Great news. It's good to have counsel who writes his own bots*. :-) Welcome, Stephen! SJ
* http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:BenchBot On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Kelly Kay <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I am happy to announce that effective today, Stephen LaPorte is joining >> the Foundation as legal counsel in the Legal and Community Advocacy team! >> Stephen has been interning with us for a semester, and we're thrilled that >> he's staying onboard. We went through a very competitive interview process >> and he was by far the best candidate for the role. One of the criteria for >> this role was that the candidate be a Wikimedian, and Stephen fits that >> neatly. *As a volunteer, he enjoys de-orphaning articles and cleaning up >> dead-end pages on the English Wikipedia. He also proofreads on the English >> Wikisource. He started contributing to Wikipedia in 2008 after working on >> [[w:Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve]] for a class project.* >> >> You'll have the chance to meet him at the Berlin Hack-a-thon, or at >> Wikimania this summer. *A little bit of background on Stephen: he >> studied English and Latin at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and law at >> the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. He is interested >> in copyright, privacy, and trademark law. During law school, he worked on >> the Hastings Communication and Entertainment Law Journal.* >> >> Stephen will be helping out with contracts, content/community >> questions/issues, trademark approvals & licensing, trademark enforcement, >> and other general matters that come up for lawyers. Stephen will report to >> me. >> >> This was an extremely competitive process, and we're very lucky to have >> him join us. >> > > Kind Regards, > Kelly > > -- > Kelly Kay > Deputy General Counsel > Wikimedia Foundation > > <http://walk.avonfoundation.org/site/TR?px=6370274&pg=personal&fr_id=2173&s_src=BF_emailbadge> > <http://walk.avonfoundation.org/site/TR?px=6370274&pg=personal&fr_id=2173&s_src=BF_emailbadge> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
