<div dir="ltr">Makes sense to me.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, 7 Aug 2015 at 22:04 Karl Sigfrid <<a href="mailto:karl@wikimedia.be">karl@wikimedia.be</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I think the renaming makes good sense. "Public policy" is the
standard label for the category in which the issues here belong.<br>
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<div>Den 8/7/2015 kl. 10:42 PM, skrev
Stephen LaPorte:<br>
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<div>Hi all,</div>
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<div>I wanted to make a proposal for the list: let's rename the
Advocacy Advisory Group (<a href="mailto:advocacy_advisors@lists.wikimedia.org" target="_blank">advocacy_advisors@lists.wikimedia.org</a>)
to <a href="mailto:publicpolicy@lists.wikimedia.org" target="_blank">publicpolicy@lists.wikimedia.org</a>. It's
not a big change, but I think that it's more accurate since
the list includes expert discussions of public policy that are
not always limited to advocacy actions.</div>
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<div>The proposal will only affect the name -- we will continue
to keep the same focus and great discussions. We set up this
mailing list nearly three years ago to provide an open venue
for Wikimedians and others supporting the Wikimedia mission to
discuss public policy and legislative developments around the
world that could affect our movement's work. The Wikimedia
Foundation also sends proposals to this list to get feedback
on particular policy issues, following the Wikimedia
Foundation Policy and Political Association Guideline (<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal/Foundation_Policy_and_Political_Association_Guideline" target="_blank"><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal/Foundation_Policy_and_Political_Association_Guideline" target="_blank">https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal/Foundation_Policy_and_Political_Association_Guideline</a></a>).
I've enjoyed all of the great discussions with the Wikimedia
community, and particularly appreciate the great updates from
the EU prepared by Dimi and others. </div>
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<div>If there are no concerns about changing the name, we can
set it up next Friday (August 14). We will update the Policy
and Political Association Guideline to continue to refer to
this list.</div>
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<div>As Yana, Geoff, and I presented at Wikimania (<a href="https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Amplify_Free_Knowledge_with_Public_Policy" target="_blank"><a href="https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Amplify_Free_Knowledge_with_Public_Policy" target="_blank">https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Amplify_Free_Knowledge_with_Public_Policy</a></a>),
we are also working on a site communicating significant public
policy positions. That site will also invite people to sign up
to this list to discuss public policy issues that affect the
Wikimedia projects.</div>
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