Hi folks,
It’s my great pleasure to tell you that Rachel diCerbo is joining us as Director of Community Engagement (Product), starting today. In this role, Rachel will manage the community liaison team (Keegan Peterzell, Sherry Snyder, Nick Wilson, and Erica Litrenta) and ensure that our technical projects receive community engagement support throughout their development.
Rachel discovered her love for collaborative communities with Couchsurfing. When she joined the community in 2005, Couchsurfing was a small non-profit, with essential functions being filled by volunteers. This included responding to safety issues: staying at someone else’s home or hosting a stranger carries risks, some obvious, some less so. Rachel founded and led the community’s all-volunteer safety team. She was also a member of the non-profit’s Board of Directors from 2007-2011.
After volunteering for two years, she joined the organization full-time as Head of Trust & Safety in 2008. She was responsible for enacting policies related to incident reporting, profile removal, and other safety issues, and handled any high level legal issues and communications related to Couchsurfing member safety. She implemented training, documentation, and case review processes for her team.
As part of her role, she also directly interfaced with Couchsurfing’s engineering team and helped scope functionality related to safety & moderation. The work on the safety team also equipped her well for working across culture and languages, as issues would often arise around differing cultural sensitivities. She’s travelled to 38 countries and lived on 5 continents.
Prior to Couchsurfing, Rachel pursued a passion for theater while temping in various roles for various companies. Her additional interests include digital rights, women’s rights and safety worldwide, and scuba diving. In her spare time, she seeks to perfect her pulled pork recipe, sews, and reads all the things.
Rachel is new to the community, and due to the nature of her role, she’ll be spending some time just learning how to edit and how things work in our weird & wonderful world. She’s planning a face-to-face meeting with her team the week of June 9th and will be attending WikiConference USA later this week.
Please join me in welcoming Rachel to the Wikimedia Foundation and to the community.
Warmly,
Erik
PS: Big thanks to everyone who’s been part of the search process, to the liaison team for doing awesome work in an emerging structure, and to Philippe, Maggie and Howie for all their work in bootstrapping the team, and for supporting Rachel as she steps into the role. :-)
Welcome Rachel. Glad to have you here.
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi folks,
It’s my great pleasure to tell you that Rachel diCerbo is joining us as Director of Community Engagement (Product), starting today. In this role, Rachel will manage the community liaison team (Keegan Peterzell, Sherry Snyder, Nick Wilson, and Erica Litrenta) and ensure that our technical projects receive community engagement support throughout their development.
Rachel discovered her love for collaborative communities with Couchsurfing. When she joined the community in 2005, Couchsurfing was a small non-profit, with essential functions being filled by volunteers. This included responding to safety issues: staying at someone else’s home or hosting a stranger carries risks, some obvious, some less so. Rachel founded and led the community’s all-volunteer safety team. She was also a member of the non-profit’s Board of Directors from 2007-2011.
After volunteering for two years, she joined the organization full-time as Head of Trust & Safety in 2008. She was responsible for enacting policies related to incident reporting, profile removal, and other safety issues, and handled any high level legal issues and communications related to Couchsurfing member safety. She implemented training, documentation, and case review processes for her team.
As part of her role, she also directly interfaced with Couchsurfing’s engineering team and helped scope functionality related to safety & moderation. The work on the safety team also equipped her well for working across culture and languages, as issues would often arise around differing cultural sensitivities. She’s travelled to 38 countries and lived on 5 continents.
Prior to Couchsurfing, Rachel pursued a passion for theater while temping in various roles for various companies. Her additional interests include digital rights, women’s rights and safety worldwide, and scuba diving. In her spare time, she seeks to perfect her pulled pork recipe, sews, and reads all the things.
Rachel is new to the community, and due to the nature of her role, she’ll be spending some time just learning how to edit and how things work in our weird & wonderful world. She’s planning a face-to-face meeting with her team the week of June 9th and will be attending WikiConference USA later this week.
Please join me in welcoming Rachel to the Wikimedia Foundation and to the community.
