Voor wie het nog niet wist;
Oscar, ja, onze Oscar, is "Board member" van de Wikimedia Foundation geworden.
Proficiat Oscar.
Kate en Jan-Bart van Kennisnet ook.
Groet, Walter
PS: het zijn steward verkiezingen en Effe doet ook mee. Niet dat hij ze nodig heeft maar ik weet uit persoonlijke ervaring dat het zeer leuk is om enorm veel stemmen te krijgen. (de anderen verdienen ook aandacht natuurlijk) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2006-2#Effe_iets_anders
-------- Originele bericht -------- Onderwerp: Welcome to our three new board members Datum: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:51:04 +0100 Van: florencedevouard anthere-/LvEknQFLaBAfugRpC6u6w@public.gmane.org Antwoord-naar: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l-AeOJrEpdGNeGglJvpFV4uA@public.gmane.org Nieuwsgroepen: gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation
Dear Community,
A few days ago, I wrote you a "short" email to give you feedback on the last board meeting, which occured in Florida. Reference: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-December/011869.html
As I promised, we welcome today 2 new board members, whom most of you already know, Mindspillage and Oscar (also known irl as Kat Walsh (us citizen, lady), Oscar van Dillen (dutch citizen, gentleman). Welcome to you both.
Tim Shell has chosen to resign from the board, effective 15th of december. At this date, he will be replaced by Jan-Bart de Vreede.
I would like first to give a special thank you to Tim Shell, whom I did not know at all 2 years ago, and whom I learned to appreciate. Tim has seen the birth of Wikipedia, be part of the first 4 years of life of the Foundation, and I hope he will keep an oldbie eye on it. Thank you Tim, and prosit (tchin, santé etc...).
Let me introduce you Jan-Bart. We wanted to choose a more external guy, who could have another view on our whole organisation. You may consider him external, since he hardly has any edits :-) , was not member of any of the internal cabal mailing lists... so, it is our first attempt to introduce the "outside" in here. At the same time, he is not a stranger. Many of us already met him, he was at the two wikimania. And several of us have been talking with him quite a bit in the past. Most recently, he got involved in the ED search committee (so, was unofficially already acting as an advisory board member). His name came as an evidence to us. He is a young man of 36 (which is still younger than I). Married, two kids. Dutch (which means we have two dutch guys on the board...). He studied Business Administration at the Rotterdam School of Management (which may definitly be an asset in our organisation). He works for Kennisnet Foundation, THE dutch organisation for ICT use in Education.
Jan-Bart put a short bio about him on meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jan-Bart
So... I hope it is all good news for everyone. I am really glad we make that step. Welcome Kat, Oscar and Jan-Bart. And thank you Tim.
Ref: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Board_expansion
Ant
aka Florence Devouard ChairChick of Wikimedia Foundation