Just one question. What does this new Department mean to the Ordinary Wikipedian? --
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Anirudh Bhati <anirudh...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is for your information. > > Sincerely, > > Anirudh Bhati > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Geoff Brigham <gbrig...@wikimedia.org> > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately > directed to Foundation-L, the public mailing list about the Wikimedia > Foundation and its projects. For more information about Foundation-L: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ > WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list > wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > -- 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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