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Dear all, I am delighted to announce that Wikimedia Deutschland’s Board has taken the opportunity to appoint two new members for the first time. Dr. Gabriele Theren and Peter Dewald are taking appointed seats in our board. After our general assembly decided to make way for up to 3 appointed seats, we created a profile of skills we would like to add to the board. We focussed on the future of Wikimedia Deutschland, strategically and financially, and got about 60 applications. Many of them showed impressive profiles, striving for Free Knowledge. We decided for Gabriele, who is a trained lawyer, mediator and serves as department head in the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs in the German federal state of Saxony-Anhalt. We also elected Peter who has 35 years of expertise as managing director at Apple and the software group Sage, was member of the board of Germany’s digital association Bitkom and has a lot of experience in volunteer work. Both will be members of the board until the next election by the general assembly in about one year. Please join me in welcoming Gabriele and Peter to the Wikiverse. Best regards, Tim Moritz Hector -- Tim Moritz Hector Chair of the Board Wikimedia Deutschland

Dear all, I am delighted to announce that Wikimedia Deutschland’s Board has taken the opportunity to appoint two new members for the first time. Dr. Gabriele Theren and Peter Dewald are taking appointed seats in our board. After our general assembly decided to make way for up to 3 appointed seats, we created a profile of skills we would like to add to the board. We focussed on the future of Wikimedia Deutschland, strategically and financially, and got about 60 applications. Many of them showed impressive profiles, striving for Free Knowledge. We decided for Gabriele, who is a trained lawyer, mediator and serves as department head in the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs in the German federal state of Saxony-Anhalt. We also elected Peter who has 35 years of expertise as managing director at Apple and the software group Sage, was member of the board of Germany’s digital association Bitkom and has a lot of experience in volunteer work. Both will be members of the board until the next election by the general assembly in about one year. Please join me in welcoming Gabriele and Peter to the Wikiverse. Best regards, Tim Moritz Hector -- Tim Moritz Hector Chair of the Board Wikimedia Deutschland _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>