Warmly,
Erik
PS: Big thanks to everyone who’s been part of the search process, to the liaison team for doing awesome work in an emerging structure, and to Philippe, Maggie and Howie for all their work in bootstrapping the team, and for supporting Rachel as she steps into the role. :-)
-- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
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On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi folks,
It’s my great pleasure to tell you that Rachel diCerbo is joining us as Director of Community Engagement (Product), starting today. In this role, Rachel will manage the community liaison team (Keegan Peterzell, Sherry Snyder, Nick Wilson, and Erica Litrenta) and ensure that our technical projects receive community engagement support throughout their development.
Welcome to Wikimedia, Rachel!
I'm looking forward to you getting to know everyone and building our department.
I'd like to extend a special thanks to Erik, Howie, Maggie and Philippe for their dedication to getting this department set up, understanding and embracing the importance of community engagement in software development. We've work ahead of us :)
Welcome & Congratulation Rachel!
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Keegan Peterzell kpeterzell@wikimedia.orgwrote:
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi folks,
It’s my great pleasure to tell you that Rachel diCerbo is joining us as Director of Community Engagement (Product), starting today. In this role, Rachel will manage the community liaison team (Keegan Peterzell, Sherry Snyder, Nick Wilson, and Erica Litrenta) and ensure that our technical projects receive community engagement support throughout their development.
Welcome to Wikimedia, Rachel!
I'm looking forward to you getting to know everyone and building our department.
I'd like to extend a special thanks to Erik, Howie, Maggie and Philippe for their dedication to getting this department set up, understanding and embracing the importance of community engagement in software development. We've work ahead of us :)
-- Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Product Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Welcome, Rachel. Congratulations on your new job!
Birgit
2014-05-28 2:26 GMT+02:00 Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org:
Hi folks,
It’s my great pleasure to tell you that Rachel diCerbo is joining us as Director of Community Engagement (Product), starting today. In this role, Rachel will manage the community liaison team (Keegan Peterzell, Sherry Snyder, Nick Wilson, and Erica Litrenta) and ensure that our technical projects receive community engagement support throughout their development.
Rachel discovered her love for collaborative communities with Couchsurfing. When she joined the community in 2005, Couchsurfing was a small non-profit, with essential functions being filled by volunteers. This included responding to safety issues: staying at someone else’s home or hosting a stranger carries risks, some obvious, some less so. Rachel founded and led the community’s all-volunteer safety team. She was also a member of the non-profit’s Board of Directors from 2007-2011.
After volunteering for two years, she joined the organization full-time as Head of Trust & Safety in 2008. She was responsible for enacting policies related to incident reporting, profile removal, and other safety issues, and handled any high level legal issues and communications related to Couchsurfing member safety. She implemented training, documentation, and case review processes for her team.
As part of her role, she also directly interfaced with Couchsurfing’s engineering team and helped scope functionality related to safety & moderation. The work on the safety team also equipped her well for working across culture and languages, as issues would often arise around differing cultural sensitivities. She’s travelled to 38 countries and lived on 5 continents.
Prior to Couchsurfing, Rachel pursued a passion for theater while temping in various roles for various companies. Her additional interests include digital rights, women’s rights and safety worldwide, and scuba diving. In her spare time, she seeks to perfect her pulled pork recipe, sews, and reads all the things.
Rachel is new to the community, and due to the nature of her role, she’ll be spending some time just learning how to edit and how things work in our weird & wonderful world. She’s planning a face-to-face meeting with her team the week of June 9th and will be attending WikiConference USA later this week.
Please join me in welcoming Rachel to the Wikimedia Foundation and to the community.
Warmly,
Erik
PS: Big thanks to everyone who’s been part of the search process, to the liaison team for doing awesome work in an emerging structure, and to Philippe, Maggie and Howie for all their work in bootstrapping the team, and for supporting Rachel as she steps into the role. :-)
-- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
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Welcome Rachel!
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Birgit Müller birgit.mueller@wikimedia.dewrote:
Welcome, Rachel. Congratulations on your new job!
Birgit
2014-05-28 2:26 GMT+02:00 Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org:
Hi folks,
It’s my great pleasure to tell you that Rachel diCerbo is joining us as Director of Community Engagement (Product), starting today. In this role, Rachel will manage the community liaison team (Keegan Peterzell, Sherry Snyder, Nick Wilson, and Erica Litrenta) and ensure that our technical projects receive community engagement support throughout their development.
