[Wikimedia-l] UG Brazil new website
Hi, We have the pleasure to announce the Wikimedia Community User Group Brasil's new website: http://wikimedianobrasil.org/ Enjoy! Vinicius Siqueira ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: 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] Wikimedia Board of Trustees Chair and Vice Chair positions
Felicitaciones! Vini Em 16/07/2015 19:09, Philippe Beaudette phili...@wikimedia.org escreveu: Wonderful officer choices; welcome to the new Board, thanks to the departings. pb *Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. T: 1-415-839-6885 x6643 | phili...@wikimedia.org | : @Philippewiki https://twitter.com/Philippewiki On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Patricio Lorente patricio.lore...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you all for your nice words. Just to follow up Jan-Bart's email I'd like to add that today were officially apointed to the Board the recently elected Board members: Dariusz Jemielniak, James Heilman and Denny Vrandečić. Please, join me in congratulating them as well. And also to thank the work and continuous commitment with the Wikimedia movement of Maria Sefidari, Phoebe Ayers and Samuel J. Klein, who left today the Board but we all know that they will continue working along with our community. And thank you, Jan-Bart, for leading the Board in these past two years of changes and transition. You did a great work! Patricio El jue., 16 de jul. de 2015 a la(s) 7:37 p. m., Edward Galvez egal...@wikimedia.org escribió: Congratulations! On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Katy Love kl...@wikimedia.org wrote: Congratulations Patricio and Alice!! Katy On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Christophe Henner christophe.hen...@gmail.com wrote: Congrats Patricio and Alice. Jan-Bart when are you buying rounds? Le 16 juil. 2015 5:12 PM, Pierre-Selim pierre-se...@huard.info a écrit : Congrats Patricio and Alice! And thank you Jan-Bart :) 2015-07-16 17:08 GMT-05:00 Gregory Varnum gregory.var...@gmail.com : Congratulations (and condolences) to Patricio and Alice! Good news. :) Thank you Jan-Bart for your service as Chair and for staying for sticking around for the transition. :) -greg ___ Sent from my iPhone - a more detailed response may be sent later. On Jul 16, 2015, at 5:04 PM, Jan-Bart de Vreede jdevre...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello Everyone I am happy to inform you that the Board has unanimously appointed a new Chair and Vice Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Patricio Lorente will be the new Chair and Alice Wiegand will be the new Vice-Chair. Both have several.years of experience on the board and we are confident that they will help the board grow and be successful in the coming years. Personally I am looking forward to helping them get acquainted with their new role in the coming months as my time on the Wikimedia Board ends in December. I hope you can join me in congratulating them on their new position and wish them success in the challenges facing them. Jan-Bart de Vreede Wikimedia Board of Trustees ___ 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 -- Pierre-Selim ___ 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 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,
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Portugal's Board
Congratulations to our friends from Portugal! We are very happy to hear such good news. The best wishes from the Brazilian User Group. On Thursday, July 9, 2015, Salvador A salvador1...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations WMPT! We are happy to hear you are starting to move forward. We are waiting to hear more from you in the future. Best! El jul 8, 2015 2:35 a.m., Joao Miguel Vasconcelos mvasconcell...@gmail.com javascript:; escribió: Dear members of the international Wikimedia Community, I would like to announce that Wikimedia Portugal’s General Assembly has elected a Board, as well as other statutory positions. The Board is now comprised of: João Vasconcelos – President André Barbosa – Vice President Cristina Couto Soares – Secretary The official posts are compliant with legal requirements of Wikimedia Portugal, as a legal entity. However, according to an internal regulation change, the activity of Wikimedia Portugal will be coordinated without a hierarchical structure, with neither fixed positions nor formal responsibilities. Members are able to form temporary working groups for specific projects and to collaborate in areas such as: Coordination, Outreach, Communications, Computing activities, Treasury, Fund-raising and other actions. Main coordination of activities will be made through an online collaborative platform, which enables communication between members, such as organizing tasks. I’ll oversee these activities as executive coordinator. This platform should be publicly accessible for the purposes of transparency, visibility of activities, and to encourage new members to participate in the Chapter activities. Regards, Joao -- Joao Vasconcelos *Wikimedia Portugal* ___ 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 javascript:; 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 javascript:; ?subject=unsubscribe 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
