Congratulations, John! I look forward to working with you. 

Best,
Jacob

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> On Apr 7, 2016, at 9:49 AM, Luis Villa <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Welcome, John!
> 
> 
>> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016, 8:49 AM Timothy Vollmer <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> 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
>>> [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.
>>>>>> 
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