[Wikimediaindia-l] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department & Promotion of Philippe Beaudette

2012-02-09 Thread Anirudh Bhati 
This is for your information.

Sincerely,

Anirudh Bhati


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From: Geoff Brigham 
Date: Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 5:19 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and
Community Advocacy Department & Promotion of Philippe Beaudette
To: wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org


Today, we are excited to announce the start of our building of a new
department called the “Legal and Community Advocacy Department.”  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, I’m 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.

Geoff Brigham
General Counsel
Wikimedia Foundation


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department & Promotion of Philippe Beaudette

2012-02-10 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
Just one question.
What does this new Department mean to the Ordinary Wikipedian?
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On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Anirudh Bhati  wrote:

> This is for your information.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Anirudh Bhati
>
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Geoff Brigham 
> Date: Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 5:19 AM
> Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and
> Community Advocacy Department & Promotion of Philippe Beaudette
> To: wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org
>
>
> Today, we are excited to announce the start of our building of a new
> department called the “Legal and Community Advocacy Department.”  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, I’m 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.
>
> Geoff Brigham
> General Counsel
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
>
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Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department & Promotion of Philippe Beaudette

2012-02-10 Thread Anirudh Bhati 
There is an on-going discussion on the Foundation mailing list.  Feel free
to review the clarifications that PB has posted.

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Just one question.
> What does this new Department mean to the Ordinary Wikipedian?
> --
>
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Anirudh Bhati wrote:
>
>> This is for your information.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Anirudh Bhati
>>
>>
>> -- Forwarded message --
>> From: Geoff Brigham 
>> Date: Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 5:19 AM
>> Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and
>> Community Advocacy Department & Promotion of Philippe Beaudette
>> To: wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org
>>
>>
>> Today, we are excited to announce the start of our building of a new
>> department called the “Legal and Community Advocacy Department.”  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, I’m 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.
>>
>> Geoff Brigham
>> General Counsel
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>
>>
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> Regards,
> Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
> Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th.
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
> Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department & Promotion of Philippe Beaudette

2012-02-10 Thread Swaroop Rao 
Congrats to Philippe, I'm sure he'll be great in his new office, just as he
was as Head of Reader Relations.


Swaroop Rao
(MikeLynch )





On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 16:59, Anirudh Bhati  wrote:

> There is an on-going discussion on the Foundation mailing list.  Feel free
> to review the clarifications that PB has posted.
>
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
> parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Just one question.
>> What does this new Department mean to the Ordinary Wikipedian?
>> --
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Anirudh Bhati wrote:
>>
>>> This is for your information.
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>>
>>> Anirudh Bhati
>>>
>>>
>>> -- Forwarded message --
>>> From: Geoff Brigham 
>>> Date: Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 5:19 AM
>>> Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal
>>> and Community Advocacy Department & Promotion of Philippe Beaudette
>>> To: wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org
>>>
>>>
>>> Today, we are excited to announce the start of our building of a new
>>> department called the “Legal and Community Advocacy Department.”  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, I’m 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
>>> .
>>>
>>> Geoff Brigham
>>> General Counsel
>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
>> Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th.
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
>> Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll
>> Plaza.
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department & Promotion of Philippe Beaudette

2012-02-10 Thread Casey Brown 
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 5:56 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan
 wrote:
> Just one question.
> What does this new Department mean to the Ordinary Wikipedian?

It doesn't really mean anything for the ordinary Wikipedian. The
ordinary Wikipedian doesn't even need to know the Wikimedia Foundation
exists or about any of its staff members.

For the ordinary Wikipedian who is a bit more involved in
"meta-organization" like you probably are, it just means that
Philippe, Maggie, and other members of this "Advocacy Department" are
your points of contact if you need anything from the Wikimedia
Foundation. You can ask them questions, give them feedback that you
don't know who else to give to, etc. Their roles have already existed,
and these staff members have already been in place, what's happening
now is just an organizational reshuffle that puts them into their own
department.

-- 
Casey Brown
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