Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF office location and remodel
Hi Pine, I have answered your questions in your email. Regards, Garfield On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 12:38 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Garfield, Ok, follow up questions: * Does WMF have a plan to keep the Foundation and its essential functions operational if, say, the San Francisco main building all SF staff are completely offline and unreachable by phone for a week after an earthquake? Yes, we have a plan in place in case the building in San Francisco is unavailable. All San Francisco staff will not be offline for a week after an earthquake. Not all staff live in San Francisco, and Loma Prieta showed that even a major earthquake does not take the entire San Francisco Bay Area offline. So essential functions will continue even after an earthquake. In addition, even though many of our staff are in San Francisco, we do have staff in many other states and 18 countries. * Would there be worthwhile advantages to establishing a second main office in someplace like the US east coast or Europe? We have tried to setup a center of activity in other states and it did not prove to be worthwhile, as staff preferred to work from home or other locations. So it was an an additional cost with any additional benefit. It is my understanding that having an office outside the United States creates complications for Wikipedia and the other Wiki projects in the area of content protection. Thanks, and please reply when it's convenient for you. I'll follow up offline with HR about talent pool questions. Thanks, Pine On Apr 8, 2015 5:16 PM, Garfield Byrd gb...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi Pine, If the Foundation decides to move, the cost of making the space usable for our staff is not a recoverable cost from the building owner. At this point, WMF is not planning on moving out of the San Francisco market area. We will be doing our best to manage cost when we renew our lease or move. The advantages of having good access to talented people and organizations WMF interacts with far outweigh any advantages to moving to a lower cost location outside of the San Francisco market area. Regards, Garfield On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 9:58 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Garfield, I'm asking this on Wikimedia-l because a number of Wikimedians have noted the expensiveness of the San Francisco area including its high cost of living for staff, employer competition for engineering talent, and associated high salaries for WMF employees. I see on http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/8/8a/RFP_for_Real_Estate_Services.pdf that WMF is considering relocating its offices when its current main office lease expires. Questions: What happens to the remodel expenses that WMF is paying for at its current location? If WMF vacates the premesis, will it be compensated for the remodel by the building owner? I hope that WMF is contemplating fully exiting the San Francisco market area in order to economize, get better value for our donors' funds, have less competition for talent, and lower costs of living for staff. Is this being considered? Thanks very much, Pine -- Garfield Byrd Chief of Finance and Administration Wikimedia Foundation 415.839.6885 ext 6787 415.882.0495 (fax) www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! *https://donate.wikimedia.org https://donate.wikimedia.org/* -- Garfield Byrd Chief of Finance and Administration Wikimedia Foundation 415.839.6885 ext 6787 415.882.0495 (fax) www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! *https://donate.wikimedia.org https://donate.wikimedia.org/* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF office location and remodel
All -- As a matter of strategy we should be leveraging our open-source roots more as we grow. This means distributed, loosely-coupled teams. We know from software industry history that distributed teams work best when they are *entirely* distributed. We are working on some structures that will allow teams to either be entirely distributed or mostly co-located, consistent with what we know about best outcomes. In SF, remote working is not very common as the software companies demand people to be on-site and we have an advantage with remote talent, but it is also not for everyone as it can be isolating. Net-net.. before we worry about growth and costs we need to worry about effectiveness, but we are thinking about this. Thanks, Lila On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 April 2015 at 16:47, Garfield Byrd gb...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi Fae, We have 215 staff in total, with a hub of activity in San Francisco and other staff in several other states and 18 countries. So I agree talented people can be found globally and WMF does hire the best talent it can find wherever they are located. At this point adding offices in other locations add cost without any benefits to the community or the Wikimedia Foundation. We also do not have the luxury of Mozilla's $300 million budget that can support a London office or Microsoft's billions to have a globally distributed workforce with offices. So we are not closing the door to anything. Based on our test project of trying to develop centers of activity in other parts of the United States there is no need for additional offices. We do need and will continue to hire a globally distributed staff of talented people to support our global community of talented volunteers. Thanks for the response, it makes sense to me. I agree with avoiding additional offices unless there is a very good business case. Back in the late 1990s I was part of a small consultancy where we chose to eliminate having a central office altogether. It was a strange thing to try back last century, but moving more of the administrative functions into the virtual working space, and arming employees with excellent teamworking tools they can use from home (or bookable office spaces locally) has become part of the ordinary world of work these days. WMF development happens this way already, and you writing here shows that management/executive level folks are comfortable and skilled with virtual spaces. It would be jolly interesting if the WMF were seen to try out more virtual methods in other parts of its operation, and find meaningful ways of reporting on benefits or avoidable costs. I see this as part of the learning organization... Maybe a topic for another thread at some point. :-) Fae ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This Month in GLAM: March 2015
