[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department & Promotion of Philippe Beaudette

[Philippe Beaudette]

I'm not really sure where you get that, MZ.  Politics and lobbying were not
mentioned at all.

What was mentioned was advocacy... advocacy for the community, in varying
roles and flavors.

So to clear it up: this is not a lobbying or political wing.  Or anything
that even resembles it.  :)

There's a reasonable discussion in the page, linked from the announcement.

pb
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On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 6:08 PM, MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com> wrote:

> Geoff Brigham wrote:
> > Today, we are excited to announce the start of our building of a new
> > department called the ³Legal and Community Advocacy Department.²  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, I¹m 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.
>
> A political (lobbying?) arm of Wikimedia? And the Wikimedia community and
> Board have said they're okay with this?
>
> MZMcBride
>
>
>
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