Geoff Brigham wrote: > Today, we are excited to announce the start of our building of a new > department called the ³Legal and Community Advocacy Department.² This new > alignment recognizes that we can combine the best of legal and community > advocacy to foster new ways to advance the interests of the community > consistent with the goals and strategies of the Foundation. For details, > please go to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal/LCA_Announcement. > > As part of this reorganization, I¹m pleased to announce that Philippe > Beaudette has been promoted to Director of Community Advocacy. We will > start engaging our community shortly and enter into a consultation period > with it to brainstorm how to build the department. We anticipate that it > will take us about 6-12 months to get the right team and drive the new > department at full speed. > > The community is invited to join us on Friday for office hours to discuss > the new Legal and Community Advocacy Department. Details for the IRC chat > can be found at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours.
A political (lobbying?) arm of Wikimedia? And the Wikimedia community and Board have said they're okay with this? MZMcBride _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
