for the results 
announcement?

Also, can you please clarify the next steps that this process will take 
until it is enacted as an EU directive, and are there still obstacles in 
the way? Amendment 18 (machine-readable formats) is absolutely crucial 
for most of our efforts here in Portugal, where most PSI content is 
almost exclusively available in hard-to-parse PDF.

Thank you again! Cheers to all who have been enlightening the MEPs!
:r

On 11/28/2012 04:24 PM, Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> As you all probably know, PSI directive is being revised regarding
> reuse soon at the European Parliament. Tomorrow at 10am
> <http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/itre/draft-agendas.html?linkedDocument=true&ufolderComCode=ITRE&ufolderLegId=7&ufolderId=11208&urefProcYear=&urefProcNum=&urefProcCode=#menuzone>,
> the ITRE comittee will discuss it and will vote among other things on
> amendments defining what open formats are.
>
> We just sent to all MEPs from the commitee (cf
> <https://memopol.lqdn.fr/search/?q=committees:ITRE%20is_active:1>) a
> note explaining why we believe it is important to ensure this
> definition includes a reference to requiring machine-readable (vote
> for compromise amendment 18) and an open development process (vote for
> amendement 65 from Amelia Andersdotter):
> <http://www.regardscitoyens.org/documents/20121128-RegardsCitoyens-PSI-reuse-open-formats.pdf>
>
> We believe this is a very important matter for OpenData so we call on
> all of you to maybe help us on this advocacy run till tomorrow
> morning.
>
> An efficient way to participate to this work would be to send priorily
> emails or tweets to the ALDE or PPE members of the ITRE commitee in
> order to advise them to vote for compromise amendement 18 and
> amendment 65.
> <https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%23PSI&src=typd>
>
> Good evening and good luck to us all! ;)
>
> Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou for Regards Citoyens
>
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