Two new members have been added to the Wikimedia Advisory Board; Teemu Leinonen and Debbie Garside. This brings us up to 20 members.

Full bios of the new members can be found at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Advisory_Board

In summary, Debbie Garside is based in Wales and involved with ISO 639-6, GeoLang Ltd, the World Language Documentation Centre, ccNSO-GAC IDN Joint WG, IETF, and the British Standards Institute. Debbie has been involved in language standards for over 5 years. She is also a board member of the Multilingual Internet Names Consortium and is project leader for the South Slavic Culture and Trade Engine in partnership with OmegaWiki. Debbie is Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of two other companies, one offering translations, marketing and market research and the other offering entrepreneurship and ICT training as part of a European funded project.

Teemu Leinonen is based in Helsinki and leads the Learning Environments research group of the Media Lab, University of Art and Design Helsinki. The group is internationally recognized from its open source virtual learning environment called Fle3, MobilED audio wiki platform, and LeMill web community for finding, authoring and sharing learning resources. Teemu holds over a decade of experience in the field of research and development of web-based learning, computer supported collaborative learning, online cooperation, educational planning and educational politics.

Angela

-- Angela Beesley Wikimedia Advisory Board, Chair