Hi all,<div><br></div><div>Let me just add my thanks to all of you for organizing our community time together as well as the workshops/presentation at UNIRIO and USP.  It was a valuable few days for building our relationship, learning from early experience and planning around the Brazil Education Program (there is a lot of enthusiasm for this at UNIRIO and USP), discussing the initial analysis of the PT:WP community and generally hanging out together and getting to know each other better.  </div>
<div><br></div><div>Jessie and I also had a good meeting with an executive recruiter this morning to start the process of identifying a candidate to lead WMF&#39;s work along side you all here in Brazil.  More soon on this.</div>

<div><br></div><div>So, thanks again for spending so much of your personal time with us and we look forward to moving our collective work forward together.</div><div><br></div><div>Muito Obrigado!</div><div>Barry<br><br>
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2011/10/9 Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:rodrigo.argenton@gmail.com" target="_blank">rodrigo.argenton@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

<div style="width:100%">Falar &quot;obrigado&quot; não bastaria para agradecer e reconhecer a relevância do apoio de cada um de vocês.<br><div style="width:100%"><div style="width:100%"></div>   <div style="color:rgb(102, 102, 102)">


<div dir="ltr" style="zoom:1"><span lang="en"><i style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span>Talking</span> <span>&quot;thank you&quot;</span> <span>would not be enough</span> <span>to thank</span> <span>and recognize</span> <span>the importance of</span> <span>support from</span> <span>each of you</span></i> <span></span></span></div>


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Principalmente a dedicação da Cecília que possibilitou que o evento ocorresse no sábado. Também gostaria de pedir desculpas, em nome do grupo, pelos nossos erros.</span><span></span></span></div></div></div><div style="margin-left:40px">


 </div><div style="color:rgb(102, 102, 102);margin-left:40px"><div dir="ltr" style="zoom:1"><i><span lang="en"><span>Especially</span> <span>Cecilia</span><span>&#39;s dedication</span> <span>that</span> <span>enabled the</span> <span>event occurred</span> <span>on Saturday.</span> <span>I would also like</span> <span>to apologize</span> in the name <span>of the group,</span> <span>for our mistakes</span><span>.</span></span></i></div>


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Também às pessoas da Casa de Cultura Digital, <span lang="en"><span>Daniela, Rodrigo,</span></span> que mesmo com tão pouco tempo forneceram um espaço que nos permitiu grandes avanços em nossos processos. Desculpem por fazer o pedido tão em cima da hora, e outros erros que cometemos no processo.<br>


Aproveito essa oportunidade para dizer que todos vocês são muito bem-vindos em nossas atividades.<span lang="en"><span></span></span></div><div style="margin-left:40px">
<div dir="ltr" style="zoom:1"><div><div> </div> </div> <div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><div dir="ltr" style="zoom:1"><i><span lang="en"><span>Also the people</span> <span>from the</span> <span>Casa de Cultura</span> <span>Digital,</span> <span>Daniela, Rodrigo, that even</span> <span>with so little time</span> <span>provided</span> <span>a</span> <span>space that</span> <span>allowed us to</span> <span>great advances</span> <span>in our processes</span><span>.</span></span><span lang="en"><span></span> <span>Sorry</span> <span>for making</span> <span>the request</span> <span>on such short</span> <span>time,</span> <span>and other</span> <span>mistakes we made</span> <span>in the process.</span></span></i></div>


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<span lang="en"><span>We also</span> <span>take this opportunity to</span> <span>say that</span> <span>you are all very</span> <span>welcome in</span> <span>our activities.</span></span></i><br>
</div><br><br><div style="margin-left:40px"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)" lang="en"><span>Agradecimento também se estende aos membros da Wikimedia Foundation, que tem se mostrado muito abertos a discutir as ações no Brasil, e sempre buscando o alinhamento entre os dois grupos.</span></span><br>


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<i><span lang="en"><span>Thanks also</span> <span>extends</span> <span>to members of the</span> <span>Wikimedia</span> <span>Foundation, which has</span> <span>been very</span> <span>open to</span> <span>discuss the actions</span> <span>in Brazil</span><span>,</span> <span>and always looking for</span> <span>alignment</span> <span>between the</span> <span>two</span> <span>groups.</span></span></i><br>


<br><br>E uma agradecimento pessoal aos outros voluntários que participaram dos eventos. Espero que tenhamos muitos mais encontros e que o grupo venha crescer exponencialmente, S.Paulo sempre estará aberta para quem quiser nos visitar.<br>


</div><div style="margin-left:40px">   <i><span lang="en"><span>And</span> <span>a</span> <span>personal thanks</span> <span>to</span> <span>other volunteers</span> <span>who participated in events</span><span>.</span> <span>I hope we have</span> <span>many more</span> <span>meetings</span> <span>and that the group</span> <span>will</span> <span>grow exponentially</span><span>, São Paulo</span> <span>will always be open</span> <span>to anyone who wants</span> <span>to visit us.</span> </span></i><br>


</div><font color="#888888"><i><br><br>-- </i><br>Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton<br><a href="mailto:rodrigo.argenton@gmail.com" target="_blank">rodrigo.argenton@gmail.com</a><br><a href="tel:%2B55%2011%207971-8884" value="+551179718884" target="_blank">+55 11 7971-8884</a><br>


</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><font size="1">Barry Newstead</font><div><font size="1">Chief Global Development Officer</font></div><div><font size="1">Wikimedia Foundation</font></div>

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