New subject: What's making you happy this week? (Week of 9 July 2017)

11 Jul 2017

It's good to hear of progress with the Structured Data on Commons program,
such as in the email below.

What's making you happy this week?

Pine

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Alex Stinson &lt;astinson(a)wikimedia.org&gt;
Date: Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 10:00 AM
Subject: [Commons-l] Welcome Amanda Bittaker as the Program Manager for
Structured Commons
To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." <
wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt;gt;, Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <
commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt;
Cc: Amanda Bittaker &lt;abittaker(a)wikimedia.org&gt;

Hi Wikidata and Commons Communities,

I’m excited to let you all know that Amanda Bittaker (cc'ed) has joined the
Audiences (formerly Product) team at the Wikimedia Foundation as the
Program Manager for the Structured Data on Commons program. She will be
working closely with teams from the Wikimedia Foundation, the Wikidata team
at Wikimedia Deutschland, and the communities to complete the Alfred P.
Sloan Foundation grant [1], expanding the capabilities of Commons to make
it easier for people and institutions to find, share, and reuse Commons
content.

Many people may have met Amanda already. She joined the Foundation in
November 2014, working with the Learning & Evaluation team to help wiki
program organizers’ design, manage, and evaluate their programs. During
that time, she also partnered with engineers to build program tools such as
the Program and Events Dashboard[2] and the Global Metrics Magic Button [3].

Before joining the Foundation, Amanda worked in the international
development industry for five years, doing finance, program design,
monitoring, and evaluation. She spent two years in South America. Once upon
a time she also ran and oversaw programs at a nonprofit bicycle education
space that operated entirely by general consensus, which taught her a lot
about collaborative and transparent program management.

She is eager to work on Structured Data on Commons, helping our communities
make Commons as useful as possible, and helping to make transitions in
processes and workflows as smooth as possible.  Amanda is based in San
Francisco in the US.  You can find her on the wikis or at Wikimania or the
Wikimania hackathon in Montreal.  She can converse pretty well in English
and Spanish, and would like to practice her French more, but it is still
very basic.

Cheers,
Alex

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Sloan_Grant
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programs_%26_Events_Dashboard
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Learning_patterns/How_to_
use_the_global_metrics_magic_button
-- 
Alex Stinson
GLAM-Wiki Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads

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