Thanks to Florence for the kind words and to everyone else for the warm welcome. I'm glad to see my "honeymoon" as a new board member lasted about an hour before I became the subject of a vigorous back-and-forth on foundation-l. ;-) First let me say that I'm really excited about my new role. This community has done amazing things over the past seven years, creating projects that touch hundreds of millions of people around the world. It's really an honor for me to serve you and contribute in whatever way I can. As for Thomas's question, I've been using en.wikipedia for years and even edit a little (recently as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Stu), but was certainly not invited to join the board because of my edit count. I haven't spent as much time as I'd like on the other projects and am looking forward to exploring them over the coming months. As for foundation-l, I've been on it since last year (via gmane) and generally enjoy the give-and-take, though I do take holidays from it when the signal-to-noise ratio drops. Thanks again for the welcome. Please feel free to contact me at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Stu or stu(a)wikimedia.org. I'm chasing a 10-month old child around these days, so it may take me a while to respond, but I'll do my best. -stu PS -- Please remember that WP:DONTBITE applies to new board members too! _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Thanks to Florence for the kind words and to everyone else for the warm welcome. I'm glad to see my "honeymoon" as a new board member lasted about an hour before I became the subject of a vigorous back-and-forth on foundation-l. ;-)