https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=James+OwenWikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki - User contributions [en]2024-03-19T09:58:14ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.42.0-wmf.22https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Archive:Press_room/WMF_Presentations&diff=75016Archive:Press room/WMF Presentations2011-11-20T20:10:58Z<p>James Owen: </p>
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<div>===Wikimedia presentations===<br />
Wikimedia Foundation presentations or slide decks delivered by staff or representatives. Presentations can be edited or altered using OpenOffice. Official marks are trademarks of the Wikimedia Foundation. <br />
[[file:Page1-800px-Wikimedia Foundation exec presentation June 2010 PDF.jpg|thumb|250px|link=]]<br />
*'''Standard Wikimedia Foundation executive presentation''', June 2010 ([[:File:Wikimedia_Foundation_exec_presentation_June_2010.odp |ODP]] or [[:File:Wikimedia_Foundation_exec_presentation_June_2010_PDF.pdf |PDF]])<br />
*"Introduction to Wikimedia Foundation" presentation to students in the M.S. Technology Management program at the University of Illinois, May 2010 ([[:File:WMF Preseo to MS-Tech May 2010.pdf |PDF]])<br />
*"Wikimania 2010 keynote presentation by WMF Executive Director, Sue Gardner, July 2010 ([[:File:Wikimania_Keynote_2010_GDANSK.odp |ODP]])<br />
* [http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Presentations Wikimedia Technical Presentations]<br />
* Wikimedia Foundation Executive Presentation to Canadian Library Association June 10, 2010 ([[:File:SUE_GARDNER_PRESENTATION_TO_LIBRARIES-1.pdf |PDF]])<br />
* Wikimania 2011 keynote presentation by WMF Executive Director, Sue Gardner, August 2011 ([[:File:Wikimania_2011.pdf |PDF]])<br />
*Imperial College- Editor Retention/Female Editors, Sue Gardner, November 2011 ([[:File:Sue_Gardner-Imperial_College_Nov._2011.pdf |PDF]])<br />
*Wikimedia-UK, Editor Retention, Sue Gardner, November 2011 ([[:File:UK_BOARD_MEETING.pdf |PDF]])<br />
*Wikimedia-DE, Image Filter & Editor Retention, Sue Gardner, November 2011 ([[:File:HANOVER_FINAL.pdf|PDF]])</div>James Owenhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Archive:Press_room/WMF_Presentations&diff=75015Archive:Press room/WMF Presentations2011-11-20T20:10:22Z<p>James Owen: </p>
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<div>===Wikimedia presentations===<br />
Wikimedia Foundation presentations or slide decks delivered by staff or representatives. Presentations can be edited or altered using OpenOffice. Official marks are trademarks of the Wikimedia Foundation. <br />
[[file:Page1-800px-Wikimedia Foundation exec presentation June 2010 PDF.jpg|thumb|250px|link=]]<br />
*'''Standard Wikimedia Foundation executive presentation''', June 2010 ([[:File:Wikimedia_Foundation_exec_presentation_June_2010.odp |ODP]] or [[:File:Wikimedia_Foundation_exec_presentation_June_2010_PDF.pdf |PDF]])<br />
*"Introduction to Wikimedia Foundation" presentation to students in the M.S. Technology Management program at the University of Illinois, May 2010 ([[:File:WMF Preseo to MS-Tech May 2010.pdf |PDF]])<br />
*"Wikimania 2010 keynote presentation by WMF Executive Director, Sue Gardner, July 2010 ([[:File:Wikimania_Keynote_2010_GDANSK.odp |ODP]])<br />
* [http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Presentations Wikimedia Technical Presentations]<br />
* Wikimedia Foundation Executive Presentation to Canadian Library Association June 10, 2010 ([[:File:SUE_GARDNER_PRESENTATION_TO_LIBRARIES-1.pdf |PDF]])<br />
* Wikimania 2011 keynote presentation by WMF Executive Director, Sue Gardner, August 2011 ([[:File:Wikimania_2011.pdf |PDF]])<br />
*Imperial College- Editor Retention/Female Editors, Sue Gardner, November 2011 ([[File:Sue_Gardner-Imperial_College_Nov._2011.pdf |PDF]])<br />
*Wikimedia-UK, Editor Retention, Sue Gardner, November 2011 ([[File:UK_BOARD_MEETING.pdf |PDF]])<br />
*Wikimedia-DE, Image Filter & Editor Retention, Sue Gardner, November 2011 ([[File:HANOVER_FINAL.pdf|PDF]])</div>James Owenhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:UK_BOARD_MEETING.pdf&diff=75014File:UK BOARD MEETING.pdf2011-11-20T20:09:54Z<p>James Owen: </p>
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<div></div>James Owenhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:HANOVER_FINAL.pdf&diff=75013File:HANOVER FINAL.pdf2011-11-20T20:09:29Z<p>James Owen: </p>
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<div></div>James Owenhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Sue_Gardner-Imperial_College_Nov._2011.pdf&diff=75012File:Sue Gardner-Imperial College Nov. 2011.pdf2011-11-20T20:04:44Z<p>James Owen: </p>
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<div></div>James Owenhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Archive:Press_room/WMF_Presentations&diff=75011Archive:Press room/WMF Presentations2011-11-20T20:02:11Z<p>James Owen: </p>
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<div>===Wikimedia presentations===<br />
Wikimedia Foundation presentations or slide decks delivered by staff or representatives. Presentations can be edited or altered using OpenOffice. Official marks are trademarks of the Wikimedia Foundation. <br />
[[file:Page1-800px-Wikimedia Foundation exec presentation June 2010 PDF.jpg|thumb|250px|link=]]<br />
*'''Standard Wikimedia Foundation executive presentation''', June 2010 ([[:File:Wikimedia_Foundation_exec_presentation_June_2010.odp |ODP]] or [[:File:Wikimedia_Foundation_exec_presentation_June_2010_PDF.pdf |PDF]])<br />
*"Introduction to Wikimedia Foundation" presentation to students in the M.S. Technology Management program at the University of Illinois, May 2010 ([[:File:WMF Preseo to MS-Tech May 2010.pdf |PDF]])<br />
*"Wikimania 2010 keynote presentation by WMF Executive Director, Sue Gardner, July 2010 ([[:File:Wikimania_Keynote_2010_GDANSK.odp |ODP]])<br />
* [http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Presentations Wikimedia Technical Presentations]<br />
* Wikimedia Foundation Executive Presentation to Canadian Library Association June 10, 2010 ([[:File:SUE_GARDNER_PRESENTATION_TO_LIBRARIES-1.pdf |PDF]])<br />
* Wikimania 2011 keynote presentation by WMF Executive Director, Sue Gardner, August 2011 ([[:File:Wikimania_2011.pdf |PDF]])<br />
*Imperial College- Editor Retention/Female Editors, Sue Gardner, November 2011 (</div>James Owenhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Policy:Travel_approval_policy&diff=68305Policy:Travel approval policy2011-09-14T00:55:31Z<p>James Owen: /* Approvals: Roles and responsibilities */ corrected to allow for either gender</p>
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==Wikimedia Foundation Travel Approvals Policy==<br />
===Purpose===<br />
The purpose of this policy is to ensure that all travel on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) is appropriate and authorized. <br />
This policy applies only to travelers whose expenses are being paid by the WMF. <br />
All travel expenses are subject to the overall travel policy: [[Travel Policy|{{fullurl:Travel Policy}}]].<br />
<br />
===Overall statement of policy===<br />
A WMF traveler is a WMF employee, board member or any other person who travels on authorized WMF business. <br />
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The traveler shall:<br />
# Become familiar with the provision of the aforementioned travel policy before departure; <br />
# Obtain prior approval for the trip as described below; and<br />
# Submit travel expense claims with necessary supporting documentation, including receipts and explanations as required. <br />
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===Procedures and guidelines===<br />
# Prior to departing on any travel on behalf of the WMF, the traveler will seek approval for the trip in writing, as per the “Approvals - roles and responsibilities” described below.<br />
# The request for approval should include: The destination for the trip, the duration, the purpose (including a list of activities or a specific agenda), as well as the approximate expected cost.<br />
# Arrangements for travel should not be made until written approval has been received.<br />
# Upon return, a travel expense claim form must be completed and signed by the individual who authorized the travel. For Board member expenses, the form will be completed and signed by the Executive Director or someone designated by them to do so.<br />
# Depending on the purpose of the trip, the approver may request a summary report from the traveler, after he/she has returned. This summary report should include accomplishments and findings that can potentially be shared with others.<br />
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===Approvals: Roles and responsibilities===<br />
# A WMF employee who will be traveling on WMF business that is out of state (for travelers located in the United States) or out of country (for travelers located outside the United States) shall require written authorization from the Executive Director;<br />
# The Executive Director who will be traveling on WMF business that is out-of-country shall require written authorization from a member of the Board of Trustees, preferably the Chair or Vice-Chair;<br />
# A member of the Board of Trustees who will be traveling on WMF business out-of-country shall require written authorization from the Chair of the Board or his/her delegate;<br />
# The Chair of the Board of Trustees who will be will be traveling on WMF business out-of-country shall require written authorization from any two other members of the Board of Trustees.<br />
# When the Executive Director or any member of the Board of Trustees travels on WMF business, he/she will write a summary report, upon return, which will be sent to the Board of Trustees.<br />
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The approver shall: <br />
# Determine whether travel is necessary; <br />
# Pre-authorize travel (in writing); and <br />
# Ensure that any expenses reimbursed or paid for by WMF are in compliance with the overall travel policy ([[Travel Policy|{{fullurl:Travel Policy}}]]) and approve expenses in accordance with this policy.<br />
[[Category:English]]</div>James Owenhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Archive:Press_room/WMF_Presentations&diff=62496Archive:Press room/WMF Presentations2011-08-05T07:49:10Z<p>James Owen: </p>
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<div>===Wikimedia presentations===<br />
Wikimedia Foundation presentations or slide decks delivered by staff or representatives. Presentations can be edited or altered using OpenOffice. Official marks are trademarks of the Wikimedia Foundation. <br />
[[file:Page1-800px-Wikimedia Foundation exec presentation June 2010 PDF.jpg|thumb|250px|link=]]<br />
*'''Standard Wikimedia Foundation executive presentation''', June 2010 ([[:File:Wikimedia_Foundation_exec_presentation_June_2010.odp |ODP]] or [[:File:Wikimedia_Foundation_exec_presentation_June_2010_PDF.pdf |PDF]])<br />
*"Introduction to Wikimedia Foundation" presentation to students in the M.S. Technology Management program at the University of Illinois, May 2010 ([[:File:WMF Preseo to MS-Tech May 2010.pdf |PDF]])<br />
*"Wikimania 2010 keynote presentation by WMF Executive Director, Sue Gardner, July 2010 ([[:File:Wikimania_Keynote_2010_GDANSK.odp |ODP]])<br />
* [http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Presentations Wikimedia Technical Presentations]<br />
* Wikimedia Foundation Executive Presentation to Canadian Library Association June 10, 2010 ([[:File:SUE_GARDNER_PRESENTATION_TO_LIBRARIES-1.pdf |PDF]])<br />
* Wikimania 2011 keynote presentation by WMF Executive Director, Sue Gardner, August 2011 ([[:File:Wikimania_2011.pdf |PDF]])</div>James Owenhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Archive:Press_room/WMF_Presentations&diff=62495Archive:Press room/WMF Presentations2011-08-05T07:40:41Z<p>James Owen: /* Wikimedia presentations */</p>
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<div>===Wikimedia presentations===<br />
Wikimedia Foundation presentations or slide decks delivered by staff or representatives. Presentations can be edited or altered using OpenOffice. Official marks are trademarks of the Wikimedia Foundation. <br />
[[file:Page1-800px-Wikimedia Foundation exec presentation June 2010 PDF.jpg|thumb|250px|link=]]<br />
*'''Standard Wikimedia Foundation executive presentation''', June 2010 ([[:File:Wikimedia_Foundation_exec_presentation_June_2010.odp |ODP]] or [[:File:Wikimedia_Foundation_exec_presentation_June_2010_PDF.pdf |PDF]])<br />
*"Introduction to Wikimedia Foundation" presentation to students in the M.S. Technology Management program at the University of Illinois, May 2010 ([[:File:WMF Preseo to MS-Tech May 2010.pdf |PDF]])<br />
*"Wikimania 2010 keynote presentation by WMF Executive Director, Sue Gardner, July 2010 ([[:File:Wikimania_Keynote_2010_GDANSK.odp |ODP]])<br />
* [http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Presentations Wikimedia Technical Presentations]<br />
* Wikimedia Foundation Executive Presentation to Canadian Library Association June 10, 2010 ([[:File:SUE_GARDNER_PRESENTATION_TO_LIBRARIES-1.pdf |PDF]])<br />
* Wikimania 2011 keynote presentation by WMF Executive Director, Sue Gardner, August 2011 ([[:File:SUE_GARDNER_PRESENTATION_TO_LIBRARIES-1.pdf |PDF]])</div>James Owenhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Wikimania_2011.pdf&diff=62494File:Wikimania 2011.pdf2011-08-05T07:36:36Z<p>James Owen: Sue Gardner, 2011 Keynote at Wikimaina 2011</p>
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<div>Sue Gardner, 2011 Keynote at Wikimaina 2011</div>James Owenhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Archive:Press_room/WMF_Presentations&diff=62493Archive:Press room/WMF Presentations2011-08-05T07:33:39Z<p>James Owen: </p>
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<div>===Wikimedia presentations===<br />
Wikimedia Foundation presentations or slide decks delivered by staff or representatives. Presentations can be edited or altered using OpenOffice. Official marks are trademarks of the Wikimedia Foundation. <br />
[[file:Page1-800px-Wikimedia Foundation exec presentation June 2010 PDF.jpg|thumb|250px|link=]]<br />
*'''Standard Wikimedia Foundation executive presentation''', June 2010 ([[:File:Wikimedia_Foundation_exec_presentation_June_2010.odp |ODP]] or [[:File:Wikimedia_Foundation_exec_presentation_June_2010_PDF.pdf |PDF]])<br />
*"Introduction to Wikimedia Foundation" presentation to students in the M.S. Technology Management program at the University of Illinois, May 2010 ([[:File:WMF Preseo to MS-Tech May 2010.pdf |PDF]])<br />
*"Wikimania 2010 keynote presentation by WMF Executive Director, Sue Gardner, July 2010 ([[:File:Wikimania_Keynote_2010_GDANSK.odp |ODP]])<br />
* [http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Presentations Wikimedia Technical Presentations]<br />
* Wikimedia Foundation Executive Presentation to Canadian Library Association June 10, 2010 ([[:File:SUE_GARDNER_PRESENTATION_TO_LIBRARIES-1.pdf |PDF]])<br />
* Wikimania 2011 keynote presentation by WMF Executive Director, Sue Gardner, August 2011</div>James Owenhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Job_openings/Financial_Project_Manager/Budget_Analyst&diff=61374Job openings/Financial Project Manager/Budget Analyst2011-07-20T02:54:02Z<p>James Owen: CFOO position no longer exists corrected reporting line.</p>
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'''YOU ARE ...'''<br />
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naturally organized, have a flare for numbers, consistently manage and meet multiple deadlines, take pride in delivering high-quality results and foster cooperation among various stakeholders. If we asked your friends what you favorite pastime is, they would say, you can’t help but analyze everything. <br />
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'''JOB TITLE'''<br />
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Financial Project Manager/Budget Analyst<br />
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'''REPORTS TO'''<br />
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Chief of Finance and Administration<br />
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'''JOB PURPOSE/JOB SUMMARY'''<br />
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The Finance Project Manager/Budget Analyst is responsible for the internal financial reporting and analysis of the organization including the preparation and submission of the annual plan/budget (under the guidance of the CFOO), monthly analysis of revenue and expense variances against plan, preparation of monthly financial metrics reports, creation and maintenance of financial system reports, ongoing communication and consultation with departmental management related to annual plan creation and budget variances, planning and forecasting and various ad hoc financial reporting and analysis projects.<br />
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'''RESPONSIBILITIES'''<br />
*Manage the annual plan process including managing the timeline, inputting and maintaining the plan model, coordinating and consulting on an ongoing basis with department heads for input assumptions, <br />
*Analyze budget to actual variances,<br />
*Prepare timely internal financial analysis reports including monthly metrics analysis,<br />
*Work with the financial reporting system to create and maintain financial reports,<br />
*Provide analysis and consulting to department heads and other internal customers,<br />
*Identify, create, and prepare ad hoc financial reports,<br />
*Manage ad hoc finance department projects as needed. <br />
<br />
<br />
'''REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS'''<br />
* Must be quirky, have a sense of humor and enjoy engaging in witty repartee while getting the job done.<br />
* Must be a critical thinker.<br />
* Must be able to adhere to deadlines and complete projects with minimal supervision.<br />
* Must have a demonstrated ability to evaluate, analyze and prioritize.<br />
* Must have financial reporting experience and general accounting experience. <br />
* Must be comfortable in a highly collaborative, consensus-oriented environment.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS'''<br />
* Understanding of free culture / free software / open source is a plus.<br />
* Experience living or working outside of your home country is a plus.<br />
<br />
<br />
{{Job openings footer<br />
|date = open until filled<br />
|title = Financial Project Manager/Budget Analyst<br />
|more = <br />
|Due to the volume of responses that we anticipate we will not reply to all applications, so please do not interpret our silence as a lack of interest.<br />
|where= Local San Francisco, CA candidates are preferred though remote candidates may be considered.}}<br />
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[[Category:Job openings|{{SUBPAGENAME}}]]</div>James Owenhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Compensation_Practices.pdf&diff=60323File:Wikimedia Foundation Compensation Practices.pdf2011-06-03T17:11:17Z<p>James Owen: uploaded a new version of &quot;File:Wikimedia Foundation Compensation Practices.pdf&quot;</p>
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<div></div>James Owenhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Job_openings&diff=60317Job openings2011-06-03T01:00:01Z<p>James Owen: /* Employment Documents */</p>
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<div>We are looking for creative, motivated people who want to work in a highly-collaborative environment. If you want to be part of a growing and successful non-profit organization that’s making a difference everywhere around the world, this may be the place for you.<br />
<br />
We are hiring in the following areas:<br />
<br />
{{Jobbox}}<br />
<br />
<i><br />
The positions listed here are based in our San Francisco headquarters, but in some cases we may be open to the possibility of people working remotely, unless otherwise noted in the job posting itself. If you are not currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area, and are not willing to relocate there, please make that clear in your cover letter.<br />
<br />
If you are an editor in the Wikimedia projects, or help Wikimedia in some other way, please explicitly say that in your cover letter, and please give your username. Wikimedia experience is a definite plus when you're applying for a job with us. <br />
<br />
If you are interested in working for our technical team, please review our past [[/Software Developer/]] and [[/System Administrator/]] openings, and send a cover letter and resume to jobs{{@}}wikimedia.org. You may apply for software developer and systems administrator jobs at any time: you do not need to wait for a specific posting here.<br />
<br />
If you are interested in a job working on one of our non-tech staff teams, please send a resume and cover letter to jobs{{@}}wikimedia.org. We are always looking for passionate and qualified individuals.<br />
</i><br />
<br />
== Call For Independent Contractors ==<br />
''Technology:''<br />
* [[RFP/Networking_Contractor_Amsterdam|Networking Contractor Amsterdam]]<br />
''Global Development:''<br />
* [[RFP/Consultant,_Participation_-_India_Programs|Consultant, Participation - India Programs]]<br />
* [[RFP/Consultant,_Indic_Initiatives_-_India_Programs|Consultant, Indic Initiatives - India Programs]]<br />
''Community:''<br />
* [[RFP/Caging_Services|Caging Services]]<br />
<br />
== About the Wikimedia Foundation ==<br />
{{About/Wikimedia|header=}}<br />
<br />
== More information sources ==<br />
To stay informed about openings, you can subscribe to our [[mail:foundation-l|foundation-l]] discussion mailing list (high e-mail traffic), follow our micro-blogging feed (on [http://twitter.com/wikimediaatwork Twitter] or on [http://identi.ca/wikimediaatwork Identi.ca]), or add this page to an RSS reader of your choice using its [{{fullurl:Template:Jobbox|action=history&feed=rss}} page history feed].<br />
<br />
== Current staff ==<br />
For a list of Wikimedia Foundation employees, see [[Staff]].<br />
<br />
== Employment Documents ==<br />
Read our:<br />
<br />
*[[Non_discrimination_policy|Non Discrimination Policy]]<br />
*[[Pluralism,_internationalism,_and_diversity_policy|Pluralism, Internationalism, and Diversity Policy]]<br />
* [[Media:Wikimedia_Foundation_Compensation_Practices.pdf|Wikimedia Foundation Compensation Practices]] (PDF)<br />
<br />
[[Category:English]]<br />
[[Category:Job openings|*]]<br />
[[Category:Wikimedia organisation]]<br />
__NOTOC__</div>James Owenhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Job_openings&diff=60316Job openings2011-06-03T00:57:10Z<p>James Owen: /* Employment Documents */</p>
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<div>We are looking for creative, motivated people who want to work in a highly-collaborative environment. If you want to be part of a growing and successful non-profit organization that’s making a difference everywhere around the world, this may be the place for you.<br />
<br />
We are hiring in the following areas:<br />
<br />
{{Jobbox}}<br />
<br />
<i><br />
The positions listed here are based in our San Francisco headquarters, but in some cases we may be open to the possibility of people working remotely, unless otherwise noted in the job posting itself. If you are not currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area, and are not willing to relocate there, please make that clear in your cover letter.<br />
<br />
If you are an editor in the Wikimedia projects, or help Wikimedia in some other way, please explicitly say that in your cover letter, and please give your username. Wikimedia experience is a definite plus when you're applying for a job with us. <br />
<br />
If you are interested in working for our technical team, please review our past [[/Software Developer/]] and [[/System Administrator/]] openings, and send a cover letter and resume to jobs{{@}}wikimedia.org. You may apply for software developer and systems administrator jobs at any time: you do not need to wait for a specific posting here.<br />
<br />
If you are interested in a job working on one of our non-tech staff teams, please send a resume and cover letter to jobs{{@}}wikimedia.org. We are always looking for passionate and qualified individuals.<br />
</i><br />
<br />
== Call For Independent Contractors ==<br />
''Technology:''<br />
* [[RFP/Networking_Contractor_Amsterdam|Networking Contractor Amsterdam]]<br />
''Global Development:''<br />
* [[RFP/Consultant,_Participation_-_India_Programs|Consultant, Participation - India Programs]]<br />
* [[RFP/Consultant,_Indic_Initiatives_-_India_Programs|Consultant, Indic Initiatives - India Programs]]<br />
''Community:''<br />
* [[RFP/Caging_Services|Caging Services]]<br />
<br />
== About the Wikimedia Foundation ==<br />
{{About/Wikimedia|header=}}<br />
<br />
== More information sources ==<br />
To stay informed about openings, you can subscribe to our [[mail:foundation-l|foundation-l]] discussion mailing list (high e-mail traffic), follow our micro-blogging feed (on [http://twitter.com/wikimediaatwork Twitter] or on [http://identi.ca/wikimediaatwork Identi.ca]), or add this page to an RSS reader of your choice using its [{{fullurl:Template:Jobbox|action=history&feed=rss}} page history feed].<br />
<br />
== Current staff ==<br />
For a list of Wikimedia Foundation employees, see [[Staff]].<br />
<br />
== Employment Documents ==<br />
Read our:<br />
<br />
[[Non_discrimination_policy|Non Discrimination Policy]]<br />
<br />
[[Pluralism,_internationalism,_and_diversity_policy|Pluralism, Internationalism, and Diversity Policy]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Compensation_Practices.pdf|Wikimedia Foundation Compensation Practices]]<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:English]]<br />
[[Category:Job openings|*]]<br />
[[Category:Wikimedia organisation]]<br />
__NOTOC__</div>James Owenhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Job_openings&diff=60315Job openings2011-06-03T00:56:17Z<p>James Owen: /* Employment Documents */</p>
<hr />
<div>We are looking for creative, motivated people who want to work in a highly-collaborative environment. If you want to be part of a growing and successful non-profit organization that’s making a difference everywhere around the world, this may be the place for you.<br />
<br />
We are hiring in the following areas:<br />
<br />
{{Jobbox}}<br />
<br />
<i><br />
The positions listed here are based in our San Francisco headquarters, but in some cases we may be open to the possibility of people working remotely, unless otherwise noted in the job posting itself. If you are not currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area, and are not willing to relocate there, please make that clear in your cover letter.<br />
<br />
If you are an editor in the Wikimedia projects, or help Wikimedia in some other way, please explicitly say that in your cover letter, and please give your username. Wikimedia experience is a definite plus when you're applying for a job with us. <br />
<br />
If you are interested in working for our technical team, please review our past [[/Software Developer/]] and [[/System Administrator/]] openings, and send a cover letter and resume to jobs{{@}}wikimedia.org. You may apply for software developer and systems administrator jobs at any time: you do not need to wait for a specific posting here.<br />
<br />
If you are interested in a job working on one of our non-tech staff teams, please send a resume and cover letter to jobs{{@}}wikimedia.org. We are always looking for passionate and qualified individuals.<br />
</i><br />
<br />
== Call For Independent Contractors ==<br />
''Technology:''<br />
* [[RFP/Networking_Contractor_Amsterdam|Networking Contractor Amsterdam]]<br />
''Global Development:''<br />
* [[RFP/Consultant,_Participation_-_India_Programs|Consultant, Participation - India Programs]]<br />
* [[RFP/Consultant,_Indic_Initiatives_-_India_Programs|Consultant, Indic Initiatives - India Programs]]<br />
''Community:''<br />
* [[RFP/Caging_Services|Caging Services]]<br />
<br />
== About the Wikimedia Foundation ==<br />
{{About/Wikimedia|header=}}<br />
<br />
== More information sources ==<br />
To stay informed about openings, you can subscribe to our [[mail:foundation-l|foundation-l]] discussion mailing list (high e-mail traffic), follow our micro-blogging feed (on [http://twitter.com/wikimediaatwork Twitter] or on [http://identi.ca/wikimediaatwork Identi.ca]), or add this page to an RSS reader of your choice using its [{{fullurl:Template:Jobbox|action=history&feed=rss}} page history feed].<br />
<br />
== Current staff ==<br />
For a list of Wikimedia Foundation employees, see [[Staff]].<br />
<br />
== Employment Documents ==<br />
Read our:<br />
<br />
[[Non_discrimination_policy|Non Discrimination Policy]]<br />
<br />
[[Pluralism,_internationalism,_and_diversity_policy|Pluralism, Internationalism, and Diversity Policy]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Compensation_Practices.pdf]]<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:English]]<br />
[[Category:Job openings|*]]<br />
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__NOTOC__</div>James Owenhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Job_openings&diff=60314Job openings2011-06-03T00:54:32Z<p>James Owen: /* Employment Documents */</p>
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<div>We are looking for creative, motivated people who want to work in a highly-collaborative environment. If you want to be part of a growing and successful non-profit organization that’s making a difference everywhere around the world, this may be the place for you.<br />
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The positions listed here are based in our San Francisco headquarters, but in some cases we may be open to the possibility of people working remotely, unless otherwise noted in the job posting itself. If you are not currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area, and are not willing to relocate there, please make that clear in your cover letter.<br />
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If you are an editor in the Wikimedia projects, or help Wikimedia in some other way, please explicitly say that in your cover letter, and please give your username. Wikimedia experience is a definite plus when you're applying for a job with us. <br />
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If you are interested in working for our technical team, please review our past [[/Software Developer/]] and [[/System Administrator/]] openings, and send a cover letter and resume to jobs{{@}}wikimedia.org. You may apply for software developer and systems administrator jobs at any time: you do not need to wait for a specific posting here.<br />
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If you are interested in a job working on one of our non-tech staff teams, please send a resume and cover letter to jobs{{@}}wikimedia.org. We are always looking for passionate and qualified individuals.<br />
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== Call For Independent Contractors ==<br />
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* [[RFP/Networking_Contractor_Amsterdam|Networking Contractor Amsterdam]]<br />
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* [[RFP/Consultant,_Indic_Initiatives_-_India_Programs|Consultant, Indic Initiatives - India Programs]]<br />
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__NOTOC__</div>James Owenhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Compensation_Practices.pdf&diff=60313File:Wikimedia Foundation Compensation Practices.pdf2011-06-03T00:49:21Z<p>James Owen: </p>
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<div></div>James Owenhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Job_openings&diff=60312Job openings2011-06-03T00:48:31Z<p>James Owen: /* Employment Documents */</p>
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<div>We are looking for creative, motivated people who want to work in a highly-collaborative environment. If you want to be part of a growing and successful non-profit organization that’s making a difference everywhere around the world, this may be the place for you.<br />
<br />
We are hiring in the following areas:<br />
<br />
{{Jobbox}}<br />
<br />
<i><br />
The positions listed here are based in our San Francisco headquarters, but in some cases we may be open to the possibility of people working remotely, unless otherwise noted in the job posting itself. If you are not currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area, and are not willing to relocate there, please make that clear in your cover letter.<br />
<br />
If you are an editor in the Wikimedia projects, or help Wikimedia in some other way, please explicitly say that in your cover letter, and please give your username. Wikimedia experience is a definite plus when you're applying for a job with us. <br />
<br />
If you are interested in working for our technical team, please review our past [[/Software Developer/]] and [[/System Administrator/]] openings, and send a cover letter and resume to jobs{{@}}wikimedia.org. You may apply for software developer and systems administrator jobs at any time: you do not need to wait for a specific posting here.<br />
<br />
If you are interested in a job working on one of our non-tech staff teams, please send a resume and cover letter to jobs{{@}}wikimedia.org. We are always looking for passionate and qualified individuals.<br />
</i><br />
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== Call For Independent Contractors ==<br />
''Technology:''<br />
* [[RFP/Networking_Contractor_Amsterdam|Networking Contractor Amsterdam]]<br />
''Global Development:''<br />
* [[RFP/Consultant,_Participation_-_India_Programs|Consultant, Participation - India Programs]]<br />
* [[RFP/Consultant,_Indic_Initiatives_-_India_Programs|Consultant, Indic Initiatives - India Programs]]<br />
''Community:''<br />
* [[RFP/Caging_Services|Caging Services]]<br />
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== About the Wikimedia Foundation ==<br />
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__NOTOC__</div>James Owenhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Job_openings&diff=60311Job openings2011-06-03T00:47:15Z<p>James Owen: /* Employment policies */</p>
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<div>We are looking for creative, motivated people who want to work in a highly-collaborative environment. If you want to be part of a growing and successful non-profit organization that’s making a difference everywhere around the world, this may be the place for you.<br />
<br />
We are hiring in the following areas:<br />
<br />
{{Jobbox}}<br />
<br />
<i><br />
The positions listed here are based in our San Francisco headquarters, but in some cases we may be open to the possibility of people working remotely, unless otherwise noted in the job posting itself. If you are not currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area, and are not willing to relocate there, please make that clear in your cover letter.<br />
<br />
If you are an editor in the Wikimedia projects, or help Wikimedia in some other way, please explicitly say that in your cover letter, and please give your username. Wikimedia experience is a definite plus when you're applying for a job with us. <br />
<br />
If you are interested in working for our technical team, please review our past [[/Software Developer/]] and [[/System Administrator/]] openings, and send a cover letter and resume to jobs{{@}}wikimedia.org. You may apply for software developer and systems administrator jobs at any time: you do not need to wait for a specific posting here.<br />
<br />
If you are interested in a job working on one of our non-tech staff teams, please send a resume and cover letter to jobs{{@}}wikimedia.org. We are always looking for passionate and qualified individuals.<br />
</i><br />
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== Call For Independent Contractors ==<br />
''Technology:''<br />
* [[RFP/Networking_Contractor_Amsterdam|Networking Contractor Amsterdam]]<br />
''Global Development:''<br />
* [[RFP/Consultant,_Participation_-_India_Programs|Consultant, Participation - India Programs]]<br />
* [[RFP/Consultant,_Indic_Initiatives_-_India_Programs|Consultant, Indic Initiatives - India Programs]]<br />
''Community:''<br />
* [[RFP/Caging_Services|Caging Services]]<br />
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== About the Wikimedia Foundation ==<br />
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__NOTOC__</div>James Owenhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Sue_Gardner&diff=52096User:Sue Gardner2010-11-23T17:44:15Z<p>James Owen: updated picture</p>
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<div>[[File:Wikimedia Foundation Sue Gardner Sept 2010.jpg|thumb|200px|Sue Gardner, Executive Director]]<br />
'''Sue Gardner''' is the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization behind Wikipedia &ndash; the world's largest and most popular encyclopedia, which is free to use and free of advertising. Wikipedia contains more than 14 million volunteer-authored articles in over 250 languages, and is visited by more than 330 million people every month, making it the number five most-popular website in the world.<br />
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Since joining the Wikimedia Foundation in summer of 2007, Gardner has relocated the organization to San Francisco, more than doubled its annual revenues, supported a 21% increase in readership, and instituted ambitious new programming goals to increase reach, quality and participation.<br />
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Gardner, a seasoned journalist, was formerly head of CBC.ca, the website for the [[w:Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]], one of Canada's most prominent and best-loved cultural institutions. Under her leadership, CBC.ca won many international awards for excellence, and grew to become Canada's most popular news site. Gardner started her career in 1990 as a producer with CBC's "As It Happens," an internationally-recognized groundbreaking news and current events radio program. She has worked in radio, television, newspapers, magazines and online.<br />
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*[[m:User:Sue Gardner|Sue Gardner's userpage on Meta]]</div>James Owenhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Archive:Advisory_Board&diff=49287Archive:Advisory Board2010-10-22T20:56:51Z<p>James Owen: /* Biographies */ Added Michael Snow to Advisory Board List, as his appointment on July 8, 2010</p>
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<div>The '''Advisory Board''' of the Wikimedia Foundation was [[Resolution:Advisory board|approved]] in 2006, and formed at the start of 2007.<br />
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The Advisory Board is an international network of experts who have agreed to give the Wikimedia Foundation meaningful help on a regular basis in many different areas, including law, organizational development, technology, policy, and outreach. Their abilities, experience, and knowledge were selected for how they complement a particular Wikimedia Foundation project, or the organization as a whole.<br />
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The Advisory Board advises the [[Board of Trustees]] in its strategic decision-making process and the [[staff]] in its day-to-day work. Sometimes questions will be posed to the whole group, sometimes individual members will be consulted.<br />
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== Biographies ==<br />
=== Angela Beesley ===<br />
[[Image:Angela Beesley.jpg|thumb|100px|Angela Beesley]]<br />
Angela Beesley is a co-founder of Wikia and a former member of Wikimedia's [[Board of Trustees]]. Angela has been involved with Wikipedia since February 2003. Angela has contributed a chapter on managing wikis to the book ''Wikis: Tools for information Work and Collaboration''. Angela was formerly an educational researcher. Angela is originally from [[w:Norfolk|Norfolk]] and has lived in England, Germany, and Australia.<br />
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* [http://wikiangela.com/ Website]<br />
* [[Wikipedia:Angela Beesley|Wikipedia article]]<br />
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=== Ward Cunningham ===<br />
[[Image:Ward Cunningham at Wikimania 2006.jpg|thumb|100px|Ward Cunningham]]<br />
Ward Cunningham is the Chief Technology Officer of AboutUs.org, a growth company hosting the communities formed by organizations and their constituents. Ward co-founded the consultancy, Cunningham & Cunningham, Inc., has served as a Director of the Eclipse Foundation, an Architect in Microsoft's Patterns & Practices Group, the Director of R&D at Wyatt Software and as Principle Engineer in the Tektronix Computer Research Laboratory. Ward is well known for his contributions to the developing practice of object-oriented programming, the variation called Extreme Programming, and the communities supported by his WikiWikiWeb. Ward hosts the AgileManifesto.org. He is a founder of the Hillside Group and there created the Pattern Languages of Programs conferences which continue to be held all over the world.<br />
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* [http://c2.com/~ward Ward's personal web page]<br />
* [[Wikipedia:Ward Cunningham|Wikipedia article]]<br />
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=== Melissa Hagemann ===<br />
[[Image:Melissa hagemann.jpg|thumb|100px|Melissa Hagemann]]<br />
Melissa manages the Open Access Initiative within the Information Program of the Open Society Institute (OSI)/Soros foundations. Since convening the meeting in December 2001 which led to the development of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, she has been active within the Open Access movement which advocates for the free online availability of peer-reviewed literature.<br />
