---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sue Gardner sgardner@wikimedia.org Date: 2 June 2010 19:08 Subject: Announcing new Chief Global Development Officer and new Chief Community Officer To: WikimediaAnnounce-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Hi folks,
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.
Congratulations to both Zack and Barry! Exciting indeed. I realize these roles will be formed as they are taken on, but it seems that there is quite a bit of (intentional?) overlap. I am curious how you see that working... both roles seem to involve supporting & growing the communit(ies), perhaps in new ways. There are lots of questions that I have regarding these job descriptions too -- what does supporting the chapters mean? What does supporting the reader community mean? And so on :)
Also as I'm sure you're aware it's definitely time to update http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:Org_Chart_Without_Names.png ! (from [[wmf:staff]]
-- Phoebe