Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Thank you Sue Gardner

2014-06-02 Thread Bishakha Datta
Just adding my personal thanks, Sue. You've taken the Foundation from infancy to maturity - one of the hardest spins in the life cycle of an organization and one of the most enduring legacies any leader can leave behind. You've literally laid the foundation for the Foundation. :) It's been an

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Thank you Sue Gardner

2014-06-02 Thread Ting Chen
Hello dear all, one of the most memorable moment in my work together with Sue was one evening in October 2011. As some of you may remember that the years 2010 to 2012 were especially difficult years in relationship between the Foundation and the chapters. The Foundation experimented a few

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Thank you Sue Gardner

2014-06-02 Thread Itzik Edri
I want to join and say also, thank you Sue! Jan-Bart already mentioned your huge contribution to the movement, but I want to add one more thing: I know many professional managers. But to find people who are great mangers in a big organizations who are also warm and hearty for other, who don't put

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Thank you Sue Gardner

2014-06-02 Thread Milos Rancic
I want to say basically the same what Jan-Bart and Bishakha said, but from different perspective. The first three years of my involvement in the global community passed in constant worries about the future of Wikimedia. Options like we don't have enough money for the bills were the constant

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Thank you Sue Gardner

2014-06-01 Thread Jan-Bart de Vreede
Hello Everyone, As Lila officially takes over from Sue as the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation after this weekend it really is a moment to not only wish Lila a lot of succes in the coming years, but also to give a tremendous thanks to Sue for her work in the past years. Of