Floreat ORG: new staff members

The ORG office has expanded with two new additions to our staff. Gavin Hill joins as part-time Policy Officer and Dan Ray will be interning with us for the next two months. Welcome along, guys. New team members significantly increase our capacity to campaign for digital rights both by releasing existing resources and bringing new expertise and energy to our work.

Our new role of Policy Officer was created thanks to a generous grant from the Open Society Institute. The role’s focus is to coordinate opposition to copyright term extension and the “three strikes” agenda at the European level. Gavin is a seasoned digital rights campaigner who developed and managed the UK arm of the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure‘s strategic resistance to European software patents. He has also worked for the National Union of Students and the Open Schools Alliance. You can reach Gavin on gavin at openrightsgroup dot org.

And our new intern, Dan Ray, is on summer vacation from his postgraduate work at Harvard Law School. He majored for his undergraduate degree in Political Science and spent a summer studying British history at Oxford University. Dan’s duties will be varied and his main output will be managing the collaborative drafting of a briefing pack on network neutrality. If you’ve got any pointers for that project, then please leave your remarks and links on Dan’s working page on orgwiki. You can reach Dan on daniel at openrightsgroup dot org.