On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Sue Gardner <sgardner(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hello Wikimedia community members,
This is not an easy e-mail to write, and it’s been a very hard
decision to make. But I’m writing to tell you that I’m planning to
leave my position as the Executive Director of the Wikimedia
Foundation.
Oh, Sue, if only you were posting that you were leaving forever
because everything about Wikipedia was terrible!!!!!111! -- if only
that, because then we would all know that you were really coming back
soon (though perhaps with a different username).
But no, you are as classy and thoughtful and open as always, and for
once that makes me so sad, because I will be very sad to see you go.
But! There is also a big exciting future ahead, for both you and for
Wikimedia, and I am sure that those paths will be intertwined for a
long time yet: there is work to be done.
with respect,
-- phoebe
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