Pilipinas Panorama Community/Meetups

The Pilipinas Panorama Community (PPC) is a thematic community based in Metro Manila, Philippines.

The organization was founded by Filipino Wikimedians advocating cultural heritage, history, language & ethnicity, art, freedom of panorama, and Wikimedia's Movement Strategy, contributing to expand the global availability of free knowledge.

Events

As a thematic community based in the Philippines, the Pilipinas Panorama Community participates in events organized by different Wikimedia or related communities to share the advocacies and works of the organization.

A Survey of Freedom Of Panorama (FOP) in the Philippines

Johnny Alegre (Buszmail), head of the Pilipinas Panorama Community, presented a capsule overview of PPC's flagship advocacy, Freedom of Panorama, before the diverse audience attending Wikimania 2023 in Singapore.

Freedom of Panorama is a little-known yet important legal right; for photographers, netizens, and content creators to freely capture and share public works of art and architecture found in or seen from public spaces, usually installed on a permanent basis. FOP serves to benefit Wikimedia's readership by acting as a freely accessible adjunct to information on all branches of knowledge. In the context of FOP in the Philippines, it is still a legislative work in progress. The reportorial on the subject will be of interest to Wikimedians in ESEAP, and perhaps the global audience.

Date: August 18, 2023 (Friday)
Location: Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre, Singapore

Discussions

As a thematic community based in the Philippines, members of Pilipinas Panorama Community organize meetings to discuss organizational matters and its advocacies related to cultural heritage, history, language & ethnicity, art, and freedom of panorama. Due to the pandemic, face-to-face meetings are limited and most likely be virtual.

