Hi education folks,
I would like to send the news of the two new contractors of the education
program in Brazil here as well. See the message bellow about Rodrigo and
Célio - both are here at the education mailing list. Congratulations to
both!
Best wishes,
Tom
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From: Oona Castro <ocastro(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 2013/7/12
Subject: Welcome Celio Costa and Rodrigo Padula
To: "Staff (All)" <wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Everton Zanella Alvarenga <everton.alvarenga(a)okfn.org>
Dear all
[glup]
For his position, we have decided to open two part time positions: one for
the coordination of the education program and partnerships and one for
outreach.
We were lucky for the quality of candidates that applied for the jobs and
even more lucky to have hired Rodrigo Padula and Celio Costa.
Be very welcome, Rodrigo and Celio! And I hope we can do a wonderful job
together.
*Rodrigo Padula*
Rodrigo Padula is a researcher at the Tércio Pacitti Computational Research
and Applications Institute NCE/UFRJ, where he leads initiatives and
implementation of the Open Source Technologies Laboratory - LAPTEL - and
works with research in the field of technology applied to education,
researching better ways of using information technologies in educational
practices He’s been an activist in the Latin American open source movement
for a long time and is an active member in a variety of projects since the
90’s. For almost 8 years he’s been collaborating with Mozilla Foundation,
promoting Web technology and internet freedom. When not in front of
computer practices Brazilian JiuJitsu and enjoy the beauties of nature
practicing trekking, camping, scuba-diving and snowboarding.
I’m very happy to have Rodrigo in our team. Throughout the selection
process, Rodrigo called our attention for his experience with different
online communities (he had also been a Fedora ambassador and community
manager for Latin America), spreads the OLPC - One Laptop per Child project
talking to and training teachers in several Brazilian states. Activist for
free technologies and knowledge, Rodrigo has attended and organized a lot
of events and projects to integrate technology and education. Besides this,
as I hope you’ll have the chance to see through your own eyes, he’s a very
creative professional, with lots of ideas and proposals. At a moment in
which not only the job position is going from one hand to another, but also
we’re changing the structure of the education team in Brazil (bringing a
person to outreach and build capacity among new editors) as well as on the
way we’ll be established in Brazil (with a local partnership and grant),
having someone with so many great ideas for new strategies seems awesome to
us: we’ll have the chance to look back at our work and evaluate what we can
and want to do, and follow up with the very best of what we’ve done so far
and start up new approaches too.
His email at Wikimedia is rodrigopadula AT
wikimedia.org
*Celio Costa*
Celio Costa Filho ([[Usuário:Sturm]]) at PT-WP is a wikipedian since 2004
(holding an account since 2005) and one of the most active editors in the
community. He has created thousands of articles and is one of the top 15
most active users in the history of Portuguese Wikipedia (
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaPT.htm). Celio holds a
bachelor degree on History and Linguistics from University of Campinas
(UNICAMP), was a professor for many years, when he experienced to promote
the use of wiki in educational environments and institutions. He’s
currently a consultant for the University of São Paulo, creating and
developing a wiki for the Medicin School.
Also, Celio has been active in the Wikimedia Brazilian movement for many
years and is on the avant-guard on the use of Wikipedia as an educational
resource with universities and high-schools. He was one of the volunteers
that started up this partnership with Peretz school, which has been growing
and was featured on Brazilian media more than once. He had also been a
campus and online ambassador in the Education Program, and led capacity
building activities for professors, demonstrating an awesome didactics and
commitment with proposed activities.
We are very happy to count on Celio’s work and knowledge. As a volunteer,
he was already involved in the development of a lot of activities aiming at
the growth of Wikimedia projects and is very familiar with both the
academic and the Wikimedia world.
His email at Wikimedia is celiocosta AT
wikimedia.org
best
Oona
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