Ahead of the formal press release on US1, I wanted to maket the Foundation and Community aware of the following.
Dr. Dusty Delso has been appointed as the CEO of the Wolf Mountain Group and the Wikimedia Foundation point of contact for all business and funding issues.
Dr. Delso has left his position as the head of the Cherokee Nation Culture and Education programs and accepted his new role effective October 2, 2006. He remains the Dean of our School of Information Technology and our University and higher education programs and remains heavily engaged in Cherokee Nation and Federal Programs for our people. I will still update the Machine Translation meta project but have turned over all WMG and Wikipedia project issues to him and Bryan Sparks, both of whom are now managing Wolf Mountain Group. I remain however, the largest shareholder and chairman (though I will be busy with another company which was just acquired and I will be focued on this about 80% of the time from now on).
I doubt Dr. Delso will dialouge on this list much or become involved heavily in community issues since he will be focused almost exclusively on Federally funded programs for our Native American Languages programs with the Federal Government involving Wikipedia and the Native Tribal Leaders and Linguists. I will be available for any projects involving machine translation for any languages and hadling all technical matters with the WikiTrans program. The Foundation may contact him directly if they wish to engage in discussions and joint opportunities.
Our projects involving Wikipedia content are moving to the next phase with the Federal Government and deployment to the various tribes in North America.
Love you all,
Jeff