Most excellent, John. I'm glad you're in this role and happy to be able to continue working with you. tvol
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Greg Varnum <[email protected]> wrote: > Congratulations, John! Look forward to working with you. :) > > -greg > > > --- > Gregory Varnum > Communications Strategist (Contractor) > Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org> > [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 | 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] > > On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 9:38 AM, John Hendrik Weitzmann < > [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 >> >> 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/ >> >> 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] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Publicpolicy mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy > > > _______________________________________________ > Publicpolicy mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy > > > > _______________________________________________ > Publicpolicy mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy > > -- Invest in an open future. Support Creative Commons today: http://bit.ly/19IjSKl
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