TL;DR:

* Rosemary Rein joins the team as new Director of Learning and Evaluation [1]

* New blogpost: Evaluation helps Wikimedia leaders learn together [2]

* New Learning Day: Wikimania México [3]

Greetings Program Leaders and Evaluators!

Important updates from Learning and Evaluation:

== New Director of Learning and Evaluation: Rosemary Rein [1]==

We are happy to announce that Rosemary Rein as the Director of the Learning and Evaluation team, part of Community Engagement department at Wikimedia Foundation. Rosemary has been working with us for the past four weeks, and many have already met her in person at Wikimedia Conference workshops. Prior to joining our team, she served as Director of Learning and Knowledge Management for United Way Worldwide and as Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Creative Education Foundation and the Creative Problem Solving Institute. Her background includes global consulting for Fortune 500 and non-profit organizations in the areas of leadership, knowledge management, non profit governance and innovation. She has lived and worked in the US and Latin America as well as worked on extended project assignments in India, the UAE and South Africa. Please join us in welcoming her by leaving a message on her talk page! [1]

== New Blogpost: Evaluation helps Wikimedia leaders learn together [2] ==

If you missed the last in-person workshops, learn all about the pre conference workshops at Wikimedia Conference 2015. In this new blogpost, we share with the movement at large how the last evaluation workshop turned out, participants’ experiences and feedback, and the many resources shared throughout the conference to develop capacity in evaluation and strategic planning. Help us spread the word by commenting the blog and sharing on social media! [2]    

== New Learning Day: July 15, Wikimania México [3] ==

In the days prior to Wikimania 2015, Learning and Evaluation team will host a new learning day. Due to reduced capacity, participation in Learning Day is by invitation only and participants will have the opportunity to further engage in topics such as tracking and reporting, storytelling, organizational development, and other topics in evaluation. If you have received an invitation email, please be sure to confirm your attendance and remember to fill out the survey! If you have not yet been contacted by someone on the Learning and Evaluation team, and would like to take part, please email us at eval@wikimedia.org. You can also follow the event page on Meta [3].