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

[Philippe Beaudette]

Obviously, we have some ideas - several of them are listed in the 
announcement page.  However, one of the most exciting bits of this is 
that since it's a community advocacy department, we're asking you to 
help us define that.  There's a page on meta (also linked from the 
announcement page), and an IRC chat tomorrow to kick that off. :)

pb

On Thu Feb  9 18:32:42 2012, Mono wrote:
> 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
>> ___________________
>> Philippe Beaudette
>> Director, Community Advocacy
>> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
>>
>> 415-839-6885, x 6643
>>
>> philippe at wikimedia.org
>>
>> To check my email volume (and thus know approx how long it will take me to
>> respond), go to http://courteous.ly/hpQmqy
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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