Re: [Publicpolicy] Publicpolicy Digest, Vol 46, Issue 14

Congratulations and welcome ☺ Owen Board director, Open Rights Group (UK) [[User:OwenBlacker]] On Thu, 7 Apr 2016, 18:19 Jacob Rogers, &lt;jrogers(a)wikimedia.org&gt; 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 &lt;luis(a)lu.is&gt; wrote: > > Welcome, John! > > On Thu, Apr 7, 2016, 8:49 AM Timothy Vollmer &lt;tvol(a)creativecommons.org&gt; > 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 &lt;gvarnum(a)wikimedia.org&gt; >> wrote: >> >>> Congratulations, John! Look forward to working with you. :) >>> >>> -greg >>> >>> >>> --- >>> Gregory Varnum >>> Communications Strategist (Contractor) >>> Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org> >>> gvarnum(a)wikimedia.org >>> >>> On Apr 7, 2016, at 8:42 AM, Lisette Kalshoven &lt;lk(a)kl.nl&gt; 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 &lt;jgerlach(a)wikimedia.org&gt; 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 >>> jgerlach(a)wikimedia.org >>> >>> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 9:38 AM, John Hendrik Weitzmann < >>> john.weitzmann(a)wikimedia.de&gt; 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

>>>> Some of you know me already from previous engagements, but to be >>>> responsible laterally for everything around law and politics at WMDE

>>>> 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

>>>> lawfirm iRights.Law. Since almost ten years I support Creative

>>>> volunteer Legal Project Lead for CC Germany. From 2013 until the new

>>>> job started I was also one of two CC Regional Coordinators for

>>>> paid contractor position. With CC's newly adopted 2016 - 2020

>>>> advocacy and policy work in general have been added quite

>>>> what CC does as an org, and I had the honour to help get this new

>>>> 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

>>>> about how to structure everything in the future. So keep an eye out

>>>> 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

>>>> inter alia helped to launch the brochure on CC NC licenses. I've also >>>> already worked with people at the Wikimedia Foundation, with the

>>>> in Brussels, Dimitar Dimitrov, on freedom of panorama legislation,

>>>> as with local communities, for example on OER. In my new role as

>>>> advisor I will try to shape the debates that concern the legal

>>>> 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

>>>> 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

>>>> unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das

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