Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Kourosh Karimkhany, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships

2015-03-28 Thread Hasive Nurunnaby
Welcome, Kourosh! On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 7:59 AM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > I find the term "Advancement Department" has a somewhat Orwellian ring. > > The FAQ mentions that – > > The new role is focused on creating value for the Wikimedia movement and on > supporting our ability to fulfil our mis

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Kourosh Karimkhany, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships

2015-03-28 Thread Andreas Kolbe
I find the term "Advancement Department" has a somewhat Orwellian ring. The FAQ mentions that – The new role is focused on creating value for the Wikimedia movement and on supporting our ability to fulfil our mission. Value can be understood in many different ways. We believe that it can be about

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Kourosh Karimkhany, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships

2015-03-28 Thread Tanweer Morshed
Welcome to Kourosh! Wikimedians around the world have already been creating partnerships under various programs including GLAMs and with universities, institutions etc. This is rational from the sense that this new department (Strategic Partnerships) would address all these issues along with furthe

[Wikimedia-l] function titles 'n stuff

2015-03-28 Thread Lodewijk
Hi, Actually, not so much a personel org chart, but rather a general description what the function titles mean (ED, Director, Manager, Chief, Head etc.), which supposedly should be much more stable and therefore easier to grasp? For someone not embedded in US company nomenclature this is all quite