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: A new structure for WMF Community Engagement
Anasuya, it was a pleasure to take profit from your wisdom and joy. I hope to see you recovered as soon as possible. I'm very grateful for your kindness with Brazil! Congratulations for Luis and the team. I wish you do a good job! Vinicius Siqueira WUG Brasil On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 9:22 PM, Katie Chan katie.c...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Anasuya, thank you for the time and wisdom you have shared with us. We will miss you dearly. Luis Siko, congratulations. Looking forward to working with you in your new role. Katie On 19 February 2015 at 23:02, Gregory Varnum gregory.var...@gmail.com wrote: Anasuya - I think you know that I adore you - and I am truly sad to see you go. I look forward to seeing you around online - and hope to see you at Wikimanias - but your impact has been immense and you will be missed. :( -greg aka varnent On 19 Feb, 2015, at 5:20 PM, Anasuya Sengupta asengu...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear friends and colleagues, fellow adventurers on the Wikimedia journey - Goodbyes are overrated.[1] But since I’m sure this will be au revoir, I’ll continue: I am leaving the Foundation as head of the Grantmaking department, at the end of March. This was not an easy decision to make; this is not an easy email to write. As some of you know, I have been battling health issues over the past few months. I’ve learnt sharp and intimate truths about myself as I’ve worked to get better, and what I’ve kept coming back to is the compassionate but fierce feminist slogan around self-care and sustainability: ‘what’s the point of the revolution if we can’t dance?’[2] To reassure you all, I will be well,[3] but I need a little time and space to focus on getting my dancing legs strong again. That said, I am pleased that we have a really solid plan in place as I leave. As Lila’s email announced, Luis Villa (our current Deputy General Counsel) will be taking over the team effective immediately, and leading the organisation further in our support of Wikimedia communities worldwide. Luis brings with him a range of skills and qualities that I know will stand him, the team, and the movement in wonderful stead through it all. As a friend and colleague, I am so delighted to be supporting Luis through the next few weeks of transition. I joined the Foundation in July 2012 to oversee and implement the FDC process. Since then, I’ve had the privilege of creating and leading a department of more than twenty remarkable and passionate people who care about our mission, our communities, and the resources needed to match the two. We went from Asaf managing a small grants portfolio on his own, ably supported on occasion by Winifred, to a fully fledged grantmaking department with a spectrum of monetary and non-monetary resources. We have been able to offer these in different ways to different parts of our movement: to individual volunteers with great ideas in need of project management, to small groups experimenting with new initiatives, and to established organisations who form critical content and policy partnerships in their local contexts. We built an infrastructure for understanding our collective impact. We learned together about what our different communities are doing globally, about the successes and challenges we have, and above all: about how we can, together, create a more powerful set of outcomes for free knowledge. In doing so, I’ve had the joy of discovery,[4] of learning from and with some of the most dedicated volunteers in the world, who believe that knowledge matters. Most importantly, that it’s not only free knowledge _for_ all that we seek, but even more critically, that we believe in knowledge _from_ and _with_ all. And I’ve discovered that the nerdy, geeky, obsessed-with-data part of me found a home in this extraordinary universe, where everybody’s “unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds” can find expression.[5] I look forward to the day when my worlds find more space on Wikipedia, when 80% of the globe is represented by far more than 20% of the edits, when much more than 15% of our contributors can self-identify as women. Till then, I’ll keep fighting notability one article at a time...[6] So thank you for sharing your worlds with me, and no thanks for turning me into an obsessive Wikimedian. :-) As I have learnt with you, I know I have done so with trust, and as I have challenged you, I hope I have done so with respect. I look forward to continuing our friendships and obsessions on a wiki near you. With appreciation and gratitude, Anasuya p.s. You can find me in the future at my enWP user page (User:Anasuyas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Anasuyas) or (dare I say it) on Facebook. Longer diatribes on liff