Rachel discovered her love for collaborative communities with Couchsurfing. When she joined the community in 2005, Couchsurfing was a small non-profit, with essential functions being filled by volunteers. This included responding to safety issues: staying at someone else’s home or hosting a stranger carries risks, some obvious, some less so. Rachel founded and led the community’s all-volunteer safety team. She was also a member of the non-profit’s Board of Directors from 2007-2011.
After volunteering for two years, she joined the organization full-time as Head of Trust & Safety in 2008. She was responsible for enacting policies related to incident reporting, profile removal, and other safety issues, and handled any high level legal issues and communications related to Couchsurfing member safety. She implemented training, documentation, and case review processes for her team.
As part of her role, she also directly interfaced with Couchsurfing’s engineering team and helped scope functionality related to safety & moderation. The work on the safety team also equipped her well for working across culture and languages, as issues would often arise around differing cultural sensitivities. She’s travelled to 38 countries and lived on 5 continents.
Prior to Couchsurfing, Rachel pursued a passion for theater while temping in various roles for various companies. Her additional interests include digital rights, women’s rights and safety worldwide, and scuba diving. In her spare time, she seeks to perfect her pulled pork recipe, sews, and reads all the things.
Rachel is new to the community, and due to the nature of her role, she’ll be spending some time just learning how to edit and how things work in our weird & wonderful world. She’s planning a face-to-face meeting with her team the week of June 9th and will be attending WikiConference USA later this week.
Please join me in welcoming Rachel to the Wikimedia Foundation and to the community.
Warmly,
Erik
PS: Big thanks to everyone who’s been part of the search process, to the liaison team for doing awesome work in an emerging structure, and to Philippe, Maggie and Howie for all their work in bootstrapping the team, and for supporting Rachel as she steps into the role. :-)
-- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
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Welcome Rachel!
Erik (or someone else), is there a succinct description of the mission of the Community Engagement and Community Advocacy departments, and/or especially a summary of the difference between their roles? Your e-mail from December included some of this information, I'm just curious if it has been codified in a way that would allow an outsider to quickly grok the split.
Thanks!
Hi Nathan,
Succinctly, at a 30,000 foot level:
The Community Engagement team (staffed with Community Liaisons and the Director of Community Engagement, Product) leads the efforts to engage the community around the development and deployment of new tools and product/features for the projects.
The Community Advocacy team (staffed with Community Advocates and the Director, Community Advocacy) leads engagement with the community around strategic change management and major policy rollouts (Terms of Use, Privacy Policy) and serves as an entry point for things related to governance functions (Arbcoms, Checkusers and Oversighters, etc).
The descriptions of the work of each team can be found in more depth in the appendix to WMF's FDC submission. [1].
Best, pb
[1] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/Wikime...
*Philippe Beaudette * \ Director, Community Advocacy \ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. T: 1-415-839-6885 x6643 | philippe@wikimedia.org | : @Philippewikihttps://twitter.com/Philippewiki
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
Welcome Rachel!
Erik (or someone else), is there a succinct description of the mission of the Community Engagement and Community Advocacy departments, and/or especially a summary of the difference between their roles? Your e-mail from December included some of this information, I'm just curious if it has been codified in a way that would allow an outsider to quickly grok the split.
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Perfect. Thanks as always Philippe for being awesome.
Philippe Beaudette, 28/05/2014 19:27:
The descriptions of the work of each team can be found in more depth in the appendix to WMF's FDC submission. [1].
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/Wikime...
«We support the rollouts of major Foundation initiatives - such as software changes or site policy updates [...] among them the VisualEditor beta launch» https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/Wikimedia_Foundation/Proposal_form/Ongoing_work_areas#Community_Advocacy
Nemo
Right, we did that last year. It occurred to me after I sent that that it wasn't up to date on that section, but you're quite correct. That work has now transitioned to the CE team :)
pb
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On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.comwrote:
Philippe Beaudette, 28/05/2014 19:27:
The descriptions of the work of each team can be found in more depth in the appendix to WMF's FDC submission. [1].
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/ 2013-2014_round2/Wikimedia_Foundation/Proposal_form/ Ongoing_work_areas#Legal_and_Community_Advocacy
«We support the rollouts of major Foundation initiatives - such as software changes or site policy updates [...] among them the VisualEditor beta launch» https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/ 2013-2014_round2/Wikimedia_Foundation/Proposal_form/ Ongoing_work_areas#Community_Advocacy
Nemo
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