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Melissa also works with the eIFL (electronic Information for Libraries) network to manage the eIFL Open Access Program that aims to spread the benefits of Open Access among eIFL’s members in 50 developing and transition countries. She has held several positions within OSI including managing OSI’s Regional Library Program from 1995-1997 based in Budapest as well as the Science Journals Donation Program from 1998-2001.<br />
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She was profiled as a SPARC Innovator in December 2006 for her work within the Open Access movement. Melissa has served on the Member of Experts' Group of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Library Initiative.<br />
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=== Mimi Ito ===<br />
[[Image:Mimi Ito.jpeg|thumb|100px|Mimi Ito]]<br />
Mimi Ito is a cultural anthropologist examining children and youth’s changing relationships to media and communications. She is an Associate Researcher with the University of California Humanities Research Institute with appointments in the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. Her research in Japan focuses on use of mobile technologies, and she has<br />
recently completed a multi-year project on digital kids and informal learning. She has authored and edited three books on kids' use of technology, and most recently, she has led a three-year collaborative ethnographic study, funded by the MacArthur Foundation, examining youth new media practices in the US, focused on gaming, digital media production, and Internet use. She has worked at the University of Southern California's Annenberg Center, the Institute for Research on Learning, Xerox PARC, and Apple Computer. She has a PhD in Education and a PhD in Anthropology, both from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.<br />
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* [http://www.itofisher.com/ Official website]<br />
* [[Wikipedia:Mizuko_Ito|Wikipedia article]]<br />
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=== Mitch Kapor ===<br />
[[Image:MitchKapor.jpg|thumb|100px|Mitch Kapor]]<br />
A long-time tech entrepreneur, software designer, investor, and activist, Mitch Kapor is known equally for accomplishments including founding or co-founding the Lotus Development Corp., Electronic Frontier Foundation, Mitchell Kapor Foundation, Open Source Applications Foundation. His previous board roles include Chair of the Linden Lab (Second Life), and former Chair of the Mozilla Foundation, best known for the Firefox web browser. Mitch currently is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Information, at the University of California, Berkeley.<br />
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Kapor says he is interested in "past, present, and future patterns of disruptive technology based on radical openness, in hybrid enterprises which integrate sustainable business methods and a social mission, and in democratic reform in a era of globalization."<br />
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* [http://www.kapor.com/ Official website]<br />
* [[Wikipedia:Mitch Kapor|Wikipedia article]]<br />
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=== Neeru Khosla ===<br />
[[Image:NK Headshot 121707.JPG|thumb|100px|Neeru Khosla]]<br />
Neeru Khosla is a firm believer in the power of education. She wants the rigor and accountability of for profit models to apply to non-profits. Neeru is a member of the Board at The Nueva School in Hillsborough, California, where she has served since 1997, which caters to gifted and talented students and is internationally recognized. Neeru is also on the Advisory Board of the American India Foundation, a leading international development organization charged with accelerating social and economic change in India. She previously served as a trustee of the Pacific Vascular Research Foundation and Connexions, a Rice University open-source project. Neeru's commitment to education is evidenced by her role on the National Advisory Board for DonorsChoose, an organization dedicated to addressing the scarcity and inequitable distribution of learning materials in U.S. public schools. Neeru is one of the founding members of the K-12 Initiative of the D-School (Hasso Plattner Institute of Design) at Stanford University and a member of the committee to expand the program. Neeru is currently the Co-Founder and Executive Director of CK-12 Foundation. CK-12 is a non-profit organization launched in 2006, which aims to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the US and worldwide. <br />
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Neeru holds a Bachelors degree from Delhi University/San Jose State, a Masters degree in Molecular Biology from San Jose State, and a Masters in Education from Stanford University.<br />
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=== Teemu Leinonen ===<br />
[[Image:TeemuLeinonen.jpg|thumb|100px|Teemu Leinonen]] <br />
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Teemu Leinonen is currently a professor (New Media Design and Learning) at the [http://mlab.uiah.fi Media Lab Helsinki], [http://www.aalto.fi Aalto University]. <br />
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In the Media Lab Helsinki he leads the [http://legroup.uiah.fi Learning Environments research group]. The group is involved in research, design and development of New Media tools, as well as their use and application, in the field of learning. The research group has coordinated research and development projects funded by The European Commission (IST), National Technology Agency of Finland (TEKES), the Nordic Council of Ministers and the UNESCO. The group is internationally recognized from its open source virtual learning environment called [[Wikipedia:Fle3|Fle3]], [http://mobiled.uiah.fi/ MobilED] audio wiki platform, and [http://lemill.net/ LeMill] web community for finding, authoring and sharing learning resources.<br />
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Teemu holds over a decade of experience in the field of research and development of web-based learning, computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL), online cooperation, educational planning and educational politics. With his family Teemu has lived in Tanzania, Afghanistan and Kenya. At least once a year he visits his "compañera's" family in Colombia.<br />
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=== Nhlanhla Mabaso ===<br />
[[Image:Nhlanhla Mabaso.jpg|right|thumb|Nhlanhla&nbsp;Mabaso]]<br />
Nhlanhla Mabaso worked as Chief Information Officer in the Department of Public Service and Administration and later the Department of Home Affairs for South Africa. Trained as a software engineer and systems analyst, he ran the Open Source Initiative at the Meraka Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), and served as coordinator of the Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA).<br />
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Currently, Nhlanhla is part of the Senior Management team at the University of the Witwatersrand and heads Computer and Network Services within the [http://www.kim.wits.ac.za/ Knowledge and Information Management] portfolio. He serves on the boards of the [http://www.zadna.org.za/ .ZA Domain Name Authority], [http://www.ftisa.org.za/ Free to Innovate South Africa] and [http://www.africancommons.org/ The African Commons Project].<br />
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He holds a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science and Applied Maths and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of the Witwatersrand.<br />
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=== Rebecca MacKinnon ===<br />
[[Image:Rebeccamackinnon wenxin.jpg|thumb|100px|Rebecca MacKinnon]]<br />
Rebecca MacKinnon is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong's Journalism and Media Studies Centre, where she teaches "new media", examining the intersection between the Internet and journalism. At the Berkman Center, MacKinnon and her colleague Ethan Zuckerman co-founded Global Voices Online, an award-winning international citizen media community, with which she remains involved in management.<br />
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Starting at the bottom of CNN's Beijing bureau, she became a correspondent for the news channel, and Bureau Chief from 1998-2001. She served as the Tokyo Bureau Chief from 2001-03.<br />
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MacKinnon started a fellowship at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government in January 2004. Her research focus was on blogs and participatory online media, especially as relates to international news. Three months in, she resigned from CNN, and was invited to stay at Harvard as a Research Fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. The enabled her to re-direct her career from TV news to online media.<br />
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Her ongoing research interests are the future of media in the Internet age, freedom of speech online, and the Internet in China.<br />
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She serves on the Board of Directors for Tor, which aims to improve safety and security on the Internet, and the US Advisory Board for FON, for most of 2006.<br />
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* [http://RConversation.com Rebecca MacKinnon's blog]<br />
* [http://www.GlobalVoicesOnline.org Global Voices Online]<br />
* [[Wikipedia:Rebecca MacKinnon|Wikipedia article]]<br />
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=== Wayne Mackintosh ===<br />
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[[Image:440px-Wayne Mackintosh Yale 2010.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Wayne Mackintosh]]Wayne Mackintosh is the founding Director of the International Centre for Open Education based at [http://www.openpolytechnic.ac.nz Otago Polytechnic], New Zealand and member of the Board of Directors of the [http://www.oerfoundation.org Open Education Resource (OER) Foundation]. He was previously [http://www.col.org/about/staff/Pages/wmackintosh.aspx Education Specialist for eLearning and ICT Policy] at the [[wikipedia:Commonwealth of Learning|Commonwealth of Learning]] based in Vancouver, and before that Associate Professor and founding Director of the Centre for Flexible and Distance Learning (CFDL) at the [http://www.auckland.ac.nz University of Auckland], New Zealand. <br />
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Wayne is an unashamed advocate of free software for education, subscribes to [http://www.freedomdefined.org free cultural works licensing] and founded the [http://www.wikieducator.org WikiEducator] project -- an international community of educators from the formal sector, collaborating, sharing and creating OER. He also has had the privilege of leading a government-funded project called the eLearning XHTML editor (eXe). This is a small open source software project working on a simple authoring tool for web content for teachers.<br />
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* [http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg Bio on wikieducator.org]<br />
* [http://exelearning.org eLearning XHTML editor (eXe)]<br />
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=== Benjamin Mako Hill ===<br />
[[Image:Benjamin Mako Hill.jpg|thumb|100px|Benjamin Mako Hill]]<br />
Benjamin Mako Hill is a Debian hacker and author of the Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Bible and "The Official Ubuntu Book". He works in the Computing Culture group of the MIT Media Lab, and is on the boards of Software Freedom International (the organization that organizes Software Freedom Day) and the Ubuntu Foundation. Hill was on the board of Software in the Public Interest from March 2003 until July 2006, serving as the organisation's vice-president from August 2004.<br />
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* [http://mako.cc/ Personal website]<br />
* [[Wikipedia:Benjamin Mako Hill|Wikipedia article]]<br />
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=== Roger McNamee ===<br />
[[Image:Roger-McNamee.jpg|thumb|100px|Roger McNamee]]<br />
Roger McNamee is Managing Director and Co-Founder of Elevation Partners, which invests in media and consumer technology companies. He is a long-term San Francisco Bay Area resident, a professional musician, and a prominent Wikipedia supporter.<br />
<br />
Roger McNamee acts as a special advisor to the Executive Director on business and strategy issues.<br />
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Roger McNamee began his career in 1982 at T. Rowe Price, where he managed the top-ranked Science & Technology Fund. In 1991, he launched Integral Capital Partners, the first crossover fund (combining later stage venture capital with public market investments), in partnership with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. In 1999, Roger co-founded Silver Lake Partners, the first private equity fund focused on technology businesses. In 2004, Roger and his partners launched Elevation Partners, an investment partnership focused on the intersection of media and entertainment content and consumer technology.<br />
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Roger is the author of The New Normal, published in 2004 by the Portfolio imprint of Penguin Books. He is a frequent speaker at industry and investor conferences and a commentator on CNBC. <br />
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Roger serves on board of directors of Forbes Media, Palm, and Move. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of Bryn Mawr College and the Board of Overseers of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College. He holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He plays guitar and bass in the band Moonalice.<!--Revised 6/18/07--><br />
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* [[Wikipedia:Roger McNamee|Wikipedia article]]<br />
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=== Domas Mituzas ===<br />
[[File:DomasMituzas April08.JPG|thumb|100px|Domas Mituzas]]<br />
Domas Mituzas served on Wikimedia's Board of Trustees between January 2008 and July 2009. He has been involved with Wikimedia's core site technology and operations since 2004. Until recently Domas worked for Sun Microsystems database group (MySQL) and is now working at Facebook.<br />
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=== Trevor Neilson ===<br />
[[Image:Bankok trevor.jpg|thumb|100px|Trevor Neilson]]<br />
Trevor Neilson is a Partner in the [http://www.globalphilanthropygroup.com/ Global Philanthropy Group] , a company that advises philanthropists on the development and implementation of philanthropic strategies.<br />
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Neilson formed DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa) with Bill Gates, Bono and George Soros, served as a founding board member, and stays involved as a member of DATA's policy board. Neilson also served as Vice-Chairman of Saflink, an early stage technology company focused on biometric authentication solutions for government agencies in the United States.<br />
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Neilson served in the Clinton White House, for the Office of Scheduling and Advance and the White House Travel Office.<br />
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Neilson then became the Director of Public Affairs and Director of Special Projects at the [http://www.gatesfoundation.org/ Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation], the largest transparently operated charitable foundation in the world. There he was responsible for politically sensitive or high profile grant-making, government relations and public affairs. He also and managed the foundations relationships with the United Nations, governments, corporations and NGOs.<br />
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Neilson then served as Executive Vice President of the Casey Family Programs, the largest "operating" foundation in the United States. Casey was created by Jim Casey, founder of United Parcel Service and Neilson oversaw a variety of Casey programs and led their effort to enhance economic development in urban areas.<br />
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Neilson served as Executive Director of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS (GBC) which was initially created with investments from Bill Gates, George Soros and Ted Turner. GBC represents over 200 multinational companies who have interests related to AIDS and healthcare. Neilson recruited over 100 companies to join GBC and opened and managed offices in New York, Paris, Beijing, Geneva, Nairobi and Johannesburg along with partnerships in 20 countries around the world.<br />
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* [http://www.globalphilanthropygroup.com/ Global Philanthropy Group]<br />
* [http://www.saflink.com/ Saflink]<br />
* [http://www.data.org/ DATA]<br />
* [http://www.casey.org/ Casey Family Programs]<br />
* [http://www.businessfightsaids.org/ Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS]<br />
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=== Craig Newmark ===<br />
[[File:Craig-newmark.jpg|thumb|100px|Craig Newmark]]<br />
Craig Newmark is the founder of [http://craigslist.org/ craigslist.org], a site where users connect to find and exchange goods and services, including housing and jobs. He currently works as a customer service representative for the site. Over the past 30 years, Newmark has worked in the technology industry with companies such as IBM, GM, Charles Schwab & Co, and Bank of America. <br />
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=== Florence Devouard ===<br />
[[Image:Anthere mg 2820b.jpg|thumb|100px|Florence Devouard]]<br />
Florence served as one of the elected representatives to the Board starting June 2004, and was the Chair of the Board from October 21, 2006 until July 16th, 2008. Florence was born in [[:en:Versailles|Versailles]] (France). She grew up in Grenoble, and has been living since then in several French cities, as well as Antwerpen in Belgium and Tempe in Arizona. She holds two masters, one in Agricultural Sciences (a 5-year degree in agronomical engineering ([[w:en:Grandes Ecoles|Diplome d'Ingénieur Grande Ecole]]) from [http://www.ensaia.inpl-nancy.fr/ ENSAIA] and the other a postgraduate degree (DEA) in Genetics and Biotechnologies from [http://www.inpl-nancy.fr/index.htm INPL].She has been working in public research, first in flower plant genetic improvement, and second in microbiology to study the feasibility of polluted soil bioremediation. She was employed until 2005 in a French company, to conceive decision-making tools in sustainable agriculture. She is now a Consultant in Collaborative Media. She joined the Wikipedia adventure in February 2002 and is known as a contributor under the pseudonym ''Anthere''. Florence lives in [[w:en:Clermont Ferrand|Clermont Ferrand]] with her husband Bertrand and her three children, Anne-Gaëlle, William, and Thomas.<br />
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* [[w:Florence Devouard|Florence's Wikipedia biography]]<br />
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=== Achal Prabhala ===<br />
[[Image:Wikimania_2009_GOLDBERGN-9941.jpg|thumb|100px|Achal Prabhala]]<br />
Achal Prabhala is a researcher and writer in Bangalore, India. He works on critical investigations of intellectual property in connection to medicines and knowledge. Between 2004 and 2006 he coordinated a campaign for access to learning materials in South Africa.<br />
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=== Clay Shirky ===<br />
[[Image:Clay Shirky.jpg|thumb|100px|Clay Shirky]]<br />
Clay Shirky is on the faculty at the Interactive Telecommunications Program, an interdisciplinary grad program at NYU, where he works on the intersection of social and technological networks&mdash;the way communications technologies help shape the society that uses them, and the way society shapes those tools.<br />
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His interests relevant to Wikimedia are social software generally, and in particular governance problems; what changes in coordination costs for groups do to the economics of information production; and the design of federated networks.<br />
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Shirky chaired the Technical Working Group of the Library of Congress' digital preservation initiative (NDIIPP), and he currently chairs the Technical Sub-committee of Connecting for Health, a non-profit designing a nationwide health information network.<br />
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* [[Wikipedia:Clay Shirky|Wikipedia article]]<br />
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===Michael Snow ===<br />
[[File:Snow_WMF_Board_Sept_2009.jpg|thumb|100px|Michael Snow]]<br />
Michael was Chair of the Wikimedia Board from July 2008 until July 2010. He joined the Board in February 2008, after participating in Wikimedia projects since 2003. One of his contributions was the creation of The Wikipedia Signpost, a community newspaper for the English-language Wikipedia. Born in Pfullendorf, Germany, he now lives in the Seattle area. Michael is an attorney and earned his J.D. degree from the University of Washington.<br />
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=== Jing Wang ===<br />
[[Image:Jingwangpicture.jpg|thumb|100px|Jing Wang]]<br />
Jing Wang is an author and editor of seven books, Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies at MIT and founder and organizer of MIT’s New Media Action Lab. She is also an affiliated faculty with MIT's Comparative media Studies. In spring 2009, Professor Wang launched an NGO 2.0 project in collaboration with two Chinese universities and three Chinese NGOs, and three corporate partners including Ogilvy& Mather China and Frog Design. The project, funded by Ford Foundation in Beijing, is designed to enhance the digital literacy of grassroots NGOs in the underdeveloped regions of China and will deliver an interactive platform complete with Web 2.0 training courses and a Chinese field guide to best practices and software of social media for nonprofits. Professor Wang started working with Creative Commmons in 2006 and serves as the Chair of the International Advisory Board of Creative Commons Mainland China. She also worked as the co-organizer of the Policy Culture Research Project with Anthony Saich at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. <br />
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=== Ethan Zuckerman ===<br />
[[Image:Ethan zuckerman headshot.JPG|thumb|100px|Ethan Zuckerman]]<br />
Ethan is the co-founder of Global Voices (globalvoicesonline.org) along with fellow advisory board member Rebecca MacKinnon. He is a research fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, where his work focuses on technology in the developing world. Ethan also works with Open Society Institute's Information Program, along with Melissa Hagemann.<br />
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Prior to working with the Berkman Center, he was one of the founders of Geekcorps, a technology volunteering corps that brought geeks to the developing world to support and build IT businesses. Before that, he helped found Tripod.com, one of the early web community sites. <br />
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* [[Wikipedia:Ethan Zuckerman|Wikipedia article]]<br />
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== Former members ==<br />
=== Heather Ford ===<br />
[[Image:HeatherFord.jpg|thumb|100px|Heather Ford]]<br />
Heather Ford is a co-founder of the African Commons Project - a South African non-profit organisation that seeks to mobilise communities through active participation in collaborative technology. <br />
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Heather graduated from Rhodes University with a Bachelor of Journalism degree and has a certificate in Telecommunications Policy, Law and Management from the University of the Witwatersrand Link Centre. After working in the United Kingdom for Greennet and Privacy International, she went on to Stanford University in 2003 where she worked as a fellow in the Reuters Digital Vision Fellowship Program. She went back to South Africa in 2004 to start Creative Commons South Africa and a programme entitled ‘Commons-sense: Towards an African Digital Information Commons’ at the Wits University Link Centre. From 2006-2008, she was the Executive Director of iCommons. <br />
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Heather is now working on building collaborative systems for digital innovation in South Africa.<br />
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* [http://hblog.org Heather Ford's blog]<br />
* [http://africancommons.org The African Commons Project website]<br />
* [[Wikipedia:Heather Ford|Wikipedia article]]<br />
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=== Debbie Garside ===<br />
[[Image:DebbieGarside.jpg|thumb|100px|Debbie Garside]]<br />
Appointed to the Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board in 2007, Debbie Garside is the Project Leader, Editor and Head of Research for ISO 639-6. She is also Managing Director of GeoLang Ltd; the organisation that will become the Registration Authority (RA) for ISO-639-6 as soon as it is published. Debbie is Chief Executive Officer of the World Language Documentation Centre (WLDC); a non-profit making organisation made up of 25 international linguists and standardization professionals from industry and academia alike that has a remit that is wide and far reaching with regard to facilitating linguistic communities. <br />
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Debbie has been involved in language standards for over 6 years and is Convenor of ISO TC37/SC2/WG1/TG2 the committee responsible for ISO 639-6 Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages - Alpha4 Code for comprehensive coverage of language variants as well as the mirror committee within BSI in the UK; TS/1/-1. <br />
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Debbie is also Liaison to BSI (British Standards Institute) IDT/2/11, and has represented BSI, as UK expert, during TC46/WG2 meetings with regard to country codes. Appointed by BSI as project leader for a new standard for the Internationalization of Country Codes in March 2007, she is an observer to the ccNSO-GAC IDN Joint WG; a committee that is charged by ICANN with investigating solutions for the Internationalization of ccTLDs. Debbie is also active within ICANN's GA.<br />
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A named contributor to RFC4647, the Internet Engineering Task Force standard for Language Tag Matching, Debbie is an active member in the IETF-language forum as well as the IETF LTRU forum. <br />
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Debbie's interests span many fields but primary to this is her interest in facilitating a multi-lingual internet and multi-lingual thesauri. <br />
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Based in Wales, UK, Debbie is Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of three other companies, one offering translations, marketing and market research another offering entrepreneurship and ICT training as part of a European funded project as well being a Director of a newly established family estate agency.<br />
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=== Danny Hillis ===<br />
[[Image:Danny Hillis2.jpg|thumb|100px|William Daniel Hillis]]<br />
Danny Hillis is an engineer, author and inventor with a broad range of interests. He earned a B.S. in mathematics and a PhD. in computer science at MIT. While at MIT, Hillis began to study the physical limitations of computation and the possibility of building highly parallel computers. This work led in 1985 with the design and construction of a massively parallel computer with 64,000 processors, called the Connection Machine.<br />
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Hillis then co-founded Thinking Machines Corp., which was the leading innovator in massive parallel supercomputers and RAID disk arrays. Hillis' other inventions over the years have included tendon-control robot arms, touch-sensitive robot skin, a computer built from Tinkertoys that plays tic tac toe, and a 10,000-year mechanical clock. He founded the Long Now Foundation, which sponsors projects encouraging long-term thinking and responsibility.<br />
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Currently the Co-Founder and Co-Chairman at Applied Minds, Inc., Hillis is also Founder and Chairman of Metaweb Technologies, Inc., which was formed recently to build a better infrastructure for the Web.<br />
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Prior to Applied Minds, Hillis was Vice President, Research and Development at Walt Disney Imagineering, and a Disney Fellow. At Disney, he developed new technologies and business strategies and designed new theme park rides, a full-sized walking robot dinosaur and various micro mechanical devices. Hillis has also consulted with various companies in developing new technologies and related business strategies, serves on several company and not-for-profit boards, including the Long Now Foundation and the Hertz Foundation. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery, a Fellow in the International Leadership Forum, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He lives with his wife Pati and his children Asa, Noah and India in Los Angeles, California.<br />
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* [[Wikipedia:Danny Hillis|Wikipedia article]]<br />
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=== Joris Komen ===<br />
[[Image:Badhairdays3x3.jpg|thumb|100px|Joris Komen]]<br />
Joris Komen says he was lured into the information and communication technologies by the computerisation of museum collections, while the curator of birds at the National Museum of Namibia. He has spent considerable time and energy promoting the relevance of the Internet and other technologies to African museums and schools within and around Nambia. He is a champion of incentive-reward mechanisms to provide ICTs to schools in Namibia by way of a biodiversity-oriented school competition called Insect@thon.<br />
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Komen played a critical role in launching and driving SchoolNet Namibia, a civil society organisation which is committed to providing sustainable internet access, free/libre and open source software, and open educational content to all schools in Namibia. Komen is presently SchoolNet Namibia’s executive director. The organization has proved to be a model for the sustainable introduction of ICTs across the education sector, and has been recognised by the Namibian government's National Development Plans as a key actor.<br />
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Born in the Congo, Komen was raised and variously educated in Burundi, Holland, Nigeria and South Africa.<br />
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* [http://www.schoolnet.na SchoolNet Nambia]<br />
* [http://www.africaaction.org/docs99/bio9908.htm Insect@thon]<br />
* [http://tatejoris.blogspot.com Official blog]<br />
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=== Erin McKean ===<br />
[[Image:Erin McKean.jpg|thumb|100px|Erin McKean]]<br />
Erin McKean likes to call herself a "Dictionary Evangelist". Erin was formerly Chief Consulting Editor, American Dictionaries, for Oxford University Press, and the editor of [http://www.verbatimmag.com VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly]. She was the editor in chief of the ''The New Oxford American Dictionary, 2e''. Her other books about words include ''Weird and Wonderful Words'', ''More Weird and Wonderful Words'', ''Totally Weird and Wonderful Words'', and ''That's Amore''.<br />
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Previously, she was the editorial manager for the Thorndike-Barnhart Dictionaries at ScottForesman, a Pearson company. She has served on the board of the Dictionary Society of North America and on the editorial board for its<br />
journal, Dictionaries, as well as on the editorial board for the journal of the American Dialect Society, American Speech.<br />
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McKean lives in Chicago, maintains a blog about dresses, and describes herself as being "really bad at Scrabble", despite credentials to suggest otherwise.<br />
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* [http://www.dressaday.com/dressaday.html A Dress A Day], her blog<br />
* [[Wikipedia:Erin McKean|Wikipedia article]]<br />
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=== Jay Rosen ===<br />
[[Image:Jayrosen.jpg|thumb|100px|Jay Rosen]]<br />
Jay Rosen teaches journalism at New York University, and has written extensively on civic journalism on his blog founded in 2003, the book ''What Are Journalists For?'', and in numerous periodicals.<br />
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Jay Rosen teaches journalism at New York University, where he has been on the faculty since 1986. From 1999 to 2005 he was chair of the Department. His work is mainly about what democracy requires from the press, a term which he believes includes journalists, citizens who are self published, and "the media." His blog "PressThink" is about the industry, and its discontents in the digital age. It talks to traditional journalists, bloggers, journalism students and new media people. He also write at the ''Huffington Post'' and ''Comment is Free'', the Guardian's group blog.<br />
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He founded NewAssignment.net in July 2006, an experimental site for pro-am, open source reporting projects. The concept was to have teams aid investigative journalism that would be hard for a single reporter or even a team of pros to do unaided.<br />
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His 1999 book ''What Are Journalists For?'' (Yale University Press) is about the rise of the civic journalism movement, also called public journalism. It was a pre-Web effort to get a professionalized press to recognize the widening disconnect between itself and the citizenry. The book was developed over a ten-year period, 1989-99.<br />
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As a press critic and reviewer, he has written for ''The Nation'', ''Columbia Journalism Review'', the ''Chronicle of Higher Education'', ''The New York Times'', ''The Washington Post'', ''The Los Angeles Times'', ''Salon.com'', ''TomPaine.com'' and many others.<br />
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He has a Ph.D. from NYU in media studies.<br />
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* [http://www.newassignment.net/ NewAssignment.net]<br />
* [http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/ PressThink blog]<br />
* [[Wikipedia:Jay Rosen|Wikipedia article]]<br />
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=== Peter Suber ===<br />
[[Image:Peter Suber.png|thumb|100px|Peter Suber]]<br />
Peter Suber has been working full-time on open access to research literature since 2003. Before that, Suber was a professor of philosophy at Earlham College for 21 years. He retains a non-teaching position at Earlham, but gave up his tenure and salary to work on open access. <br />
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Suber writes a blog called [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html Open Access News] (updated daily) and the SPARC [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm Open Access Newsletter] (published monthly). All of his work these days is in research, writing, consulting, and advocacy for open access (OA). <br />
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He was the principal drafter of the Budapest Open Access Initiative and serve on boards of several other organizations that deal with OA issues, such as the Scientific Information Working Group of the UN WSIS, Science Commons, Academic Commons, the Open Humanities Press, and the Open Knowledge Foundation. For more, see [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/ my home page].<br />
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* [[Wikipedia:Peter Suber|Wikipedia article]]<br />
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=== Raoul Weiler ===<br />
[[Image:Weiler.jpg|thumb|100px|Raoul Weiler]]<br />
Raoul Weiler is located in Belgium in Antwerp. During the past few years, his activities have primarily focused on sustainability issues as a planetary challenge, the use of low-cost ICT in schools and communities as a contribution to the eradication of illiteracy and bridging the digital gap, and facilitating the access of all to the oncoming worldwide information and knowledge societies, as well as on sustainable economy questions. At present, Weiler founded and chairs the Brussels-EU Chapter of the Club of Rome (CoR-EU) and is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Club of Rome (CoR). Weiler is a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS), member of Scientific Advisory Board of European Papers in the New Welfare, a member of the Board of Greenfacts and the president of the new created DigitalWorld. He participated as a NGO participant at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg (WSSD, 2002) and the World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva and Tunis (WSIS, 2003 & 2005) as well as at the World Social Forum in Porte Alegre (WSF, 2005).<br />
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Weiler's academic background is in engineering with a degree of engineering and Ph. D. in chemistry both at the University of Leuven (KUL), Belgium and he spent several years as Post-doc in the U.S. and France. His industrial career started in a chemical multinational in the Department of Applied Physics and ended, until retirement (1996), as manager of the ICT department. Weiler has held teaching positions at different universities, in particular at the University of Leuven in the Faculty of Bio-engineering Sciences (KUL), and has given lectures about the relationship between technology and society, especially about the problem of sustainability and ethics. He is the co-author and editor of four books on sustainability, global change and philosophy and ethics of technology. Recent publications: Ethic Aspects of the Convention on Climate Change (2005) and the Proceedings of the joint World Conference of the Club of Rome and UNESCO on ICTs for Capacity-Building: Critical Success Factors (2005).<br />
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* [[Wikipedia:Raoul Weiler|Wikipedia article]]<br />
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[[Category:Wikimedia organisation]]</div>James Owenhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:James_Owen&diff=47883User:James Owen2010-09-02T15:27:23Z<p>James Owen: </p>
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'''James Owen''' has been [[Staff|Executive Assistant]] to the Executive and Deputy Directors of the Wikimedia Foundation since March 2009. His position also holds responsibilities for managing and coordinating with the Foundation's Board of Trustees, and Advisory Board. <br />
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Prior to joining the Foundation, James worked with a variety of small and large non-profit organizations, including most recently the [[w:Metropolitan Museum of Art|Metropolitan Museum of Art]].<br />
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You can reach James:<br />
* By e-mail at jowen[[Image:At sign.svg|14px| [at] ]]wikimedia.org</div>James Owenhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:James_Owen&diff=47882User:James Owen2010-09-02T15:27:05Z<p>James Owen: </p>
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<div>[[Image:James Owen May 2009.jpg|thumb|200px|James Owen, Executive Assistant]]<br />
'''James Owen''' has been [[Staff|Executive Assistant]] to the Executive and Deputy Directors of the Wikimedia Foundation since March 2009. His position also holds responsibilities for managing and coordinating with the Foundation's Board of Trustees, and Advisory Board. <br />
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Prior to joining the Foundation, James worked with a variety of small and large non-profit organizations, including most recently the [[w:Metropolitan Museum of Art|Metropolitan Museum of Art]].<br />
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You can reach James:<br />
* By e-mail at jowen[[Image:At sign.svg|14px| [at] ]]wikimedia.org<br />
* His Username on the Wikimedia projects is James Owen<br />
* Mailing address is Wikimedia Foundation, 149 New Montgomery Street, Floor 3, San Francisco, CA 94105</div>James Owenhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Board_of_Trustees&diff=47627Board of Trustees2010-08-09T21:47:22Z<p>James Owen: </p>
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The Wikimedia '''Board of Trustees''' manages the foundation and supervises the disposition and solicitation of donations. The Board is the ultimate corporate authority for the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (article IV, sec. 1 of the [[Wikimedia Foundation bylaws]]) and currently consists of ten Trustees:<br />
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* [[#Ting Chen|Ting Chen]], Chair <small>(term until July 2011)</small><br />
* [[#Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]], Founder <small>(term until December 2010)</small><br />
* [[#Stu West|Stu West]], Vice Chair and Treasurer <small>(term until December 2010)</small><br />
* [[#Samuel Klein|Samuel Klein]], Executive Secretary <small>(term until July 2011)</small><br />
