[Fwd: Welcome to our three new board members]

Voor wie het nog niet wist;

Oscar, ja, onze Oscar, is "Board member" van de Wikimedia Foundation
geworden.

Proficiat Oscar.

Kate en Jan-Bart van Kennisnet ook.

Groet,
Walter

PS: het zijn steward verkiezingen en Effe doet ook mee. Niet dat hij ze
nodig heeft maar ik weet uit persoonlijke ervaring dat het zeer leuk is
om enorm veel stemmen te krijgen. (de anderen verdienen ook aandacht
natuurlijk)
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2006-2#Effe_iets_anders


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Onderwerp: Welcome to our three new board members
Datum: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:51:04 +0100
Van: florencedevouard <anthere-/[email protected]>
Antwoord-naar: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
<foundation-l-AeOJrEpdGNeGglJvpFV4uA-XMD5yJDbdMReXY1tMh2IBg@public.gmane.org>
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Dear Community,

A few days ago, I wrote you a "short" email to give you feedback on the
last board meeting, which occured in Florida. Reference:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-December/011869.html

As I promised, we welcome today 2 new board members, whom most of you
already know, Mindspillage and Oscar (also known irl as Kat Walsh (us
citizen, lady), Oscar van Dillen (dutch citizen, gentleman). Welcome to
you both.

Tim Shell has chosen to resign from the board, effective 15th of
december. At this date, he will be replaced by Jan-Bart de Vreede.

I would like first to give a special thank you to Tim Shell, whom I did
not know at all 2 years ago, and whom I learned to appreciate. Tim has
seen the birth of Wikipedia, be part of the first 4 years of life of the
Foundation, and I hope he will keep an oldbie eye on it. Thank you Tim,
and prosit (tchin, santé etc...).

Let me introduce you Jan-Bart. We wanted to choose a more external guy,
who could have another view on
our whole organisation. You may consider him external, since he hardly
has any edits  :-) , was not member of any of the internal cabal mailing
lists... so, it is our first attempt to introduce the "outside" in here.
At the same time, he is not a stranger. Many of us already met him, he
was at the two wikimania. And several of us have been talking with him
quite a bit in the past. Most recently, he got involved in the ED search
committee (so, was unofficially already acting as an advisory board
member). His name came as an evidence to us.
He is a young man of 36 (which is still younger than I). Married, two
kids. Dutch (which means we have two dutch guys on the board...). He
studied Business Administration at the Rotterdam School of Management
(which may definitly be an asset in our organisation). He works for
Kennisnet Foundation, THE dutch organisation for ICT use in Education.

Jan-Bart put a short bio about him on meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jan-Bart


So... I hope it is all good news for everyone. I am really glad we make
that step. Welcome Kat, Oscar and Jan-Bart. And thank you Tim.

Ref: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Board_expansion

Ant

aka Florence Devouard
ChairChick of Wikimedia Foundation

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Contact: walter AT wikizine DOT org
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