*This Month in GLAM* is a monthly newsletter documenting recent happenings within the GLAM project, such as content donations, residencies, events and more. GLAM is an acronym of *G*alleries, *L*ibraries, *A*rchives and *M*useums. You can find more information on the project at glamwiki.org. *This Month in GLAM – Issue III, Volume V – March 2015* -- Upcoming: GLAM-WIKI 2015 from 10 to 12 April 2015 in the Netherlands: http://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_2015 For who goes there, see you at the conference! -- Africa report: Closing the gap of the Global South http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2015/Contents/Africa_report Belgium report: Gendergap and Belgiumgap http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2015/Contents/Belgium_report Catalan areas report: One day at the radio http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2015/Contents/Catalan_areas_report France report: A very busy month! http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2015/Contents/France_report Germany report: 1 topic, 2 talks, 3 hours http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2015/Contents/Germany_report Italy report: Agreements with national cultural institutions and professional associations http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2015/Contents/Italy_report Mexico report: Wiki rides the subway editathon and second edition of the Editatona gender gap marathon http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2015/Contents/Mexico_report Netherlands report: Nature, Art, Feminism and a GLAM-WIKI conference http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2015/Contents/Netherlands_report Poland report: Six months in http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2015/Contents/Poland_report Spain report: Women's edit-a-thons, Workshops and Miguel Delibes http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2015/Contents/Spain_report Sweden report: Fashion; BARK; Council of Central Museums http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2015/Contents/Sweden_report UK report: GLAM activities in the UK http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2015/Contents/UK_report USA report: Wikipedia in Philadelphia New York http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2015/Contents/USA_report Open Access report: Wikimania Open Access policy; Wikimania; Wikipedia Science Conference; Punch-card microfluidics http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2015/Contents/Open_Access_report Calendar: April's GLAM events http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2015/Contents/Events -- Single page view http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2015/Single Twitter http://twitter.com/ThisMonthinGLAM Add your story / Work on the next edition http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/Newsroom -- The *This Month in GLAM* team http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF office location and remodel
On 9 April 2015 at 16:47, Garfield Byrd gb...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi Fae, We have 215 staff in total, with a hub of activity in San Francisco and other staff in several other states and 18 countries. So I agree talented people can be found globally and WMF does hire the best talent it can find wherever they are located. At this point adding offices in other locations add cost without any benefits to the community or the Wikimedia Foundation. We also do not have the luxury of Mozilla's $300 million budget that can support a London office or Microsoft's billions to have a globally distributed workforce with offices. So we are not closing the door to anything. Based on our test project of trying to develop centers of activity in other parts of the United States there is no need for additional offices. We do need and will continue to hire a globally distributed staff of talented people to support our global community of talented volunteers. Thanks for the response, it makes sense to me. I agree with avoiding additional offices unless there is a very good business case. Back in the late 1990s I was part of a small consultancy where we chose to eliminate having a central office altogether. It was a strange thing to try back last century, but moving more of the administrative functions into the virtual working space, and arming employees with excellent teamworking tools they can use from home (or bookable office spaces locally) has become part of the ordinary world of work these days. WMF development happens this way already, and you writing here shows that management/executive level folks are comfortable and skilled with virtual spaces. It would be jolly interesting if the WMF were seen to try out more virtual methods in other parts of its operation, and find meaningful ways of reporting on benefits or avoidable costs. I see this as part of the learning organization... Maybe a topic for another thread at some point. :-) Fae ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF office location and remodel
