Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Ellie Young as Conference Coordinator

2013-03-30 Thread Peter Southwood
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Ellie Young as Conference Coordinator Wikimania in Brazil in 2015, so no problems. ;) And, yeah, some strange sport... On 29 March 2013 20:09, Everton Zanella Alvarenga everton.alvare...@okfn.org wrote: [off-topic] 2013/3/29 Matthew Roth mr

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Ellie Young as Conference Coordinator

2013-03-29 Thread Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton
She has been to every country in Latin America and the Caribbean except Brasil. Why not Brasil? :'( :p welcome, and come to Brasil!!! On 28 March 2013 23:06, Everton Zanella Alvarenga t...@wikimedia.org wrote: Good point, Florence. Is it like if we hired someone for a education position

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Ellie Young as Conference Coordinator

2013-03-29 Thread Matthew Roth
I hear 2014 will be a very busy year in Brasil Some sport thing with a ball and a large green pitch :) On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton rodrigo.argen...@gmail.com wrote: She has been to every country in Latin America and the Caribbean except Brasil. Why not Brasil?

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Ellie Young as Conference Coordinator

2013-03-29 Thread Isarra Yos
One needn't stick around to establish and maintain a working framework for such - continuity and knowledge-transfer sounds rather like consistency and maintainability of code, where if it is well set up and documented anyone can reasonably pick up where someone else left off. So to ensure

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Ellie Young as Conference Coordinator

2013-03-29 Thread Everton Zanella Alvarenga
[off-topic] 2013/3/29 Matthew Roth mr...@wikimedia.org I hear 2014 will be a very busy year in Brasil Some sport thing with a ball and a large green pitch :) Yeah, we are going to have the world cup, where millions and millions of reais (our currency) is going to corrupts to an event that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Ellie Young as Conference Coordinator

2013-03-29 Thread BĂ©ria Lima
[still in the off-topic] *Hopefully hotels will be so expensive that Wikimania here won't be sustainable*. Don't need to hope no more, hotels in Rio are *already* expensive because of the World Cup renovations (is impossible to get a hotel in Rio for less than 100 USD/night) and I do believe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Ellie Young as Conference Coordinator

2013-03-28 Thread Florence Devouard
Welcome again Ellie A question came to my mind when I read the description of the job. - making sure there is good continuity and knowledge-transfer as the conference moves to new hosts year-over-year. Yet, she is taking on the role as an annual contract. Is there not a contradiction here ?

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Ellie Young as Conference Coordinator

2013-03-28 Thread Everton Zanella Alvarenga
Good point, Florence. Is it like if we hired someone for a education position to work during one school term for only 6 months. Tom On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com wrote: Welcome again Ellie A question came to my mind when I read the description of the

[Wikimedia-l] Introducing Ellie Young as Conference Coordinator

2013-03-27 Thread Siko Bouterse
Pardon the cross-posting from WMF staff list - I expect this role will be of interest to many here too. Welcome, Ellie! -- Forwarded message -- From: Siko Bouterse sboute...@wikimedia.org Date: Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:22 AM Subject: Introducing Ellie Young as Conference

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Ellie Young as Conference Coordinator

2013-03-27 Thread Leslie Harms
Welcome Ellie!! So happy to have you on board :) On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Siko Bouterse sboute...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Pardon the cross-posting from WMF staff list - I expect this role will be of interest to many here too. Welcome, Ellie! -- Forwarded message --

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Ellie Young as Conference Coordinator

2013-03-27 Thread Karthik Nadar
Welcome Ellie. I'm sure the local Wikimania team will be happy to have you on board :) On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Leslie Harms lha...@wikimedia.org wrote: Welcome Ellie!! So happy to have you on board :) On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Siko Bouterse sboute...@wikimedia.org wrote:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Ellie Young as Conference Coordinator

2013-03-27 Thread Sarah Stierch
Awesome! Ellie is great and will serve as a great coordinator. I look forward to working with her on the planning Commitee! Sarah Sent from my iPhone On Mar 27, 2013, at 11:24 AM, Siko Bouterse sboute...@wikimedia.org wrote: Pardon the cross-posting from WMF staff list - I expect this role