Obviously, we have some ideas - several of them are listed in the announcement page. However, one of the most exciting bits of this is that since it's a community advocacy department, we're asking you to help us define that. There's a page on meta (also linked from the announcement page), and an IRC chat tomorrow to kick that off. :)
pb On Thu Feb 9 18:32:42 2012, Mono wrote: > I think the better question is "what will this department actually do?" > > On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Philippe Beaudette > <phili...@wikimedia.org>wrote: > >> I'm not really sure where you get that, MZ. Politics and lobbying were not >> mentioned at all. >> >> What was mentioned was advocacy... advocacy for the community, in varying >> roles and flavors. >> >> So to clear it up: this is not a lobbying or political wing. Or anything >> that even resembles it. :) >> >> There's a reasonable discussion in the page, linked from the announcement. >> >> pb >> ___________________ >> Philippe Beaudette >> Director, Community Advocacy >> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. >> >> 415-839-6885, x 6643 >> >> phili...@wikimedia.org >> >> To check my email volume (and thus know approx how long it will take me to >> respond), go to http://courteous.ly/hpQmqy >> >> >> >> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 6:08 PM, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: >> >>> 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 >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