2023


Date	Time	Type	Subject	Attendees/Invitees	Location	Note(s)
September 02, 2023	08:00 AM UTC+8	Community Chat	Wikidata Item of PPC	Ralffralff (Presentor)	N/A	Ralffralff shared the creation of the Wikidata item for Pilipinas Panorama Community (Q122169160) and asked the community to further improve its details.
August 27, 2023	09:00 AM UTC+8	Community Chat (Cultural Heritage)	Magallanes (Sorsogon) Heritage Center (GLAM Initiative)	Buszmail (Presentor)	N/A	Buszmail shared to the community his visit to the Magallanes (Sorsogon) Heritage Center. He gave his gratitude to the Mella clan and Magallanes Mayor Mella for the very special visit and access. The museum have dioramas donated by the Ayala Museum, and illustrations of the Manila-Acapulco Galleon Trade and the first Catholic mass on Luzon Island.
August 13, 2023	08:00 AM UTC+8	Community Chat (Freedom of Panorama)	Summary of FOP statuses internationally	JWilz12345 (Presentor), Buszmail (Reactor), Ralffralff (Reactor)	N/A	Presentation of the summary of FOP status internationally which also includes that of countries within the Wikimedia region known as ESEAP (ESEAP Hub)
August 09, 2023	10:00 AM UTC+8	Community Chat (Freedom of Panorama)	Possible suggestions to FOP in the Philippines	JWilz12345 (Presentor)	N/A	JWilz12345 compiled the possible suggestions to FOP in the Philippines which includes that of (1) for the pending bills, (2) concerns, (3) model examples of FOP provisions if the concerns need to be addressed, and (4) for the upcoming Implementing Rules and Regulations
July 23, 2023	09:00 AM UTC+8	Community Chat (Cultural Heritage)	Instituto Cervantes de Manila (GLAM Initiative)	Buszmail (Presentor)	N/A	Buszmail shared to the community his visit to Instituto Cervantes de Manila where he met Gemma Cruz-Araneta, Chairperson Emeritus of the Philippine Historical Conservation Society and former National Museum director, and author Christina Hyo-Jung Lee, Princeton University Professor and Director of Graduate Studies (Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese). The latter delivered a lecture on the occupation and pillage of the Spanish colonial capital of Manila by the British fleet for 20 months between 1762 and 1764; and a host of topics on digitization of priceless centuries-old books about the Philippines.
July 15, 2023	05:00 PM UTC+8	Community Chat (Cultural Heritage)	PPC's GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) Initiatives	Ralffralff (Presentor)	N/A	Presented the newest tab which documents the community's involvement with GLAM. At the time of discussion, initiatives include that of with Filipinas Heritage Library and the subproject Philippine Panorama Project/GLAM
July 09, 2023	04:00 PM UTC+8	Community Chat (Cultural Heritage)	Filipinas Heritage Library (GLAM Initiative)	Buszmail (Presentor)	N/A	Buszmail shared to the community his signing of one of his earliest compositions as a college student in the University of the Philippines, as part of his donation of personal archives to the Filipinas Heritage Library.
June 25, 2023	08:00 AM UTC+8	Community Chat (Cultural Heritage)	Community Discussion (1) Are heritage sites liberated from restrictions of photography? (2) Can FOP be freely exercised in heritage sites? (3) What are the practices in other countries?	Buszmail (Presentor), JWilz12345 (Reactor), Ralffralff (Reactor), others	N/A	Key conclusions: (1) It depends and can be freely photographed if it is already in public domain (where majority of heritage sites are classified of) (2) FOP should be and it depends on the legislation of a particular country (3) In most other countries, heritage sites can be freely photographed except Italy where it has two-fold restrictions (e.g. No FOP and Cultural heritage assets)
June 06, 2023	08:00 PM UTC+8	Community Chat (Freedom of Panorama)	Fair Use Policy in Wikipedia	Buszmail (Presentor), JWilz12345 (Reactor), Ralffralff (Reactor)	N/A	Specific parameters and/or limitations for uploading Fair Use photos e.g. file size, resolution, etc in different Wikipedia language projects
May 21, 2023	10:00 AM UTC+8	Community Chat (Freedom of Panorama)	(1) Restricted FOP in Museums and Art Galleries (2) Membership	(1) JWilz12345 (Presentor) (2) Buszmail (Presentor)	N/A	(1) Community discussion about restricted FOP in museums and art galleries and its possible introduction in the Philippine setting (2) Community discussion about Filipino Wikimedians directly involved on FOP in PH
May 09, 2023	12:00 PM UTC+8	Community Chat (Freedom of Panorama)	Campaign to Protect Intellectual Rights Online	JWilz12345 (Presentor), others	N/A	Acknowledgement on the strong support for the passage of an updated Intellectual Property (IP) Code through House Bill No. 7600 authored by Albay 2nd District Rep. Joey Salceda, and the community support for the FOP clause of the three (3) other bills
May 01, 2023	10:00 PM UTC+8	Community Chat (Cultural Heritage)	Philippine Panorama Project	Ralffralff (Presentor), others	N/A	Update on the impact of the project and sharing of recent photowalks in Puerto Galera, Oriental Mindoro and Vigan City, Ilocos Sur
April 21, 2023	08:00 AM UTC+8	Community Chat (Freedom of Panorama)	The Complex World of Style, Copyright, and Generative AI (Creative Commons)	Buszmail (Presentor), others	N/A	Web article sharing for awareness between Generative AI (GAI) tools and Copyright Law
March 27, 2023	12:00 PM UTC+8	Community Chat (Freedom of Panorama)	FOP status for countries that are of relevance to Filipinos	JWilz12345 (Presentor), others	N/A	Presentation of FOP status for selected countries: based on lists of countries preferred by Overseas Filipino Workers, preferred by Filipino travelers, and top destinations for Filipinos
March 24, 2023	05:00 PM UTC+8	Community Chat (Freedom of Panorama)	Status of FOP provision for the amended RA 8293 (Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines)	JWilz12345 (Presentor), Buszmail (Reactor), others	N/A	Updates on the recent developments of FOP in the House of Representatives of the Philippines and its eventual impact to Filipino Wikimedians
March 20, 2023	08:00 PM UTC+8	Community Chat (Cultural Heritage)	Categories of Pilipinas Panorama Community and Philippine Panorama Project in the Wikimedia Commons	Ralffralff (Presentor), others	N/A	Categorization of community media files in Wikimedia Commons
February 18, 2023	04:00 PM UTC+8	Community Chat (Freedom of Panorama)	Importance of FOP in Cultural Heritage	Ralffralff (Presentor), JWilz12345 (Reactor), others	N/A	Discussion on the new section of the Cultural Heritage tab: Importance of Freedom of Panorama (FOP)
February 11, 2023	06:00 PM UTC+8	Community Chat (Cultural Heritage)	Collaboration for Wiki Loves Art in Bikol Wikipedia	Ralffralff (Presentor), others	N/A	As part of the celebration for the National Arts Month, the community intends to support and collaborate for Wiki Loves Art in Bikol Wikipedia
February 05, 2023	03:00 PM UTC+8	Facebook Messenger	Topic-related Community Chats for FOP and Cultural Heritage	Buszmail (Presentor), others	N/A	Community chats for two of the top organizational advocacies were created: Freedom of Panorama (FOP) and Cultural Heritage
January 21, 2023	03:00 PM UTC+8	Facebook Messenger	Freedom of Panorama (FOP) International status	JWilz12345 (Presentor), Buszmail (Reactor), others	N/A	Discussion of the Freedom of Panorama (FOP) in the international scene and featuring of the topic in the organization's webpage

2022


Date	Time	Type	Subject	Attendees/Invitees	Location	Note(s)
December 28, 2022	09:00 PM UTC+8	Google Meet, Etherpad, Messenger Chat	Movement Charter, Philippine Panorama Project	Buszmail (Presentor), Invitees from the Pilipinas Panorama Community and Bikol Wikipedia Community	N/A	Feedbacks of the Community to the Wikimedia Movement Charter, Discussion of the Philippine Panorama Project
December 17, 2022	06:00 PM UTC+8	Online Meeting (Facebook Messenger Video Chat)	Movement Charter, Consensus, Projects	Buszmail (Presentor), Ralffralff, JWilz12345, Inarawan1979, Cyrus noto3at bulaga, others	N/A	Discussion of the Wikimedia Movement Charter and proposed projects of the members for the organization
December 02, 2022	07:00 PM UTC+8	Online Meeting (Facebook Messenger Video Chat)	Foundation Date of the Community	Buszmail, Ralffralff	N/A	PhilWiki Community - Manila was the first name, and was later renamed as the Pilipinas Panorama Community