User:Econterms

I'm Peter Benjamin Meyer. I'm in this chapter. I'm a candidate for the Wiki-DC board of directors in the Feb/March 2013 election. Here are my candidacy statements. I'd welcome feedback about the chapter.

My regular user page is on the English Wikipedia.

• list of verified users on this wiki (generally authorized people, not robots)
• /Glossary for Wiki-DC
• Wiki DC committed to advocating for Internet freedom (along the SOPA/PIPA issue line) and has some budget capacity for this. contact person at Lofgren's office is senior legislative counsel: harley.geiger at mail.house.gov ; 225-3072.
• It is conceivable that Wiki DC could get a federal contract ; e.g. for a Wikimedian in residence or a NARA project. These are longshots.
• Experimental list of recent activities: /Recent events

To do

• Review: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Slowking4/congressional_briefing_agenda
• Research "Aaron's law" proposal (named for Aaron Swartz) from Rep. Lofgren's office: proposed revision to Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to reduce penalties and maybe more. [1]
• remove /draft candidacy statement 2013
• work out standard display of /Edit-a-thons
• present wikiDC activities next yr to nyc conference as lightning talk
• statistics editathon and german/goethe editathon and hopefully economic history one
• send leg contexts to SlowKing

Legislative issues

• ACTA: The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), is a multinational treaty for the purpose of establishing international standards for intellectual property
• CISPA: wikipedia:CISPA Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act
• Aaron's Law: sponsored by Rep. Zoe Lofgren's office
• SOPA/PIPA -- effort by recording industry and Hollyword to incorporate copyright protection into the infrastructure of the Internet; beaten back in 2011.