On Jan 14, 2019, at 3:02 PM, Nuria Ruiz
<nuria(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Many thanks for your work in these two years, Victoria. You leave the
Technology team in much better shape than you found it.
For those of you not in the know I think is worth mentioning that in her
tenure here Victoria has created the Technical Engagement team to better
attend technical contributors (already mentioned on this thread), hired a
director of security that has, in turn, build a solid security team, given
weight to MediaWiki as a platform and created a team that will steward
MediaWiki's development . She has also overseen much of the technical work
that has gone into our litigation against the NSA, has instituted a process
to better do promotions and has hired support staff that has made the work
of all of us in the department much (much!) easier.
On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 10:17 AM Chico Venancio <chicocvenancio(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Victoria,
I echo Isarra's comment here, it is the Wikimedia community loss to see you
part.
In particular, I was able to see your leadership in the formation of the
Technical Engagement team, consolidating initiatives around volunteer
developers and leveraging the work for the communities.
Wish you the best on this new challenge.
Chico Venancio
Em seg, 14 de jan de 2019 às 15:06, Isarra Yos <zhorishna(a)gmail.com>
escreveu:
Sad to see you go - from what I saw as a
volunteer, things only improved
under your leadership here. We were lucky to have you.
All the best.
-I
On 11/01/2019 00:29, Victoria Coleman wrote:
Dear all,
I have some difficult news to share.
A few months ago and completely out of the blue, an opportunity came up
for me to
exercise the full spectrum of my skills as the CEO of an early
stage mission oriented startup. It has been a mighty struggle between my
commitment to my team, the Foundation and the movement and this
opportunity to bring all my skills to bear and build something from the
ground up to do good in the world. I will not lie to you - it has not
been
easy. But ultimately I decided that I have to
give it a go and I accepted
the offer. I plan on starting there on Feb 4th so my last day at the
Foundation will be Feb 1st.
These past two years have been amongst the most enjoyable in my
professional
career. I’ve enjoyed getting to know the movement and what
fuels it and I’ve been incredibly privileged to work with a Tech team
like
no other. We have together strengthened the
technical infrastructure of
the
movement and while much work remains to be done
we have a much stronger
team in place to take the mission to the next level. And I have
personally
made friendships that will last a lifetime.
The organization I will be moving to is Atlas AI, a public benefit
corporation
supported by the Rockefeller Foundation. I will be leading an
exceptional team of AI and earth system science experts striving for
improvements in human well being through data driven insights. Our focus
areas are drawn from the UN’s sustainable development goals of no poverty
and zero hunger with emphasis on Sub Saharan Africa.
I leave behind a Technology department that I am certain is well on the
way to
achieving our vision to create the infrastructure for the free
knowledge movement. I am also pleased that during my tenure, we have
built
leaders who are equipped to take on this
challenge.
Erika Bjune will be serving as interim CTO. Erika joined us a little
over two
years ago and she has distinguished herself as one of the
finest
people leaders I have ever worked with. Both she
and Katherine will have
my
ongoing support — I will stay on in a consulting
role to Erika on
organizational matters and for the mid term planning work we have ahead
of
us in the remainder of the fiscal year. I know
that I am leaving the
Tech
team in good hands until a permanent CTO is
hired.
I want to close this difficult message with my heartfelt thanks to all
of you for
letting me be part of this incredible movement. Being a
Wikimedian is a great privilege. I wanted you to know that I’m not
walking
away from something; I am walking towards
something that is very
important to me and the world. I will miss you all. Deeply. Truly. And a
lot!
Victoria
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