Re: [Wikimedia-l] Personal news // ED transition

2021-01-26 Thread Bobby Shabangu
Thanks for the heads up Abraham, we are keeping a close eye on the transition process and wishing you good luck on your future endeavours. Kind regards, Bobby Shabangu On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 at 16:51, Abraham Taherivand < abraham.taheriv...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > Dear fellow Wikimedians, > > >

[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia & Education User Group Annual Report

2021-01-26 Thread LiAnna Davis
On behalf of the Wikipedia & Education User Group, I'm pleased to announce we've published our 2020 Annual Report on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group/2020_Annual_Report Thank you to everyone who participated in our activities!

[Wikimedia-l] [REMINDER] Call for projects and mentors for Google Summer of Code 2021 and Outreachy Round 22 is ongoing!

2021-01-26 Thread Pavithra Eswaramoorthy
Hello everyone, TLDR; Wikimedia will soon be applying as a mentoring organization to Google Summer of Code 2021 [1] and Outreachy Round 22 [2]. The application submission deadline for GSoC is February 20th, and Outreachy is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Personal news // ED transition

2021-01-26 Thread Asaf Bartov
Thank you for this message, and for your years of service. I understand this isn't the Big Goodbye thread; I write just to say that I think this is a great example to set for an executive departure announcement, and I appreciate it. Cheers, A. Asaf Bartov (he/him/his) Senior Program

[Wikimedia-l] Personal news // ED transition

2021-01-26 Thread Abraham Taherivand
Dear fellow Wikimedians, Today I am informing you that I will not be renewing my contract with Wikimedia Deutschland, which runs until January 2022. This decision was not easy for me because Wikimedia has been such an important, even central, part of my life in the past nine years. After

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Bylaws amendments and upcoming call for feedback

2021-01-26 Thread Yair Rand
@Nataliia: The change to what is now Article IV Section 3(F) is not merely making things more specific, it is a numerically different outcome. Had that change not been implemented, the current Board (with five community-/affiliate-selected and four Board-selected members) would not be allowed to