+1 Great to hearing your experience. As being a new ED too (3 months now) I can indentify myself with your experience: the first month is about listening and getting to know :)
All the best for what is to come! Hope to meeting you asap! Hugs from Argentina. 2014-05-28 2:48 GMT-03:00 Nurunnaby Chowdhury <[email protected]>: > +1 > Thank you for this write-up. Happy to read..:) > > > > On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 7:24 AM, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Lila Tretikov wrote: > > >I wanted to give you an update on my first three weeks of Wikimedia > > >immersion -- this will also go on the blog. As you probably noticed, my > > >leadership approach is rooted in observation and focused discussions -- > > >this means I watch and listen more than I talk. But I expect that you > are > > >probably curious about what I have observed and learned so far, and to > > >know a little more about who I am. > > > > > > [...] > > > > Thank you for this write-up. It was nice to read. :-) > > > > >Your recommendations on areas you see as priorities for development > > >(while keeping in mind that not everything can be a priority at > > >once!); [...] > > > > I think this continues to be a huge pain point. Developer resources are > > scarce and expensive and there's often a feeling that the latest > Wikimedia > > Foundation initiatives trump all other worthwhile projects. I think we > > need to find a better way to more fairly allocate resources. > > > > As a concrete example, there continue to be dozens of Wikimedia > Foundation > > developers and other staff specifically focused on the English Wikipedia > > and sometimes Wikimedia Commons, while the other sister projects such as > > Wiktionary, Wikibooks, and Wikisource continue to receive almost no > direct > > attention. (Over the past few years, even the term "sister projects" has > > become mildly insulting. These projects are more accurately the > red-headed > > stepchild projects.) This won't happen quickly, but we must make it a > goal > > to do better in this area. > > > > MZMcBride > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > > -- > *Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive* > Administrator | Bengali Wikipedia< > http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:nhasive> > Member | IEG Committee, Wikimedia > Foundation<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/People> > Social Media Interaction Expert | The Daily > Prothom-Alo<http://www.prothom-alo.com> > Bangladesh Ambassador | Open Knowledge Foundation Network > <http://www.okfn.org> > Treasurer | Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) <http://www.bdosn.org> > Task Force Member | Mozilla Bangladesh <http://www.mozillabd.org> > fb.com/nhasive | @nhasive <http://www.twitter.com/nhasive> | Skype: > nhasive > | www.nhasive.com > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > -- Anna Torres Adell Directora Ejecutiva *A.C Wikimedia Argentina* *Imprime este correo solo si es realmente necesario* _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
