Good to hear from you from this side as well John! Cheers,
Lisette -- Kennisland | www.kennisland.nl | t +31205756720 | m +31613943237 | @lnkalshoven | skype: lisette.kalshoven > On 07 Apr 2016, at 17:39, Jan Gerlach <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello John > > Welcome! Very much looking forward to working with you! > > Jan > > == > > > Jan Gerlach > Public Policy Manager > Wikimedia Foundation > 149 New Montgomery Street, 6th Floor > San Francisco, CA 94105 > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 9:38 AM, John Hendrik Weitzmann > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Dear all, > > I'd like to introduce myself to all of you in my new role Legal and Policy > Advisor at Wikimedia Deutschland, reporting to Christian Rickerts. Some of > you know me already from previous engagements, but to be responsible > laterally for everything around law and politics at WMDE is surely the most > daunting task I had to date. > > By training I'm a lawyer and have practiced for several years in the field of > open and free as in freedom as co-founder of the Berlin-based lawfirm > iRights.Law. Since almost ten years I support Creative Commons as volunteer > Legal Project Lead for CC Germany. From 2013 until the new WMDE job started I > was also one of two CC Regional Coordinators for Europe, a paid contractor > position. With CC's newly adopted 2016 - 2020 strategy, advocacy and policy > work in general have been added quite prominently to what CC does as an org, > and I had the honour to help get this new focus going. There's much more to > come in that respect, especially from the worldwide network of CC Teams, who > are right in the middle of deliberating about how to structure everything in > the future. So keep an eye out in that direction. > > From my CC work and also, because WMDE is an institution most central to net > politics in Germany, I'm no stranger to Wikimedia. In the past WMDE inter > alia helped to launch the brochure on CC NC licenses. I've also already > worked with people at the Wikimedia Foundation, with the Wikimedian in > Brussels, Dimitar Dimitrov, on freedom of panorama legislation, as well as > with local communities, for example on OER. In my new role as policy advisor > I will try to shape the debates that concern the legal framework and > political baselines of free knowledge on a local, regional and international > level. > > Stay tuned for added policy work from Berlin, I'm very moch looking forward > to working with this great bunch of people. > > Kind regards > > -- > John H. Weitzmann > Referent für Politik und Recht > Legal and Policy Advisor > > Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin > Tel. +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0 > http://wikimedia.de <http://wikimedia.de/> > > Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen > Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! > http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ <http://spenden.wikimedia.de/> > > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter > der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für > Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. > > _______________________________________________ > Publicpolicy mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy> > > > _______________________________________________ > Publicpolicy mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy
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