I think the better question is "what will this department actually do?"
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Philippe Beaudette <[email protected]>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 > > [email protected] > > 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 <[email protected]> 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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
