Best of luck and congratulations to all you 🤩.
Camelia on behalf of WikiDonne UG
On Mon, Aug 12, 2019, 2:33 AM Shani Evenstein <shani.even(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
A small correction to the new roles - Krishna is
Secretary and Joao is the
membership admin.
*So the new roles are like so: *
Filip Maljkovic - Chair
Susanna Mkrtchyan (Սուսաննա Մկրտչյան) - Vice Chair
Krishna Chaitanya Velaga - *Secretary*
João Alexandre Peschanski - *Membership Admin*
LiAnna Davis - Treasurer
Shani.
On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 3:16 AM Shani Evenstein <shani.even(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Dear all,
As some of you may know, I will soon be joining the Board of Trustees
(August 15), and am therefore required to resign my formal role as
Chair of
the Wikipedia & Education User Group. This
means a new vacancy had to be
filled in the board composition and a new Chair had to be appointed.
I'm happy to report that in an online board meeting earlier this month
the
board chose *Filip Maljkovic* to serve as the new
Chair of the
organization.
As for filling up vacancies -- in addition to me leaving the board,
another board member, *Ananth Subray, *has informed the board that due
to
other pressing obligations he will not be able to
continue his role as a
board member. Ananth has therefore resigned and will move to a position
of
"Adviser to the Board". I'd like to
take the opportunity to thank him
for
his service to the UG's growth in the passing
year.
With both me and Ananth leaving the board, 2 vacancies had to be filled.
The board of the W&E UG has always been a working board, keeping it
small
but with highly involved members. In order to
foster stability in the
organization and an easy as possible transition, the board has chosen to
co-opt 2 members from our UG that has always been involved and already
know
the organization well - *João Alexandre
Peschanski from Brazil, *who has
served as an adviser to the board since the UG's approval, throughout
the
board election process and ever since; and
*LiAnna Davis*, Chief
Programs
Officer and Deputy Director at *Wiki Education
Foundation*, *from the
US*.
As some may remember, LiAnna once worked for the
Education team at the
WMF
and was the one to initiate the creation of the
Education Collaborative,
which later evolved into our current UG. She has been involved in the
different stages of our formation and knows well many of the relevant
stakeholders.
Both LiAnna & João were natural choices and bring to the board a wealth
of experience running innovative EDUWiki initiatives. I have no doubt
they
will both contribute to the continued growth of
the organization, till
the
next elections at the end of 2020.
*Thus, the new Wikipedia & Education User Group **board composition is:
*
Filip Maljkovic - Chair
Susanna Mkrtchyan - Vice Chair
Krishna Chaitanya Velaga - Membership Admin
João Alexandre Peschanski - Secretary
LiAnna Davis - Treasurer
To summarize, I feel very blessed to be leaving an even stronger board
and
look forward to seeing how this organization
evolves. I'll remain
involved
as an 'adviser to the board' and will
continue contributing to EDUWiki
initiatives as a volunteer, educator, researcher and Open Education
advocate.
Best,
Shani Evenstein.
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