* [[#Jan-Bart de Vreede|Jan-Bart de Vreede]] <small>(term until December 2010)</small><br />
* [[#Kat Walsh|Kat Walsh]] <small>(term until July 2011)</small><br />
* [[#Arne Klempert|Arne Klempert]] <small>(term until July 2012)</small><br />
* [[#Matt Halprin|Matt Halprin]] <small>(term until December 2010)</small><br />
* [[#Bishakha Datta|Bishakha Datta]] <small>(term until December 2010)</small><br />
* Phoebe Ayers <small>(term until July 2012) </small><br />
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The Board was substantially restructured in April 2008. If you are not familiar with these changes yet, please review the following pages:<br />
* Board Restructure [[Board_of_Trustees/Restructure_Announcement | announcement]] by Vice-Chair Jan-Bart de Vreede<br />
* Board Restructure [[Board_of_Trustees/Restructure_Announcement_Q%26A | Questions and Answers]]<br />
* Board Restructure [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/b/b2/BOARD_RESTRUCTURE_FINAL_April_2008.pdf diagram]<br />
* [[m:Template:BoardChart|A chart]] illustrating Board seats over time<br />
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=== Ting Chen ===<br />
[[Image:Chen Sept 09 WMF Board.jpg|left|thumb|Ting Chen]]<br />
[[User:Wing|Ting Chen]] was named as Chair of the Wikimedia Board in July 2010 after being elected as Trustee by the Wikimedia Community in June 2008 with his term officially starting in July 2008.<br />
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Ting Chen was born in Shanghai, China in 1968. He grew up in Harbin, China, in the northeast corner of the country, where he attended elementary school and middle school. In 1989 he went to Braunschweig, Germany and began his study of Electrical engineering. He was especially interested in [[w:semiconductors|semiconductors]] and their physics. He graduated in 1993 with a diploma and now he works as an IT specialist in Mainz, Germany.<br />
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His first experience with a virtual community were during his university time in the German Fido-Net, where he moderated a forum about science and knowledge for many years. He learned of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects through a news article about the German Wikipedia achieving a milestone in 2003. From then on Wikipedia became a new hobby of his. He started on the [[:de:|German Wikipedia]] and changed soon to the young [[:zh:|Chinese Wikipedia]], which was at that time still starting. Ting Chen attended the first [[Wikimania]] ([[wm2005:|Wikimania 2005]]) in Frankfurt, where he took part on a panel discussion and introduced the Chinese community. He also helped organize the third Wikimania ([[wm2007:|Wikimania 2007]]) in Taipei.<br />
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=== Jimmy Wales ===<br />
[[Image:Wales WMF Board Sept 2009 Goldberg.jpg|right|thumb|Jimmy Wales]] <br />
[[w:en:Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]] is an [[:en:Internet|Internet]] [[:en:entrepreneur|entrepreneur]] and [[:en:wiki|wiki]] enthusiast, and founder of the Wikipedia project. <br />
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Jimmy was born in [[:en:Huntsville, Alabama|Huntsville]], [[:en:Alabama|Alabama]] in 1966, and is a graduate of [[:en:Auburn University|Auburn University]] and the [[:en:University of Alabama|University of Alabama]]. He worked as Research Director at Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm then located in [[:en:Chicago|Chicago]]. In the mid-[[:en:1990s|1990s]] he started [[:en:Bomis|Bomis]], a search portal focusing on aspects of [[:en:pop culture|pop culture]], one of the first users of the freely licensed data of the [[:en:Open Directory Project|Open Directory Project]].<br />
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In 1999, Jimmy had the concept of a freely distributable encyclopedia and founded [[:en:Nupedia|Nupedia]], by hiring philosopher Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief and assigning two programmers to write software for it. Nupedia failed, perhaps due to being a top-down cathedral model, as opposed to Wikipedia, which is the ultimate bazaar. After two years of working with the Nupedia concept, that team opened Wikipedia to help channel content into Nupedia; Wikipedia became an instant success, but not in the envisioned way, and Nupedia was shut down. In 2003, Jimmy set up the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization, to support Wikipedia and its sister projects.<br />
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In 2004, Jimmy founded [[:en:Wikia|Wikia]]. He was appointed a fellow of Harvard Law School's [[:en:Berkman Center for Internet & Society|Berkman Center for Internet and Society]] in mid-2005, and in October of 2005 joined the Board of Directors of [[w:Socialtext|Socialtext]], a provider of wiki technology to businesses. He lives in [[:en:St. Petersburg, Florida|St. Petersburg]], [[:en:Florida|Florida]].<br />
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=== Stu West ===<br />
[[Image:StuWest April08.jpg|left|thumb|Stu West]]<br />
[[User:Stu|Stu West]] was named Vice-chair of the Wikimedia Foundation in July 2010 after joined the Wikimedia Board and being named Treasurer in April 2008. He brings over 17 years of financial experience, including senior executive roles at publicly-traded companies including TiVo, Yahoo!, InfoSpace, and in investment banking at J.P. Morgan. He also worked with the United States Mission to the United Nations. Stu's educational background includes a B.A. in History from Yale University, where he focused on 20th century diplomacy. He is a dual citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom, and currently lives in the San Francisco bay area.<br />
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=== Samuel Klein ===<br />
[[Image:Joi-sj-narrow.jpg|right|thumb|In Taipei in 2007.]]<br />
[[User:Sj|Samuel Klein]] (born in 1978 in New York) was elected to the Wikimedia Board in August 2009. He currently lives in Cambridge, where he leads local content creation and develops global advocacy for [[w:OLPC|One Laptop per Child]], a non-profit educational organization dedicated to providing access to knowledge and communication networks to children everywhere. He has worked with children and teachers in Peru, Uruguay, and Nepal to organize content and software jams and to teach others what they learn.<br />
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Samuel has been involved in Wikipedia and [[wikibooks:user:sj|other]] [[m:user:sj|Wikimedia]] [[wikinews:user:sj|projects]] for 6 years. He has spent much of that time writing and speaking about the Projects. In 2005 he published a Wikimedia newsletter in 6 languages, and served as a cross-project translation lead. He also served on the Communications and Special Projects Committees in their first year. He founded the Boston-area Wikipedia group, and organized the bid and local team that hosted the [[m:Wikimania 2006|Wikimania conference]] there in 2006. He works on offline Wikipedia distribution, including the [[olpc:WikiBrowse|WikiBrowse]] project.<br />
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Samuel studied Math and Physics at Harvard University, and is an Associate of Harvard's Berkman Center for the Internet and Society. He spent time [http://aduni.org teaching] and developing software for [http://idiominc.com facilitating translation] and [http://openacs.org/ community-building] before working on universal education.<br />
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More information about Samuel is available on his [[w:en:User:Sj|Wikipedia user page]].<br />
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=== Jan-Bart de Vreede ===<br />
[[Image:DeVreede WMF Board Sept 2009 GOLDBERGN-9028.jpg|left|thumb|Jan-Bart de Vreede]]<br />
[[User:Jan-Bart|Jan-Bart de Vreede]] joined the board in December 2006 and served as Vice-chair of Wikimedia Foundation from January 2007 until July 2010.<br />
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Working at the Kennisnet Foundation allowed Jan-Bart to spend time promoting the use of wiki software and Wikimedia projects in education, amongst other things. The [http://www.kennisnet.nl/ Kennisnet Foundation] is a publicly funded Dutch organisation. At Kennisnet Jan-Bart is responsible for the Kennisnet communities and the Wikiwijs project which has the goal of creating a large OER movement within the Netherlands. Jan-Bart has been involved with Wikimedia since 2004, through his role as a Board member and his work at Kennisnet. He has attended and spoken at all of Wikimania conferences. <br />
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He is currently involved with the [http://Wikiwijs.nl Wikiwijs] project within the Netherlands. This is a countrywide initiative aimed at encouraging teachers to develop and share Open Educational Resources. <br />
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Jan-Bart de Vreede spent most of his childhood in the Netherlands, also living in Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Kenya and the United States. He studied Business Administration at the Rotterdam School of Management. He has three children: Anna (0), Matthias (5) and Ruben (8). <br />
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=== Kat Walsh ===<br />
[[Image:Kat-teal.jpg|right|thumb|Kat Walsh]]<br />
[[User:Kat Walsh|Kat Walsh]] is a Wikimedian from Herndon, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC. She is a registered patent agent, who recently graduated from her study of technology and intellectual property law at George Mason University School of Law. <br />
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Kat has been a volunteer for Wikimedia since 2004. She is a press contact for Wikimedia, having appeared in national media, and answers mail sent to the Foundation. In October 2005 she was appointed to the Arbitration Committee on the English Wikipedia, which she served on until joining the Board. She is active in the DC-area free culture and public interest community. Kat is also a classical bassoonist and violist, performing in regional orchestras.<br />
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=== Arne Klempert ===<br />
[[Image:Aklempert.jpg|left|thumb|Arne Klempert]]<br />
Arne Klempert was born in 1972 and studied social sciences at the University of Frankfurt in Germany. He has several years of professional experience in publishing houses and agencies with traditional and new media. He's now working as Head of Digital Communications at [http://www.ifok.de/ IFOK], a German consulting firm specialized in dialogue and participation.<br />
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Arne joined Wikipedia in 2003 as an editing community member. A few months later he became press contact of the German Wikipedia<br />
(2004-2008). Arne was co-founder and Vice President of [http://www.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland] (2004-2006), co-organizer of the first Wikimania (2005), and the first employee of a Wikimedia chapter - as Wikimedia Deutschland's Executive Director from 2006 to 2008.<br />
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=== Matt Halprin ===<br />
[[Image:2008503_Halprin_16high_resolution_2.jpg|right|thumb|Matt Halprin]]<br />
Matt Halprin joined the Wikimedia Board in August 2009. Matt leads Omidyar Network's Media, Markets & Transparency initiative, supporting technologies that promote transparency, accountability, and trust across media, markets, and government. Within this initiative, his team pursues investments in Social Media, Marketplaces, and Government Transparency. In his role as Partner, Matt builds Omidyar Network’s team of talented investment professionals and works with portfolio organizations to help them succeed.<br />
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Matt has more than 20 years of business experience, including six at eBay. As Vice President, Global Trust and Safety at eBay, he led a team of 90 statisticians, policy managers, and product managers. He also helped coordinate the efforts of 2,000 customer support personnel to increase revenue while minimizing fraud and other trust-reducing behavior. Prior to eBay, Matt served as a Partner and Vice President at the Boston Consulting Group, where he worked with technology clients on issues of corporate strategy and corporate development. Previously, Matt was Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Quadlux, a VC-backed developer of technology-based ovens that was later sold to GE and Hobart.<br />
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Matt is on the Boards of Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), Sunlight Foundation, DonorsChoose.org, Goodmail Systems and Management Leadership for Tomorrow, which supports the next generation of minority leaders in the United States. He graduated with High Distinction as a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School and holds a BS in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.<br />
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=== Bishakha Datta ===<br />
[[Image:Bish in Whistler1.jpg|left|thumb|Bishakha Datta in Whistler, British Columbia.]]<br />
Bishakha Datta joined the Wikimedia Board in March 2010. Currently the leader of India-based non-profit [http://www.pointofview.org Point of View], she brings two decades of diverse, international experience as a non-profit practitioner, journalist and filmmaker dedicated to disseminating women's perspectives through media, art and culture. She has worked with organizations from around the world including Kenya, Uganda, the United States, Denmark and the United Kingdom. Bishakha received an MA in Communications from [[w:Stanford University|Stanford University]], as well as an MA in English Literature and BA in Economics from [[w:Mumbai University|Mumbai University]]. She lives and works in Mumbai.<br />
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== Former Board members ==<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Angela Beesley.jpg|Angela Beesley, from UK/Australia.<br />
File:WM2006 0068.jpg|Michael Davis, from the USA.<br />
File:Erik Moeller May 2008.JPG|Erik Möller, from Germany.<br />
File:Tim_Shell_Wikimedia.jpg|Tim Shell, from the USA.<br />
File:Oscar van Dillen.gif|Oscar van Dillen, from the Netherlands.<br />
File:Anthere_mg_2820b.jpg|Florence Nibart-Devouard, from France.<br />
File:Frieda.JPG|Frieda Brioschi, from Italy.<br />
File:DomasMituzas_April08.JPG|Domas Mituzas, from Lithuania.<br />
File:Snow_WMF_Board_Sept_2009.jpg|Michael Snow, from the USA.<br />
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; Angela Beesley (June 2004-July 2006): Involved with Wikimedia projects since February 2003, Angela Beesley was one of the first members of Wikimedia's Board of Trustees, and currently serves on our Advisory Board. A co-founder and Vice President of Community for wiki hosting service "Wikia", she is one of the authors of the book ''Wikis: Tools for information Work and Collaboration'' (2006). Prior to her involvement with Wikipedia, Angela was an educational researcher and developer of student assessments. Angela was born in England and has lived in Germany and Australia.<br />
: Angela was on the Board of Trustees until she resigned from the post; her successor was elected 26 September 2006.<br />
: ''More about Angela: [[w:en:Angela Beesley|Biography on Wikipedia]], [[w:en:User:Angela|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Michael Davis (2003-November 2007): Michael Davis is a graduate of [[:en:Williams College|Williams College]] and the [[:en:University of Chicago|University of Chicago]]. Before joining Wikimedia, Michael was the CEO of Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm in Chicago. Michael currently resides in St. Petersburg, Florida, as the Chief Operating Officer of community-focused wiki hosting service Wikia, Inc.<br />
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; Erik Möller (July 2006-December 2007): Erik is the Deputy Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, a position he assumed in January 2008, stepping down from the Board of Trustees. Erik Möller has been an active editor of Wikipedia since 2001 and has also contributed to the underlying software, MediaWiki. Möller developed the proposal for Wikinews, a Wikimedia project, and organized the vote that implemented it. Before joining Wikimedia as an employee, Erik was a freelance journalist and author (''Die heimliche Medienrevolution: Wie Weblogs, Wikis und freie Software die Welt verändern''), as well as a manager of wiki-related software development projects. He holds a degree in computer science. Beyond Wikimedia, he seeks to promote Free Content, Free Software, and balanced intellectual monopoly rights legislation. Until taking the position at the Wikimedia Foundation, Möller lived in [[w:Berlin|Berlin]].<br />
: ''More about Erik: [[User:Eloquence|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Tim Shell (2003-November 2006): Tim Shell is an Internet entrepreneur with an interest in self-organization, and decentralized order, as exemplified by Wikipedia. In 1996 he was pursuing his degree in computer science when he decided to chuck it and go into business, joining up with Jimmy Wales to start Bomis. Tim has lived in Chicago, Florida, and San Diego, and currently resides in Las Vegas. On December 15, 2006, Shell stepped down from the board.<br />
: ''More about Tim: [[m:User:TimShell|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Oscar van Dillen (November 2006-June 2007): Oscar is an editor and bureaucrat for the Dutch-language Wikipedia and other Dutch Wikimedia projects. He also holds the role of steward since May 2005, helping and advising many projects in many languages. Van Dillen is a member of the Special Projects committee, which helps the Foundation pursue grants, oversee expansion efforts, and encourage partnerships between the Foundation and other organizations. Professionally, Van Dillen is a musician and composer, teaching World music composition as well as music theory in the jazz, pop and world music department at the Conservatory of Rotterdam.<br />
: ''More about Oscar: [[User:Oscar|Userpage]]''<br />
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;Florence Nibart-Devouard (June 2004-July 2008): Florence was the Chair of the Wikimedia Board from October 2006 until July of 2008. She served as one of the elected representatives to the Board starting June 2004. Florence was born in [[:en:Versailles|Versailles]] (France). She grew up in Grenoble, and has been living since then in several French cities, as well as Antwerpen in Belgium and Tempe in Arizona. She holds two masters, one in Agricultural Sciences (a 5-year degree in agronomical engineering ([[w:en:Grandes Ecoles|Diplome d'Ingénieur Grande Ecole]]) from [http://www.ensaia.inpl-nancy.fr/ ENSAIA] and the other a postgraduate degree (DEA) in Genetics and Biotechnologies from [http://www.inpl-nancy.fr/index.htm INPL].She has been working in public research, first in flower plant genetic improvement, and second in microbiology to study the feasability of polluted soil bioremediation. She was employed until 2005 in a French company, to conceive decision-making tools in sustainable agriculture. She is now a consultant in Internet Communication Strategy. She joined the Wikipedia adventure in February 2002 and is known as a contributor under the pseudonym ''Anthere''. Florence is 39, and lives in [[w:en:Clermont Ferrand|Clermont Ferrand]] with her husband Bertrand and her three children, Anne-Gaëlle aged nine, William eleven and Thomas two.<br />
: ''More about Florence: [[w:en:Florence Nibart-Devouard|Biography on Wikipedia]], [[m:User:Anthere|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Frieda Brioschi (July 2007-September 2008): Frieda (born in 1976, Italian) joined the Wikimedia Board in July 2007. She has been involved in Wikipedia and other WMF projects since May 2003. In June 2005 she helped found [[Wikimedia Italia]], a local chapter organization associated with Wikimedia, and was president of that organization until September 2007. She currently lives in Milan where she works as a programmer. She resigned from the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees in September 2008 after being re-elected again as board member and president of Wikimedia Italia.<br />
: ''More about Frieda: [[User:Frieda|Userpage]]''<br />
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;Domas Mituzas (February 2008-July 2009): Domas joined the Wikimedia Board in February 2008. He has been involved with Wikipedia technology since 2004, and has worked on site performance and operations since then. He also works for MySQL AB (recently acquired by Sun Microsystems) services division. Before that he built network services in Lithuania and other Baltic States. He was born and lives in Vilnius, Lithuania. <br />
: ''More about Domas: [[User:Midom|Userpage]]''<br />
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;Michael Snow (February 2008-July 2010): Michael was Chair of the Wikimedia Board from July 2008 until July 2010. He joined the Board in February 2008, after participating in Wikimedia projects since 2003. One of his contributions was the creation of [[w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost|''The Wikipedia Signpost'']], a community newspaper for the English-language Wikipedia. Born in Pfullendorf, Germany, he now lives in the Seattle area. Michael is an attorney and earned his [[:en:Juris Doctor|J.D.]] degree from the University of Washington. <br />
: ''More abut Michael: [[w:en:User:Michael_Snow|Userpage]]''<br />
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==Roles of board members and officers==<br />
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* [[Board member]]<br />
* [[Treasurer]]<br />
* [[Chair]]<br />
* [[Secretary]]<br />
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* [[Meetings]] (with minutes)<br />
* [[Resolutions]]<br />
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The Wikimedia '''Board of Trustees''' manages the foundation and supervises the disposition and solicitation of donations. The Board is the ultimate corporate authority for the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (article IV, sec. 1 of the [[Wikimedia Foundation bylaws]]) and currently consists of ten Trustees:<br />
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* [[#Ting Chen|Ting Chen]], Chair <small>(term until July 2011)</small><br />
* [[#Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]], Founder <small>(term until December 2010)</small><br />
* [[#Stu West|Stu West]], Vice Chair and Treasurer <small>(term until December 2010)</small><br />
* [[#Samuel Klein|Samuel Klein]], Executive Secretary <small>(term until July 2011)</small><br />
* [[#Jan-Bart de Vreede|Jan-Bart de Vreede]] <small>(term until December 2010)</small><br />
* [[#Kat Walsh|Kat Walsh]] <small>(term until July 2011)</small><br />
* [[#Arne Klempert|Arne Klempert]] <small>(term until July 2012)</small><br />
* [[#Matt Halprin|Matt Halprin]] <small>(term until December 2010)</small><br />
* [[#Bishakha Datta|Bishakha Datta]] <small>(term until December 2010)</small><br />
* Phoebe Ayers <small>(term until July 2012) </small><br />
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The Board was substantially restructured in April 2008. If you are not familiar with these changes yet, please review the following pages:<br />
* Board Restructure [[Board_of_Trustees/Restructure_Announcement | announcement]] by Vice-Chair Jan-Bart de Vreede<br />
* Board Restructure [[Board_of_Trustees/Restructure_Announcement_Q%26A | Questions and Answers]]<br />
* Board Restructure [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/b/b2/BOARD_RESTRUCTURE_FINAL_April_2008.pdf diagram]<br />
* [[m:Template:BoardChart|A chart]] illustrating Board seats over time<br />
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=== Ting Chen ===<br />
[[Image:Chen Sept 09 WMF Board.jpg|left|thumb|Ting Chen]]<br />
[[User:Wing|Ting Chen]] was named as Chair of the Wikimedia Board in July 2010 after being elected as Trustee by the Wikimedia Community in June 2008 with his term officially starting in July 2008.<br />
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Ting Chen was born in Shanghai, China in 1968. He grew up in Harbin, China, in the northeast corner of the country, where he attended elementary school and middle school. In 1989 he went to Braunschweig, Germany and began his study of Electrical engineering. He was especially interested in [[w:semiconductors|semiconductors]] and their physics. He graduated in 1993 with a diploma and now he works as an IT specialist in Mainz, Germany.<br />
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His first experience with a virtual community were during his university time in the German Fido-Net, where he moderated a forum about science and knowledge for many years. He learned of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects through a news article about the German Wikipedia achieving a milestone in 2003. From then on Wikipedia became a new hobby of his. He started on the [[:de:|German Wikipedia]] and changed soon to the young [[:zh:|Chinese Wikipedia]], which was at that time still starting. Ting Chen attended the first [[Wikimania]] ([[wm2005:|Wikimania 2005]]) in Frankfurt, where he took part on a panel discussion and introduced the Chinese community. He also helped organize the third Wikimania ([[wm2007:|Wikimania 2007]]) in Taipei.<br />
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=== Jimmy Wales ===<br />
[[Image:Wales WMF Board Sept 2009 Goldberg.jpg|right|thumb|Jimmy Wales]] <br />
[[w:en:Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]] is an [[:en:Internet|Internet]] [[:en:entrepreneur|entrepreneur]] and [[:en:wiki|wiki]] enthusiast, and founder of the Wikipedia project. <br />
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Jimmy was born in [[:en:Huntsville, Alabama|Huntsville]], [[:en:Alabama|Alabama]] in 1966, and is a graduate of [[:en:Auburn University|Auburn University]] and the [[:en:University of Alabama|University of Alabama]]. He worked as Research Director at Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm then located in [[:en:Chicago|Chicago]]. In the mid-[[:en:1990s|1990s]] he started [[:en:Bomis|Bomis]], a search portal focusing on aspects of [[:en:pop culture|pop culture]], one of the first users of the freely licensed data of the [[:en:Open Directory Project|Open Directory Project]].<br />
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In 1999, Jimmy had the concept of a freely distributable encyclopedia and founded [[:en:Nupedia|Nupedia]], by hiring philosopher Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief and assigning two programmers to write software for it. Nupedia failed, perhaps due to being a top-down cathedral model, as opposed to Wikipedia, which is the ultimate bazaar. After two years of working with the Nupedia concept, that team opened Wikipedia to help channel content into Nupedia; Wikipedia became an instant success, but not in the envisioned way, and Nupedia was shut down. In 2003, Jimmy set up the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization, to support Wikipedia and its sister projects.<br />
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In 2004, Jimmy founded [[:en:Wikia|Wikia]]. He was appointed a fellow of Harvard Law School's [[:en:Berkman Center for Internet & Society|Berkman Center for Internet and Society]] in mid-2005, and in October of 2005 joined the Board of Directors of [[w:Socialtext|Socialtext]], a provider of wiki technology to businesses. He lives in [[:en:St. Petersburg, Florida|St. Petersburg]], [[:en:Florida|Florida]].<br />
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=== Stu West ===<br />
[[Image:StuWest April08.jpg|left|thumb|Stu West]]<br />
[[User:Stu|Stu West]] was named Vice-chair of the Wikimedia Foundation in July 2010 after joined the Wikimedia Board and being named Treasurer in April 2008. He brings over 17 years of financial experience, including senior executive roles at publicly-traded companies including TiVo, Yahoo!, InfoSpace, and in investment banking at J.P. Morgan. He also worked with the United States Mission to the United Nations. Stu's educational background includes a B.A. in History from Yale University, where he focused on 20th century diplomacy. He is a dual citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom, and currently lives in the San Francisco bay area.<br />
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=== Samuel Klein ===<br />
[[Image:Joi-sj-narrow.jpg|right|thumb|In Taipei in 2007.]]<br />
[[User:Sj|Samuel Klein]] (born in 1978 in New York) was elected to the Wikimedia Board in August 2009. He currently lives in Cambridge, where he leads local content creation and develops global advocacy for [[w:OLPC|One Laptop per Child]], a non-profit educational organization dedicated to providing access to knowledge and communication networks to children everywhere. He has worked with children and teachers in Peru, Uruguay, and Nepal to organize content and software jams and to teach others what they learn.<br />
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Samuel has been involved in Wikipedia and [[wikibooks:user:sj|other]] [[m:user:sj|Wikimedia]] [[wikinews:user:sj|projects]] for 6 years. He has spent much of that time writing and speaking about the Projects. In 2005 he published a Wikimedia newsletter in 6 languages, and served as a cross-project translation lead. He also served on the Communications and Special Projects Committees in their first year. He founded the Boston-area Wikipedia group, and organized the bid and local team that hosted the [[m:Wikimania 2006|Wikimania conference]] there in 2006. He works on offline Wikipedia distribution, including the [[olpc:WikiBrowse|WikiBrowse]] project.<br />
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Samuel studied Math and Physics at Harvard University, and is an Associate of Harvard's Berkman Center for the Internet and Society. He spent time [http://aduni.org teaching] and developing software for [http://idiominc.com facilitating translation] and [http://openacs.org/ community-building] before working on universal education.<br />
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More information about Samuel is available on his [[w:en:User:Sj|Wikipedia user page]].<br />
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=== Jan-Bart de Vreede ===<br />
[[Image:DeVreede WMF Board Sept 2009 GOLDBERGN-9028.jpg|left|thumb|Jan-Bart de Vreede]]<br />
[[User:Jan-Bart|Jan-Bart de Vreede]] joined the board in December 2006 and served as Vice-chair of Wikimedia Foundation from January 2007 until July 2010.<br />
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Working at the Kennisnet Foundation allowed Jan-Bart to spend time promoting the use of wiki software and Wikimedia projects in education, amongst other things. The [http://www.kennisnet.nl/ Kennisnet Foundation] is a publicly funded Dutch organisation. At Kennisnet Jan-Bart is responsible for the Kennisnet communities and the Wikiwijs project which has the goal of creating a large OER movement within the Netherlands. Jan-Bart has been involved with Wikimedia since 2004, through his role as a Board member and his work at Kennisnet. He has attended and spoken at all of Wikimania conferences. <br />
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He is currently involved with the [http://Wikiwijs.nl Wikiwijs] project within the Netherlands. This is a countrywide initiative aimed at encouraging teachers to develop and share Open Educational Resources. <br />
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Jan-Bart de Vreede spent most of his childhood in the Netherlands, also living in Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Kenya and the United States. He studied Business Administration at the Rotterdam School of Management. He has three children: Anna (0), Matthias (5) and Ruben (8). <br />
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=== Kat Walsh ===<br />
[[Image:Kat-teal.jpg|right|thumb|Kat Walsh]]<br />
[[User:Kat Walsh|Kat Walsh]] is a Wikimedian from Herndon, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC. She is a registered patent agent, who recently graduated from her study of technology and intellectual property law at George Mason University School of Law. <br />
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Kat has been a volunteer for Wikimedia since 2004. She is a press contact for Wikimedia, having appeared in national media, and answers mail sent to the Foundation. In October 2005 she was appointed to the Arbitration Committee on the English Wikipedia, which she served on until joining the Board. She is active in the DC-area free culture and public interest community. Kat is also a classical bassoonist and violist, performing in regional orchestras.<br />
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=== Arne Klempert ===<br />
[[Image:Aklempert.jpg|left|thumb|Arne Klempert]]<br />
Arne Klempert was born in 1972 and studied social sciences at the University of Frankfurt in Germany. He has several years of professional experience in publishing houses and agencies with traditional and new media. He's now working as Head of Digital Communications at [http://www.ifok.de/ IFOK], a German consulting firm specialized in dialogue and participation.<br />
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Arne joined Wikipedia in 2003 as an editing community member. A few months later he became press contact of the German Wikipedia<br />
(2004-2008). Arne was co-founder and Vice President of [http://www.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland] (2004-2006), co-organizer of the first Wikimania (2005), and the first employee of a Wikimedia chapter - as Wikimedia Deutschland's Executive Director from 2006 to 2008.<br />
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=== Matt Halprin ===<br />
[[Image:2008503_Halprin_16high_resolution_2.jpg|right|thumb|Matt Halprin]]<br />
Matt Halprin joined the Wikimedia Board in August 2009. Matt leads Omidyar Network's Media, Markets & Transparency initiative, supporting technologies that promote transparency, accountability, and trust across media, markets, and government. Within this initiative, his team pursues investments in Social Media, Marketplaces, and Government Transparency. In his role as Partner, Matt builds Omidyar Network’s team of talented investment professionals and works with portfolio organizations to help them succeed.<br />
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Matt has more than 20 years of business experience, including six at eBay. As Vice President, Global Trust and Safety at eBay, he led a team of 90 statisticians, policy managers, and product managers. He also helped coordinate the efforts of 2,000 customer support personnel to increase revenue while minimizing fraud and other trust-reducing behavior. Prior to eBay, Matt served as a Partner and Vice President at the Boston Consulting Group, where he worked with technology clients on issues of corporate strategy and corporate development. Previously, Matt was Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Quadlux, a VC-backed developer of technology-based ovens that was later sold to GE and Hobart.<br />
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Matt is on the Boards of Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), Sunlight Foundation, DonorsChoose.org, Goodmail Systems and Management Leadership for Tomorrow, which supports the next generation of minority leaders in the United States. He graduated with High Distinction as a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School and holds a BS in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.<br />
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=== Bishakha Datta ===<br />
[[Image:Bish in Whistler1.jpg|left|thumb|Bishakha Datta in Whistler, British Columbia.]]<br />
Bishakha Datta joined the Wikimedia Board in March 2010. Currently the leader of India-based non-profit [http://www.pointofview.org Point of View], she brings two decades of diverse, international experience as a non-profit practitioner, journalist and filmmaker dedicated to disseminating women's perspectives through media, art and culture. She has worked with organizations from around the world including Kenya, Uganda, the United States, Denmark and the United Kingdom. Bishakha received an MA in Communications from [[w:Stanford University|Stanford University]], as well as an MA in English Literature and BA in Economics from [[w:Mumbai University|Mumbai University]]. She lives and works in Mumbai.<br />
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== Former Board members ==<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Angela Beesley.jpg|Angela Beesley, from UK/Australia.<br />
File:WM2006 0068.jpg|Michael Davis, from the USA.<br />
File:Erik Moeller May 2008.JPG|Erik Möller, from Germany.<br />
File:Tim_Shell_Wikimedia.jpg|Tim Shell, from the USA.<br />
File:Oscar van Dillen.gif|Oscar van Dillen, from the Netherlands.<br />
File:Anthere_mg_2820b.jpg|Florence Nibart-Devouard, from France.<br />
File:Frieda.JPG|Frieda Brioschi, from Italy.<br />
File:DomasMituzas_April08.JPG|Domas Mituzas, from Lithuania.<br />
File:Snow_WMF_Board_Sept_2009.jpg|Michael Snow, from the USA.<br />
</gallery><br />
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; Angela Beesley (June 2004-July 2006): Involved with Wikimedia projects since February 2003, Angela Beesley was one of the first members of Wikimedia's Board of Trustees, and currently serves on our Advisory Board. A co-founder and Vice President of Community for wiki hosting service "Wikia", she is one of the authors of the book ''Wikis: Tools for information Work and Collaboration'' (2006). Prior to her involvement with Wikipedia, Angela was an educational researcher and developer of student assessments. Angela was born in England and has lived in Germany and Australia.<br />
: Angela was on the Board of Trustees until she resigned from the post; her successor was elected 26 September 2006.<br />
: ''More about Angela: [[w:en:Angela Beesley|Biography on Wikipedia]], [[w:en:User:Angela|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Michael Davis (2003-November 2007): Michael Davis is a graduate of [[:en:Williams College|Williams College]] and the [[:en:University of Chicago|University of Chicago]]. Before joining Wikimedia, Michael was the CEO of Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm in Chicago. Michael currently resides in St. Petersburg, Florida, as the Chief Operating Officer of community-focused wiki hosting service Wikia, Inc.<br />
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; Erik Möller (July 2006-December 2007): Erik is the Deputy Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, a position he assumed in January 2008, stepping down from the Board of Trustees. Erik Möller has been an active editor of Wikipedia since 2001 and has also contributed to the underlying software, MediaWiki. Möller developed the proposal for Wikinews, a Wikimedia project, and organized the vote that implemented it. Before joining Wikimedia as an employee, Erik was a freelance journalist and author (''Die heimliche Medienrevolution: Wie Weblogs, Wikis und freie Software die Welt verändern''), as well as a manager of wiki-related software development projects. He holds a degree in computer science. Beyond Wikimedia, he seeks to promote Free Content, Free Software, and balanced intellectual monopoly rights legislation. Until taking the position at the Wikimedia Foundation, Möller lived in [[w:Berlin|Berlin]].<br />
: ''More about Erik: [[User:Eloquence|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Tim Shell (2003-November 2006): Tim Shell is an Internet entrepreneur with an interest in self-organization, and decentralized order, as exemplified by Wikipedia. In 1996 he was pursuing his degree in computer science when he decided to chuck it and go into business, joining up with Jimmy Wales to start Bomis. Tim has lived in Chicago, Florida, and San Diego, and currently resides in Las Vegas. On December 15, 2006, Shell stepped down from the board.<br />
: ''More about Tim: [[m:User:TimShell|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Oscar van Dillen (November 2006-June 2007): Oscar is an editor and bureaucrat for the Dutch-language Wikipedia and other Dutch Wikimedia projects. He also holds the role of steward since May 2005, helping and advising many projects in many languages. Van Dillen is a member of the Special Projects committee, which helps the Foundation pursue grants, oversee expansion efforts, and encourage partnerships between the Foundation and other organizations. Professionally, Van Dillen is a musician and composer, teaching World music composition as well as music theory in the jazz, pop and world music department at the Conservatory of Rotterdam.<br />
: ''More about Oscar: [[User:Oscar|Userpage]]''<br />
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;Florence Nibart-Devouard (June 2004-July 2008): Florence was the Chair of the Wikimedia Board from October 2006 until July of 2008. She served as one of the elected representatives to the Board starting June 2004. Florence was born in [[:en:Versailles|Versailles]] (France). She grew up in Grenoble, and has been living since then in several French cities, as well as Antwerpen in Belgium and Tempe in Arizona. She holds two masters, one in Agricultural Sciences (a 5-year degree in agronomical engineering ([[w:en:Grandes Ecoles|Diplome d'Ingénieur Grande Ecole]]) from [http://www.ensaia.inpl-nancy.fr/ ENSAIA] and the other a postgraduate degree (DEA) in Genetics and Biotechnologies from [http://www.inpl-nancy.fr/index.htm INPL].She has been working in public research, first in flower plant genetic improvement, and second in microbiology to study the feasability of polluted soil bioremediation. She was employed until 2005 in a French company, to conceive decision-making tools in sustainable agriculture. She is now a consultant in Internet Communication Strategy. She joined the Wikipedia adventure in February 2002 and is known as a contributor under the pseudonym ''Anthere''. Florence is 39, and lives in [[w:en:Clermont Ferrand|Clermont Ferrand]] with her husband Bertrand and her three children, Anne-Gaëlle aged nine, William eleven and Thomas two.<br />
