Dear all,

We wanted to thank all of you who participated in this election, voters as well as candidates who helped stir the debate around the Funds Dissemination Committee. We are aware of the responsibility that you have chosen us to take up and are looking forward to working with the other FDC members and FDC dedicated staff, as well as all the volunteers and staff in Wikimedia organisations that are taking part in the FDC process.

As first community elected members, we are bringing your voice to the FDC process and hope that you will participate as much as possible in the forthcoming debates, evaluations and assessments and support us in making the right decisions concerning funds dissemination to all entities supporting Wikimedia's mission and sharing our vision. The FDC process will only work better and develop smoothly if we all participate in it. The FDC portal on meta [1] is a good way to start learning more about the FDC and the Community participation page [2] is a good bookmark to have on your watchlist to know where your participation and feedback are needed.

In any case, should you have any questions about the FDC or the FDC process, please do ask them and we will do our best to answer them timely and accurately, along with our fellows FDC members and staff.

We want to extend our congratulations to Susanna for being reappointed as FDC Ombudsperson and to the newly (re-)elected Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, María, Phoebe and Sj. And our thanks to all members of the election committee for the tremendous work in this election.

Best,

Delphine & Cristian

[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Community_participation