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

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Oona Castro ocastro@wikimedia.org Date: 2013/7/12 Subject: Welcome Celio Costa and Rodrigo Padula To: "Staff (All)" wmfall@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Everton Zanella Alvarenga everton.alvarenga@okfn.org

Dear all

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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