: ''More about Florence: [[w:en:Florence Nibart-Devouard|Biography on Wikipedia]], [[m:User:Anthere|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Frieda Brioschi (July 2007-September 2008): Frieda (born in 1976, Italian) joined the Wikimedia Board in July 2007. She has been involved in Wikipedia and other WMF projects since May 2003. In June 2005 she helped found [[Wikimedia Italia]], a local chapter organization associated with Wikimedia, and was president of that organization until September 2007. She currently lives in Milan where she works as a programmer. She resigned from the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees in September 2008 after being re-elected again as board member and president of Wikimedia Italia.<br />
: ''More about Frieda: [[User:Frieda|Userpage]]''<br />
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;Domas Mituzas (February 2008-July 2009): Domas joined the Wikimedia Board in February 2008. He has been involved with Wikipedia technology since 2004, and has worked on site performance and operations since then. He also works for MySQL AB (recently acquired by Sun Microsystems) services division. Before that he built network services in Lithuania and other Baltic States. He was born and lives in Vilnius, Lithuania. <br />
: ''More about Domas: [[User:Midom|Userpage]]''<br />
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;Michael Snow (February 2008-July 2010): Michael was Chair of the Wikimedia Board from July 2008 until July 2010. He joined the Board in February 2008, after participating in Wikimedia projects since 2003. One of his contributions was the creation of [[w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost|''The Wikipedia Signpost'']], a community newspaper for the English-language Wikipedia. Born in Pfullendorf, Germany, he now lives in the Seattle area. Michael is an attorney and earned his [[:en:Juris Doctor|J.D.]] degree from the University of Washington. <br />
: ''More abut Michael: [[w:en:User:Michael_Snow|Userpage]]''<br />
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==Roles of board members and officers==<br />
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* [[Board member]]<br />
* [[Treasurer]]<br />
* [[Chair]]<br />
* [[Secretary]]<br />
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==Links==<br />
* [[Meetings]] (with minutes)<br />
* [[Resolutions]]<br />
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[[Category:English]]<br />
[[Category:Wikimedia organisation]]<br />
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__NOTOC__</div>James Owenhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Board_of_Trustees&diff=47625Board of Trustees2010-08-09T21:46:55Z<p>James Owen: </p>
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The Wikimedia '''Board of Trustees''' manages the foundation and supervises the disposition and solicitation of donations. The Board is the ultimate corporate authority for the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (article IV, sec. 1 of the [[Wikimedia Foundation bylaws]]) and currently consists of ten Trustees:<br />
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* [[#Ting Chen|Ting Chen]], Chair <small>(term until July 2011)</small><br />
* [[#Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]], Founder <small>(term until December 2010)</small><br />
* [[#Stu West|Stu West]], Vice Chair and Treasurer <small>(term until December 2010)</small><br />
* [[#Samuel Klein|Samuel Klein]], Executive Secretary <small>(term until July 2011)</small><br />
* [[#Jan-Bart de Vreede|Jan-Bart de Vreede]] <small>(term until December 2010)</small><br />
* [[#Kat Walsh|Kat Walsh]] <small>(term until July 2011)</small><br />
* [[#Arne Klempert|Arne Klempert]] <small>(term until July 2012)</small><br />
* [[#Matt Halprin|Matt Halprin]] <small>(term until December 2010)</small><br />
* [[#Bishakha Datta|Bishakha Datta]] <small>(term until December 2010)</small><br />
* Phoebe Ayers <small>(term until July 2012) </small><br />
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The Board was substantially restructured in April 2008. If you are not familiar with these changes yet, please review the following pages:<br />
* Board Restructure [[Board_of_Trustees/Restructure_Announcement | announcement]] by Vice-Chair Jan-Bart de Vreede<br />
* Board Restructure [[Board_of_Trustees/Restructure_Announcement_Q%26A | Questions and Answers]]<br />
* Board Restructure [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/b/b2/BOARD_RESTRUCTURE_FINAL_April_2008.pdf diagram]<br />
* [[m:Template:BoardChart|A chart]] illustrating Board seats over time<br />
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=== Ting Chen ===<br />
[[Image:Chen Sept 09 WMF Board.jpg|left|thumb|Ting Chen]]<br />
[[User:Wing|Ting Chen]] was named as Chair of the Wikimedia Board in July 2010 after being elected as Trustee by the Wikimedia Community in June 2008 with his term officially starting in July 2008.<br />
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Ting Chen was born in Shanghai, China in 1968. He grew up in Harbin, China, in the northeast corner of the country, where he attended elementary school and middle school. In 1989 he went to Braunschweig, Germany and began his study of Electrical engineering. He was especially interested in [[w:semiconductors|semiconductors]] and their physics. He graduated in 1993 with a diploma and now he works as an IT specialist in Mainz, Germany.<br />
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His first experience with a virtual community were during his university time in the German Fido-Net, where he moderated a forum about science and knowledge for many years. He learned of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects through a news article about the German Wikipedia achieving a milestone in 2003. From then on Wikipedia became a new hobby of his. He started on the [[:de:|German Wikipedia]] and changed soon to the young [[:zh:|Chinese Wikipedia]], which was at that time still starting. Ting Chen attended the first [[Wikimania]] ([[wm2005:|Wikimania 2005]]) in Frankfurt, where he took part on a panel discussion and introduced the Chinese community. He also helped organize the third Wikimania ([[wm2007:|Wikimania 2007]]) in Taipei.<br />
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=== Jimmy Wales ===<br />
[[Image:Wales WMF Board Sept 2009 Goldberg.jpg|right|thumb|Jimmy Wales]] <br />
[[w:en:Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]] is an [[:en:Internet|Internet]] [[:en:entrepreneur|entrepreneur]] and [[:en:wiki|wiki]] enthusiast, and founder of the Wikipedia project. <br />
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Jimmy was born in [[:en:Huntsville, Alabama|Huntsville]], [[:en:Alabama|Alabama]] in 1966, and is a graduate of [[:en:Auburn University|Auburn University]] and the [[:en:University of Alabama|University of Alabama]]. He worked as Research Director at Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm then located in [[:en:Chicago|Chicago]]. In the mid-[[:en:1990s|1990s]] he started [[:en:Bomis|Bomis]], a search portal focusing on aspects of [[:en:pop culture|pop culture]], one of the first users of the freely licensed data of the [[:en:Open Directory Project|Open Directory Project]].<br />
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In 1999, Jimmy had the concept of a freely distributable encyclopedia and founded [[:en:Nupedia|Nupedia]], by hiring philosopher Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief and assigning two programmers to write software for it. Nupedia failed, perhaps due to being a top-down cathedral model, as opposed to Wikipedia, which is the ultimate bazaar. After two years of working with the Nupedia concept, that team opened Wikipedia to help channel content into Nupedia; Wikipedia became an instant success, but not in the envisioned way, and Nupedia was shut down. In 2003, Jimmy set up the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization, to support Wikipedia and its sister projects.<br />
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In 2004, Jimmy founded [[:en:Wikia|Wikia]]. He was appointed a fellow of Harvard Law School's [[:en:Berkman Center for Internet & Society|Berkman Center for Internet and Society]] in mid-2005, and in October of 2005 joined the Board of Directors of [[w:Socialtext|Socialtext]], a provider of wiki technology to businesses. He lives in [[:en:St. Petersburg, Florida|St. Petersburg]], [[:en:Florida|Florida]].<br />
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=== Stu West ===<br />
[[Image:StuWest April08.jpg|left|thumb|Stu West]]<br />
[[User:Stu|Stu West]] was named Vice-chair of the Wikimedia Foundation in July 2010 after joined the Wikimedia Board and being named Treasurer in April 2008. He brings over 17 years of financial experience, including senior executive roles at publicly-traded companies including TiVo, Yahoo!, InfoSpace, and in investment banking at J.P. Morgan. He also worked with the United States Mission to the United Nations. Stu's educational background includes a B.A. in History from Yale University, where he focused on 20th century diplomacy. He is a dual citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom, and currently lives in the San Francisco bay area.<br />
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=== Samuel Klein ===<br />
[[Image:Joi-sj-narrow.jpg|right|thumb|In Taipei in 2007.]]<br />
[[User:Sj|Samuel Klein]] (born in 1978 in New York) was elected to the Wikimedia Board in August 2009. He currently lives in Cambridge, where he leads local content creation and develops global advocacy for [[w:OLPC|One Laptop per Child]], a non-profit educational organization dedicated to providing access to knowledge and communication networks to children everywhere. He has worked with children and teachers in Peru, Uruguay, and Nepal to organize content and software jams and to teach others what they learn.<br />
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Samuel has been involved in Wikipedia and [[wikibooks:user:sj|other]] [[m:user:sj|Wikimedia]] [[wikinews:user:sj|projects]] for 6 years. He has spent much of that time writing and speaking about the Projects. In 2005 he published a Wikimedia newsletter in 6 languages, and served as a cross-project translation lead. He also served on the Communications and Special Projects Committees in their first year. He founded the Boston-area Wikipedia group, and organized the bid and local team that hosted the [[m:Wikimania 2006|Wikimania conference]] there in 2006. He works on offline Wikipedia distribution, including the [[olpc:WikiBrowse|WikiBrowse]] project.<br />
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Samuel studied Math and Physics at Harvard University, and is an Associate of Harvard's Berkman Center for the Internet and Society. He spent time [http://aduni.org teaching] and developing software for [http://idiominc.com facilitating translation] and [http://openacs.org/ community-building] before working on universal education.<br />
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More information about Samuel is available on his [[w:en:User:Sj|Wikipedia user page]].<br />
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=== Jan-Bart de Vreede ===<br />
[[Image:DeVreede WMF Board Sept 2009 GOLDBERGN-9028.jpg|left|thumb|Jan-Bart de Vreede]]<br />
[[User:Jan-Bart|Jan-Bart de Vreede]] joined the board in December 2006 and served as Vice-chair of Wikimedia Foundation from January 2007 until July 2010.<br />
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Working at the Kennisnet Foundation allowed Jan-Bart to spend time promoting the use of wiki software and Wikimedia projects in education, amongst other things. The [http://www.kennisnet.nl/ Kennisnet Foundation] is a publicly funded Dutch organisation. At Kennisnet Jan-Bart is responsible for the Kennisnet communities and the Wikiwijs project which has the goal of creating a large OER movement within the Netherlands. Jan-Bart has been involved with Wikimedia since 2004, through his role as a Board member and his work at Kennisnet. He has attended and spoken at all of Wikimania conferences. <br />
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He is currently involved with the [http://Wikiwijs.nl Wikiwijs] project within the Netherlands. This is a countrywide initiative aimed at encouraging teachers to develop and share Open Educational Resources. <br />
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Jan-Bart de Vreede spent most of his childhood in the Netherlands, also living in Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Kenya and the United States. He studied Business Administration at the Rotterdam School of Management. He has three children: Anna (0), Matthias (5) and Ruben (8). <br />
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=== Kat Walsh ===<br />
[[Image:Kat-teal.jpg|right|thumb|Kat Walsh]]<br />
[[User:Kat Walsh|Kat Walsh]] is a Wikimedian from Herndon, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC. She is a registered patent agent, who recently graduated from her study of technology and intellectual property law at George Mason University School of Law. <br />
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Kat has been a volunteer for Wikimedia since 2004. She is a press contact for Wikimedia, having appeared in national media, and answers mail sent to the Foundation. In October 2005 she was appointed to the Arbitration Committee on the English Wikipedia, which she served on until joining the Board. She is active in the DC-area free culture and public interest community. Kat is also a classical bassoonist and violist, performing in regional orchestras.<br />
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=== Arne Klempert ===<br />
[[Image:Aklempert.jpg|left|thumb|Arne Klempert]]<br />
Arne Klempert was born in 1972 and studied social sciences at the University of Frankfurt in Germany. He has several years of professional experience in publishing houses and agencies with traditional and new media. He's now working as Head of Digital Communications at [http://www.ifok.de/ IFOK], a German consulting firm specialized in dialogue and participation.<br />
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Arne joined Wikipedia in 2003 as an editing community member. A few months later he became press contact of the German Wikipedia<br />
(2004-2008). Arne was co-founder and Vice President of [http://www.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland] (2004-2006), co-organizer of the first Wikimania (2005), and the first employee of a Wikimedia chapter - as Wikimedia Deutschland's Executive Director from 2006 to 2008.<br />
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=== Matt Halprin ===<br />
[[Image:2008503_Halprin_16high_resolution_2.jpg|right|thumb|Matt Halprin]]<br />
Matt Halprin joined the Wikimedia Board in August 2009. Matt leads Omidyar Network's Media, Markets & Transparency initiative, supporting technologies that promote transparency, accountability, and trust across media, markets, and government. Within this initiative, his team pursues investments in Social Media, Marketplaces, and Government Transparency. In his role as Partner, Matt builds Omidyar Network’s team of talented investment professionals and works with portfolio organizations to help them succeed.<br />
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Matt has more than 20 years of business experience, including six at eBay. As Vice President, Global Trust and Safety at eBay, he led a team of 90 statisticians, policy managers, and product managers. He also helped coordinate the efforts of 2,000 customer support personnel to increase revenue while minimizing fraud and other trust-reducing behavior. Prior to eBay, Matt served as a Partner and Vice President at the Boston Consulting Group, where he worked with technology clients on issues of corporate strategy and corporate development. Previously, Matt was Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Quadlux, a VC-backed developer of technology-based ovens that was later sold to GE and Hobart.<br />
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Matt is on the Boards of Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), Sunlight Foundation, DonorsChoose.org, Goodmail Systems and Management Leadership for Tomorrow, which supports the next generation of minority leaders in the United States. He graduated with High Distinction as a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School and holds a BS in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.<br />
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=== Bishakha Datta ===<br />
[[Image:Bish in Whistler1.jpg|left|thumb|Bishakha Datta in Whistler, British Columbia.]]<br />
Bishakha Datta joined the Wikimedia Board in March 2010. Currently the leader of India-based non-profit [http://www.pointofview.org Point of View], she brings two decades of diverse, international experience as a non-profit practitioner, journalist and filmmaker dedicated to disseminating women's perspectives through media, art and culture. She has worked with organizations from around the world including Kenya, Uganda, the United States, Denmark and the United Kingdom. Bishakha received an MA in Communications from [[w:Stanford University|Stanford University]], as well as an MA in English Literature and BA in Economics from [[w:Mumbai University|Mumbai University]]. She lives and works in Mumbai.<br />
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== Former Board members ==<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Angela Beesley.jpg|Angela Beesley, from UK/Australia.<br />
File:WM2006 0068.jpg|Michael Davis, from the USA.<br />
File:Erik Moeller May 2008.JPG|Erik Möller, from Germany.<br />
File:Tim_Shell_Wikimedia.jpg|Tim Shell, from the USA.<br />
File:Oscar van Dillen.gif|Oscar van Dillen, from the Netherlands.<br />
File:Anthere_mg_2820b.jpg|Florence Nibart-Devouard, from France.<br />
File:Frieda.JPG|Frieda Brioschi, from Italy.<br />
File:DomasMituzas_April08.JPG|Domas Mituzas, from Lithuania.<br />
File:Snow_WMF_Board_Sept_2009.jpg|Michael Snow, from the USA.<br />
</gallery><br />
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; Angela Beesley (June 2004-July 2006): Involved with Wikimedia projects since February 2003, Angela Beesley was one of the first members of Wikimedia's Board of Trustees, and currently serves on our Advisory Board. A co-founder and Vice President of Community for wiki hosting service "Wikia", she is one of the authors of the book ''Wikis: Tools for information Work and Collaboration'' (2006). Prior to her involvement with Wikipedia, Angela was an educational researcher and developer of student assessments. Angela was born in England and has lived in Germany and Australia.<br />
: Angela was on the Board of Trustees until she resigned from the post; her successor was elected 26 September 2006.<br />
: ''More about Angela: [[w:en:Angela Beesley|Biography on Wikipedia]], [[w:en:User:Angela|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Michael Davis (2003-November 2007): Michael Davis is a graduate of [[:en:Williams College|Williams College]] and the [[:en:University of Chicago|University of Chicago]]. Before joining Wikimedia, Michael was the CEO of Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm in Chicago. Michael currently resides in St. Petersburg, Florida, as the Chief Operating Officer of community-focused wiki hosting service Wikia, Inc.<br />
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; Erik Möller (July 2006-December 2007): Erik is the Deputy Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, a position he assumed in January 2008, stepping down from the Board of Trustees. Erik Möller has been an active editor of Wikipedia since 2001 and has also contributed to the underlying software, MediaWiki. Möller developed the proposal for Wikinews, a Wikimedia project, and organized the vote that implemented it. Before joining Wikimedia as an employee, Erik was a freelance journalist and author (''Die heimliche Medienrevolution: Wie Weblogs, Wikis und freie Software die Welt verändern''), as well as a manager of wiki-related software development projects. He holds a degree in computer science. Beyond Wikimedia, he seeks to promote Free Content, Free Software, and balanced intellectual monopoly rights legislation. Until taking the position at the Wikimedia Foundation, Möller lived in [[w:Berlin|Berlin]].<br />
: ''More about Erik: [[User:Eloquence|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Tim Shell (2003-November 2006): Tim Shell is an Internet entrepreneur with an interest in self-organization, and decentralized order, as exemplified by Wikipedia. In 1996 he was pursuing his degree in computer science when he decided to chuck it and go into business, joining up with Jimmy Wales to start Bomis. Tim has lived in Chicago, Florida, and San Diego, and currently resides in Las Vegas. On December 15, 2006, Shell stepped down from the board.<br />
: ''More about Tim: [[m:User:TimShell|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Oscar van Dillen (November 2006-June 2007): Oscar is an editor and bureaucrat for the Dutch-language Wikipedia and other Dutch Wikimedia projects. He also holds the role of steward since May 2005, helping and advising many projects in many languages. Van Dillen is a member of the Special Projects committee, which helps the Foundation pursue grants, oversee expansion efforts, and encourage partnerships between the Foundation and other organizations. Professionally, Van Dillen is a musician and composer, teaching World music composition as well as music theory in the jazz, pop and world music department at the Conservatory of Rotterdam.<br />
: ''More about Oscar: [[User:Oscar|Userpage]]''<br />
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;Florence Nibart-Devouard (June 2004-July 2008): Florence was the Chair of the Wikimedia Board from October 2006 until July of 2008. She served as one of the elected representatives to the Board starting June 2004. Florence was born in [[:en:Versailles|Versailles]] (France). She grew up in Grenoble, and has been living since then in several French cities, as well as Antwerpen in Belgium and Tempe in Arizona. She holds two masters, one in Agricultural Sciences (a 5-year degree in agronomical engineering ([[w:en:Grandes Ecoles|Diplome d'Ingénieur Grande Ecole]]) from [http://www.ensaia.inpl-nancy.fr/ ENSAIA] and the other a postgraduate degree (DEA) in Genetics and Biotechnologies from [http://www.inpl-nancy.fr/index.htm INPL].She has been working in public research, first in flower plant genetic improvement, and second in microbiology to study the feasability of polluted soil bioremediation. She was employed until 2005 in a French company, to conceive decision-making tools in sustainable agriculture. She is now a consultant in Internet Communication Strategy. She joined the Wikipedia adventure in February 2002 and is known as a contributor under the pseudonym ''Anthere''. Florence is 39, and lives in [[w:en:Clermont Ferrand|Clermont Ferrand]] with her husband Bertrand and her three children, Anne-Gaëlle aged nine, William eleven and Thomas two.<br />
: ''More about Florence: [[w:en:Florence Nibart-Devouard|Biography on Wikipedia]], [[m:User:Anthere|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Frieda Brioschi (July 2007-September 2008): Frieda (born in 1976, Italian) joined the Wikimedia Board in July 2007. She has been involved in Wikipedia and other WMF projects since May 2003. In June 2005 she helped found [[Wikimedia Italia]], a local chapter organization associated with Wikimedia, and was president of that organization until September 2007. She currently lives in Milan where she works as a programmer. She resigned from the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees in September 2008 after being re-elected again as board member and president of Wikimedia Italia.<br />
: ''More about Frieda: [[User:Frieda|Userpage]]''<br />
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;Domas Mituzas (February 2008-July 2009): Domas joined the Wikimedia Board in February 2008. He has been involved with Wikipedia technology since 2004, and has worked on site performance and operations since then. He also works for MySQL AB (recently acquired by Sun Microsystems) services division. Before that he built network services in Lithuania and other Baltic States. He was born and lives in Vilnius, Lithuania. <br />
: ''More about Domas: [[User:Midom|Userpage]]''<br />
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;Michael Snow (February 2008-July 2010): Michael was Chair of the Wikimedia Board from July 2008 until July 2010. He joined the Board in February 2008, after participating in Wikimedia projects since 2003. One of his contributions was the creation of [[w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost|''The Wikipedia Signpost'']], a community newspaper for the English-language Wikipedia. Born in Pfullendorf, Germany, he now lives in the Seattle area. Michael is an attorney and earned his [[:en:Juris Doctor|J.D.]] degree from the University of Washington. <br />
: ''More abut Michael: [[w:en:User:Michael_Snow|Userpage]]''<br />
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==Roles of board members and officers==<br />
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* [[Board member]]<br />
* [[Treasurer]]<br />
* [[Chair]]<br />
* [[Secretary]]<br />
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==Links==<br />
* [[Meetings]] (with minutes)<br />
* [[Resolutions]]<br />
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[[Category:English]]<br />
[[Category:Wikimedia organisation]]<br />
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The Wikimedia '''Board of Trustees''' manages the foundation and supervises the disposition and solicitation of donations. The Board is the ultimate corporate authority for the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (article IV, sec. 1 of the [[Wikimedia Foundation bylaws]]) and currently consists of ten Trustees:<br />
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* [[#Ting Chen|Ting Chen]], Chair <small>(term until July 2011)</small><br />
* [[#Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]], Founder <small>(term until December 2010)</small><br />
* [[#Stu West|Stu West]], Vice Chair and Treasurer <small>(term until December 2010)</small><br />
* [[#Samuel Klein|Samuel Klein]], Executive Secretary <small>(term until July 2011)</small><br />
* [[#Jan-Bart de Vreede|Jan-Bart de Vreede]] <small>(term until December 2010)</small><br />
* [[#Kat Walsh|Kat Walsh]] <small>(term until July 2011)</small><br />
* Phoebe Ayers <small>(term until July 2012) </small><br />
* [[#Arne Klempert|Arne Klempert]] <small>(term until July 2012)</small><br />
* [[#Matt Halprin|Matt Halprin]] <small>(term until December 2010)</small><br />
* [[#Bishakha Datta|Bishakha Datta]] <small>(term until December 2010)</small><br />
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The Board was substantially restructured in April 2008. If you are not familiar with these changes yet, please review the following pages:<br />
* Board Restructure [[Board_of_Trustees/Restructure_Announcement | announcement]] by Vice-Chair Jan-Bart de Vreede<br />
* Board Restructure [[Board_of_Trustees/Restructure_Announcement_Q%26A | Questions and Answers]]<br />
* Board Restructure [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/b/b2/BOARD_RESTRUCTURE_FINAL_April_2008.pdf diagram]<br />
* [[m:Template:BoardChart|A chart]] illustrating Board seats over time<br />
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=== Ting Chen ===<br />
[[Image:Chen Sept 09 WMF Board.jpg|left|thumb|Ting Chen]]<br />
[[User:Wing|Ting Chen]] was named as Chair of the Wikimedia Board in July 2010 after being elected as Trustee by the Wikimedia Community in June 2008 with his term officially starting in July 2008.<br />
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Ting Chen was born in Shanghai, China in 1968. He grew up in Harbin, China, in the northeast corner of the country, where he attended elementary school and middle school. In 1989 he went to Braunschweig, Germany and began his study of Electrical engineering. He was especially interested in [[w:semiconductors|semiconductors]] and their physics. He graduated in 1993 with a diploma and now he works as an IT specialist in Mainz, Germany.<br />
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His first experience with a virtual community were during his university time in the German Fido-Net, where he moderated a forum about science and knowledge for many years. He learned of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects through a news article about the German Wikipedia achieving a milestone in 2003. From then on Wikipedia became a new hobby of his. He started on the [[:de:|German Wikipedia]] and changed soon to the young [[:zh:|Chinese Wikipedia]], which was at that time still starting. Ting Chen attended the first [[Wikimania]] ([[wm2005:|Wikimania 2005]]) in Frankfurt, where he took part on a panel discussion and introduced the Chinese community. He also helped organize the third Wikimania ([[wm2007:|Wikimania 2007]]) in Taipei.<br />
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=== Jimmy Wales ===<br />
[[Image:Wales WMF Board Sept 2009 Goldberg.jpg|right|thumb|Jimmy Wales]] <br />
[[w:en:Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]] is an [[:en:Internet|Internet]] [[:en:entrepreneur|entrepreneur]] and [[:en:wiki|wiki]] enthusiast, and founder of the Wikipedia project. <br />
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Jimmy was born in [[:en:Huntsville, Alabama|Huntsville]], [[:en:Alabama|Alabama]] in 1966, and is a graduate of [[:en:Auburn University|Auburn University]] and the [[:en:University of Alabama|University of Alabama]]. He worked as Research Director at Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm then located in [[:en:Chicago|Chicago]]. In the mid-[[:en:1990s|1990s]] he started [[:en:Bomis|Bomis]], a search portal focusing on aspects of [[:en:pop culture|pop culture]], one of the first users of the freely licensed data of the [[:en:Open Directory Project|Open Directory Project]].<br />
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In 1999, Jimmy had the concept of a freely distributable encyclopedia and founded [[:en:Nupedia|Nupedia]], by hiring philosopher Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief and assigning two programmers to write software for it. Nupedia failed, perhaps due to being a top-down cathedral model, as opposed to Wikipedia, which is the ultimate bazaar. After two years of working with the Nupedia concept, that team opened Wikipedia to help channel content into Nupedia; Wikipedia became an instant success, but not in the envisioned way, and Nupedia was shut down. In 2003, Jimmy set up the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization, to support Wikipedia and its sister projects.<br />
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In 2004, Jimmy founded [[:en:Wikia|Wikia]]. He was appointed a fellow of Harvard Law School's [[:en:Berkman Center for Internet & Society|Berkman Center for Internet and Society]] in mid-2005, and in October of 2005 joined the Board of Directors of [[w:Socialtext|Socialtext]], a provider of wiki technology to businesses. He lives in [[:en:St. Petersburg, Florida|St. Petersburg]], [[:en:Florida|Florida]].<br />
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=== Stu West ===<br />
[[Image:StuWest April08.jpg|left|thumb|Stu West]]<br />
[[User:Stu|Stu West]] was named Vice-chair of the Wikimedia Foundation in July 2010 after joined the Wikimedia Board and being named Treasurer in April 2008. He brings over 17 years of financial experience, including senior executive roles at publicly-traded companies including TiVo, Yahoo!, InfoSpace, and in investment banking at J.P. Morgan. He also worked with the United States Mission to the United Nations. Stu's educational background includes a B.A. in History from Yale University, where he focused on 20th century diplomacy. He is a dual citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom, and currently lives in the San Francisco bay area.<br />
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=== Samuel Klein ===<br />
[[Image:Joi-sj-narrow.jpg|right|thumb|In Taipei in 2007.]]<br />
[[User:Sj|Samuel Klein]] (born in 1978 in New York) was elected to the Wikimedia Board in August 2009. He currently lives in Cambridge, where he leads local content creation and develops global advocacy for [[w:OLPC|One Laptop per Child]], a non-profit educational organization dedicated to providing access to knowledge and communication networks to children everywhere. He has worked with children and teachers in Peru, Uruguay, and Nepal to organize content and software jams and to teach others what they learn.<br />
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Samuel has been involved in Wikipedia and [[wikibooks:user:sj|other]] [[m:user:sj|Wikimedia]] [[wikinews:user:sj|projects]] for 6 years. He has spent much of that time writing and speaking about the Projects. In 2005 he published a Wikimedia newsletter in 6 languages, and served as a cross-project translation lead. He also served on the Communications and Special Projects Committees in their first year. He founded the Boston-area Wikipedia group, and organized the bid and local team that hosted the [[m:Wikimania 2006|Wikimania conference]] there in 2006. He works on offline Wikipedia distribution, including the [[olpc:WikiBrowse|WikiBrowse]] project.<br />
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Samuel studied Math and Physics at Harvard University, and is an Associate of Harvard's Berkman Center for the Internet and Society. He spent time [http://aduni.org teaching] and developing software for [http://idiominc.com facilitating translation] and [http://openacs.org/ community-building] before working on universal education.<br />
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More information about Samuel is available on his [[w:en:User:Sj|Wikipedia user page]].<br />
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=== Jan-Bart de Vreede ===<br />
[[Image:DeVreede WMF Board Sept 2009 GOLDBERGN-9028.jpg|left|thumb|Jan-Bart de Vreede]]<br />
[[User:Jan-Bart|Jan-Bart de Vreede]] joined the board in December 2006 and served as Vice-chair of Wikimedia Foundation from January 2007 until July 2010.<br />
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Working at the Kennisnet Foundation allowed Jan-Bart to spend time promoting the use of wiki software and Wikimedia projects in education, amongst other things. The [http://www.kennisnet.nl/ Kennisnet Foundation] is a publicly funded Dutch organisation. At Kennisnet Jan-Bart is responsible for the Kennisnet communities and the Wikiwijs project which has the goal of creating a large OER movement within the Netherlands. Jan-Bart has been involved with Wikimedia since 2004, through his role as a Board member and his work at Kennisnet. He has attended and spoken at all of Wikimania conferences. <br />
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He is currently involved with the [http://Wikiwijs.nl Wikiwijs] project within the Netherlands. This is a countrywide initiative aimed at encouraging teachers to develop and share Open Educational Resources. <br />
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Jan-Bart de Vreede spent most of his childhood in the Netherlands, also living in Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Kenya and the United States. He studied Business Administration at the Rotterdam School of Management. He has three children: Anna (0), Matthias (5) and Ruben (8). <br />
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=== Kat Walsh ===<br />
[[Image:Kat-teal.jpg|right|thumb|Kat Walsh]]<br />
[[User:Kat Walsh|Kat Walsh]] is a Wikimedian from Herndon, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC. She is a registered patent agent, who recently graduated from her study of technology and intellectual property law at George Mason University School of Law. <br />
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Kat has been a volunteer for Wikimedia since 2004. She is a press contact for Wikimedia, having appeared in national media, and answers mail sent to the Foundation. In October 2005 she was appointed to the Arbitration Committee on the English Wikipedia, which she served on until joining the Board. She is active in the DC-area free culture and public interest community. Kat is also a classical bassoonist and violist, performing in regional orchestras.<br />
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=== Arne Klempert ===<br />
[[Image:Aklempert.jpg|left|thumb|Arne Klempert]]<br />
Arne Klempert was born in 1972 and studied social sciences at the University of Frankfurt in Germany. He has several years of professional experience in publishing houses and agencies with traditional and new media. He's now working as Head of Digital Communications at [http://www.ifok.de/ IFOK], a German consulting firm specialized in dialogue and participation.<br />
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Arne joined Wikipedia in 2003 as an editing community member. A few months later he became press contact of the German Wikipedia<br />
(2004-2008). Arne was co-founder and Vice President of [http://www.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland] (2004-2006), co-organizer of the first Wikimania (2005), and the first employee of a Wikimedia chapter - as Wikimedia Deutschland's Executive Director from 2006 to 2008.<br />
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=== Matt Halprin ===<br />
[[Image:2008503_Halprin_16high_resolution_2.jpg|right|thumb|Matt Halprin]]<br />
Matt Halprin joined the Wikimedia Board in August 2009. Matt leads Omidyar Network's Media, Markets & Transparency initiative, supporting technologies that promote transparency, accountability, and trust across media, markets, and government. Within this initiative, his team pursues investments in Social Media, Marketplaces, and Government Transparency. In his role as Partner, Matt builds Omidyar Network’s team of talented investment professionals and works with portfolio organizations to help them succeed.<br />
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Matt has more than 20 years of business experience, including six at eBay. As Vice President, Global Trust and Safety at eBay, he led a team of 90 statisticians, policy managers, and product managers. He also helped coordinate the efforts of 2,000 customer support personnel to increase revenue while minimizing fraud and other trust-reducing behavior. Prior to eBay, Matt served as a Partner and Vice President at the Boston Consulting Group, where he worked with technology clients on issues of corporate strategy and corporate development. Previously, Matt was Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Quadlux, a VC-backed developer of technology-based ovens that was later sold to GE and Hobart.<br />
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Matt is on the Boards of Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), Sunlight Foundation, DonorsChoose.org, Goodmail Systems and Management Leadership for Tomorrow, which supports the next generation of minority leaders in the United States. He graduated with High Distinction as a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School and holds a BS in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.<br />
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=== Bishakha Datta ===<br />
[[Image:Bish in Whistler1.jpg|left|thumb|Bishakha Datta in Whistler, British Columbia.]]<br />
Bishakha Datta joined the Wikimedia Board in March 2010. Currently the leader of India-based non-profit [http://www.pointofview.org Point of View], she brings two decades of diverse, international experience as a non-profit practitioner, journalist and filmmaker dedicated to disseminating women's perspectives through media, art and culture. She has worked with organizations from around the world including Kenya, Uganda, the United States, Denmark and the United Kingdom. Bishakha received an MA in Communications from [[w:Stanford University|Stanford University]], as well as an MA in English Literature and BA in Economics from [[w:Mumbai University|Mumbai University]]. She lives and works in Mumbai.<br />
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== Former Board members ==<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Angela Beesley.jpg|Angela Beesley, from UK/Australia.<br />
File:WM2006 0068.jpg|Michael Davis, from the USA.<br />
File:Erik Moeller May 2008.JPG|Erik Möller, from Germany.<br />
File:Tim_Shell_Wikimedia.jpg|Tim Shell, from the USA.<br />
File:Oscar van Dillen.gif|Oscar van Dillen, from the Netherlands.<br />
File:Anthere_mg_2820b.jpg|Florence Nibart-Devouard, from France.<br />
File:Frieda.JPG|Frieda Brioschi, from Italy.<br />
File:DomasMituzas_April08.JPG|Domas Mituzas, from Lithuania.<br />
File:Snow_WMF_Board_Sept_2009.jpg|Michael Snow, from the USA.<br />
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; Angela Beesley (June 2004-July 2006): Involved with Wikimedia projects since February 2003, Angela Beesley was one of the first members of Wikimedia's Board of Trustees, and currently serves on our Advisory Board. A co-founder and Vice President of Community for wiki hosting service "Wikia", she is one of the authors of the book ''Wikis: Tools for information Work and Collaboration'' (2006). Prior to her involvement with Wikipedia, Angela was an educational researcher and developer of student assessments. Angela was born in England and has lived in Germany and Australia.<br />
