Congratulations, John! Look forward to working with you. :) -greg
--- Gregory Varnum Communications Strategist (Contractor) Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org/> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On Apr 7, 2016, at 8:42 AM, Lisette Kalshoven <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Good to hear from you from this side as well John! > > Cheers, > > Lisette > > -- > Kennisland | www.kennisland.nl <http://www.kennisland.nl/> | t +31205756720 | > m +31613943237 | @lnkalshoven | skype: lisette.kalshoven > >> On 07 Apr 2016, at 17:39, Jan Gerlach <[email protected] >> <mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy > > _______________________________________________ > Publicpolicy mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy
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