On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Sue Gardner sgardner@wikimedia.org wrote:
I am really happy to announce two important new Wikimedia Foundation hires. Zack Exley will be Wikimedia's new Chief Community Officer, and Barry Newstead will be our Chief Global Development Officer. Both will start just before Wikimania, and will join us in Gdansk.
Aye grats both to the two new hires and to the Foundation they look like great choices.
Without trying a risk a sidetrack to much: I have to agree with the idea of the fundraising being with everyone else here and I'm really happy to see that. With the possible exception of the major/foundation gifts (which you could I guess separate off but it would be odd to have them separate from the rest of fundraising I think) our donors OUR our community in all ways. Not only do our readers and editors donate themselves (from what I understand that is the majority (i.e the annual campaign) but also the volunteers themselves are donors at least in my mind even without any monetary support. Their time is what makes us good.
James Alexander james.alexander@rochester.edu jamesofur@gmail.com