: Angela was on the Board of Trustees until she resigned from the post; her successor was elected 26 September 2006.<br />
: ''More about Angela: [[w:en:Angela Beesley|Biography on Wikipedia]], [[w:en:User:Angela|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Michael Davis (2003-November 2007): Michael Davis is a graduate of [[:en:Williams College|Williams College]] and the [[:en:University of Chicago|University of Chicago]]. Before joining Wikimedia, Michael was the CEO of Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm in Chicago. Michael currently resides in St. Petersburg, Florida, as the Chief Operating Officer of community-focused wiki hosting service Wikia, Inc.<br />
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; Erik Möller (July 2006-December 2007): Erik is the Deputy Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, a position he assumed in January 2008, stepping down from the Board of Trustees. Erik Möller has been an active editor of Wikipedia since 2001 and has also contributed to the underlying software, MediaWiki. Möller developed the proposal for Wikinews, a Wikimedia project, and organized the vote that implemented it. Before joining Wikimedia as an employee, Erik was a freelance journalist and author (''Die heimliche Medienrevolution: Wie Weblogs, Wikis und freie Software die Welt verändern''), as well as a manager of wiki-related software development projects. He holds a degree in computer science. Beyond Wikimedia, he seeks to promote Free Content, Free Software, and balanced intellectual monopoly rights legislation. Until taking the position at the Wikimedia Foundation, Möller lived in [[w:Berlin|Berlin]].<br />
: ''More about Erik: [[User:Eloquence|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Tim Shell (2003-November 2006): Tim Shell is an Internet entrepreneur with an interest in self-organization, and decentralized order, as exemplified by Wikipedia. In 1996 he was pursuing his degree in computer science when he decided to chuck it and go into business, joining up with Jimmy Wales to start Bomis. Tim has lived in Chicago, Florida, and San Diego, and currently resides in Las Vegas. On December 15, 2006, Shell stepped down from the board.<br />
: ''More about Tim: [[m:User:TimShell|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Oscar van Dillen (November 2006-June 2007): Oscar is an editor and bureaucrat for the Dutch-language Wikipedia and other Dutch Wikimedia projects. He also holds the role of steward since May 2005, helping and advising many projects in many languages. Van Dillen is a member of the Special Projects committee, which helps the Foundation pursue grants, oversee expansion efforts, and encourage partnerships between the Foundation and other organizations. Professionally, Van Dillen is a musician and composer, teaching World music composition as well as music theory in the jazz, pop and world music department at the Conservatory of Rotterdam.<br />
: ''More about Oscar: [[User:Oscar|Userpage]]''<br />
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;Florence Nibart-Devouard (June 2004-July 2008): Florence was the Chair of the Wikimedia Board from October 2006 until July of 2008. She served as one of the elected representatives to the Board starting June 2004. Florence was born in [[:en:Versailles|Versailles]] (France). She grew up in Grenoble, and has been living since then in several French cities, as well as Antwerpen in Belgium and Tempe in Arizona. She holds two masters, one in Agricultural Sciences (a 5-year degree in agronomical engineering ([[w:en:Grandes Ecoles|Diplome d'Ingénieur Grande Ecole]]) from [http://www.ensaia.inpl-nancy.fr/ ENSAIA] and the other a postgraduate degree (DEA) in Genetics and Biotechnologies from [http://www.inpl-nancy.fr/index.htm INPL].She has been working in public research, first in flower plant genetic improvement, and second in microbiology to study the feasability of polluted soil bioremediation. She was employed until 2005 in a French company, to conceive decision-making tools in sustainable agriculture. She is now a consultant in Internet Communication Strategy. She joined the Wikipedia adventure in February 2002 and is known as a contributor under the pseudonym ''Anthere''. Florence is 39, and lives in [[w:en:Clermont Ferrand|Clermont Ferrand]] with her husband Bertrand and her three children, Anne-Gaëlle aged nine, William eleven and Thomas two.<br />
: ''More about Florence: [[w:en:Florence Nibart-Devouard|Biography on Wikipedia]], [[m:User:Anthere|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Frieda Brioschi (July 2007-September 2008): Frieda (born in 1976, Italian) joined the Wikimedia Board in July 2007. She has been involved in Wikipedia and other WMF projects since May 2003. In June 2005 she helped found [[Wikimedia Italia]], a local chapter organization associated with Wikimedia, and was president of that organization until September 2007. She currently lives in Milan where she works as a programmer. She resigned from the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees in September 2008 after being re-elected again as board member and president of Wikimedia Italia.<br />
: ''More about Frieda: [[User:Frieda|Userpage]]''<br />
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;Domas Mituzas (February 2008-July 2009): Domas joined the Wikimedia Board in February 2008. He has been involved with Wikipedia technology since 2004, and has worked on site performance and operations since then. He also works for MySQL AB (recently acquired by Sun Microsystems) services division. Before that he built network services in Lithuania and other Baltic States. He was born and lives in Vilnius, Lithuania. <br />
: ''More about Domas: [[User:Midom|Userpage]]''<br />
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;Michael Snow (February 2008-July 2010): Michael was Chair of the Wikimedia Board from July 2008 until July 2010. He joined the Board in February 2008, after participating in Wikimedia projects since 2003. One of his contributions was the creation of [[w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost|''The Wikipedia Signpost'']], a community newspaper for the English-language Wikipedia. Born in Pfullendorf, Germany, he now lives in the Seattle area. Michael is an attorney and earned his [[:en:Juris Doctor|J.D.]] degree from the University of Washington. <br />
: ''More abut Michael: [[w:en:User:Michael_Snow|Userpage]]''<br />
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==Roles of board members and officers==<br />
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* [[Board member]]<br />
* [[Treasurer]]<br />
* [[Chair]]<br />
* [[Secretary]]<br />
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==Links==<br />
* [[Meetings]] (with minutes)<br />
* [[Resolutions]]<br />
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The Wikimedia '''Board of Trustees''' manages the foundation and supervises the disposition and solicitation of donations. The Board is the ultimate corporate authority for the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (article IV, sec. 1 of the [[Wikimedia Foundation bylaws]]) and currently consists of ten Trustees:<br />
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* [[#Ting Chen|Ting Chen]], Chair <small>(term until July 2011)</small><br />
* [[#Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]], Founder <small>(term until December 2010)</small><br />
* [[#Stu West|Stu West]], Vice Chair and Treasurer <small>(term until December 2010)</small><br />
* [[#Samuel Klein|Samuel Klein]], Executive Secretary <small>(term until July 2011)</small><br />
* [[#Jan-Bart de Vreede|Jan-Bart de Vreede]] <small>(term until December 2010)</small><br />
* [[#Kat Walsh|Kat Walsh]] <small>(term until July 2011)</small><br />
* Phoebe Ayers <small>(term until July 2012) </small><br />
* [[#Arne Klempert|Arne Klempert]] <small>(term until July 2012)</small><br />
* [[#Matt Halprin|Matt Halprin]] <small>(term until December 2010)</small><br />
* [[#Bishakha Datta|Bishakha Datta]] <small>(term until December 2010)</small><br />
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The Board was substantially restructured in April 2008. If you are not familiar with these changes yet, please review the following pages:<br />
* Board Restructure [[Board_of_Trustees/Restructure_Announcement | announcement]] by Vice-Chair Jan-Bart de Vreede<br />
* Board Restructure [[Board_of_Trustees/Restructure_Announcement_Q%26A | Questions and Answers]]<br />
* Board Restructure [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/b/b2/BOARD_RESTRUCTURE_FINAL_April_2008.pdf diagram]<br />
* [[m:Template:BoardChart|A chart]] illustrating Board seats over time<br />
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=== Ting Chen ===<br />
[[Image:Chen Sept 09 WMF Board.jpg|left|thumb|Ting Chen]]<br />
[[User:Wing|Ting Chen]] was named as Chair of the Wikimedia Board in July 2010 after being elected as Trustee by the Wikimedia Community in June 2008 with his term officially starting in July 2008.<br />
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Ting Chen was born in Shanghai, China in 1968. He grew up in Harbin, China, in the northeast corner of the country, where he attended elementary school and middle school. In 1989 he went to Braunschweig, Germany and began his study of Electrical engineering. He was especially interested in [[w:semiconductors|semiconductors]] and their physics. He graduated in 1993 with a diploma and now he works as an IT specialist in Mainz, Germany.<br />
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His first experience with a virtual community were during his university time in the German Fido-Net, where he moderated a forum about science and knowledge for many years. He learned of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects through a news article about the German Wikipedia achieving a milestone in 2003. From then on Wikipedia became a new hobby of his. He started on the [[:de:|German Wikipedia]] and changed soon to the young [[:zh:|Chinese Wikipedia]], which was at that time still starting. Ting Chen attended the first [[Wikimania]] ([[wm2005:|Wikimania 2005]]) in Frankfurt, where he took part on a panel discussion and introduced the Chinese community. He also helped organize the third Wikimania ([[wm2007:|Wikimania 2007]]) in Taipei.<br />
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=== Jimmy Wales ===<br />
[[Image:Wales WMF Board Sept 2009 Goldberg.jpg|right|thumb|Jimmy Wales]] <br />
[[w:en:Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]] is an [[:en:Internet|Internet]] [[:en:entrepreneur|entrepreneur]] and [[:en:wiki|wiki]] enthusiast, and founder of the Wikipedia project. <br />
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Jimmy was born in [[:en:Huntsville, Alabama|Huntsville]], [[:en:Alabama|Alabama]] in 1966, and is a graduate of [[:en:Auburn University|Auburn University]] and the [[:en:University of Alabama|University of Alabama]]. He worked as Research Director at Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm then located in [[:en:Chicago|Chicago]]. In the mid-[[:en:1990s|1990s]] he started [[:en:Bomis|Bomis]], a search portal focusing on aspects of [[:en:pop culture|pop culture]], one of the first users of the freely licensed data of the [[:en:Open Directory Project|Open Directory Project]].<br />
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In 1999, Jimmy had the concept of a freely distributable encyclopedia and founded [[:en:Nupedia|Nupedia]], by hiring philosopher Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief and assigning two programmers to write software for it. Nupedia failed, perhaps due to being a top-down cathedral model, as opposed to Wikipedia, which is the ultimate bazaar. After two years of working with the Nupedia concept, that team opened Wikipedia to help channel content into Nupedia; Wikipedia became an instant success, but not in the envisioned way, and Nupedia was shut down. In 2003, Jimmy set up the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization, to support Wikipedia and its sister projects.<br />
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In 2004, Jimmy founded [[:en:Wikia|Wikia]]. He was appointed a fellow of Harvard Law School's [[:en:Berkman Center for Internet & Society|Berkman Center for Internet and Society]] in mid-2005, and in October of 2005 joined the Board of Directors of [[w:Socialtext|Socialtext]], a provider of wiki technology to businesses. He lives in [[:en:St. Petersburg, Florida|St. Petersburg]], [[:en:Florida|Florida]].<br />
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=== Stu West ===<br />
[[Image:StuWest April08.jpg|left|thumb|Stu West]]<br />
[[User:Stu|Stu West]] was named Vice-chair of the Wikimedia Foundation in July 2010 after joined the Wikimedia Board and being named Treasurer in April 2008. He brings over 17 years of financial experience, including senior executive roles at publicly-traded companies including TiVo, Yahoo!, InfoSpace, and in investment banking at J.P. Morgan. He also worked with the United States Mission to the United Nations. Stu's educational background includes a B.A. in History from Yale University, where he focused on 20th century diplomacy. He is a dual citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom, and currently lives in the San Francisco bay area.<br />
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=== Samuel Klein ===<br />
[[Image:Joi-sj-narrow.jpg|right|thumb|In Taipei in 2007.]]<br />
[[User:Sj|Samuel Klein]] (born in 1978 in New York) was elected to the Wikimedia Board in August 2009. He currently lives in Cambridge, where he leads local content creation and develops global advocacy for [[w:OLPC|One Laptop per Child]], a non-profit educational organization dedicated to providing access to knowledge and communication networks to children everywhere. He has worked with children and teachers in Peru, Uruguay, and Nepal to organize content and software jams and to teach others what they learn.<br />
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Samuel has been involved in Wikipedia and [[wikibooks:user:sj|other]] [[m:user:sj|Wikimedia]] [[wikinews:user:sj|projects]] for 6 years. He has spent much of that time writing and speaking about the Projects. In 2005 he published a Wikimedia newsletter in 6 languages, and served as a cross-project translation lead. He also served on the Communications and Special Projects Committees in their first year. He founded the Boston-area Wikipedia group, and organized the bid and local team that hosted the [[m:Wikimania 2006|Wikimania conference]] there in 2006. He works on offline Wikipedia distribution, including the [[olpc:WikiBrowse|WikiBrowse]] project.<br />
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Samuel studied Math and Physics at Harvard University, and is an Associate of Harvard's Berkman Center for the Internet and Society. He spent time [http://aduni.org teaching] and developing software for [http://idiominc.com facilitating translation] and [http://openacs.org/ community-building] before working on universal education.<br />
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More information about Samuel is available on his [[w:en:User:Sj|Wikipedia user page]].<br />
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=== Jan-Bart de Vreede ===<br />
[[Image:DeVreede WMF Board Sept 2009 GOLDBERGN-9028.jpg|left|thumb|Jan-Bart de Vreede]]<br />
[[User:Jan-Bart|Jan-Bart de Vreede]] joined the board in December 2006 and served as Vice-chair of Wikimedia Foundation from January 2007 until July 2010.<br />
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Working at the Kennisnet Foundation allowed Jan-Bart to spend time promoting the use of wiki software and Wikimedia projects in education, amongst other things. The [http://www.kennisnet.nl/ Kennisnet Foundation] is a publicly funded Dutch organisation. At Kennisnet Jan-Bart is responsible for the Kennisnet communities and the Wikiwijs project which has the goal of creating a large OER movement within the Netherlands. Jan-Bart has been involved with Wikimedia since 2004, through his role as a Board member and his work at Kennisnet. He has attended and spoken at all of Wikimania conferences. <br />
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He is currently involved with the [http://Wikiwijs.nl Wikiwijs] project within the Netherlands. This is a countrywide initiative aimed at encouraging teachers to develop and share Open Educational Resources. <br />
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Jan-Bart de Vreede spent most of his childhood in the Netherlands, also living in Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Kenya and the United States. He studied Business Administration at the Rotterdam School of Management. He has three children: Anna (0), Matthias (5) and Ruben (8). <br />
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=== Kat Walsh ===<br />
[[Image:Kat-teal.jpg|right|thumb|Kat Walsh]]<br />
[[User:Kat Walsh|Kat Walsh]] is a Wikimedian from Herndon, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC. She is a registered patent agent, who recently graduated from her study of technology and intellectual property law at George Mason University School of Law. <br />
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Kat has been a volunteer for Wikimedia since 2004. She is a press contact for Wikimedia, having appeared in national media, and answers mail sent to the Foundation. In October 2005 she was appointed to the Arbitration Committee on the English Wikipedia, which she served on until joining the Board. She is active in the DC-area free culture and public interest community. Kat is also a classical bassoonist and violist, performing in regional orchestras.<br />
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=== Arne Klempert ===<br />
[[Image:Aklempert.jpg|left|thumb|Arne Klempert]]<br />
Arne Klempert was born in 1972 and studied social sciences at the University of Frankfurt in Germany. He has several years of professional experience in publishing houses and agencies with traditional and new media. He's now working as Head of Digital Communications at [http://www.ifok.de/ IFOK], a German consulting firm specialized in dialogue and participation.<br />
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Arne joined Wikipedia in 2003 as an editing community member. A few months later he became press contact of the German Wikipedia<br />
(2004-2008). Arne was co-founder and Vice President of [http://www.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland] (2004-2006), co-organizer of the first Wikimania (2005), and the first employee of a Wikimedia chapter - as Wikimedia Deutschland's Executive Director from 2006 to 2008.<br />
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=== Matt Halprin ===<br />
[[Image:2008503_Halprin_16high_resolution_2.jpg|right|thumb|Matt Halprin]]<br />
Matt Halprin joined the Wikimedia Board in August 2009. Matt leads Omidyar Network's Media, Markets & Transparency initiative, supporting technologies that promote transparency, accountability, and trust across media, markets, and government. Within this initiative, his team pursues investments in Social Media, Marketplaces, and Government Transparency. In his role as Partner, Matt builds Omidyar Network’s team of talented investment professionals and works with portfolio organizations to help them succeed.<br />
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Matt has more than 20 years of business experience, including six at eBay. As Vice President, Global Trust and Safety at eBay, he led a team of 90 statisticians, policy managers, and product managers. He also helped coordinate the efforts of 2,000 customer support personnel to increase revenue while minimizing fraud and other trust-reducing behavior. Prior to eBay, Matt served as a Partner and Vice President at the Boston Consulting Group, where he worked with technology clients on issues of corporate strategy and corporate development. Previously, Matt was Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Quadlux, a VC-backed developer of technology-based ovens that was later sold to GE and Hobart.<br />
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Matt is on the Boards of Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), Sunlight Foundation, DonorsChoose.org, Goodmail Systems and Management Leadership for Tomorrow, which supports the next generation of minority leaders in the United States. He graduated with High Distinction as a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School and holds a BS in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.<br />
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=== Bishakha Datta ===<br />
[[Image:Bish in Whistler1.jpg|right|thumb|Bishakha Datta in Whistler, British Columbia.]]<br />
Bishakha Datta joined the Wikimedia Board in March 2010. Currently the leader of India-based non-profit [http://www.pointofview.org Point of View], she brings two decades of diverse, international experience as a non-profit practitioner, journalist and filmmaker dedicated to disseminating women's perspectives through media, art and culture. She has worked with organizations from around the world including Kenya, Uganda, the United States, Denmark and the United Kingdom. Bishakha received an MA in Communications from [[w:Stanford University|Stanford University]], as well as an MA in English Literature and BA in Economics from [[w:Mumbai University|Mumbai University]]. She lives and works in Mumbai.<br />
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== Former Board members ==<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Angela Beesley.jpg|Angela Beesley, from UK/Australia.<br />
File:WM2006 0068.jpg|Michael Davis, from the USA.<br />
File:Erik Moeller May 2008.JPG|Erik Möller, from Germany.<br />
File:Tim_Shell_Wikimedia.jpg|Tim Shell, from the USA.<br />
File:Oscar van Dillen.gif|Oscar van Dillen, from the Netherlands.<br />
File:Anthere_mg_2820b.jpg|Florence Nibart-Devouard, from France.<br />
File:Frieda.JPG|Frieda Brioschi, from Italy.<br />
File:DomasMituzas_April08.JPG|Domas Mituzas, from Lithuania.<br />
File:Snow_WMF_Board_Sept_2009.jpg|Michael Snow, from the USA.<br />
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<br />
; Angela Beesley (June 2004-July 2006): Involved with Wikimedia projects since February 2003, Angela Beesley was one of the first members of Wikimedia's Board of Trustees, and currently serves on our Advisory Board. A co-founder and Vice President of Community for wiki hosting service "Wikia", she is one of the authors of the book ''Wikis: Tools for information Work and Collaboration'' (2006). Prior to her involvement with Wikipedia, Angela was an educational researcher and developer of student assessments. Angela was born in England and has lived in Germany and Australia.<br />
: Angela was on the Board of Trustees until she resigned from the post; her successor was elected 26 September 2006.<br />
: ''More about Angela: [[w:en:Angela Beesley|Biography on Wikipedia]], [[w:en:User:Angela|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Michael Davis (2003-November 2007): Michael Davis is a graduate of [[:en:Williams College|Williams College]] and the [[:en:University of Chicago|University of Chicago]]. Before joining Wikimedia, Michael was the CEO of Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm in Chicago. Michael currently resides in St. Petersburg, Florida, as the Chief Operating Officer of community-focused wiki hosting service Wikia, Inc.<br />
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; Erik Möller (July 2006-December 2007): Erik is the Deputy Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, a position he assumed in January 2008, stepping down from the Board of Trustees. Erik Möller has been an active editor of Wikipedia since 2001 and has also contributed to the underlying software, MediaWiki. Möller developed the proposal for Wikinews, a Wikimedia project, and organized the vote that implemented it. Before joining Wikimedia as an employee, Erik was a freelance journalist and author (''Die heimliche Medienrevolution: Wie Weblogs, Wikis und freie Software die Welt verändern''), as well as a manager of wiki-related software development projects. He holds a degree in computer science. Beyond Wikimedia, he seeks to promote Free Content, Free Software, and balanced intellectual monopoly rights legislation. Until taking the position at the Wikimedia Foundation, Möller lived in [[w:Berlin|Berlin]].<br />
: ''More about Erik: [[User:Eloquence|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Tim Shell (2003-November 2006): Tim Shell is an Internet entrepreneur with an interest in self-organization, and decentralized order, as exemplified by Wikipedia. In 1996 he was pursuing his degree in computer science when he decided to chuck it and go into business, joining up with Jimmy Wales to start Bomis. Tim has lived in Chicago, Florida, and San Diego, and currently resides in Las Vegas. On December 15, 2006, Shell stepped down from the board.<br />
: ''More about Tim: [[m:User:TimShell|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Oscar van Dillen (November 2006-June 2007): Oscar is an editor and bureaucrat for the Dutch-language Wikipedia and other Dutch Wikimedia projects. He also holds the role of steward since May 2005, helping and advising many projects in many languages. Van Dillen is a member of the Special Projects committee, which helps the Foundation pursue grants, oversee expansion efforts, and encourage partnerships between the Foundation and other organizations. Professionally, Van Dillen is a musician and composer, teaching World music composition as well as music theory in the jazz, pop and world music department at the Conservatory of Rotterdam.<br />
: ''More about Oscar: [[User:Oscar|Userpage]]''<br />
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;Florence Nibart-Devouard (June 2004-July 2008): Florence was the Chair of the Wikimedia Board from October 2006 until July of 2008. She served as one of the elected representatives to the Board starting June 2004. Florence was born in [[:en:Versailles|Versailles]] (France). She grew up in Grenoble, and has been living since then in several French cities, as well as Antwerpen in Belgium and Tempe in Arizona. She holds two masters, one in Agricultural Sciences (a 5-year degree in agronomical engineering ([[w:en:Grandes Ecoles|Diplome d'Ingénieur Grande Ecole]]) from [http://www.ensaia.inpl-nancy.fr/ ENSAIA] and the other a postgraduate degree (DEA) in Genetics and Biotechnologies from [http://www.inpl-nancy.fr/index.htm INPL].She has been working in public research, first in flower plant genetic improvement, and second in microbiology to study the feasability of polluted soil bioremediation. She was employed until 2005 in a French company, to conceive decision-making tools in sustainable agriculture. She is now a consultant in Internet Communication Strategy. She joined the Wikipedia adventure in February 2002 and is known as a contributor under the pseudonym ''Anthere''. Florence is 39, and lives in [[w:en:Clermont Ferrand|Clermont Ferrand]] with her husband Bertrand and her three children, Anne-Gaëlle aged nine, William eleven and Thomas two.<br />
: ''More about Florence: [[w:en:Florence Nibart-Devouard|Biography on Wikipedia]], [[m:User:Anthere|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Frieda Brioschi (July 2007-September 2008): Frieda (born in 1976, Italian) joined the Wikimedia Board in July 2007. She has been involved in Wikipedia and other WMF projects since May 2003. In June 2005 she helped found [[Wikimedia Italia]], a local chapter organization associated with Wikimedia, and was president of that organization until September 2007. She currently lives in Milan where she works as a programmer. She resigned from the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees in September 2008 after being re-elected again as board member and president of Wikimedia Italia.<br />
: ''More about Frieda: [[User:Frieda|Userpage]]''<br />
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;Domas Mituzas (February 2008-July 2009): Domas joined the Wikimedia Board in February 2008. He has been involved with Wikipedia technology since 2004, and has worked on site performance and operations since then. He also works for MySQL AB (recently acquired by Sun Microsystems) services division. Before that he built network services in Lithuania and other Baltic States. He was born and lives in Vilnius, Lithuania. <br />
: ''More about Domas: [[User:Midom|Userpage]]''<br />
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;Michael Snow (February 2008-July 2010): Michael was Chair of the Wikimedia Board from July 2008 until July 2010. He joined the Board in February 2008, after participating in Wikimedia projects since 2003. One of his contributions was the creation of [[w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost|''The Wikipedia Signpost'']], a community newspaper for the English-language Wikipedia. Born in Pfullendorf, Germany, he now lives in the Seattle area. Michael is an attorney and earned his [[:en:Juris Doctor|J.D.]] degree from the University of Washington. <br />
: ''More abut Michael: [[w:en:User:Michael_Snow|Userpage]]''<br />
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==Roles of board members and officers==<br />
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* [[Board member]]<br />
* [[Treasurer]]<br />
* [[Chair]]<br />
* [[Secretary]]<br />
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==Links==<br />
* [[Meetings]] (with minutes)<br />
* [[Resolutions]]<br />
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[[Category:English]]<br />
[[Category:Wikimedia organisation]]<br />
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__NOTOC__</div>James Owenhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Board_of_Trustees&diff=47622Board of Trustees2010-08-09T21:44:32Z<p>James Owen: /* Ting Chen */</p>
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The Wikimedia '''Board of Trustees''' manages the foundation and supervises the disposition and solicitation of donations. The Board is the ultimate corporate authority for the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (article IV, sec. 1 of the [[Wikimedia Foundation bylaws]]) and currently consists of ten Trustees:<br />
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* [[#Ting Chen|Ting Chen]], Chair <small>(term until July 2011)</small><br />
* [[#Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]], Founder <small>(term until December 2010)</small><br />
* [[#Stu West|Stu West]], Vice Chair and Treasurer <small>(term until December 2010)</small><br />
* [[#Samuel Klein|Samuel Klein]], Executive Secretary <small>(term until July 2011)</small><br />
* [[#Jan-Bart de Vreede|Jan-Bart de Vreede]] <small>(term until December 2010)</small><br />
* [[#Kat Walsh|Kat Walsh]] <small>(term until July 2011)</small><br />
* Phoebe Ayers <small>(term until July 2012) </small><br />
* [[#Arne Klempert|Arne Klempert]] <small>(term until July 2012)</small><br />
* [[#Matt Halprin|Matt Halprin]] <small>(term until December 2010)</small><br />
* [[#Bishakha Datta|Bishakha Datta]] <small>(term until December 2010)</small><br />
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The Board was substantially restructured in April 2008. If you are not familiar with these changes yet, please review the following pages:<br />
* Board Restructure [[Board_of_Trustees/Restructure_Announcement | announcement]] by Vice-Chair Jan-Bart de Vreede<br />
* Board Restructure [[Board_of_Trustees/Restructure_Announcement_Q%26A | Questions and Answers]]<br />
* Board Restructure [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/b/b2/BOARD_RESTRUCTURE_FINAL_April_2008.pdf diagram]<br />
* [[m:Template:BoardChart|A chart]] illustrating Board seats over time<br />
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=== Ting Chen ===<br />
[[Image:Chen Sept 09 WMF Board.jpg|left|thumb|Ting Chen]]<br />
[[User:Wing|Ting Chen]] was named as Chair of the Wikimedia Board in July 2010 after being elected as Trustee by the Wikimedia Community in June 2008 with his term officially starting in July 2008.<br />
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Ting Chen was born in Shanghai, China in 1968. He grew up in Harbin, China, in the northeast corner of the country, where he attended elementary school and middle school. In 1989 he went to Braunschweig, Germany and began his study of Electrical engineering. He was especially interested in [[w:semiconductors|semiconductors]] and their physics. He graduated in 1993 with a diploma and now he works as an IT specialist in Mainz, Germany.<br />
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His first experience with a virtual community were during his university time in the German Fido-Net, where he moderated a forum about science and knowledge for many years. He learned of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects through a news article about the German Wikipedia achieving a milestone in 2003. From then on Wikipedia became a new hobby of his. He started on the [[:de:|German Wikipedia]] and changed soon to the young [[:zh:|Chinese Wikipedia]], which was at that time still starting. Ting Chen attended the first [[Wikimania]] ([[wm2005:|Wikimania 2005]]) in Frankfurt, where he took part on a panel discussion and introduced the Chinese community. He also helped organize the third Wikimania ([[wm2007:|Wikimania 2007]]) in Taipei.<br />
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=== Jimmy Wales ===<br />
[[Image:Wales WMF Board Sept 2009 Goldberg.jpg|right|thumb|Jimmy Wales]] <br />
[[w:en:Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]] is an [[:en:Internet|Internet]] [[:en:entrepreneur|entrepreneur]] and [[:en:wiki|wiki]] enthusiast, and founder of the Wikipedia project. <br />
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Jimmy was born in [[:en:Huntsville, Alabama|Huntsville]], [[:en:Alabama|Alabama]] in 1966, and is a graduate of [[:en:Auburn University|Auburn University]] and the [[:en:University of Alabama|University of Alabama]]. He worked as Research Director at Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm then located in [[:en:Chicago|Chicago]]. In the mid-[[:en:1990s|1990s]] he started [[:en:Bomis|Bomis]], a search portal focusing on aspects of [[:en:pop culture|pop culture]], one of the first users of the freely licensed data of the [[:en:Open Directory Project|Open Directory Project]].<br />
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In 1999, Jimmy had the concept of a freely distributable encyclopedia and founded [[:en:Nupedia|Nupedia]], by hiring philosopher Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief and assigning two programmers to write software for it. Nupedia failed, perhaps due to being a top-down cathedral model, as opposed to Wikipedia, which is the ultimate bazaar. After two years of working with the Nupedia concept, that team opened Wikipedia to help channel content into Nupedia; Wikipedia became an instant success, but not in the envisioned way, and Nupedia was shut down. In 2003, Jimmy set up the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization, to support Wikipedia and its sister projects.<br />
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In 2004, Jimmy founded [[:en:Wikia|Wikia]]. He was appointed a fellow of Harvard Law School's [[:en:Berkman Center for Internet & Society|Berkman Center for Internet and Society]] in mid-2005, and in October of 2005 joined the Board of Directors of [[w:Socialtext|Socialtext]], a provider of wiki technology to businesses. He lives in [[:en:St. Petersburg, Florida|St. Petersburg]], [[:en:Florida|Florida]].<br />
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=== Stu West ===<br />
[[Image:StuWest April08.jpg|left|thumb|Stu West]]<br />
[[User:Stu|Stu West]] was named Vice-chair of the Wikimedia Foundation in July 2010 after joined the Wikimedia Board and being named Treasurer in April 2008. He brings over 17 years of financial experience, including senior executive roles at publicly-traded companies including TiVo, Yahoo!, InfoSpace, and in investment banking at J.P. Morgan. He also worked with the United States Mission to the United Nations. Stu's educational background includes a B.A. in History from Yale University, where he focused on 20th century diplomacy. He is a dual citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom, and currently lives in the San Francisco bay area.<br />
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=== Samuel Klein ===<br />
[[Image:Joi-sj-narrow.jpg|left|thumb|In Taipei in 2007.]]<br />
[[User:Sj|Samuel Klein]] (born in 1978 in New York) was elected to the Wikimedia Board in August 2009. He currently lives in Cambridge, where he leads local content creation and develops global advocacy for [[w:OLPC|One Laptop per Child]], a non-profit educational organization dedicated to providing access to knowledge and communication networks to children everywhere. He has worked with children and teachers in Peru, Uruguay, and Nepal to organize content and software jams and to teach others what they learn.<br />
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Samuel has been involved in Wikipedia and [[wikibooks:user:sj|other]] [[m:user:sj|Wikimedia]] [[wikinews:user:sj|projects]] for 6 years. He has spent much of that time writing and speaking about the Projects. In 2005 he published a Wikimedia newsletter in 6 languages, and served as a cross-project translation lead. He also served on the Communications and Special Projects Committees in their first year. He founded the Boston-area Wikipedia group, and organized the bid and local team that hosted the [[m:Wikimania 2006|Wikimania conference]] there in 2006. He works on offline Wikipedia distribution, including the [[olpc:WikiBrowse|WikiBrowse]] project.<br />
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Samuel studied Math and Physics at Harvard University, and is an Associate of Harvard's Berkman Center for the Internet and Society. He spent time [http://aduni.org teaching] and developing software for [http://idiominc.com facilitating translation] and [http://openacs.org/ community-building] before working on universal education.<br />
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More information about Samuel is available on his [[w:en:User:Sj|Wikipedia user page]].<br />
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=== Jan-Bart de Vreede ===<br />
[[Image:DeVreede WMF Board Sept 2009 GOLDBERGN-9028.jpg|left|thumb|Jan-Bart de Vreede]]<br />
[[User:Jan-Bart|Jan-Bart de Vreede]] joined the board in December 2006 and served as Vice-chair of Wikimedia Foundation from January 2007 until July 2010.<br />
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Working at the Kennisnet Foundation allowed Jan-Bart to spend time promoting the use of wiki software and Wikimedia projects in education, amongst other things. The [http://www.kennisnet.nl/ Kennisnet Foundation] is a publicly funded Dutch organisation. At Kennisnet Jan-Bart is responsible for the Kennisnet communities and the Wikiwijs project which has the goal of creating a large OER movement within the Netherlands. Jan-Bart has been involved with Wikimedia since 2004, through his role as a Board member and his work at Kennisnet. He has attended and spoken at all of Wikimania conferences. <br />
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He is currently involved with the [http://Wikiwijs.nl Wikiwijs] project within the Netherlands. This is a countrywide initiative aimed at encouraging teachers to develop and share Open Educational Resources. <br />
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Jan-Bart de Vreede spent most of his childhood in the Netherlands, also living in Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Kenya and the United States. He studied Business Administration at the Rotterdam School of Management. He has three children: Anna (0), Matthias (5) and Ruben (8). <br />
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=== Kat Walsh ===<br />
[[Image:Kat-teal.jpg|right|thumb|Kat Walsh]]<br />
[[User:Kat Walsh|Kat Walsh]] is a Wikimedian from Herndon, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC. She is a registered patent agent, who recently graduated from her study of technology and intellectual property law at George Mason University School of Law. <br />
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Kat has been a volunteer for Wikimedia since 2004. She is a press contact for Wikimedia, having appeared in national media, and answers mail sent to the Foundation. In October 2005 she was appointed to the Arbitration Committee on the English Wikipedia, which she served on until joining the Board. She is active in the DC-area free culture and public interest community. Kat is also a classical bassoonist and violist, performing in regional orchestras.<br />
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=== Arne Klempert ===<br />
[[Image:Aklempert.jpg|left|thumb|Arne Klempert]]<br />
Arne Klempert was born in 1972 and studied social sciences at the University of Frankfurt in Germany. He has several years of professional experience in publishing houses and agencies with traditional and new media. He's now working as Head of Digital Communications at [http://www.ifok.de/ IFOK], a German consulting firm specialized in dialogue and participation.<br />
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Arne joined Wikipedia in 2003 as an editing community member. A few months later he became press contact of the German Wikipedia<br />
(2004-2008). Arne was co-founder and Vice President of [http://www.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland] (2004-2006), co-organizer of the first Wikimania (2005), and the first employee of a Wikimedia chapter - as Wikimedia Deutschland's Executive Director from 2006 to 2008.<br />
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=== Matt Halprin ===<br />
