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

[Mono]

I think the better question is "what will this department actually do?"

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Philippe Beaudette
<philippe at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> 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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> Philippe Beaudette
> Director, Community Advocacy
> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
>
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>
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>
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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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