New subject: [Advocacy Advisors] Welcome Karl, our new Weasel in Brussels

24 Nov 2014

Välkommen Karl! Nice to have more Swedes working on policy for
Wikimedia. Now also from Brussels. :)

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Stephen LaPorte
<slaporte@wikimedia.org <mailto:slaporte@wikimedia.org>> wrote:

    Yes, warm welcome from SF! I'm looking forward to your
    updates, and glad to see that Wikimedia has a growing presence
    in Brussels.

    On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Luis Villa
    <lvilla@wikimedia.org <mailto:lvilla@wikimedia.org>> wrote:

        And of course a warm welcome from SF! Dimi is super-human,
        but even a super-human needs help :)

        Luis

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        On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Nikolas Becker
        <nikolas.becker@wikipedia.de
        <mailto:nikolas.becker@wikipedia.de>> wrote:

            Hi Karl,

            Also a warm welcome from Berlin! Its good to hear that
            Dimi gets some support on the ground :)

            Cheers
            Niko

            On Nov 24, 2014 5:39 PM, "Karl Sigfrid"
            <karl@wikimedia.be <mailto:karl@wikimedia.be>> wrote:

                Thank you Jan, Jan and Stevie for the nice welcoming!

                You'll be hearing a lot from me on this list. At
                the moment, I'm making an issues overview which
                aims at listing issues currently in the EU
                legislative pipeline that may affect Wikimedia
                activities in one way or another. The overview,
                which will be up soon in unfinished form, will
                give a brief description of each proposal, explain
                where in the legislative process the proposal
                currently is and discuss how it may affect
                Wikimedia projects. This will be a starting point
                for the process of prioritizing. Any additions and
                edits from others will be greatly appreciated.

                I'm also diving into the projects that Dimi
                already has up to speed.

                My organizational affiliation is with the Swedish
                Wikimedia, so I report to the Swedish office. That
                being said, since most proposals we deal with are
                of a pan-European nature I'm looking forward to
                working with you all for better EU regulation.

                speak to you soon,
                Karl

                Jan Weisensee skrev den 11/24/2014 4:51 PM:

                    Dear Karl, all

                    Thanks for your support and welcome aboard the
                    EU spaceship! As said during the netpolitics
                    beer, it's great to have you over! :))

                    Regards
                    Jan

                    Sent from cell phone. Apologies for typos and
                    brevity.

                    Am 24.11.2014 14:47 schrieb Dimitar Parvanov
                    Dimitrov <dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov@gmail.com
                    <mailto:dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov@gmail.com>>:

                        Hello, everybody!

                        I am happy to report that as of this month
                        my loneliness in Brussels has effectively
                        been cured. Not only did we found
                        Wikimedia Belgium [1][2], but we now also
                        have a second permanent Weasel in
                        Brussels! Please meet Karl from Sweden
                        (signed up to this list).

                        Karl [3][4] is a member of Wikimedia
                        Sverige and has been has been sitting in
                        the Swedish National Assembly for 8 years
                        representing the County of Stockholm
                        district. After being member of the
                        Swedish parliament for two terms he
                        decided he wants to deal with copyright
                        issues on a more international scale. He
                        thus contacted us and moved permanently to
                        Brussels to help out with our EU policy
                        efforts.

                        I am very glad to have him on board, not
                        only because of expertise, political
                        savoir-faire and network, but also because
                        him being here reduces the risk of me
                        succumbing to cabin fever :)

                        I hope you join me in welcoming him!

                        Have a wonderful week, everyone!

                        Dimi

                        [1]https://be.wikimedia.org/wiki/Press_release_founding_Wikimedia_Belgium
                        [2]https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Founding_event_of_Wikimedia_Belgium_19_November_2014
                        [3]https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Sigfrid
                        [4]https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/ledamoter-partier/Hitta-ledamot/Ledamoter/Sigfrid-Karl-0469626830920/

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