[[Image:2008503_Halprin_16high_resolution_2.jpg|right|thumb|Matt Halprin]]<br />
Matt Halprin joined the Wikimedia Board in August 2009. Matt leads Omidyar Network's Media, Markets & Transparency initiative, supporting technologies that promote transparency, accountability, and trust across media, markets, and government. Within this initiative, his team pursues investments in Social Media, Marketplaces, and Government Transparency. In his role as Partner, Matt builds Omidyar Network’s team of talented investment professionals and works with portfolio organizations to help them succeed.<br />
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Matt has more than 20 years of business experience, including six at eBay. As Vice President, Global Trust and Safety at eBay, he led a team of 90 statisticians, policy managers, and product managers. He also helped coordinate the efforts of 2,000 customer support personnel to increase revenue while minimizing fraud and other trust-reducing behavior. Prior to eBay, Matt served as a Partner and Vice President at the Boston Consulting Group, where he worked with technology clients on issues of corporate strategy and corporate development. Previously, Matt was Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Quadlux, a VC-backed developer of technology-based ovens that was later sold to GE and Hobart.<br />
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Matt is on the Boards of Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), Sunlight Foundation, DonorsChoose.org, Goodmail Systems and Management Leadership for Tomorrow, which supports the next generation of minority leaders in the United States. He graduated with High Distinction as a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School and holds a BS in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.<br />
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=== Bishakha Datta ===<br />
[[Image:Bish in Whistler1.jpg|right|thumb|Bishakha Datta in Whistler, British Columbia.]]<br />
Bishakha Datta joined the Wikimedia Board in March 2010. Currently the leader of India-based non-profit [http://www.pointofview.org Point of View], she brings two decades of diverse, international experience as a non-profit practitioner, journalist and filmmaker dedicated to disseminating women's perspectives through media, art and culture. She has worked with organizations from around the world including Kenya, Uganda, the United States, Denmark and the United Kingdom. Bishakha received an MA in Communications from [[w:Stanford University|Stanford University]], as well as an MA in English Literature and BA in Economics from [[w:Mumbai University|Mumbai University]]. She lives and works in Mumbai.<br />
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== Former Board members ==<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Angela Beesley.jpg|Angela Beesley, from UK/Australia.<br />
File:WM2006 0068.jpg|Michael Davis, from the USA.<br />
File:Erik Moeller May 2008.JPG|Erik Möller, from Germany.<br />
File:Tim_Shell_Wikimedia.jpg|Tim Shell, from the USA.<br />
File:Oscar van Dillen.gif|Oscar van Dillen, from the Netherlands.<br />
File:Anthere_mg_2820b.jpg|Florence Nibart-Devouard, from France.<br />
File:Frieda.JPG|Frieda Brioschi, from Italy.<br />
File:DomasMituzas_April08.JPG|Domas Mituzas, from Lithuania.<br />
File:Snow_WMF_Board_Sept_2009.jpg|Michael Snow, from the USA.<br />
</gallery><br />
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; Angela Beesley (June 2004-July 2006): Involved with Wikimedia projects since February 2003, Angela Beesley was one of the first members of Wikimedia's Board of Trustees, and currently serves on our Advisory Board. A co-founder and Vice President of Community for wiki hosting service "Wikia", she is one of the authors of the book ''Wikis: Tools for information Work and Collaboration'' (2006). Prior to her involvement with Wikipedia, Angela was an educational researcher and developer of student assessments. Angela was born in England and has lived in Germany and Australia.<br />
: Angela was on the Board of Trustees until she resigned from the post; her successor was elected 26 September 2006.<br />
: ''More about Angela: [[w:en:Angela Beesley|Biography on Wikipedia]], [[w:en:User:Angela|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Michael Davis (2003-November 2007): Michael Davis is a graduate of [[:en:Williams College|Williams College]] and the [[:en:University of Chicago|University of Chicago]]. Before joining Wikimedia, Michael was the CEO of Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm in Chicago. Michael currently resides in St. Petersburg, Florida, as the Chief Operating Officer of community-focused wiki hosting service Wikia, Inc.<br />
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; Erik Möller (July 2006-December 2007): Erik is the Deputy Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, a position he assumed in January 2008, stepping down from the Board of Trustees. Erik Möller has been an active editor of Wikipedia since 2001 and has also contributed to the underlying software, MediaWiki. Möller developed the proposal for Wikinews, a Wikimedia project, and organized the vote that implemented it. Before joining Wikimedia as an employee, Erik was a freelance journalist and author (''Die heimliche Medienrevolution: Wie Weblogs, Wikis und freie Software die Welt verändern''), as well as a manager of wiki-related software development projects. He holds a degree in computer science. Beyond Wikimedia, he seeks to promote Free Content, Free Software, and balanced intellectual monopoly rights legislation. Until taking the position at the Wikimedia Foundation, Möller lived in [[w:Berlin|Berlin]].<br />
: ''More about Erik: [[User:Eloquence|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Tim Shell (2003-November 2006): Tim Shell is an Internet entrepreneur with an interest in self-organization, and decentralized order, as exemplified by Wikipedia. In 1996 he was pursuing his degree in computer science when he decided to chuck it and go into business, joining up with Jimmy Wales to start Bomis. Tim has lived in Chicago, Florida, and San Diego, and currently resides in Las Vegas. On December 15, 2006, Shell stepped down from the board.<br />
: ''More about Tim: [[m:User:TimShell|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Oscar van Dillen (November 2006-June 2007): Oscar is an editor and bureaucrat for the Dutch-language Wikipedia and other Dutch Wikimedia projects. He also holds the role of steward since May 2005, helping and advising many projects in many languages. Van Dillen is a member of the Special Projects committee, which helps the Foundation pursue grants, oversee expansion efforts, and encourage partnerships between the Foundation and other organizations. Professionally, Van Dillen is a musician and composer, teaching World music composition as well as music theory in the jazz, pop and world music department at the Conservatory of Rotterdam.<br />
: ''More about Oscar: [[User:Oscar|Userpage]]''<br />
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;Florence Nibart-Devouard (June 2004-July 2008): Florence was the Chair of the Wikimedia Board from October 2006 until July of 2008. She served as one of the elected representatives to the Board starting June 2004. Florence was born in [[:en:Versailles|Versailles]] (France). She grew up in Grenoble, and has been living since then in several French cities, as well as Antwerpen in Belgium and Tempe in Arizona. She holds two masters, one in Agricultural Sciences (a 5-year degree in agronomical engineering ([[w:en:Grandes Ecoles|Diplome d'Ingénieur Grande Ecole]]) from [http://www.ensaia.inpl-nancy.fr/ ENSAIA] and the other a postgraduate degree (DEA) in Genetics and Biotechnologies from [http://www.inpl-nancy.fr/index.htm INPL].She has been working in public research, first in flower plant genetic improvement, and second in microbiology to study the feasability of polluted soil bioremediation. She was employed until 2005 in a French company, to conceive decision-making tools in sustainable agriculture. She is now a consultant in Internet Communication Strategy. She joined the Wikipedia adventure in February 2002 and is known as a contributor under the pseudonym ''Anthere''. Florence is 39, and lives in [[w:en:Clermont Ferrand|Clermont Ferrand]] with her husband Bertrand and her three children, Anne-Gaëlle aged nine, William eleven and Thomas two.<br />
: ''More about Florence: [[w:en:Florence Nibart-Devouard|Biography on Wikipedia]], [[m:User:Anthere|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Frieda Brioschi (July 2007-September 2008): Frieda (born in 1976, Italian) joined the Wikimedia Board in July 2007. She has been involved in Wikipedia and other WMF projects since May 2003. In June 2005 she helped found [[Wikimedia Italia]], a local chapter organization associated with Wikimedia, and was president of that organization until September 2007. She currently lives in Milan where she works as a programmer. She resigned from the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees in September 2008 after being re-elected again as board member and president of Wikimedia Italia.<br />
: ''More about Frieda: [[User:Frieda|Userpage]]''<br />
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;Domas Mituzas (February 2008-July 2009): Domas joined the Wikimedia Board in February 2008. He has been involved with Wikipedia technology since 2004, and has worked on site performance and operations since then. He also works for MySQL AB (recently acquired by Sun Microsystems) services division. Before that he built network services in Lithuania and other Baltic States. He was born and lives in Vilnius, Lithuania. <br />
: ''More about Domas: [[User:Midom|Userpage]]''<br />
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;Michael Snow (February 2008-July 2010): Michael was Chair of the Wikimedia Board from July 2008 until July 2010. He joined the Board in February 2008, after participating in Wikimedia projects since 2003. One of his contributions was the creation of [[w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost|''The Wikipedia Signpost'']], a community newspaper for the English-language Wikipedia. Born in Pfullendorf, Germany, he now lives in the Seattle area. Michael is an attorney and earned his [[:en:Juris Doctor|J.D.]] degree from the University of Washington. <br />
: ''More abut Michael: [[w:en:User:Michael_Snow|Userpage]]''<br />
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==Roles of board members and officers==<br />
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* [[Board member]]<br />
* [[Treasurer]]<br />
* [[Chair]]<br />
* [[Secretary]]<br />
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==Links==<br />
* [[Meetings]] (with minutes)<br />
* [[Resolutions]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:English]]<br />
[[Category:Wikimedia organisation]]<br />
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__NOTOC__</div>James Owenhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:James_Owen&diff=47183User:James Owen2010-07-13T04:15:41Z<p>James Owen: </p>
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<div>[[Image:James Owen May 2009.jpg|thumb|200px|James Owen, Executive Assistant]]<br />
'''James Owen''' has been [[Staff|Executive Assistant]] to the Executive and Deputy Directors of the Wikimedia Foundation since March 2009. His position also holds responsibilities for managing and coordinating with the Foundation's Board of Trustees, and Advisory Board. <br />
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Prior to joining the Foundation, James worked with a variety of small and large non-profit organization, including most recently the [[w:Metropolitan Museum of Art|Metropolitan Museum of Art]].<br />
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You can reach James:<br />
* By e-mail at jowen[[Image:At sign.svg|14px| [at] ]]wikimedia.org<br />
* In the office at (415) 839 6885 x 604<br />
* Mobile- (415) 509-5444<br />
* AIM: jowen[[Image:At sign.svg|14px| [at] ]]wikimedia.org<br />
* His Username on the Wikimedia projects is James Owen<br />
* Mailing address is Wikimedia Foundation, 149 New Montgomery Street, Floor 3, San Francisco, CA 94105</div>James Owenhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Legal:Conflict_of_Interest_Questionnaire&diff=46894Legal:Conflict of Interest Questionnaire2010-06-03T21:46:11Z<p>James Owen: Updated Changes to questions to comply with 990 Tax Return as approved by Veronique Kessler CFOO</p>
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<div>Wikimedia Foundation<br />
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'''Conflict of Interest Questionnaire'''<br />
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Wikimedia Foundation (“WMF”) requires each board member, officer and key employee (as defined in the Form 990) annually:<br><br />
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[[Category:Wikimedia organisation|{{PAGENAME}}]]</div>James Owenhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Audit_Committee&diff=46338Audit Committee2010-03-23T21:17:08Z<p>James Owen: Removed Alan Bauer who is no resigned his position on the audit committee effective September 2009</p>
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The Audit Committee of the Wikimedia Foundation represents the Board of Trustees in its oversight of financial and accounting issues, providing advice and counsel based on the experience of Committee members in business, financial and accounting matters. It also serves as Board-level oversight of the relationship with the independent auditor (currently KPMG). Audit Committee members serve one-year terms, typically beginning in June or July of each year. The Audit Committee is typically chaired by the Trustee who is serving as [[wmf:Treasurer|Board Treasurer]] and may include representatives from the community, advisory board, or other outside advisers.<br />
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The 2009–2010 Audit Committee consists of:<br />
* {{anchor|Stu West}}'''[[Board of Trustees#Stu West|Stu West]]''': Committee Chair (Trustee, Board Treasurer)<br />
* {{anchor|Matt Bisanz}}'''[[w:User:MBisanz|Matt Bisanz]]''': Matt was founding treasurer of the Wikimedia New York chapter and is an administrator on the English Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons (User:MBisanz). His past experience includes exempt organization tax compliance with a Big Four accounting firm and federal grants reporting compliance in an educational setting. He holds an MBA in accounting from Hofstra University and a graduate certificate in strategy and leadership from NYU.<br />
* {{anchor|Sandy Gallanter}}'''Sandy Gallanter''': Sandy is CEO of the Aspen Group, a real-estate development company that focuses on low-income housing. His non-profit experience includes serving as an officer and on the Boards of the New Israel Fund and the San Francisco Jewish Community Center. He earned both a BS and JD from Rutgers, and is an attorney and Certified Public Accountant.<br />
* {{anchor|Ad Huikeshoven}}'''[[w:user:Dedalus|Ad Huikeshoven]]''': Ad Huikeshoven lives in the Hague, the Netherlands. He is an economist and a professional auditor, a long time trusted editor (User:Dedalus since 2005) and the longest serving member on the Audit Committee (since 2007).<br />
* {{anchor|Renata Stasaityte}}'''[[w:User:Renata3|Renata Stasaityte]]''': Renata has been working as a tax accountant at a mid-size accounting firm in New York City since 2006. She has BBA in Accounting and MS in Taxation. She is an editor (since 2005) and an administrator (since 2006) on English Wikipedia (User:Renata3).<br />
* {{anchor|Anders Wennersten}}'''[[m:User:Anders Wennersten|Anders Wennersten]]''': Anders lives in Stockholm and is now retired after a career including being senior manager at Ericsson and with an university degree in mathematics and economics. He is Treasurer of Wikimedia Sverige, a member of the Chapters Committee, and an active Wikipedian (User:Anders_Wennersten), doing over 30,000 edits a year mainly as patroller on the Swedish Wikipedia reviewing and fixing all new articles.<br />
* {{anchor|Michael Snow}}'''[[Board of Trustees#Michael Snow|Michael Snow]]''': Foundation Chair, ex officio, serves as an observer<br />
* {{anchor|Sue Gardner}}'''[[User:Sue Gardner|Sue Gardner]]''': Foundation Executive Director, ex officio, serves as an observer<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Financial reports]]<br />
* [[m:Governance manual|Governance manual]]<br />
* [[Audit charter]]<br />
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== Previous audit committees ==<br />
'''2008–2009 fiscal year'''<br />
* Stu West, Committee Chair (Trustee, Board Treasurer)<br />
* Ad Huikeshoven<br />
* Michael Snow (Trustee)<br />
* Sue Gardner (Foundation [[Executive Director]], ex officio), as an observer<br />
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'''2006–2007, 2007–2008 fiscal years'''<br />
* Florence Devouard (Chair of the Board, ex officio)<br />
* Oscar van Dillen<br />
* Ad Huikeshoven<br />
* Sue Gardner (Foundation Executive Director, ex officio)<br />
* Frieda Brioschi (Trustee)<br />
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'''Previous years'''<br />
* Florence Devouard (Chair of the Board, ex officio)<br />
* Oscar van Dillen (Trustee)<br />
* Brad Patrick (Executive Director)<br />
* Michael Davis (Trustee, Treasurer)<br />
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[[Category:Finance report]]</div>James Owenhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:James_Owen&diff=44149User:James Owen2009-12-16T21:22:45Z<p>James Owen: </p>
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<div>'''James Owen''' has been [[Staff|Executive Assistant]] to the Executive and Deputy Directors since March 2009<br />
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I'm the Executive Assistant to Sue Gardner [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Sue_Gardner Sue Gardner] and [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Eloquence Erik Möller] I've been working at the Foundation since March 2009.<br />
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Before that,I worked with a variety of small and large non-profit organization including most recently the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art Metropolitan Museum of Art].<br />
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You can reach me:<br />
* By e-mail at jowen[[Image:At sign.svg|14px| [at] ]]wikimedia.org<br />
* In the office at (415) 839 6885 x 604<br />
* AIM: jowen[[Image:At sign.svg|14px| [at] ]]wikimedia.org<br />
* My username on the projects is James Owen<br />
* Mailing address is Wikimedia Foundation, 149 New Montgomery Street, Floor 3, San Francisco, CA 94105<br />
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[[category:Wikimedia staff]]</div>James Owenhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Archive:Advisory_Board&diff=40715Archive:Advisory Board2009-10-29T16:57:43Z<p>James Owen: </p>
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<div>The '''Advisory Board''' of the Wikimedia Foundation was [[Resolution:Advisory board|approved]] in 2006, and formed at the start of 2007.<br />
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The Advisory Board is an international network of experts who have agreed to give the Foundation meaningful help on a regular basis in many different areas, including law, organizational development, technology, policy, and outreach. Their abilities, experience, and knowledge were selected for how they complement a particular Foundation project, or the organization as a whole.<br />
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The Board advises the Board of Trustees in its strategic decision-making process. Sometimes questions will be posed to the whole group, sometimes individual members will be consulted. They share an active dialog with a Board of Trustees. They are chosen not as a "list of names", but as a group of people we intend to interact with regularly.<br />
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The Board is made up of fifteen members and is chaired by Angela Beesley, a former member of the Wikimedia [[Board of Trustees]].<br />
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:See also: [[Board of Trustees]]; [[Staff]]<br />
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:'''Angela Beesley''', Chair, [[#Angela Beesley|Wikimedia Advisory Board]]<br />
::abeesley{{@}}wikimedia.org<br />
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== Biographies ==<br />
=== Angela Beesley ===<br />
[[Image:Angela Beesley.jpg|thumb|100px|Angela Beesley]]<br />
Angela Beesley, chair of Wikimedia's Advisory Board, is a co-founder of Wikia and a former member of Wikimedia's [[Board of Trustees]]. Angela has been involved with Wikipedia since February 2003. Angela has contributed a chapter on managing wikis to the book ''Wikis: Tools for information Work and Collaboration''. Angela was formerly an educational researcher. Angela is originally from [[w:Norfolk|Norfolk]] and has lived in England, Germany, and Australia.<br />
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* [http://wikiangela.com/blog/ Blog]<br />
* [[Wikipedia:Angela Beesley|Wikipedia article]]<br />
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=== Ward Cunningham ===<br />
[[Image:Ward Cunningham at Wikimania 2006.jpg|thumb|100px|Ward Cunningham]]<br />
Ward Cunningham is the Chief Technology Officer of AboutUs.org, a growth company hosting the communities formed by organizations and their constituents. Ward co-founded the consultancy, Cunningham & Cunningham, Inc., has served as a Director of the Eclipse Foundation, an Architect in Microsoft's Patterns & Practices Group, the Director of R&D at Wyatt Software and as Principle Engineer in the Tektronix Computer Research Laboratory. Ward is well known for his contributions to the developing practice of object-oriented programming, the variation called Extreme Programming, and the communities supported by his WikiWikiWeb. Ward hosts the AgileManifesto.org. He is a founder of the Hillside Group and there created the Pattern Languages of Programs conferences which continue to be held all over the word.<br />
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* [http://c2.com/~ward Ward's personal web page]<br />
* [[Wikipedia:Ward Cunningham|Wikipedia article]]<br />
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=== Melissa Hagemann ===<br />
[[Image:Melissa hagemann.jpg|thumb|100px|Melissa Hagemann]]<br />
Melissa manages the Open Access Initiative within the Information Program of the Open Society Institute (OSI)/Soros foundations. Since convening the meeting in December 2001 which led to the development of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, she has been active within the Open Access movement which advocates for the free online availability of peer-reviewed literature.<br />
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Melissa also works with the eIFL (electronic Information for Libraries) network to manage the eIFL Open Access Program that aims to spread the benefits of Open Access among eIFL’s members in 50 developing and transition countries. She has held several positions within OSI including managing OSI’s Regional Library Program from 1995-1997 based in Budapest as well as the Science Journals Donation Program from 1998-2001.<br />
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She was profiled as a SPARC Innovator in December 2006 for her work within the Open Access movement. Melissa has served on the Member of Experts' Group of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Library Initiative.<br />
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=== Mitch Kapor ===<br />
[[Image:MitchKapor.jpg|thumb|100px|Mitch Kapor]]<br />
A long-time tech entrepreneur, software designer, investor, and activist, Mitch Kapor is known equally for accomplishments including founding or co-founding the Lotus Development Corp., Electronic Frontier Foundation, Mitchell Kapor Foundation, Open Source Applications Foundation. His previous board roles include Chair of the Linden Lab (Second Life), and former Chair of the Mozilla Foundation, best known for the Firefox web browser. Mitch currently is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Information, at the University of California, Berkeley.<br />
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Kapor says he is interested in "past, present, and future patterns of disruptive technology based on radical openness, in hybrid enterprises which integrate sustainable business methods and a social mission, and in democratic reform in a era of globalization."<br />
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* [http://www.kapor.com/ Official website]<br />
* [[Wikipedia:Mitch Kapor|Wikipedia article]]<br />
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=== Neeru Khosla ===<br />
[[Image:NK Headshot 121707.JPG|thumb|100px|Neeru Khosla]]<br />
Neeru Khosla is a firm believer in the power of education. She wants the rigor and accountability of for profit models to apply to non-profits. Neeru is a member of the Board at The Nueva School in Hillsborough, California, where she has served since 1997, which caters to gifted and talented students and is internationally recognized. Neeru is also on the Advisory Board of the American India Foundation, a leading international development organization charged with accelerating social and economic change in India. She previously served as a trustee of the Pacific Vascular Research Foundation and Connexions, a Rice University open-source project. Neeru's commitment to education is evidenced by her role on the National Advisory Board for DonorsChoose, an organization dedicated to addressing the scarcity and inequitable distribution of learning materials in U.S. public schools. Neeru is one of the founding members of the K-12 Initiative of the D-School (Hasso Plattner Institute of Design) at Stanford University and a member of the committee to expand the program. Neeru is currently the Co-Founder and Executive Director of CK-12 Foundation. CK-12 is a non-profit organization launched in 2006, which aims to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the US and worldwide. <br />
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Neeru holds a Bachelors degree from Delhi University/San Jose State, a Masters degree in Molecular Biology from San Jose State, and a Masters in Education from Stanford University.<br />
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=== Teemu Leinonen ===<br />
[[Image:TeemuLeinonen.jpg|thumb|100px|Teemu Leinonen]]<br />
Teemu Leinonen is currently a professor and dean of school at the [http://mlab.uiah.fi Media Lab], [http://www.taik.fi University of Art and Design Helsinki]. In the school he leads the [http://legroup.uiah.fi Learning Environments research group]. The group is involved in research, design and development of New Media tools, as well as their use and application, in the field of learning. The research group has coordinated research and development projects funded by The European Commission (IST), National Technology Agency of Finland (TEKES), the Nordic Council of Ministers and the UNESCO. The group is internationally recognized from its open source virtual learning environment called [[Wikipedia:Fle3|Fle3]], [http://mobiled.uiah.fi/ MobilED] audio wiki platform, and [http://lemill.net/ LeMill] web community for finding, authoring and sharing learning resources. <br />
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Teemu holds over a decade of experience in the field of research and development of web-based learning, computer supported<br />
collaborative learning (CSCL), online cooperation, educational planning and educational politics. With his family Teemu has lived in Tanzania, Afghanistan and Kenya. At least once a year he visits his "compañera's" family in Colombia.<br />
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=== Rebecca MacKinnon ===<br />
[[Image:Rebeccamackinnon wenxin.jpg|thumb|100px|Rebecca MacKinnon]]<br />
Rebecca MacKinnon is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong's Journalism and Media Studies Centre, where she teaches "new media", examining the intersection between the Internet and journalism. At the Berkman Center, MacKinnon and her colleague Ethan Zuckerman co-founded Global Voices Online, an award-winning international citizen media community, with which she remains involved in management.<br />
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Starting at the bottom of CNN's Beijing bureau, she became a correspondent for the news channel, and Bureau Chief from 1998-2001. She served as the Tokyo Bureau Chief from 2001-03.<br />
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MacKinnon started a fellowship at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government in January 2004. Her research focus was on blogs and participatory online media, especially as relates to international news. Three months in, she resigned from CNN, and was invited to stay at Harvard as a Research Fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. The enabled her to re-direct her career from TV news to online media.<br />
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Her ongoing research interests are the future of media in the Internet age, freedom of speech online, and the Internet in China.<br />
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She serves on the Board of Directors for Tor, which aims to improve safety and security on the Internet, and the US Advisory Board for FON, for most of 2006.<br />
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* [http://RConversation.com Rebecca MacKinnon's blog]<br />
* [http://www.GlobalVoicesOnline.org Global Voices Online]<br />
* [[Wikipedia:Rebecca MacKinnon|Wikipedia article]]<br />
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=== Wayne Mackintosh ===<br />
Wayne Mackintosh is currently the Education Specialist for eLearning and ICT policy at the Commonwealth of Learning based in Vancouver (www.col.org). The Commonwealth of Learning is an international agency working in 53 countries of the Commonwealth promoting learning for development. Free content is a priority for Mackintosh's work.<br />
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Mackintosh is an unashamed advocate of free software and has had the privilege of leading a government-funded project called the eLearning XHTML editor (eXe) when still living in New Zealand. This is a small open source software project working on a simple authoring tool for web content for teachers.<br />
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Prior to joining COL, Mackintosh worked as the founding Director of the Centre for Flexible and Distance Learning at the University of Auckland and before working in New Zealand worked for the University of South Africa&mdash;one of the mega distance-teaching university's of the world.<br />
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COL has initiated a small wiki called [http://www.wikieducator.org WIkiEducator] (using MediaWiki software of course) and COL is committed to helping educators in the developing world participate as equal contributors in the development of free content.<br />
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* [http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg Bio on wikieducator.org]<br />
* [http://exelearning.org eLearning XHTML editor (eXe)]<br />
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=== Benjamin Mako Hill ===<br />
[[Image:Benjamin Mako Hill.jpg|thumb|100px|Benjamin Mako Hill]]<br />
Benjamin Mako Hill is a Debian hacker and author of the Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Bible and "The Official Ubuntu Book". He works in the Computing Culture group of the MIT Media Lab, and is on the boards of Software Freedom International (the organization that organizes Software Freedom Day) and the Ubuntu Foundation. Hill was on the board of Software in the Public Interest from March 2003 until July 2006, serving as the organisation's vice-president from August 2004.<br />
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* [http://mako.cc/ Personal website]<br />
* [[Wikipedia:Benjamin Mako Hill|Wikipedia article]]<br />
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=== Roger McNamee ===<br />
[[Image:Roger-McNamee.jpg|thumb|100px|Roger McNamee]]<br />
Roger McNamee is Managing Director and Co-Founder of Elevation Partners, which invests in media and consumer technology companies. He is a long-term San Francisco Bay Area resident, a professional musician, and a prominent Wikipedia supporter.<br />
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Roger McNamee acts as a special advisor to the Executive Director on business and strategy issues.<br />
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Roger McNamee began his career in 1982 at T. Rowe Price, where he managed the top-ranked Science & Technology Fund. In 1991, he launched Integral Capital Partners, the first crossover fund (combining later stage venture capital with public market investments), in partnership with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. In 1999, Roger co-founded Silver Lake Partners, the first private equity fund focused on technology businesses. In 2004, Roger and his partners launched Elevation Partners, an investment partnership focused on the intersection of media and entertainment content and consumer technology.<br />
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Roger is the author of The New Normal, published in 2004 by the Portfolio imprint of Penguin Books. He is a frequent speaker at industry and investor conferences and a commentator on CNBC. <br />
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Roger serves on board of directors of Forbes Media, Palm, and Move. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of Bryn Mawr College and the Board of Overseers of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College. He holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He plays guitar and bass in the band Moonalice.<!--Revised 6/18/07--><br />
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* [[Wikipedia:Roger McNamee|Wikipedia article]]<br />
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=== Trevor Neilson ===<br />
[[Image:Bankok trevor.jpg|thumb|100px|Trevor Neilson]]<br />
Trevor Neilson is a Partner in the [http://www.globalphilanthropygroup.com/ Global Philanthropy Group] , a company that advises philanthropists on the development and implementation of philanthropic strategies.<br />
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Neilson formed DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa) with Bill Gates, Bono and George Soros, served as a founding board member, and stays involved as a member of DATA's policy board. Neilson also served as Vice-Chairman of Saflink, an early stage technology company focused on biometric authentication solutions for government agencies in the United States.<br />
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Neilson served in the Clinton White House, for the Office of Scheduling and Advance and the White House Travel Office.<br />
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Neilson then became the Director of Public Affairs and Director of Special Projects at the [http://www.gatesfoundation.org/ Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation], the largest transparently operated charitable foundation in the world. There he was responsible for politically sensitive or high profile grant-making, government relations and public affairs. He also and managed the foundations relationships with the United Nations, governments, corporations and NGOs.<br />
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Neilson then served as Executive Vice President of the Casey Family Programs, the largest "operating" foundation in the United States. Casey was created by Jim Casey, founder of United Parcel Service and Neilson oversaw a variety of Casey programs and led their effort to enhance economic development in urban areas.<br />
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Neilson served as Executive Director of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS (GBC) which was initially created with investments from Bill Gates, George Soros and Ted Turner. GBC represents over 200 multinational companies who have interests related to AIDS and healthcare. Neilson recruited over 100 companies to join GBC and opened and managed offices in New York, Paris, Beijing, Geneva, Nairobi and Johannesburg along with partnerships in 20 countries around the world.<br />
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* [http://www.globalphilanthropygroup.com/ Global Philanthropy Group]<br />
* [http://www.saflink.com/ Saflink]<br />
* [http://www.data.org/ DATA]<br />
* [http://www.casey.org/ Casey Family Programs]<br />
* [http://www.businessfightsaids.org/ Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS]<br />
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=== Florence Nibart-Devouard ===<br />
[[Image:Anthere mg 2820b.jpg|thumb|100px|Florence Nibart-Devouard]]<br />
Florence served as one of the elected representatives to the Board starting June 2004, and was the Chair of the Board from October 21, 2006 until July 16th, 2008. Florence was born in [[:en:Versailles|Versailles]] (France). She grew up in Grenoble, and has been living since then in several French cities, as well as Antwerpen in Belgium and Tempe in Arizona. She holds two masters, one in Agricultural Sciences (a 5-year degree in agronomical engineering ([[w:en:Grandes Ecoles|Diplome d'Ingénieur Grande Ecole]]) from [http://www.ensaia.inpl-nancy.fr/ ENSAIA] and the other a postgraduate degree (DEA) in Genetics and Biotechnologies from [http://www.inpl-nancy.fr/index.htm INPL].She has been working in public research, first in flower plant genetic improvement, and second in microbiology to study the feasibility of polluted soil bioremediation. She was employed until 2005 in a French company, to conceive decision-making tools in sustainable agriculture. She is now a Consultant in Collaborative Media. She joined the Wikipedia adventure in February 2002 and is known as a contributor under the pseudonym ''Anthere''. Florence lives in [[w:en:Clermont Ferrand|Clermont Ferrand]] with her husband Bertrand and her three children, Anne-Gaëlle, William, and Thomas two.<br />
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* [[w:en:Florence Nibart-Devouard|Florence's Wikipedia user page]]<br />
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=== Achal Prabhala ===<br />
[[Image:Aprabhala.jpg|thumb|100px|Achal Prabhala]]<br />
Achal Prabhala is an Intellectual Property Researcher based in Bangalore, India, whose research work concerns access to knowledge and to medicine. Recent projects include an initiative to collect and publicly archive literary journals from Kenya, Nigeria, India, South Africa, the Middle East and the US; a report to the Indian Government for an overhaul of country's copyright act; essays on piracy and the legal commons; a commission to evaluate Botswana's patent law and medicines registration system; and an evaluatory framework for assessing copyright law and access to knowledge.<br />
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From 2004 to 2005, he coordinated a project on access to learning materials in Southern Africa, where (as part of a coalition of diverse groups), they<!--who was "we" in the original text--> advocated for legal/policy change to make learning materials affordable. He co-authored a report on the state of IP and learning materials in Southern Africa, and made submissions to a number of governmental bodies in the region. Prior to that, he worked on cases around access to medicines in Guyana, South Africa, India. Previous to beginning IP research work, he worked as a journalist.<br />
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=== Clay Shirky ===<br />
[[Image:Clay Shirky.jpg|thumb|100px|Clay Shirky]]<br />
Clay Shirky is on the faculty at the Interactive Telecommunications Program, an interdisciplinary grad program at NYU, where he works on the intersection of social and technological networks&mdash;the way communications technologies help shape the society that uses them, and the way society shapes those tools.<br />
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His interests relevant to Wikimedia are social software generally, and in particular governance problems; what changes in coordination costs for groups do to the economics of information production; and the design of federated networks.<br />
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Shirky chaired the Technical Working Group of the Library of Congress' digital preservation initiative (NDIIPP), and he currently chairs the Technical Sub-committee of Connecting for Health, a non-profit designing a nationwide health information network.<br />
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* [[Wikipedia:Clay Shirky|Wikipedia article]]<br />
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=== Ethan Zuckerman ===<br />
[[Image:Ethan zuckerman headshot.JPG|thumb|100px|Ethan Zuckerman]]<br />
Ethan is the co-founder of Global Voices (globalvoicesonline.org) along with fellow advisory board member Rebecca MacKinnon. He is a research fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, where his work focuses on technology in the developing world. Ethan also works with Open Society Institute's Information Program, along with Melissa Hagemann.<br />
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Prior to working with the Berkman Center, he was one of the founders of Geekcorps, a technology volunteering corps that brought geeks to the developing world to support and build IT businesses. Before that, he helped found Tripod.com, one of the early web community sites. <br />
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* [[Wikipedia:Ethan Zuckerman|Wikipedia article]]<br />
