On behalf of Wikimedia France, welcome to the mad house Giuliana :) We're a crazy but lovely bunch, and we enjoy lame puns.
Best, -- Christophe On 2 December 2014 at 16:28, Sydney Poore <[email protected]> wrote: > Giuliana Mancini, welcome to the Wikimedia movement. :-) > > > Sydney Poore > User:FloNight > Member of FDC > > > Sydney Poore > User:FloNight > Wikipedian in Residence > at Cochrane Collaboration > > On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:31 AM, Andrea Zanni <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hello everybody, > > > > It's with great pleasure that I announce Giuliana Mancini as the new > > Executive Director of Wikimedia Italia. > > > > It took us over 6 months to select her within a pool of 450 candidates: > it > > has been an incredibly hard work, and tough decisions were made. > > I'd like to acknowledge that one of the most active members of the > > selective committee was Alessio Guidetti aka Cotton, who recendly passed: > > it saddens us to know that he won't have the chance to see her working > with > > us. > > > > But this is a moment of joy, because the Wikimedia family just got a new > > member. > > Giuliana will help us become a more mature and structured association: > her > > deep experience and competence will be used to for make Wikimedia Italia > > scale and increase its impact in the world of free and open knowledge. > > > > Before being appointed Executive Director at Wikimedia Italia, in the > last > > 12 years, she has covered several roles of increasing commitment in the > > field of arts and culture. She spent 9 years in a grant making foundation > > where she supervised the activities of a cello academy and the concerts > of > > an ensemble of classical musicians, assisting the board in setting > > strategies and coordinating the comprehensive management. > > She participated in the board of a company in the field of Fine Arts > with a > > mandate for promotion of a multimedia exhibition, creating strategic > > relationship with Italian and foreigner museums. > > She drafted several feasibility studies and business plans for theatres > and > > other cultural institutions as well as for start up companies. > > She can speak English fluently and has a good understanding of Spanish > and > > French, and she graduated in Economics and in Law (her second degree was > > completed while working). > > > > She was officially introduced to the Wikimedia Italia assembly this > > Saturday, and this is her second week of work. > > > > Please welcome her in our incredible Wikimedia movement. > > > > Best regards, > > > > Andrea Zanni > > > > -- > > Presidente > > Wikimedia Italia > > _______________________________________________ > > 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> > _______________________________________________ > 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> > _______________________________________________ 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>
