<div dir="ltr">Congrats, Yana! Great news!</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">El mar., 7 de jul. de 2015 a la(s) 8:27 p. m., Lila Tretikov <<a href="mailto:lila@wikimedia.org">lila@wikimedia.org</a>> escribió:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Congratulations Yana, great achievement!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Veni Markovski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:veni@veni.com" target="_blank">veni@veni.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Congratulations! If I can be of help, let me know - I'm in New York, so could easily go there! <div><div><span></span><br><br>On Tuesday, July 7, 2015, Geoff Brigham <<a href="mailto:gbrigham@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">gbrigham@wikimedia.org</a>> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hi all, </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thanks so much for your engagement on this list and your hard work on a host of issues. I probably follow this list the closest, and really respect your insights and judgment as we navigate through a number of tricky or tough issues. </span></font></p><p style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If I may, I have some good news to report from WMF. </span></font><font size="4"><span style="line-height:1.38;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-decoration:underline;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:YWelinder_(WMF)" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Yana Welinder</a></span><span style="line-height:1.38;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> on the legal team has just been named as a 2015-2016 affiliate scholar/researcher for Harvard University’s </span><a href="https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/" style="line-height:1.38;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Berkman Center for Internet & Society</span></a><span style="line-height:1.38;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. (Yana is also a </span><a href="http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/yana-welinder" style="line-height:1.38;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Fellow</span></a><span style="line-height:1.38;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> with the </span><a href="http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/" style="line-height:1.38;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Stanford Center for Internet & Society</span></a><span style="line-height:1.38;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.)</span></font></p><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As a Berkman Center Affiliate, Yana will have the opportunity to further engage with the Internet law and policy community and continue her research on issues that support Wikimedia movement values. Yana’s previous work in this space has included a </span><a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2476779" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">research paper</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> highlighting Wikimedia’s trademark policy process (co-written with her legal colleague </span><a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Slaporte_(WMF)" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Stephen LaPorte</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) and </span><a href="http://collabmark.org/index.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">CollabMark</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, an open source guide to trademark policies (also co-created by Stephen).</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Congrats to Yana, and thanks again to all those on this list for your hard work and dedication to issues of shared interest. </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Geoff</span></font></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr">Geoff Brigham<br>General Counsel <br>Wikimedia Foundation<br>149 New Montgomery Street<br>San Francisco, CA 94105<br><a href="tel:%2B1%20%28415%29%20839-6885%20ext.%206750" value="+14158396885" target="_blank">+1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6750</a><br><a>gbrigham@wikimedia.org</a><br><br><i>California Registered In-House Counsel</i><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>Notice: This message may be confidential or legally privileged. If you have received it by accident, please delete it and let us know about the mistake. As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation, for legal and ethical reasons, I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, community members, volunteers, or Board and staff members in their personal capacity. For more on what this means, please see our <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Legal_Disclaimer" target="_blank">legal disclaimer</a>.</i></div></div></div>
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