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On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Alice Wiegand <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Great news! welcome, John!
>
> Alice.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 7:26 PM, Owen Blacker <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Congratulations and welcome ☺
>>
>> Owen
>> Board director, Open Rights Group (UK)
>> [[User:OwenBlacker]]
>>
>> On Thu, 7 Apr 2016, 18:19 Jacob Rogers, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Congratulations, John! I look forward to working with you.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Jacob
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> 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 <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.
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