Hi folks,
I would like to thank all of you who have contacted me on and off-list with your warm wishes.
Working with you and so many other community members is what made this job so special for me over the years.
I will miss our collaborations and hope we’ll get a chance to work together again down the line.
And yes, I hope to be able to contribute new content as a volunteer, now that I will have more time for this type of work.
In the meantime, I invite you to continue to work with others to grow ‘a culture of kindness’ (1) in all that you do, so that our movement can reach its full potential — the real opportunity ahead is a lot more about nurturing a welcoming and productive culture than it is about building technology, and we sometimes forget that.
Thanks again for reaching out to me, and for being such great partners — I look forward to more great collaborations with many of you down the line. :)
Regards as ever,
Fabrice
(1) A Culture of Kindness https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/12/23/a-culture-of-kindness/ https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/12/23/a-culture-of-kindness/
P.S.: Sorry about my previous email, which was intended to be sent privately.
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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 20:50:55 -0300 From: Oona Castro <oonacastro@gmail.com mailto:oonacastro@gmail.com> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org mailto:wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell Message-ID: <CAOLju7C9=MQh3quc0U+m-9U0u5eVfo2vxOZGRhDdfoFOW7G+cA@mail.gmail.com mailto:CAOLju7C9=MQh3quc0U+m-9U0u5eVfo2vxOZGRhDdfoFOW7G+cA@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Dear Fabrice, it was a pleasure to collaborate with your work. You did a very good job and I enjoyed the atmosphere you created with your colleagues. wish you all the best Oona
2015-06-20 18:48 GMT-03:00 attolippip <attolippip@gmail.com mailto:attolippip@gmail.com>:
May you fare well!
We have published a few blog posts and you have been a great help to us. Wish you all the best!
Best regards, antanana ED of Wikimedia Ukraine
On 19-Jun-2015, at 5:30 am, Subhashish Panigrahi <subhashish@cis-india.org mailto:subhashish@cis-india.org> wrote:
Hi Fabrice,
It feels terribly bad to learn that you're leaving the foundation. But I'm sure we would not miss you in all your community activities in a personal capacity. Wish you all the best for the future projects.
Best! Subha
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 10:30:49 +0200 From: Andrea Zanni <zanni.andrea84@gmail.com mailto:zanni.andrea84@gmail.com> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org mailto:wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell Message-ID: <CAC=VxyYagtD-qmq7CNuVn8tQREnB6gjVWW9Vp0rn8jG=UDw7Ew@mail.gmail.com mailto:CAC=VxyYagtD-qmq7CNuVn8tQREnB6gjVWW9Vp0rn8jG=UDw7Ew@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Goodbye Fabrice, and thank you for all your enthusiasm. It was very appreciated :-) Good luck!
Aubrey
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 09:20:42 +0600 From: NC Hasive <nhasive@wikimedia.org.bd mailto:nhasive@wikimedia.org.bd> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org mailto:wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell Message-ID: <CAPRuq1Ojw=5rX2tMv+DNr8fdJ2LUqqS0Py2f-L6RxHCMD_R4Pg@mail.gmail.com mailto:CAPRuq1Ojw=5rX2tMv+DNr8fdJ2LUqqS0Py2f-L6RxHCMD_R4Pg@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Hi Fabrice,
Thanks for all your all type of support at WMF! Best of luck..
-Hasive @nhasive WM Bangladesh
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 21:06:29 +0100 From: Stevie Benton stevie.benton@wikimedia.org.uk To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell
Fabrice, you may not recall my name or know me well, but your thoughtful contributions to Wikimedia comms over the past years have been greatly appreciated. Seeing your name appear in my inbox has always been an indication of something worth reading and giving attention to.
I wish you the best for the future, and hope you appreciate that you will be missed.
Very best wishes,
Stevie
On 18 June 2015 at 18:18, Gregory Varnum gregory.varnum@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you Fabrice for all of your work over the years! We will miss you - but hopefully will still see you around the project wikis. :)
-greg (User:Varnent)
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Fabrice Florin fflorin@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello everyone,
After three great years working at the foundation, the time has come to say goodbye.
I will be leaving WMF at the end of June, to spend more time with my family, focus on personal art projects and consult part-time on worthy causes.
I would like to thank all the community and team members I have had the pleasure to work with over the years. It has been an honor to serve our movement together — and to help our contributors share free knowledge
with
each other and the world.
I’m particularly grateful to Katherine Maher and our WMF communications team for being such wonderful collaborators. I really enjoyed working
with
them to manage and edit the Wikimedia blog, help grow our team and
publish
some great stories together, to celebrate the heroes of our movement.
Going forward, WMF's Juliet Barbara will manage the Wikimedia blog, in close collaboration with Ed Erhart. As many of you know, Ed is the former editor-in-chief of the Wikipedia Signpost and has now joined our team for the summer. I've worked with him for nearly a month now and find him uniquely qualified for this project. Starting today, please contact them directly with any questions about the blog (they are Cc:d on this
message).
After June 30, you can reach me at fabriceflorin@gmail.com — or follow me on Twitter ( @fabriceflorin ) or on my blog (
).
The last three years have been an incredible experience for me, and I am grateful for all that I have learned from so many of you. You’ve been an inspiration to me and I have many fond memories of our time together. I wish you all the best with the next chapter of the Wikimedia movement and can’t wait to see what you’ll come up with next.
Best regards,
Fabrice
Fabrice Florin Movement Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation