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From:
Geoff Brigham <gbrigham@wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 5:19 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department & Promotion of Philippe Beaudette
To:
wikimediaannounce-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Today,
we are excited to announce the start of our building of a new
department called the “Legal and Community Advocacy Department.” This
new alignment recognizes that we can combine the best of legal and
community advocacy to foster new ways to advance the interests of the
community consistent with the goals and strategies of the Foundation.
For details, please go to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal/LCA_Announcement.
As
part of this reorganization, I’m pleased to announce that Philippe
Beaudette has been promoted to Director of Community Advocacy. We will
start engaging our community shortly and enter into a consultation
period with it to brainstorm how to build the department. We anticipate
that it will take us about 6-12 months to get the right team and drive
the new department at full speed.
The
community is invited to join us on Friday for office hours to discuss
the new Legal and Community Advocacy Department. Details for the IRC
chat can be found at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours.
Geoff Brigham
General Counsel
Wikimedia Foundation
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