[Foundation-l] Fwd: Announcing new Chief Global DevelopmentOfficer and new Chief Community Officer

[susanpgardner at gmail.com]

Terrified. For that reason, I actually did not unveil my country-of-origin to the Board until a few weeks ago. That is one of Canadians' special skills: we can walk amongst Americans, and they are completely unaware :-)

(I did tell the European board members. And Bishakha.)

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-----Original Message-----
From: Lodewijk <lodewijk at effeietsanders.org>
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 20:33:27 
To: <susanpgardner at gmail.com>; Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List<foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Announcing new Chief Global 
	DevelopmentOfficer and new Chief Community Officer

so if I understand correctly, the US is afraid of Canada? hmmm interesting
;)

2010/6/3 <susanpgardner at gmail.com>

> Canadians are good for Wikimedia because we have a, uh, healthy sensitivity
> to American cultural dominance. When Barry and I were kids, our prime
> minister famously characterized Canada as a mouse in bed with an elephant --
> no matter how friendly the elephant is, you're affected by every twitch and
> grunt ;-)
>
> I'm in Canada right now, speaking with librarians :-)
>
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> More Canadians to the staff?! I tought we already talk about that!!!
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> Good luck :)
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> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 5:23 AM, Sue Gardner <sgardner at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > Forwarding from the announce list, since it does not yet auto-forward :-)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sue
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Sue Gardner <sgardner at wikimedia.org>
> > Date: 2 June 2010 19:08
> > Subject: Announcing new Chief Global Development Officer and new Chief
> > Community Officer
> > To: WikimediaAnnounce-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> >
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I am really happy to announce two important new Wikimedia Foundation
> > hires.  Zack Exley will be Wikimedia's new Chief Community Officer,
> > and Barry Newstead will be our Chief Global Development Officer.  Both
> > will start just before Wikimania, and will join us in Gdansk.
> >
> > There will be a press release going out tomorrow, but the news isn't
> > confidential: please feel free to tell whoever you like.
> >
> > Zack Exley will be our new Chief Community Officer.  Zack joins
> > Wikimedia from the Chicago-based firm Thoughtworks where he oversaw
> > strategy and technology projects for organizations like Obama For
> > America, Rock the Vote, and Global Zero.
> >
> > Zack has a long history of mobilizing people and facilitating them
> > reaching their goals.  During the nineties, he worked as a labour
> > organizer and software developer.  In 2002, he joined MoveOn.org as
> > director of organizing, where he ran mobilization and fundraising
> > campaigns – and in the same period, helped the Howard Dean campaign
> > with its online fundraising.  Zack left MoveOn.org to become online
> > communications and organizing director for the 2004 Kerry-Edwards U.S.
> > presidential campaign, where he ran the team that raised $125 million
> > online for Kerry, and also oversaw online-to-offline organizing
> > efforts responsible for mobilizing hundreds of thousands of field
> > volunteers.  In 2005, he led internet strategy and online fundraising
> > for the UK Labour Party's 2005 election campaign, and since 2005 he
> > has acted as a senior strategist and advisor helping many
> > mission-driven organizations advance their fundraising and
> > mobilization goals, including the American Civil Liberties Union,
> > Amnesty International, the National Association for the Advancement of
> > Colored People (NAACP), the International Rescue Committee and
> > Greenpeace USA.
> >
> > Zack grew up in Connecticut and has also lived in Kenya, China and the
> > United Kingdom. He has an BA in Economics from the University of
> > Massachusetts.
> >
> > As Chief Community Officer, Zack will be responsible for developing
> > the Wikimedia Found
>
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