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The Public Policy Committee is a chapter committee to develop expertise and consensus on public policy matters and advise the board. In the long run we may write white papers and recommend public policy, when these recommendations are approved by the board. Any chapter money we budget for policy positions and lobbying must be small in order to stay within the rules on nopnprofit organizations.

Issue areas and activities
Background, and other topics of interest
Our role and constraints
  • The Wikimedia DC board must approve any public document from the committee representing the chapter, before release
  • Committee members should not claim to represent Wiki DC without board approval of specifics, but can self-identify as members of Wiki DC
  • Generally Wiki-DC and this group should take only stances that are in the public interest of free knowledge, not stances organized towards the narrow interest of the organization
  • /Reports to the Wikimedia DC board