Hi Garfield, Ok, follow up questions: * Does WMF have a plan to keep the Foundation and its essential functions operational if, say, the San Francisco main building all SF staff are completely offline and unreachable by phone for a week after an earthquake? * Would there be worthwhile advantages to establishing a second main office in someplace like the US east coast or Europe? Thanks, and please reply when it's convenient for you. I'll follow up offline with HR about talent pool questions. Thanks, Pine On Apr 8, 2015 5:16 PM, Garfield Byrd gb...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi Pine, If the Foundation decides to move, the cost of making the space usable for our staff is not a recoverable cost from the building owner. At this point, WMF is not planning on moving out of the San Francisco market area. We will be doing our best to manage cost when we renew our lease or move. The advantages of having good access to talented people and organizations WMF interacts with far outweigh any advantages to moving to a lower cost location outside of the San Francisco market area. Regards, Garfield On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 9:58 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Garfield, I'm asking this on Wikimedia-l because a number of Wikimedians have noted the expensiveness of the San Francisco area including its high cost of living for staff, employer competition for engineering talent, and associated high salaries for WMF employees. I see on http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/8/8a/RFP_for_Real_Estate_Services.pdf that WMF is considering relocating its offices when its current main office lease expires. Questions: What happens to the remodel expenses that WMF is paying for at its current location? If WMF vacates the premesis, will it be compensated for the remodel by the building owner? I hope that WMF is contemplating fully exiting the San Francisco market area in order to economize, get better value for our donors' funds, have less competition for talent, and lower costs of living for staff. Is this being considered? Thanks very much, Pine -- Garfield Byrd Chief of Finance and Administration Wikimedia Foundation 415.839.6885 ext 6787 415.882.0495 (fax) www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! *https://donate.wikimedia.org https://donate.wikimedia.org/* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] My article on Wikipedia Zero and Net Neutrality, just out today at Reason.com
People who are interested in the history of my views on network neutrality may find fodder here in this 2006 article I wrote on behalf of the American Library Association. http://www.ala.org/offices/sites/ala.org.offices/files/content/oitp/publications/issuebriefs/A%20Library%20Perspectiv.pdf To the extent my views have evolved since them (and I'm inclined to say they haven't changed much), this is due partly to my years of work for Wikimedia Foundation and partly to my work on internet policy in the developing world. See, for example, how I dealt with the issue in developing the Great Charter for Cambodian Internet Freedom. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/great-charter-cambodian-internet-freedom-mike-godwin. --Mike On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 5:35 AM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 April 2015 at 00:51, Mike Godwin mnemo...@gmail.com wrote: http://reason.com/archives/2015/04/08/nothing-but-net --Mike I'm not convinced you are helping your case with your choice of venue. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] My article on Wikipedia Zero and Net Neutrality, just out today at Reason.com
I'm not convinced you offered me a better choice of venue, geni. (If you did, I missed the email.) But, then, I'm also not convinced that worrying about venue -- rather than, say, focusing on publishing with a journal that would give me the space to develop an argument at some length. I'm not well-positioned to game out the way every snarky commenter on the sidelines will interpret anything I write or where I manage to get published. But it's worth noting that the same journal asked me to make the case for Obama's re-election back in 2012, which is also something you wouldn't expect. We may reasonably expect, given the choice of venue, that my argument will be considered quite heterodox to its regular readers, which is actually good, not bad. (Other pieces by other authors have decried net neutrality in general--I didn't do this, however, and they knew I wouldn't.) --Mike On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 5:35 AM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 April 2015 at 00:51, Mike Godwin mnemo...@gmail.com wrote: http://reason.com/archives/2015/04/08/nothing-but-net --Mike I'm not convinced you are helping your case with your choice of venue. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF office location and remodel
Hi Fae, We have 215 staff in total, with a hub of activity in San Francisco and other staff in several other states and 18 countries. So I agree talented people can be found globally and WMF does hire the best talent it can find wherever they are located. At this point adding offices in other locations add cost without any benefits to the community or the Wikimedia Foundation. We also do not have the luxury of Mozilla's $300 million budget that can support a London office or Microsoft's billions to have a globally distributed workforce with offices. So we are not closing the door to anything. Based on our test project of trying to develop centers of activity in other parts of the United States there is no need for additional offices. We do need and will continue to hire a globally distributed staff of talented people to support our global community of talented volunteers. Regards, Garfield On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 2:19 AM, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 April 2015 at 01:16, Garfield Byrd gb...@wikimedia.org wrote: ... The advantages of having good access to talented people and organizations WMF interacts with far outweigh any advantages to moving to a lower cost location outside of the San Francisco market area. I find the world-view expressed here slightly odd to read, perhaps because I am more European than American in background. My background includes working for long periods with many companies in the U.S. (such as Microsoft) and we managed to do that perfectly with a handful of employees in a Seattle office, and most developers and internal operations such as HR, finance etc. in Europe (very few of these people ever had a need or desire to talk directly with customers or partner organizations). It was easy enough for me to visit the U.S. a couple of times a year when there was a lot going on there, and work on a daily basis within a lively virtual team spread out in offices across London, Paris and New York. Talented people can be found in many places including San Francisco, and though Google is incredibly important, there many other critically important potential open knowledge partners without headquarters in SF (Europeana springs to mind). Even Mozilla has a very nice office to work with here in London. The idea that having all functions in SF has advantages that far outweigh all other considerations seems to over-egg the case, perhaps it would be a good thing to leave the door open a crack for alternative ways of working to be possible in a far future. Fae ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Garfield Byrd Chief of Finance and Administration Wikimedia Foundation 415.839.6885 ext 6787 415.882.0495 (fax) www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! *https://donate.wikimedia.org https://donate.wikimedia.org/* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF office location and remodel
