[Foundation-l] Announcing Philippe Beaudette as the Strategy Project Facilitator

[Sue Gardner]

Hi folks,

I am delighted to announce that the Facilitator for Wikimedia's
collaborative strategy development project will be Philippe Beaudette.

Many of you know Philippe, who is a trusted member of the Wikimedia
volunteer community.  He's a three-year member of the Board of
Trustees Election Committee, a two-year trusted administrator for the
English Wikipedia, and has twice been granted temporary administrator
status for meta for election-related activities.  He has also been a
volunteer for OTRS, where he successfully resolved some particularly
difficult complaints regarding biographies of living people.  He also
helped the Wikimedia Foundation develop the “media upload” proposal
for the Ford Foundation, which resulted, a few weeks ago, in a USD
300,000 grant for a project aimed at streamlining the process for
uploading media to Wikimedia Commons.

Outside Wikimedia, Philippe has a background in American electoral
politics, where he has worked as Deputy Campaign Manager, Operations
Manager and Technology Director on a number of state and federal
campaigns, as well as for the non-profit Progressive Alliance
Foundation.  He has also worked as a technology consultant in the
for-profit sector in the United States, Italy and the United Kingdom.

Philippe brings a number of important skills to the Facilitator role.
He is experienced facilitating discussion on wikis, mailing lists,
IRC, face-to-face and using teleconferences.  He has experience
understanding and successfully managing complex stakeholder networks.
And he has managed projects under tight timelines.  Most importantly,
he has a good, rich understanding of the mechanisms and systems used
by Wikimedia volunteers to stage discussions, achieve consensus and
make decisions.

Philippe will work from his home in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and will report
to Eugene Eric Kim, the strategy plan project manager. He will start
July 27.

Philippe will be a terrific addition to the team; I look forward to
working with him. Please join me in congratulating and welcoming him
to the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation.  And thanks again to Erik
Moeller and Jennifer Riggs for participating in the hiring interviews.

The strategy plan team will total three people: Project Manager Eugene
Eric Kim, Facilitator Philippe Beaudette, and a to-be-named Research
Analyst. I hope to be in a position to announce the Research Analyst,
within a few weeks.

Thanks,
Sue



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