*Philippe Beaudette * \ Director, Community Advocacy \ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. T: 1-415-839-6885 x6643 | philippe@wikimedia.org | : @Philippewikihttps://twitter.com/Philippewiki
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Chad Horohoe chorohoe@wikimedia.orgwrote:
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 7:08 PM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
I just want to chime in here that I really enjoyed reading Molly and John's recent posts in this thread. Simply fantastic posts.
I also loved posts from Thomas, Erik, and Milos in other threads from the past day. I think this month of wikimedia-l has made me more appreciative of some of the wonderful people in the Wikimedia movement
and
I'm grateful for that.
This.
Yep.
And for anyone feeling discouraged about where we are right now, you need only consult https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/ for memories of bumpy times past that ultimately turned out pretty great. (I got curious the other evening... check out June 2007 for Florence's announcement of Sue's arrival to the Wikimedia Foundation and November 2007 and December 2007 for her transition to Executive Director. It's pretty good reading and it made me feel a bit better.)
2007 was...oh man.
I was such an immature asshat. How the heck did I never get banned?
What surprises me is how many of the names on the June 2007 archive are people we still hear from. Here's to old-timers. :)
pb