Most excellent, John. I'm glad you're in
this role and happy to be able
to continue working with you.
tvol
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Greg Varnum <gvarnum(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Congratulations, John! Look forward to working
with you. :)
-greg
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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> wrote:
Hello John
Welcome! Very much looking forward to working with you!
Jan
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On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 9:38 AM, John Hendrik Weitzmann <
john.weitzmann(a)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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