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== Former members ==<br />
=== Heather Ford ===<br />
[[Image:HeatherFord.jpg|thumb|100px|Heather Ford]]<br />
Heather Ford is a co-founder of the African Commons Project - a South African non-profit organisation that seeks to mobilise communities through active participation in collaborative technology. <br />
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Heather graduated from Rhodes University with a Bachelor of Journalism degree and has a certificate in Telecommunications Policy, Law and Management from the University of the Witwatersrand Link Centre. After working in the United Kingdom for Greennet and Privacy International, she went on to Stanford University in 2003 where she worked as a fellow in the Reuters Digital Vision Fellowship Program. She went back to South Africa in 2004 to start Creative Commons South Africa and a programme entitled ‘Commons-sense: Towards an African Digital Information Commons’ at the Wits University Link Centre. From 2006-2008, she was the Executive Director of iCommons. <br />
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Heather is now working on building collaborative systems for digital innovation in South Africa.<br />
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* [http://hblog.org Heather Ford's blog]<br />
* [http://africancommons.org The African Commons Project website]<br />
* [[Wikipedia:Heather Ford|Wikipedia article]]<br />
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=== Debbie Garside ===<br />
[[Image:DebbieGarside.jpg|thumb|100px|Debbie Garside]]<br />
Appointed to the Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board in 2007, Debbie Garside is the Project Leader, Editor and Head of Research for ISO 639-6. She is also Managing Director of GeoLang Ltd; the organisation that will become the Registration Authority (RA) for ISO-639-6 as soon as it is published. Debbie is Chief Executive Officer of the World Language Documentation Centre (WLDC); a non-profit making organisation made up of 25 international linguists and standardization professionals from industry and academia alike that has a remit that is wide and far reaching with regard to facilitating linguistic communities. <br />
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Debbie has been involved in language standards for over 6 years and is Convenor of ISO TC37/SC2/WG1/TG2 the committee responsible for ISO 639-6 Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages - Alpha4 Code for comprehensive coverage of language variants as well as the mirror committee within BSI in the UK; TS/1/-1. <br />
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Debbie is also Liaison to BSI (British Standards Institute) IDT/2/11, and has represented BSI, as UK expert, during TC46/WG2 meetings with regard to country codes. Appointed by BSI as project leader for a new standard for the Internationalization of Country Codes in March 2007, she is an observer to the ccNSO-GAC IDN Joint WG; a committee that is charged by ICANN with investigating solutions for the Internationalization of ccTLDs. Debbie is also active within ICANN's GA.<br />
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A named contributor to RFC4647, the Internet Engineering Task Force standard for Language Tag Matching, Debbie is an active member in the IETF-language forum as well as the IETF LTRU forum. <br />
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Debbie's interests span many fields but primary to this is her interest in facilitating a multi-lingual internet and multi-lingual thesauri. <br />
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Based in Wales, UK, Debbie is Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of three other companies, one offering translations, marketing and market research another offering entrepreneurship and ICT training as part of a European funded project as well being a Director of a newly established family estate agency.<br />
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=== Danny Hillis ===<br />
[[Image:Danny Hillis2.jpg|thumb|100px|William Daniel Hillis]]<br />
Danny Hillis is an engineer, author and inventor with a broad range of interests. He earned a B.S. in mathematics and a PhD. in computer science at MIT. While at MIT, Hillis began to study the physical limitations of computation and the possibility of building highly parallel computers. This work led in 1985 with the design and construction of a massively parallel computer with 64,000 processors, called the Connection Machine.<br />
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Hillis then co-founded Thinking Machines Corp., which was the leading innovator in massive parallel supercomputers and RAID disk arrays. Hillis' other inventions over the years have included tendon-control robot arms, touch-sensitive robot skin, a computer built from Tinkertoys that plays tic tac toe, and a 10,000-year mechanical clock. He founded the Long Now Foundation, which sponsors projects encouraging long-term thinking and responsibility.<br />
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Currently the Co-Founder and Co-Chairman at Applied Minds, Inc., Hillis is also Founder and Chairman of Metaweb Technologies, Inc., which was formed recently to build a better infrastructure for the Web.<br />
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Prior to Applied Minds, Hillis was Vice President, Research and Development at Walt Disney Imagineering, and a Disney Fellow. At Disney, he developed new technologies and business strategies and designed new theme park rides, a full-sized walking robot dinosaur and various micro mechanical devices. Hillis has also consulted with various companies in developing new technologies and related business strategies, serves on several company and not-for-profit boards, including the Long Now Foundation and the Hertz Foundation. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery, a Fellow in the International Leadership Forum, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He lives with his wife Pati and his children Asa, Noah and India in Los Angeles, California.<br />
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* [[Wikipedia:Danny Hillis|Wikipedia article]]<br />
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=== Joris Komen ===<br />
[[Image:Badhairdays3x3.jpg|thumb|100px|Joris Komen]]<br />
Joris Komen says he was lured into the information and communication technologies by the computerisation of museum collections, while the curator of birds at the National Museum of Namibia. He has spent considerable time and energy promoting the relevance of the Internet and other technologies to African museums and schools within and around Nambia. He is a champion of incentive-reward mechanisms to provide ICTs to schools in Namibia by way of a biodiversity-oriented school competition called Insect@thon.<br />
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Komen played a critical role in launching and driving SchoolNet Namibia, a civil society organisation which is committed to providing sustainable internet access, free/libre and open source software, and open educational content to all schools in Namibia. Komen is presently SchoolNet Namibia’s executive director. The organization has proved to be a model for the sustainable introduction of ICTs across the education sector, and has been recognised by the Namibian government's National Development Plans as a key actor.<br />
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Born in the Congo, Komen was raised and variously educated in Burundi, Holland, Nigeria and South Africa.<br />
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* [http://www.schoolnet.na SchoolNet Nambia]<br />
* [http://www.africaaction.org/docs99/bio9908.htm Insect@thon]<br />
* [http://tatejoris.blogspot.com Official blog]<br />
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=== Erin McKean ===<br />
[[Image:Erin McKean.jpg|thumb|100px|Erin McKean]]<br />
Erin McKean likes to call herself a "Dictionary Evangelist". Erin was formerly Chief Consulting Editor, American Dictionaries, for Oxford University Press, and the editor of [http://www.verbatimmag.com VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly]. She was the editor in chief of the ''The New Oxford American Dictionary, 2e''. Her other books about words include ''Weird and Wonderful Words'', ''More Weird and Wonderful Words'', ''Totally Weird and Wonderful Words'', and ''That's Amore''.<br />
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Previously, she was the editorial manager for the Thorndike-Barnhart Dictionaries at ScottForesman, a Pearson company. She has served on the board of the Dictionary Society of North America and on the editorial board for its<br />
journal, Dictionaries, as well as on the editorial board for the journal of the American Dialect Society, American Speech.<br />
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McKean lives in Chicago, maintains a blog about dresses, and describes herself as being "really bad at Scrabble", despite credentials to suggest otherwise.<br />
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* [http://www.dressaday.com/dressaday.html A Dress A Day], her blog<br />
* [[Wikipedia:Erin McKean|Wikipedia article]]<br />
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=== Jay Rosen ===<br />
[[Image:Jayrosen.jpg|thumb|100px|Jay Rosen]]<br />
Jay Rosen teaches journalism at New York University, and has written extensively on civic journalism on his blog founded in 2003, the book ''What Are Journalists For?'', and in numerous periodicals.<br />
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Jay Rosen teaches journalism at New York University, where he has been on the faculty since 1986. From 1999 to 2005 he was chair of the Department. His work is mainly about what democracy requires from the press, a term which he believes includes journalists, citizens who are self published, and "the media." His blog "PressThink" is about the industry, and its discontents in the digital age. It talks to traditional journalists, bloggers, journalism students and new media people. He also write at the ''Huffington Post'' and ''Comment is Free'', the Guardian's group blog.<br />
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He founded NewAssignment.net in July 2006, an experimental site for pro-am, open source reporting projects. The concept was to have teams aid investigative journalism that would be hard for a single reporter or even a team of pros to do unaided.<br />
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His 1999 book ''What Are Journalists For?'' (Yale University Press) is about the rise of the civic journalism movement, also called public journalism. It was a pre-Web effort to get a professionalized press to recognize the widening disconnect between itself and the citizenry. The book was developed over a ten-year period, 1989-99.<br />
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As a press critic and reviewer, he has written for ''The Nation'', ''Columbia Journalism Review'', the ''Chronicle of Higher Education'', ''The New York Times'', ''The Washington Post'', ''The Los Angeles Times'', ''Salon.com'', ''TomPaine.com'' and many others.<br />
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He has a Ph.D. from NYU in media studies.<br />
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* [http://www.newassignment.net/ NewAssignment.net]<br />
* [http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/ PressThink blog]<br />
* [[Wikipedia:Jay Rosen|Wikipedia article]]<br />
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=== Peter Suber ===<br />
[[Image:Peter Suber.png|thumb|100px|Peter Suber]]<br />
Peter Suber has been working full-time on open access to research literature since 2003. Before that, Suber was a professor of philosophy at Earlham College for 21 years. He retains a non-teaching position at Earlham, but gave up his tenure and salary to work on open access. <br />
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Suber writes a blog called [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html Open Access News] (updated daily) and the SPARC [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm Open Access Newsletter] (published monthly). All of his work these days is in research, writing, consulting, and advocacy for open access (OA). <br />
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He was the principal drafter of the Budapest Open Access Initiative and serve on boards of several other organizations that deal with OA issues, such as the Scientific Information Working Group of the UN WSIS, Science Commons, Academic Commons, the Open Humanities Press, and the Open Knowledge Foundation. For more, see [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/ my home page].<br />
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* [[Wikipedia:Peter Suber|Wikipedia article]]<br />
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=== Raoul Weiler ===<br />
[[Image:Weiler.jpg|thumb|100px|Raoul Weiler]]<br />
Raoul Weiler is located in Belgium in Antwerp. During the past few years, his activities have primarily focused on sustainability issues as a planetary challenge, the use of low-cost ICT in schools and communities as a contribution to the eradication of illiteracy and bridging the digital gap, and facilitating the access of all to the oncoming worldwide information and knowledge societies, as well as on sustainable economy questions. At present, Weiler founded and chairs the Brussels-EU Chapter of the Club of Rome (CoR-EU) and is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Club of Rome (CoR). Weiler is a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS), member of Scientific Advisory Board of European Papers in the New Welfare, a member of the Board of Greenfacts and the president of the new created DigitalWorld. He participated as a NGO participant at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg (WSSD, 2002) and the World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva and Tunis (WSIS, 2003 & 2005) as well as at the World Social Forum in Porte Alegre (WSF, 2005).<br />
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Weiler's academic background is in engineering with a degree of engineering and Ph. D. in chemistry both at the University of Leuven (KUL), Belgium and he spent several years as Post-doc in the U.S. and France. His industrial career started in a chemical multinational in the Department of Applied Physics and ended, until retirement (1996), as manager of the ICT department. Weiler has held teaching positions at different universities, in particular at the University of Leuven in the Faculty of Bio-engineering Sciences (KUL), and has given lectures about the relationship between technology and society, especially about the problem of sustainability and ethics. He is the co-author and editor of four books on sustainability, global change and philosophy and ethics of technology. Recent publications: Ethic Aspects of the Convention on Climate Change (2005) and the Proceedings of the joint World Conference of the Club of Rome and UNESCO on ICTs for Capacity-Building: Critical Success Factors (2005).<br />
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* [[Wikipedia:Raoul Weiler|Wikipedia article]]<br />
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[[Category:Wikimedia organisation]]</div>James Owenhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Job_openings/Chief_Development_Officer&diff=40398Job openings/Chief Development Officer2009-10-08T16:19:07Z<p>James Owen: bolded Lisa Grossman</p>
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'''THE WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION IS SEEKING ...'''<br />
<br />
... an innovative development professional with a strong understanding of internet and traditional fundraising methods, to grow and diversify the fundraising capacity of the Foundation.<br />
<br />
The Chief Development Officer will have a key role in the small, successful team which runs this unique organization.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
== Job Title ==<br />
<br />
Chief Development Officer<br />
<br />
== Background ==<br />
<br />
The [[FAQ|Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.]] is a nonprofit charitable organization committed to building a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. The Foundation is currently in the process of a strategic planning effort, and is on the cusp of major growth. Wikimedia's flagship project, [http://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia], has become the largest general reference work ever compiled in human history. Hundreds of thousands of volunteers have contributed more than 14 million encyclopedia articles in 250 languages, all of which can be freely shared and used for any purpose. It is consulted by more than 300 million people every month, making it the fifth most popular web property world-wide.<br />
In addition to Wikipedia, the Wikimedia Foundation operates [http://commons.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Commons], a vast repository of millions of educational multimedia files, and has launched other community projects to develop textbooks, dictionaries, online courses, annotated source texts, and other educational materials. It maintains [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page/ MediaWiki], the open source software which powers all its projects, and which is used to power thousands of collaborative websites operated by third parties.<br />
<br />
Established in 2003 by Jimmy Wales two years after creating Wikipedia, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) was established to ensure Wikipedia's continued operation under the stewardship of a non-profit organization, funded primarily through direct support from the general public. All of Wikimedia's projects are free of charge and free of advertising.<br />
<br />
The Wikimedia Foundation maintains the technical infrastructure to support these online volunteer communities and pursues a permanent agenda of technical innovation. It also supports international conferences, public outreach activities, and strategic relationships which support the cause of free knowledge.<br />
<br />
To support its activities, the Wikimedia Foundation is engaged in a range of fundraising activities. The cornerstone of these activities is an annual community giving campaign, inviting the vast audience of its projects to enable their continued operation ("Community giving" in Wikimedia's context is defined as individual gifts below $10,000; these gifts currently average at USD 33). Additionally, it cultivates and stewards relationships with individual donors, grant-giving foundations, and strategically aligned business partners.<br />
<br />
The Wikimedia movement is supported by volunteer-run chapters in 24 countries. These chapters, which operate independently of the Wikimedia Foundation, are important partners in increasing awareness of the Wikimedia projects, and advancing the goals of the movement in a defined geographic area. An increasing number of them are participating in Wikimedia's annual fundraising campaign.<br />
<br />
This is a roll up your sleeves, participatory organization, and teams tend to form flexibly around projects. The Foundation has approximately 25 permanent paid staff, and this is expected to grow over the next years as the user base also expands. There are five development professionals in the organization, with responsibility for major gifts, foundations, community giving, and sponsorship and other earned income activities. In 2008-2009 the organization raised approximately $8.7 Million with 64% of the funding stream supplied by the community through small donations. Nonprofit foundation gifts comprise an additional 23%, major gifts 9%, and licensing/royalty agreements of various types comprise 4% of funding. The Board of Trustees is a governance entity and not a fundraising board.<br />
<br />
Due to the nature of the Wikimedia Foundation – the community as a whole is very egalitarian and cautious about concentrating power or influence in one place – there are some unusual limits that are placed on fundraising activities. No single funder is able to wield substantial influence. Candidates will need to embrace the values of the Wikimedia community and be able to navigate the various complexities involved in fundraising for the Foundation.<br />
<br />
== Basic Function ==<br />
<br />
As the executive focused on developing sustainable support for the Foundation, the Chief Development Officer will report to and work most intimately with the Executive Director to drive fundraising efforts. Succeeding in this environment will require taking a hands-on approach to connecting with a broad array of donors through the internet and using traditional development methods, while implementing the infrastructure required for developing sustained annual stewardship and support. <br />
<br />
This person must be process oriented, yet have a dealmaker’s creativity and speed. A deep passion for the mission will align this development role with the urgency and creativity of the Wikimedia Foundation’s culture. The challenge of the position will be to balance development of sustainable and repeatable best-fundraising practices with a rapid expansion of the current base of support. <br />
<br />
The Chief Development Officer will be based in Wikimedia Foundation’s headquarters in San Francisco. The Wikimedia Foundation has had its main fundraising success inside the United States; however, this is an international organization serving an internationally distributed audience. A strong international perspective with personal experience in cross-cultural communication is extremely important in this position. <br />
<br />
The Chief Development Officer will also help the organization’s leaders, staff and board members to integrate a fundraising perspective into all aspects of the Wikimedia Foundation’s programs and operations. Reporting to the Chief Development Officer will be a current development staff of five including the Heads of Community Giving, Major Gifts, and Partnerships & Foundation Relations, a Stewardship Associate and a Development Associate (vacant).<br />
<br />
== Immediate Priorities ==<br />
<br />
The Chief Development Officer’s immediate priorities are to:<br />
* Thoroughly understand the Wikimedia Foundation – its values, history, culture, traditions, communities, programs, personalities, constituencies and governance structure; understand its base of financial support and the short and long-term funding requirements of all segments of the organization; <br />
* Develop strong relationships with, and secure the trust and confidence of the Executive Director, key funders, board members, staff, influencers, community members, fundraising and marketing consultants, and others critical to individual and institutional fundraising efforts;<br />
* Actively engage in co-creating the strategic plan, a pivotal effort for the Wikimedia Foundation and arguably the number one priority for its growth and health. This plan is expected to be completed September 2010;<br />
* Assess and evaluate the development department; ensure that the department is well-structured and able to support annual fundraising goals; <br />
* Immediately assess the “state of play” of in-process fundraising efforts and provide support for those efforts as needed; assume a hands-on, creative leadership role in the identification, cultivation and solicitation of major individual and institutional gifts; personally cultivate and solicit as appropriate.<br />
<br />
== Primary Responsibilities == <br />
<br />
* Implement a fundraising plan that triples contributed and other revenue within 5 years from $8.7m to $25m through enlarging and diversifying the donor base, with a primary focus on increased community giving, and a secondary focus on increased major gifts, increased private foundation, corporate and corporate foundation support; enhanced long term stewardship and donor recognition; and a focus on working towards an endowment while also continuing to raise funds for annual operations;<br />
* In collaboration with the Foundation’s technical team, ensure that special attention is paid to in-kind giving, particularly to build out the Foundation’s infrastructure;<br />
* Strengthen the Wikimedia brand among donors and prospective donors internationally, with particular attention to the United States and Europe which currently provides the preponderance of funding support, utilizing the internet and other low cost, high visibility methodologies;<br />
* Organize and deploy organizational resources to actively broaden and deepen support for Wikimedia Foundation among all current and prospective donors nationally and internationally;<br />
* Grow an appropriately lean fundraising team scaled to the results and requirements of the overall fundraising effort.<br />
<br />
The Chief Development Officer will execute the following responsibilities on an on-going basis:<br />
<br />
* In collaboration with the Executive Director, develop a systematic fundraising plan that includes both individual (community and major gift) and institutional (business and foundation) targets:<br />
** Donor segmentation (individual, business, foundation), level (community giving, various major gift levels, planned giving), and fund (in kind, capital projects and infrastructure build-out, annual operating fund, restricted gifts for specific purposes, education, endowment);<br />
** Objectives for individual and institutional fundraising and success metrics;<br />
** Identification of staff, board and community members who will be actively involved in fundraising and definition of roles;<br />
** Targets for development team members and appropriate collaboration with team members to help the organization reach its fundraising goals. <br />
* Ensure that the Development Department has a strong fundraising infrastructure, and that its staff is knowledgeable, enthusiastic and effective, including:<br />
** Evaluate current processes and systems that support fundraising initiatives, donor recognition, and campaign management for the various kinds of campaigns and events; ensure that information systems are scaled to need, are properly maintained and used, and build on sustainable open source solutions (e.g. CiviCRM) where possible;<br />
** Retain, recruit and manage a team of development professionals and consultants with appropriate internet-based and traditional donor cultivation, marketing/sponsorship, individual giving and institutional giving skills and experiences; establish work plans, performance objectives, and goals for each team member and regularly review performance; provide professional development and training required to cultivate staff skills and professionalism;<br />
** Establish clear standards for stewardship, donor recognition, and institutional sponsorship, with particular emphasis on the proper use of logos, brands, naming and other recognition opportunities; <br />
** Ensure successful adherence to grant and restricted giving agreements.<br />
* Manage day-to-day fundraising at the Wikimedia Foundation, including:<br />
** Undertake direct individual donor solicitations as appropriate with the support of the Executive Director, other Foundation staff, members of the Board and other community members;<br />
** Establish an institutional giving programs for national sponsorships, corporate gifts, foundation solicitations for restricted and unrestricted giving;<br />
** Aggressively implement a structured program for fostering strong, long-term relationships with targeted individual and institutional donor constituencies; develop annual special events that boost institutional and individual fundraising efforts, which are also aligned to Wikimedia’s egalitarian values; specifically strengthen the stewardship and donor recognition program for individual donors, with the objective of establishing a life-long, planned giving relationships with major donors;<br />
** Oversee the involvement, identification, training and support of fundraising volunteers, providing community members with opportunities to be involved in raising money for the Foundation; guide the efforts, and strategies for key campaign volunteers, Board members, community advisors and committees in the solicitation process;<br />
** Assist the Head of Communications in the development of materials (on-line and published, text and multi-media) that tell the Foundation story to donors and individual prospects, ensuring that these materials are segmented and distributed in a targeted, regular, timely and consistent fashion;<br />
** Collaborate with the senior leadership of the Foundation in the preparation of annual operating plans and budgets, incorporating fundraising projections into the budget of the organization.<br />
<br />
== Ideal Experience ==<br />
<br />
Candidates should have the following type of experience and qualifications:<br />
<br />
* A record of personal success in raising money for a high-growth, rapidly changing and evolving entrepreneurial organization through the internet and mass outreach, major gifts from individuals and annual giving campaigns, and from businesses, foundations and corporations; experience building relationships through mission-supporting ventures; comfort and experience in a technology-driven environment;<br />
* Broad-based knowledge of various development campaign activities including: internet, direct mail, proposal and grant development, annual fund and planned giving, event planning and management, direct solicitations, leveraging fundraising databases and support systems for donor segmentation, research and volunteer management; <br />
* A track record as an exceptional communicator, in writing as well as verbally; adept at writing solicitation letters, donor correspondence, proposals and other kinds of material for publication; experience preparing and making effective presentations to diverse groups large and small;<br />
* Demonstrated skills in motivating, coordinating and supporting the fundraising activities of others.<br />
<br />
== Personal Characteristics ==<br />
<br />
The successful candidate should be:<br />
<br />
* A mission-driven individual with an understanding of, belief in and commitment to the open source movement, net neutrality, the benefits of the free exchange of information; a passion for communicating how these principles are important in the development of civil societies; an ability to communicate that passion without losing focus;<br />
* An independent and open-minded individual who values and appreciates diversity, input and collaboration from various constituencies; has the ability to make unpopular decisions when necessary;<br />
* A charismatic communicator, both in writing and speaking, and particularly able to recognize the alignment of a donor’s interests with the value of Wikimedia Foundation programs, communities, services and events; ability to be the public face of fundraising when appropriate.<br />
* A good listener and strategist; comfortable receiving input from many sources, and able to act on information to develop increased support;<br />
* A strong manager who will advocate for the development team and its needs.<br />
* A hard worker with a high energy level; a “doer” with a willingness to work hands-on in developing and executing a variety of development and advancement activities;<br />
* Emotionally mature and self-reliant; someone who will thrive working in a small but growing office;<br />
* An ability to tolerate a high degree of ambiguity, and to negotiate with people having sharply defined opinions while maintaining positive, respectful relationships;<br />
* A sense of humor.<br />
<br />
== To Apply == <br />
<br />
The Wikimedia Foundation has retained m/Oppenheim Associates to conduct this search. Inquiries, nominations and resumes may be directed in confidence to:<br />
<br />
'''Lisa Grossman'''<br /><br />
[http://moppenheim.com/ m/Oppenheim Associates]<br /><br />
lisag{{@}}moppenheim.com</div>James Owenhttps://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Job_openings/Chief_Development_Officer&diff=40397Job openings/Chief Development Officer2009-10-08T16:18:22Z<p>James Owen: Added Links to Wikimedia FAQ, Wikipedia, Wiki Commons, Meta Wiki, and m/Oppenheim Associates</p>
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<div><div style="float:right;width:300px;background:#eeeeee;margin-left:1em;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;padding:1em;"><br />
'''THE WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION IS SEEKING ...'''<br />
<br />
... an innovative development professional with a strong understanding of internet and traditional fundraising methods, to grow and diversify the fundraising capacity of the Foundation.<br />
<br />
The Chief Development Officer will have a key role in the small, successful team which runs this unique organization.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
== Job Title ==<br />
<br />
Chief Development Officer<br />
<br />
== Background ==<br />
<br />
The [[FAQ|Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.]] is a nonprofit charitable organization committed to building a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. The Foundation is currently in the process of a strategic planning effort, and is on the cusp of major growth. Wikimedia's flagship project, [http://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia], has become the largest general reference work ever compiled in human history. Hundreds of thousands of volunteers have contributed more than 14 million encyclopedia articles in 250 languages, all of which can be freely shared and used for any purpose. It is consulted by more than 300 million people every month, making it the fifth most popular web property world-wide.<br />
In addition to Wikipedia, the Wikimedia Foundation operates [http://commons.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Commons], a vast repository of millions of educational multimedia files, and has launched other community projects to develop textbooks, dictionaries, online courses, annotated source texts, and other educational materials. It maintains [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page/ MediaWiki], the open source software which powers all its projects, and which is used to power thousands of collaborative websites operated by third parties.<br />
<br />
Established in 2003 by Jimmy Wales two years after creating Wikipedia, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) was established to ensure Wikipedia's continued operation under the stewardship of a non-profit organization, funded primarily through direct support from the general public. All of Wikimedia's projects are free of charge and free of advertising.<br />
<br />
The Wikimedia Foundation maintains the technical infrastructure to support these online volunteer communities and pursues a permanent agenda of technical innovation. It also supports international conferences, public outreach activities, and strategic relationships which support the cause of free knowledge.<br />
<br />
To support its activities, the Wikimedia Foundation is engaged in a range of fundraising activities. The cornerstone of these activities is an annual community giving campaign, inviting the vast audience of its projects to enable their continued operation ("Community giving" in Wikimedia's context is defined as individual gifts below $10,000; these gifts currently average at USD 33). Additionally, it cultivates and stewards relationships with individual donors, grant-giving foundations, and strategically aligned business partners.<br />
<br />
The Wikimedia movement is supported by volunteer-run chapters in 24 countries. These chapters, which operate independently of the Wikimedia Foundation, are important partners in increasing awareness of the Wikimedia projects, and advancing the goals of the movement in a defined geographic area. An increasing number of them are participating in Wikimedia's annual fundraising campaign.<br />
<br />
This is a roll up your sleeves, participatory organization, and teams tend to form flexibly around projects. The Foundation has approximately 25 permanent paid staff, and this is expected to grow over the next years as the user base also expands. There are five development professionals in the organization, with responsibility for major gifts, foundations, community giving, and sponsorship and other earned income activities. In 2008-2009 the organization raised approximately $8.7 Million with 64% of the funding stream supplied by the community through small donations. Nonprofit foundation gifts comprise an additional 23%, major gifts 9%, and licensing/royalty agreements of various types comprise 4% of funding. The Board of Trustees is a governance entity and not a fundraising board.<br />
<br />
Due to the nature of the Wikimedia Foundation – the community as a whole is very egalitarian and cautious about concentrating power or influence in one place – there are some unusual limits that are placed on fundraising activities. No single funder is able to wield substantial influence. Candidates will need to embrace the values of the Wikimedia community and be able to navigate the various complexities involved in fundraising for the Foundation.<br />
<br />
== Basic Function ==<br />
<br />
As the executive focused on developing sustainable support for the Foundation, the Chief Development Officer will report to and work most intimately with the Executive Director to drive fundraising efforts. Succeeding in this environment will require taking a hands-on approach to connecting with a broad array of donors through the internet and using traditional development methods, while implementing the infrastructure required for developing sustained annual stewardship and support. <br />
<br />
This person must be process oriented, yet have a dealmaker’s creativity and speed. A deep passion for the mission will align this development role with the urgency and creativity of the Wikimedia Foundation’s culture. The challenge of the position will be to balance development of sustainable and repeatable best-fundraising practices with a rapid expansion of the current base of support. <br />
<br />
The Chief Development Officer will be based in Wikimedia Foundation’s headquarters in San Francisco. The Wikimedia Foundation has had its main fundraising success inside the United States; however, this is an international organization serving an internationally distributed audience. A strong international perspective with personal experience in cross-cultural communication is extremely important in this position. <br />
<br />
The Chief Development Officer will also help the organization’s leaders, staff and board members to integrate a fundraising perspective into all aspects of the Wikimedia Foundation’s programs and operations. Reporting to the Chief Development Officer will be a current development staff of five including the Heads of Community Giving, Major Gifts, and Partnerships & Foundation Relations, a Stewardship Associate and a Development Associate (vacant).<br />
<br />
== Immediate Priorities ==<br />
<br />
The Chief Development Officer’s immediate priorities are to:<br />
* Thoroughly understand the Wikimedia Foundation – its values, history, culture, traditions, communities, programs, personalities, constituencies and governance structure; understand its base of financial support and the short and long-term funding requirements of all segments of the organization; <br />
* Develop strong relationships with, and secure the trust and confidence of the Executive Director, key funders, board members, staff, influencers, community members, fundraising and marketing consultants, and others critical to individual and institutional fundraising efforts;<br />
* Actively engage in co-creating the strategic plan, a pivotal effort for the Wikimedia Foundation and arguably the number one priority for its growth and health. This plan is expected to be completed September 2010;<br />
* Assess and evaluate the development department; ensure that the department is well-structured and able to support annual fundraising goals; <br />
* Immediately assess the “state of play” of in-process fundraising efforts and provide support for those efforts as needed; assume a hands-on, creative leadership role in the identification, cultivation and solicitation of major individual and institutional gifts; personally cultivate and solicit as appropriate.<br />
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== Primary Responsibilities == <br />
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* Implement a fundraising plan that triples contributed and other revenue within 5 years from $8.7m to $25m through enlarging and diversifying the donor base, with a primary focus on increased community giving, and a secondary focus on increased major gifts, increased private foundation, corporate and corporate foundation support; enhanced long term stewardship and donor recognition; and a focus on working towards an endowment while also continuing to raise funds for annual operations;<br />
* In collaboration with the Foundation’s technical team, ensure that special attention is paid to in-kind giving, particularly to build out the Foundation’s infrastructure;<br />
* Strengthen the Wikimedia brand among donors and prospective donors internationally, with particular attention to the United States and Europe which currently provides the preponderance of funding support, utilizing the internet and other low cost, high visibility methodologies;<br />
* Organize and deploy organizational resources to actively broaden and deepen support for Wikimedia Foundation among all current and prospective donors nationally and internationally;<br />
* Grow an appropriately lean fundraising team scaled to the results and requirements of the overall fundraising effort.<br />
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The Chief Development Officer will execute the following responsibilities on an on-going basis:<br />
