On Apr 7, 2016, at 8:42 AM, Lisette Kalshoven
<lk(a)kl.nl> wrote:
Good to hear from you from this side as well John!
Cheers,
Lisette
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On 07 Apr 2016, at 17:39, Jan Gerlach
<jgerlach(a)wikimedia.org <mailto:jgerlach@wikimedia.org>> wrote:
Hello John
Welcome! Very much looking forward to working with you!
Jan
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Public Policy Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
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San Francisco, CA 94105
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On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 9:38 AM, John Hendrik Weitzmann <john.weitzmann(a)wikimedia.de
<mailto:john.weitzmann@wikimedia.de>> wrote:
Dear all,
I'd like to introduce myself to all of you in my new role Legal and Policy Advisor at
Wikimedia Deutschland, reporting to Christian Rickerts. Some of you know me already from
previous engagements, but to be responsible laterally for everything around law and
politics at WMDE is surely the most daunting task I had to date.
By training I'm a lawyer and have practiced for several years in the field of open
and free as in freedom as co-founder of the Berlin-based lawfirm iRights.Law. Since almost
ten years I support Creative Commons as volunteer Legal Project Lead for CC Germany. From
2013 until the new WMDE job started I was also one of two CC Regional Coordinators for
Europe, a paid contractor position. With CC's newly adopted 2016 - 2020 strategy,
advocacy and policy work in general have been added quite prominently to what CC does as
an org, and I had the honour to help get this new focus going. There's much more to
come in that respect, especially from the worldwide network of CC Teams, who are right in
the middle of deliberating about how to structure everything in the future. So keep an eye
out in that direction.
From my CC work and also, because WMDE is an institution most central to net politics in
Germany, I'm no stranger to Wikimedia. In the past WMDE inter alia helped to launch
the brochure on CC NC licenses. I've also already worked with people at the Wikimedia
Foundation, with the Wikimedian in Brussels, Dimitar Dimitrov, on freedom of panorama
legislation, as well as with local communities, for example on OER. In my new role as
policy advisor I will try to shape the debates that concern the legal framework and
political baselines of free knowledge on a local, regional and international level.
Stay tuned for added policy work from Berlin, I'm very moch looking forward to
working with this great bunch of people.
Kind regards
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John H. Weitzmann
Referent für Politik und Recht
Legal and Policy Advisor
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de <http://wikimedia.de/>
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei
teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
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Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im
Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als
gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer
27/029/42207.
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