Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2016 call for Board Governance Committee Volunteer and Advisory members [results]

2016-08-22 Thread Tanweer Morshed
Great to see such excellent people willing to volunteer. Congratulations to the board for such initiative and the elected members for their enthusiasm! Thanks and regards, Tanweer Wikimedia Bangladesh On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Jan-Bart de Vreede wrote: > Hi >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2016 call for Board Governance Committee Volunteer and Advisory members [results]

2016-08-19 Thread Jan-Bart de Vreede
Hi Great news, thank you so much for all of you for volunteering and to the board for taking a novel approach to having more external expertise involved :) Thank you Natalia! Jan-Bart > On 16 Aug 2016, at 15:47, Nataliia Tymkiv wrote: > > Dear all, > > I am honestly

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2016 call for Board Governance Committee Volunteer and Advisory members [results]

2016-08-17 Thread Katherine Maher
Similarly - really delighted to see so many excellent people supporting this important committee. Thank you to everyone who volunteered! Katherine On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 7:38 AM, Dariusz Jemielniak wrote: > +1, and also I'm amazed how many outstanding people are willing to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2016 call for Board Governance Committee Volunteer and Advisory members [results]

2016-08-17 Thread Dariusz Jemielniak
+1, and also I'm amazed how many outstanding people are willing to help! 17.08.2016 2:34 AM "Christophe Henner" napisał(a): > I hope nobody will mind, but I'll "Yay" with you too. > > Thanks and kuddos to Natalia for bringing the idea up, leading the process, > and making

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2016 call for Board Governance Committee Volunteer and Advisory members [results]

2016-08-17 Thread Christophe Henner
I hope nobody will mind, but I'll "Yay" with you too. Thanks and kuddos to Natalia for bringing the idea up, leading the process, and making it happen so quickly. And thanks to everyone who volunteered to join bgc on top of their other volunteers position :) Christophe On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2016 call for Board Governance Committee Volunteer and Advisory members [results]

2016-08-17 Thread Delphine Ménard
Anders said it all. This announcement is so many kind of cool I don't know where to begin. So just YAY! Thanks for the initiative, thanks for volunteering. Delphine On 16 August 2016 at 20:57, Anders Wennersten wrote: > I joined the movement in 2007. I was then

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2016 call for Board Governance Committee Volunteer and Advisory members [results]

2016-08-16 Thread Arthur Richards
This is awesome news, thank you everyone involved - particularly those of you volunteering :D On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 6:47 AM, Nataliia Tymkiv wrote: > Dear all, > > I am honestly delighted to announce the results of the public call for > Board Governance committee

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2016 call for Board Governance Committee Volunteer and Advisory members [results]

2016-08-16 Thread Anders Wennersten
I joined the movement in 2007. I was then overwhelmed by the beauty and strength of the concept and the content in the projects. But at the same time I was underwhelmed by the support structure behind. Even if Delphine and Brion were good in talking with everyone and fixing technique and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2016 call for Board Governance Committee Volunteer and Advisory members [results]

2016-08-16 Thread Shani
Wonderful news! All very worthy, well experienced and will surely contribute a lot. Good luck to all of you on your new role and a special thanks to Antanana for her awesome work on the BoT. Cheers, Shani. On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 5:30 PM, Pine W wrote: > I'm impressed with

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2016 call for Board Governance Committee Volunteer and Advisory members [results]

2016-08-16 Thread Pine W
I'm impressed with the high caliber nature of the appointees. Thank you for volunteering. Thank you Nat for making these valuable appointmrments. Pine On Aug 16, 2016 06:47, "Nataliia Tymkiv" wrote: > Dear all, > > I am honestly delighted to announce the results of the

[Wikimedia-l] 2016 call for Board Governance Committee Volunteer and Advisory members [results]

2016-08-16 Thread Nataliia Tymkiv
Dear all, I am honestly delighted to announce the results of the public call for Board Governance committee volunteer and Advisory members, announced on July 15, 2016 [1]. We received nine applications, and after discussing them with BGC and reviewing the committee's needs and interviewing a