On 15-04-09 04:52 PM, Lila Tretikov wrote: but it is also not for everyone as it can be isolating I think that, at the Foundation, we are blessed to have several opportunities a year to meet with our colleagues during events, and that things would be much more difficult as a distributed team if it weren't the case. -- Marc ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This week on the Wikimedia Blog
Hi folks, Here are some of the stories featured this week on the Wikimedia Blog: • Wikimedia Foundation releases latest transparency report http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/07/wikimedia-transparency-report/ • The new Content Translation tool is now used on 22 Wikipedias http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/08/the-new-content-translation-tool/ • How content translation improved my wiki edits http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/06/content-translation-improved-my-edits/ • Women and gender diversity on Wikimedia: our top stories http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/03/women-and-gender-top-stories/ • Inspire Campaign receives hundreds of new ideas to increase gender diversity on Wikimedia projects http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/03/inspire-campaign-new-ideas/ • Fighting corruption with Wikipedia: Johnson Oludeinde http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/08/fighting-corruption-johnson-oludeinde/ More stories on the Wikimedia Blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/ Best regards, Fabrice ___ Fabrice Florin Movement Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF office location and remodel
On 9 April 2015 at 01:16, Garfield Byrd gb...@wikimedia.org wrote: ... The advantages of having good access to talented people and organizations WMF interacts with far outweigh any advantages to moving to a lower cost location outside of the San Francisco market area. I find the world-view expressed here slightly odd to read, perhaps because I am more European than American in background. My background includes working for long periods with many companies in the U.S. (such as Microsoft) and we managed to do that perfectly with a handful of employees in a Seattle office, and most developers and internal operations such as HR, finance etc. in Europe (very few of these people ever had a need or desire to talk directly with customers or partner organizations). It was easy enough for me to visit the U.S. a couple of times a year when there was a lot going on there, and work on a daily basis within a lively virtual team spread out in offices across London, Paris and New York. Talented people can be found in many places including San Francisco, and though Google is incredibly important, there many other critically important potential open knowledge partners without headquarters in SF (Europeana springs to mind). Even Mozilla has a very nice office to work with here in London. The idea that having all functions in SF has advantages that far outweigh all other considerations seems to over-egg the case, perhaps it would be a good thing to leave the door open a crack for alternative ways of working to be possible in a far future. Fae ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] My article on Wikipedia Zero and Net Neutrality, just out today at Reason.com
On 9 April 2015 at 00:51, Mike Godwin mnemo...@gmail.com wrote: http://reason.com/archives/2015/04/08/nothing-but-net --Mike I'm not convinced you are helping your case with your choice of venue. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Chapters] News from the Board of Wikimedia CH
FYI an official message from Wikimedia CH: Dear all, Wikimedia CH held its annual General Assembly on 21 March. We're pleased to announce that all of the Board re-candidated and were re-elected. We're even more pleased to welcome a new, seventh Board member: Micha Rieser ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Micha). Besides being an active administrator on the German Wikipedia, he has also been our Wikipedian in Residence both at the Swiss Federal Archives and the National Library. He's currently doing the job again at the Basel University Library - this time without part-funding by WMCH. We trust that his personal network among GLAMs will be an asset for us, and he's an all-round great guy anyway (you can follow him on Twitter: @MLRzh) People come, people go: Charles Andrès, our current Chief Scientific Officer (in charge of projects and collaborations), has decided to move back to France for family reasons. His last day in the Lausanne office will be 30 June. Charles has been around the French Wikipedia since 2007, joined our Board in 2010, became our President and finally made the move to CSO. He has given a lot of time and effort to the movement, and those who know him will miss his relentless enthusiasm for new ideas and projects (you can still check him out @chandreswp). The Board will consider the replacement process, and after 30 June our Board members Stephane Coillet-Matillon and Frédéric Schütz will handle the interim. Best regards, Patrick Kenel, President Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge www.wikimedia.ch -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera Switzerland - 8008 Zürich Wikipedia: Ilario https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ilario http://www.wikimedia.ch ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