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* In collaboration with the Executive Director, develop a systematic fundraising plan that includes both individual (community and major gift) and institutional (business and foundation) targets:<br />
** Donor segmentation (individual, business, foundation), level (community giving, various major gift levels, planned giving), and fund (in kind, capital projects and infrastructure build-out, annual operating fund, restricted gifts for specific purposes, education, endowment);<br />
** Objectives for individual and institutional fundraising and success metrics;<br />
** Identification of staff, board and community members who will be actively involved in fundraising and definition of roles;<br />
** Targets for development team members and appropriate collaboration with team members to help the organization reach its fundraising goals. <br />
* Ensure that the Development Department has a strong fundraising infrastructure, and that its staff is knowledgeable, enthusiastic and effective, including:<br />
** Evaluate current processes and systems that support fundraising initiatives, donor recognition, and campaign management for the various kinds of campaigns and events; ensure that information systems are scaled to need, are properly maintained and used, and build on sustainable open source solutions (e.g. CiviCRM) where possible;<br />
** Retain, recruit and manage a team of development professionals and consultants with appropriate internet-based and traditional donor cultivation, marketing/sponsorship, individual giving and institutional giving skills and experiences; establish work plans, performance objectives, and goals for each team member and regularly review performance; provide professional development and training required to cultivate staff skills and professionalism;<br />
** Establish clear standards for stewardship, donor recognition, and institutional sponsorship, with particular emphasis on the proper use of logos, brands, naming and other recognition opportunities; <br />
** Ensure successful adherence to grant and restricted giving agreements.<br />
* Manage day-to-day fundraising at the Wikimedia Foundation, including:<br />
** Undertake direct individual donor solicitations as appropriate with the support of the Executive Director, other Foundation staff, members of the Board and other community members;<br />
** Establish an institutional giving programs for national sponsorships, corporate gifts, foundation solicitations for restricted and unrestricted giving;<br />
** Aggressively implement a structured program for fostering strong, long-term relationships with targeted individual and institutional donor constituencies; develop annual special events that boost institutional and individual fundraising efforts, which are also aligned to Wikimedia’s egalitarian values; specifically strengthen the stewardship and donor recognition program for individual donors, with the objective of establishing a life-long, planned giving relationships with major donors;<br />
** Oversee the involvement, identification, training and support of fundraising volunteers, providing community members with opportunities to be involved in raising money for the Foundation; guide the efforts, and strategies for key campaign volunteers, Board members, community advisors and committees in the solicitation process;<br />
** Assist the Head of Communications in the development of materials (on-line and published, text and multi-media) that tell the Foundation story to donors and individual prospects, ensuring that these materials are segmented and distributed in a targeted, regular, timely and consistent fashion;<br />
** Collaborate with the senior leadership of the Foundation in the preparation of annual operating plans and budgets, incorporating fundraising projections into the budget of the organization.<br />
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== Ideal Experience ==<br />
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Candidates should have the following type of experience and qualifications:<br />
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* A record of personal success in raising money for a high-growth, rapidly changing and evolving entrepreneurial organization through the internet and mass outreach, major gifts from individuals and annual giving campaigns, and from businesses, foundations and corporations; experience building relationships through mission-supporting ventures; comfort and experience in a technology-driven environment;<br />
* Broad-based knowledge of various development campaign activities including: internet, direct mail, proposal and grant development, annual fund and planned giving, event planning and management, direct solicitations, leveraging fundraising databases and support systems for donor segmentation, research and volunteer management; <br />
* A track record as an exceptional communicator, in writing as well as verbally; adept at writing solicitation letters, donor correspondence, proposals and other kinds of material for publication; experience preparing and making effective presentations to diverse groups large and small;<br />
* Demonstrated skills in motivating, coordinating and supporting the fundraising activities of others.<br />
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== Personal Characteristics ==<br />
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The successful candidate should be:<br />
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* A mission-driven individual with an understanding of, belief in and commitment to the open source movement, net neutrality, the benefits of the free exchange of information; a passion for communicating how these principles are important in the development of civil societies; an ability to communicate that passion without losing focus;<br />
* An independent and open-minded individual who values and appreciates diversity, input and collaboration from various constituencies; has the ability to make unpopular decisions when necessary;<br />
* A charismatic communicator, both in writing and speaking, and particularly able to recognize the alignment of a donor’s interests with the value of Wikimedia Foundation programs, communities, services and events; ability to be the public face of fundraising when appropriate.<br />
* A good listener and strategist; comfortable receiving input from many sources, and able to act on information to develop increased support;<br />
* A strong manager who will advocate for the development team and its needs.<br />
* A hard worker with a high energy level; a “doer” with a willingness to work hands-on in developing and executing a variety of development and advancement activities;<br />
* Emotionally mature and self-reliant; someone who will thrive working in a small but growing office;<br />
* An ability to tolerate a high degree of ambiguity, and to negotiate with people having sharply defined opinions while maintaining positive, respectful relationships;<br />
* A sense of humor.<br />
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== To Apply == <br />
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The Wikimedia Foundation has retained m/Oppenheim Associates to conduct this search. Inquiries, nominations and resumes may be directed in confidence to:<br />
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Lisa Grossman<br /><br />
[http://moppenheim.com/ m/Oppenheim Associates]<br /><br />
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*Board Restructure [[Board_of_Trustees/Restructure_Announcement | announcement]] by Vice-Chair Jan-Bart de Vreede<br />
*Board Restructure [[Board_of_Trustees/Restructure_Announcement_Q%26A | Questions and Answers]]<br />
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The Wikimedia [[Board of Trustees]] manages the foundation and supervises the disposition and solicitation of donations. The Board is the ultimate corporate authority for the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (article IV, sec. 1 of the [[Wikimedia Foundation bylaws]]) and currently consists of seven Trustees:<br />
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*[[#Michael Snow|Michael Snow]], Chair <small>(term until July 2010)</small><br />
*[[#Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]], Founder <small>(term until December 2009)</small><br />
*[[#Jan-Bart de Vreede|Jan-Bart de Vreede]], Vice-chair <small>(term until December 2009)</small><br />
*[[#Kat Walsh|Kat Walsh]], Executive Secretary <small>(term until July 2011)</small><br />
*[[#Stu West|Stu West]], Treasurer <small>(term until December 2009)</small><br />
*[[#Ting Chen|Ting Chen]] <small>(term until July 2011)</small><br />
*[[#Arne Klempert|Arne Klempert]] <small>(term until July 2010)</small><br />
*[[#Matt Halprin|Matt Halprin]] <small>(term until December 2009)</small><br />
*[[#Samuel Kline|Samuel Klein]] <small>(term until July 2011)</small><br />
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===Michael Snow===<br />
[[Image:MichaelSnow_April08.jpg|left|thumb|Michael Snow]]<br />
[[User:Michael Snow|Michael Snow]] was named Chair of the Wikimedia Board in July 2008. He joined the Board in February 2008, after participating in Wikimedia projects since 2003. One of his contributions was the creation of [[w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost|''The Wikipedia Signpost'']], a community newspaper for the English-language Wikipedia. Born in Pfullendorf, Germany, he now lives in the Seattle area. Michael is an attorney and earned his [[:en:Juris Doctor|J.D.]] degree from the University of Washington. <br />
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=== Jimmy Wales ===<br />
[[Image:JimmyWales_April08.jpg|right|thumb|Jimmy Wales]] <br />
[[w:en:Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]] is an [[:en:Internet|Internet]] [[:en:entrepreneur|entrepreneur]] and [[:en:wiki|wiki]] enthusiast, and founder of the Wikipedia project. <br />
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Jimmy was born in [[:en:Huntsville, Alabama|Huntsville]], [[:en:Alabama|Alabama]] in 1966, and is a graduate of [[:en:Auburn University|Auburn University]] and the [[:en:University of Alabama|University of Alabama]]. He worked as Research Director at Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm then located in [[:en:Chicago|Chicago]]. In the mid-[[:en:1990s|1990s]] he started [[:en:Bomis|Bomis]], a search portal focusing on aspects of [[:en:pop culture|pop culture]], one of the first users of the freely licensed data of the [[:en:Open Directory Project|Open Directory Project]].<br />
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In 1999, Jimmy had the concept of a freely distributable encyclopedia and founded [[:en:Nupedia|Nupedia]], by hiring philosopher Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief and assigning two programmers to write software for it. Nupedia failed, perhaps due to being a top-down cathedral model, as opposed to Wikipedia, which is the ultimate bazaar. After two years of working with the Nupedia concept, that team opened Wikipedia to help channel content into Nupedia; Wikipedia became an instant success, but not in the envisioned way, and Nupedia was shut down. In 2003, Jimmy set up the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization, to support Wikipedia and its sister projects.<br />
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In 2004, Jimmy founded [[:en:Wikia|Wikia]]. He was appointed a fellow of Harvard Law School's [[:en:Berkman Center for Internet & Society|Berkman Center for Internet and Society]] in mid-2005, and in October of 2005 joined the Board of Directors of [[w:Socialtext|Socialtext]], a provider of wiki technology to businesses. He lives in [[:en:St. Petersburg, Florida|St. Petersburg]], [[:en:Florida|Florida]].<br />
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===Jan-Bart de Vreede===<br />
[[Image:JanBartdeVreede_April_08.JPG|left|thumb|Jan-Bart de Vreede]]<br />
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[[User:Jan-Bart|Jan-Bart de Vreede]] was named Vice-chair of Wikimedia Foundation in January 2007 after having joined the board in December 2006. <br />
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Working at the Kennisnet Foundation allowed Jan-Bart to spend time promoting the use of wiki software and Wikimedia projects in education, amongst other things. The [http://www.kennisnet.nl/ Kennisnet Foundation] is a publicly funded Dutch organisation. At Kennisnet Jan-Bart is responsible for the educational portals and content creation tools. Jan-Bart has been involved with Wikimedia since 2004, through his role as a Board member and his work at Kennisnet. He has attended and spoken at all of Wikimania conferences. <br />
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He is currently involved with the [http://Wikiwijs.nl Wikiwijs] project within the Netherlands. This is a countrywide initiative aimed at encouraging teachers to develop and share Open Educational Resources. <br />
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Jan-Bart de Vreede spent most of his childhood in the Netherlands, also living in Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Kenya and the United States. He studied Business Administration at the Rotterdam School of Management. He has three children: Anna (0), Matthias (5) and Ruben (8). <br />
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===Kat Walsh===<br />
[[Image:Kat-teal.jpg|right|thumb|Kat Walsh]]<br />
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[[User:Kat Walsh|Kat Walsh]] is a Wikimedian from Herndon, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC. She is a registered patent agent, currently studying technology and intellectual property law at George Mason University School of Law. <br />
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Kat has been a volunteer for Wikimedia since 2004. She is a press contact for Wikimedia, having appeared in national media, and answers mail sent to the Foundation. In October 2005 she was appointed to the Arbitration Committee on the English Wikipedia, which she served on until joining the Board. She is active in the DC-area free culture and public interest community. Kat is also a classical bassoonist and violist, performing in regional orchestras.<br />
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===Stu West===<br />
[[Image:StuWest_April08.jpg|left|thumb|Stu West]]<br />
[[User:Stu|Stu West]] joined the Wikimedia Board in April 2008. He brings over 15 years of financial experience, including senior executive roles at publicly-traded companies including Yahoo!, TiVo, and in investment banking at J.P. Morgan. He also worked with the United States Mission to the United Nations. Stu's educational background includes a B.A. in History from Yale University, where he focused on 20th century diplomacy, and the Executive Program for Growing Companies at the Stanford Business School. He is a dual citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom, and currently resides in the San Francisco bay area.<br />
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=== Ting Chen ===<br />
[[Image:Wing_2007_Wikimania.jpg|right|thumb|Ting Chen]]<br />
[[User:Wing|Ting Chen]] was elected a Trustee by the Wikimedia Community in June 2008 and his term started officially in July 2008.<br />
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Ting Chen was born in Shanghai, China in 1968. He grew up in Harbin, China, in the northeast corner of the country, where he attended elementary school and middle school. In 1989 he went to Braunschweig, Germany and began his study of Electrical engineering. He was especially interested in [[w:semiconductors|semiconductors]] and their physics. He graduated in 1993 with a diploma and now he works as an IT specialist in Mainz, Germany.<br />
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His first experience with a virtual community were during his university time in the German Fido-Net, where he moderated a forum about science and knowledge for many years. He learned of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects through a news article about the German Wikipedia achieving a milestone in 2003. From then on Wikipedia became a new hobby of his. He started on the [[:de:|German Wikipedia]] and changed soon to the young [[:zh:|Chinese Wikipedia]], which was at that time still starting. Ting Chen attended the first [[Wikimania]] ([[wm2005:|Wikimania 2005]]) in Frankfurt, where he took part on a panel discussion and introduced the Chinese community. He also helped organize the third Wikimania ([[wm2007:|Wikimania 2007]]) in Taipei.<br />
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=== Arne Klempert ===<br />
[[Image:Aklempert.jpg|left|thumb|Arne Klempert]]<br />
Arne Klempert was born in 1972 and studied social sciences at the University of Frankfurt in Germany. He has several years of professional experience in publishing houses and agencies with traditional and new media. He's now working as Head of Digital Communications at [http://www.ifok.de/ IFOK], a German consulting firm specialized in dialogue and participation.<br />
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Arne joined Wikipedia in 2003 as an editing community member. A few months later he became press contact of the German Wikipedia<br />
(2004-2008). Arne was co-founder and Vice President of [http://www.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland] (2004-2006), co-organizer of the first Wikimania (2005), and the first employee of a Wikimedia chapter - as Wikimedia Deutschland's Executive Director from 2006 to 2008.<br />
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=== Matt Halprin ===<br />
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Matt Halprin joined the Wikimedia Board in August 2009. Matt leads Omidyar Network's Media, Markets & Transparency initiative, supporting technologies that promote transparency, accountability, and trust across media, markets, and government. Within this initiative, his team pursues investments in Social Media, Marketplaces, and Government Transparency. In his role as Partner, Matt builds Omidyar Network’s team of talented investment professionals and works with portfolio organizations to help them succeed.<br />
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Matt has more than 20 years of business experience, including six at eBay. As Vice President, Global Trust and Safety at eBay, he led a team of 90 statisticians, policy managers, and product managers. He also helped coordinate the efforts of 2,000 customer support personnel to increase revenue while minimizing fraud and other trust-reducing behavior. Prior to eBay, Matt served as a Partner and Vice President at the Boston Consulting Group, where he worked with technology clients on issues of corporate strategy and corporate development. Previously, Matt was Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Quadlux, a VC-backed developer of technology-based ovens that was later sold to GE and Hobart.<br />
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Matt is on the Boards of Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), Sunlight Foundation, DonorsChoose.org, Goodmail Systems and Management Leadership for Tomorrow, which supports the next generation of minority leaders in the United States. He graduated with High Distinction as a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School and holds a BS in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.<br />
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=== Samuel Klein ===<br />
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[[User:Sj|Samuel Klien]] was elected a Trustee by the Wikimedia Community in August 2009.<br />
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==Former Board members==<br />
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Image:Angela Beesley.jpg|Angela Beesley, from UK/Australia.<br />
Image:WM2006 0068.jpg|Michael Davis, from the USA.<br />
Image:Citizen J Unconference0004.JPG|Erik Möller, from Germany.<br />
Image:Tim_Shell_Wikimedia.jpg|Tim Shell, from the USA.<br />
Image:Oscar van Dillen.gif|Oscar van Dillen, from the Netherlands.<br />
Image:Anthere_mg_2820b.jpg|Florence Nibart-Devouard, from France<br />
Image:Frieda.JPG|Frieda Brioschi, from Italy<br />
Image:DomasMituzas_April08.JPG|Domas Mituzas, from Lithuania<br />
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; Angela Beesley (June 2004-July 2006): Involved with Wikimedia projects since February 2003, Angela Beesley was one of the first members of Wikimedia's Board of Trustees, and currently serves on our Advisory Board. A co-founder and Vice President of Community for wiki hosting service "Wikia", she is one of the authors of the book ''Wikis: Tools for information Work and Collaboration'' (2006). Prior to her involvement with Wikipedia, Angela was an educational researcher and developer of student assessments. Angela was born in England and has lived in Germany and Australia.<br />
: Angela was on the Board of Trustees until she resigned from the post; her successor was elected 26 September 2006.<br />
: ''More about Angela: [[w:en:Angela Beesley|Biography on Wikipedia]], [[w:en:User:Angela|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Michael Davis (2003-November 2007): Michael Davis is a graduate of [[:en:Williams College|Williams College]] and the [[:en:University of Chicago|University of Chicago]]. Before joining Wikimedia, Michael was the CEO of Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm in Chicago. Michael currently resides in St. Petersburg, Florida, as the Chief Operating Officer of community-focused wiki hosting service Wikia, Inc.<br />
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; Erik Möller (July 2006-December 2007): Erik is the Deputy Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, a position he assumed in January 2008, stepping down from the Board of Trustees. Erik Möller has been an active editor of Wikipedia since 2001 and has also contributed to the underlying software, MediaWiki. Möller developed the proposal for Wikinews, a Wikimedia project, and organized the vote that implemented it. Before joining Wikimedia as an employee, Erik was a freelance journalist and author (''Die heimliche Medienrevolution: Wie Weblogs, Wikis und freie Software die Welt verändern''), as well as a manager of wiki-related software development projects. He holds a degree in computer science. Beyond Wikimedia, he seeks to promote Free Content, Free Software, and balanced intellectual monopoly rights legislation. Until taking the position at the Wikimedia Foundation, Möller lived in [[w:Berlin|Berlin]].<br />
: ''More about Erik: [[User:Eloquence|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Tim Shell (2003-November 2006): Tim Shell is an Internet entrepreneur with an interest in self-organization, and decentralized order, as exemplified by Wikipedia. In 1996 he was pursuing his degree in computer science when he decided to chuck it and go into business, joining up with Jimmy Wales to start Bomis. Tim has lived in Chicago, Florida, and San Diego, and currently resides in Las Vegas. On December 15, 2006, Shell stepped down from the board.<br />
: ''More about Tim: [[m:User:TimShell|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Oscar van Dillen (November 2006-June 2007): Oscar is an editor and bureaucrat for the Dutch-language Wikipedia and other Dutch Wikimedia projects. He also holds the role of steward since May 2005, helping and advising many projects in many languages. Van Dillen is a member of the Special Projects committee, which helps the Foundation pursue grants, oversee expansion efforts, and encourage partnerships between the Foundation and other organizations. Professionally, Van Dillen is a musician and composer, teaching World music composition as well as music theory in the jazz, pop and world music department at the Conservatory of Rotterdam.<br />
: ''More about Oscar: [[User:Oscar|Userpage]]''<br />
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;Florence Nibart-Devouard (June 2004-July 2008): Florence was the Chair of the Wikimedia Board from October 2006 until July of 2008. She served as one of the elected representatives to the Board starting June 2004. Florence was born in [[:en:Versailles|Versailles]] (France). She grew up in Grenoble, and has been living since then in several French cities, as well as Antwerpen in Belgium and Tempe in Arizona. She holds two masters, one in Agricultural Sciences (a 5-year degree in agronomical engineering ([[w:en:Grandes Ecoles|Diplome d'Ingénieur Grande Ecole]]) from [http://www.ensaia.inpl-nancy.fr/ ENSAIA] and the other a postgraduate degree (DEA) in Genetics and Biotechnologies from [http://www.inpl-nancy.fr/index.htm INPL].She has been working in public research, first in flower plant genetic improvement, and second in microbiology to study the feasability of polluted soil bioremediation. She was employed until 2005 in a French company, to conceive decision-making tools in sustainable agriculture. She is now a consultant in Internet Communication Strategy. She joined the Wikipedia adventure in February 2002 and is known as a contributor under the pseudonym ''Anthere''. Florence is 39, and lives in [[w:en:Clermont Ferrand|Clermont Ferrand]] with her husband Bertrand and her three children, Anne-Gaëlle aged nine, William eleven and Thomas two.<br />
: ''More about Florence: [[w:en:Florence Nibart-Devouard|Biography on Wikipedia]], [[m:User:Anthere|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Frieda Brioschi (July 2007-September 2008): Frieda (born in 1976, Italian) joined the Wikimedia Board in July 2007. She has been involved in Wikipedia and other WMF projects since May 2003. In June 2005 she helped found [[Wikimedia Italia]], a local chapter organization associated with Wikimedia, and was president of that organization until September 2007. She currently lives in Rome where she works as a programmer. She resigned from the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees in September 2008.<br />
: ''More about Frieda: [[User:Frieda|Userpage]]''<br />
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;Domas Mituzas (February 2008-July 2009): Domas joined the Wikimedia Board in February 2008. He has been involved with Wikipedia technology since 2004, and has worked on site performance and operations since then. He also works for MySQL AB (recently acquired by Sun Microsystems) services division. Before that he built network services in Lithuania and other Baltic States. He was born and lives in Vilnius, Lithuania. <br />
: ''More about Domas: [[User:Midom|Userpage]]''<br />
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The Wikimedia [[Board of Trustees]] manages the foundation and supervises the disposition and solicitation of donations. The Board is the ultimate corporate authority for the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (article IV, sec. 1 of the [[Wikimedia Foundation bylaws]]) and currently consists of seven Trustees:<br />
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*[[#Michael Snow|Michael Snow]], Chair <small>(term until July 2010)</small><br />
*[[#Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]], Founder <small>(term until December 2009)</small><br />
*[[#Jan-Bart de Vreede|Jan-Bart de Vreede]], Vice-chair <small>(term until December 2009)</small><br />
*[[#Kat Walsh|Kat Walsh]], Executive Secretary <small>(term until July 2011)</small><br />
*[[#Stu West|Stu West]], Treasurer <small>(term until December 2009)</small><br />
*[[#Ting Chen|Ting Chen]] <small>(term until July 2011)</small><br />
*[[#Arne Klempert|Arne Klempert]] <small>(term until July 2010)</small><br />
*[[#Matt Halprin|Matt Halprin]] <small>(term until December 2009)</small><br />
*[[#Samuel Kline|Samuel Klein]] <small>(term until July 2011)</small><br />
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===Michael Snow===<br />
[[Image:MichaelSnow_April08.jpg|left|thumb|Michael Snow]]<br />
[[User:Michael Snow|Michael Snow]] was named Chair of the Wikimedia Board in July 2008. He joined the Board in February 2008, after participating in Wikimedia projects since 2003. One of his contributions was the creation of [[w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost|''The Wikipedia Signpost'']], a community newspaper for the English-language Wikipedia. Born in Pfullendorf, Germany, he now lives in the Seattle area. Michael is an attorney and earned his [[:en:Juris Doctor|J.D.]] degree from the University of Washington. <br />
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=== Jimmy Wales ===<br />
[[Image:JimmyWales_April08.jpg|right|thumb|Jimmy Wales]] <br />
[[w:en:Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]] is an [[:en:Internet|Internet]] [[:en:entrepreneur|entrepreneur]] and [[:en:wiki|wiki]] enthusiast, and founder of the Wikipedia project. <br />
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Jimmy was born in [[:en:Huntsville, Alabama|Huntsville]], [[:en:Alabama|Alabama]] in 1966, and is a graduate of [[:en:Auburn University|Auburn University]] and the [[:en:University of Alabama|University of Alabama]]. He worked as Research Director at Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm then located in [[:en:Chicago|Chicago]]. In the mid-[[:en:1990s|1990s]] he started [[:en:Bomis|Bomis]], a search portal focusing on aspects of [[:en:pop culture|pop culture]], one of the first users of the freely licensed data of the [[:en:Open Directory Project|Open Directory Project]].<br />
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In 1999, Jimmy had the concept of a freely distributable encyclopedia and founded [[:en:Nupedia|Nupedia]], by hiring philosopher Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief and assigning two programmers to write software for it. Nupedia failed, perhaps due to being a top-down cathedral model, as opposed to Wikipedia, which is the ultimate bazaar. After two years of working with the Nupedia concept, that team opened Wikipedia to help channel content into Nupedia; Wikipedia became an instant success, but not in the envisioned way, and Nupedia was shut down. In 2003, Jimmy set up the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization, to support Wikipedia and its sister projects.<br />
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In 2004, Jimmy founded [[:en:Wikia|Wikia]]. He was appointed a fellow of Harvard Law School's [[:en:Berkman Center for Internet & Society|Berkman Center for Internet and Society]] in mid-2005, and in October of 2005 joined the Board of Directors of [[w:Socialtext|Socialtext]], a provider of wiki technology to businesses. He lives in [[:en:St. Petersburg, Florida|St. Petersburg]], [[:en:Florida|Florida]].<br />
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===Jan-Bart de Vreede===<br />
[[Image:JanBartdeVreede_April_08.JPG|left|thumb|Jan-Bart de Vreede]]<br />
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[[User:Jan-Bart|Jan-Bart de Vreede]] was named Vice-chair of Wikimedia Foundation in January 2007 after having joined the board in December 2006. <br />
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Working at the Kennisnet Foundation allowed Jan-Bart to spend time promoting the use of wiki software and Wikimedia projects in education, amongst other things. The [http://www.kennisnet.nl/ Kennisnet Foundation] is a publicly funded Dutch organisation. At Kennisnet Jan-Bart is responsible for the educational portals and content creation tools. Jan-Bart has been involved with Wikimedia since 2004, through his role as a Board member and his work at Kennisnet. He has attended and spoken at all of Wikimania conferences. <br />
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He is currently involved with the [http://Wikiwijs.nl Wikiwijs] project within the Netherlands. This is a countrywide initiative aimed at encouraging teachers to develop and share Open Educational Resources. <br />
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Jan-Bart de Vreede spent most of his childhood in the Netherlands, also living in Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Kenya and the United States. He studied Business Administration at the Rotterdam School of Management. He has three children: Anna (0), Matthias (5) and Ruben (8). <br />
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===Kat Walsh===<br />
[[Image:Kat-teal.jpg|right|thumb|Kat Walsh]]<br />
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[[User:Kat Walsh|Kat Walsh]] is a Wikimedian from Herndon, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC. She is a registered patent agent, currently studying technology and intellectual property law at George Mason University School of Law. <br />
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Kat has been a volunteer for Wikimedia since 2004. She is a press contact for Wikimedia, having appeared in national media, and answers mail sent to the Foundation. In October 2005 she was appointed to the Arbitration Committee on the English Wikipedia, which she served on until joining the Board. She is active in the DC-area free culture and public interest community. Kat is also a classical bassoonist and violist, performing in regional orchestras.<br />
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===Stu West===<br />
[[Image:StuWest_April08.jpg|left|thumb|Stu West]]<br />
[[User:Stu|Stu West]] joined the Wikimedia Board in April 2008. He brings over 15 years of financial experience, including senior executive roles at publicly-traded companies including Yahoo!, TiVo, and in investment banking at J.P. Morgan. He also worked with the United States Mission to the United Nations. Stu's educational background includes a B.A. in History from Yale University, where he focused on 20th century diplomacy, and the Executive Program for Growing Companies at the Stanford Business School. He is a dual citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom, and currently resides in the San Francisco bay area.<br />
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=== Ting Chen ===<br />
[[Image:Wing_2007_Wikimania.jpg|right|thumb|Ting Chen]]<br />
[[User:Wing|Ting Chen]] was elected a Trustee by the Wikimedia Community in June 2008 and his term started officially in July 2008.<br />
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Ting Chen was born in Shanghai, China in 1968. He grew up in Harbin, China, in the northeast corner of the country, where he attended elementary school and middle school. In 1989 he went to Braunschweig, Germany and began his study of Electrical engineering. He was especially interested in [[w:semiconductors|semiconductors]] and their physics. He graduated in 1993 with a diploma and now he works as an IT specialist in Mainz, Germany.<br />
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His first experience with a virtual community were during his university time in the German Fido-Net, where he moderated a forum about science and knowledge for many years. He learned of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects through a news article about the German Wikipedia achieving a milestone in 2003. From then on Wikipedia became a new hobby of his. He started on the [[:de:|German Wikipedia]] and changed soon to the young [[:zh:|Chinese Wikipedia]], which was at that time still starting. Ting Chen attended the first [[Wikimania]] ([[wm2005:|Wikimania 2005]]) in Frankfurt, where he took part on a panel discussion and introduced the Chinese community. He also helped organize the third Wikimania ([[wm2007:|Wikimania 2007]]) in Taipei.<br />
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=== Arne Klempert ===<br />
[[Image:Aklempert.jpg|left|thumb|Arne Klempert]]<br />
Arne Klempert was born in 1972 and studied social sciences at the University of Frankfurt in Germany. He has several years of professional experience in publishing houses and agencies with traditional and new media. He's now working as Head of Digital Communications at [http://www.ifok.de/ IFOK], a German consulting firm specialized in dialogue and participation.<br />
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Arne joined Wikipedia in 2003 as an editing community member. A few months later he became press contact of the German Wikipedia<br />
(2004-2008). Arne was co-founder and Vice President of [http://www.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland] (2004-2006), co-organizer of the first Wikimania (2005), and the first employee of a Wikimedia chapter - as Wikimedia Deutschland's Executive Director from 2006 to 2008.<br />
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=== Matt Halprin ===<br />
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Matt Halprin joined the Wikimedia Board in August 2009. Matt leads Omidyar Network's Media, Markets & Transparency initiative, supporting technologies that promote transparency, accountability, and trust across media, markets, and government. Within this initiative, his team pursues investments in Social Media, Marketplaces, and Government Transparency. In his role as Partner, Matt builds Omidyar Network’s team of talented investment professionals and works with portfolio organizations to help them succeed.<br />
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Matt has more than 20 years of business experience, including six at eBay. As Vice President, Global Trust and Safety at eBay, he led a team of 90 statisticians, policy managers, and product managers. He also helped coordinate the efforts of 2,000 customer support personnel to increase revenue while minimizing fraud and other trust-reducing behavior. Prior to eBay, Matt served as a Partner and Vice President at the Boston Consulting Group, where he worked with technology clients on issues of corporate strategy and corporate development. Previously, Matt was Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Quadlux, a VC-backed developer of technology-based ovens that was later sold to GE and Hobart.<br />
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Matt is on the Boards of Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), Sunlight Foundation, DonorsChoose.org, Goodmail Systems and Management Leadership for Tomorrow, which supports the next generation of minority leaders in the United States. He graduated with High Distinction as a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School and holds a BS in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.<br />
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=== Samuel Klein ===<br />
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==Former Board members==<br />
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Image:Angela Beesley.jpg|Angela Beesley, from UK/Australia.<br />
Image:WM2006 0068.jpg|Michael Davis, from the USA.<br />
Image:Citizen J Unconference0004.JPG|Erik Möller, from Germany.<br />
Image:Tim_Shell_Wikimedia.jpg|Tim Shell, from the USA.<br />
Image:Oscar van Dillen.gif|Oscar van Dillen, from the Netherlands.<br />
Image:Anthere_mg_2820b.jpg|Florence Nibart-Devouard, from France<br />
Image:Frieda.JPG|Frieda Brioschi, from Italy<br />
Image:DomasMituzas_April08.JPG|Domas Mituzas, from Lithuania<br />
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; Angela Beesley (June 2004-July 2006): Involved with Wikimedia projects since February 2003, Angela Beesley was one of the first members of Wikimedia's Board of Trustees, and currently serves on our Advisory Board. A co-founder and Vice President of Community for wiki hosting service "Wikia", she is one of the authors of the book ''Wikis: Tools for information Work and Collaboration'' (2006). Prior to her involvement with Wikipedia, Angela was an educational researcher and developer of student assessments. Angela was born in England and has lived in Germany and Australia.<br />
: Angela was on the Board of Trustees until she resigned from the post; her successor was elected 26 September 2006.<br />
: ''More about Angela: [[w:en:Angela Beesley|Biography on Wikipedia]], [[w:en:User:Angela|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Michael Davis (2003-November 2007): Michael Davis is a graduate of [[:en:Williams College|Williams College]] and the [[:en:University of Chicago|University of Chicago]]. Before joining Wikimedia, Michael was the CEO of Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm in Chicago. Michael currently resides in St. Petersburg, Florida, as the Chief Operating Officer of community-focused wiki hosting service Wikia, Inc.<br />
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; Erik Möller (July 2006-December 2007): Erik is the Deputy Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, a position he assumed in January 2008, stepping down from the Board of Trustees. Erik Möller has been an active editor of Wikipedia since 2001 and has also contributed to the underlying software, MediaWiki. Möller developed the proposal for Wikinews, a Wikimedia project, and organized the vote that implemented it. Before joining Wikimedia as an employee, Erik was a freelance journalist and author (''Die heimliche Medienrevolution: Wie Weblogs, Wikis und freie Software die Welt verändern''), as well as a manager of wiki-related software development projects. He holds a degree in computer science. Beyond Wikimedia, he seeks to promote Free Content, Free Software, and balanced intellectual monopoly rights legislation. Until taking the position at the Wikimedia Foundation, Möller lived in [[w:Berlin|Berlin]].<br />
: ''More about Erik: [[User:Eloquence|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Tim Shell (2003-November 2006): Tim Shell is an Internet entrepreneur with an interest in self-organization, and decentralized order, as exemplified by Wikipedia. In 1996 he was pursuing his degree in computer science when he decided to chuck it and go into business, joining up with Jimmy Wales to start Bomis. Tim has lived in Chicago, Florida, and San Diego, and currently resides in Las Vegas. On December 15, 2006, Shell stepped down from the board.<br />
: ''More about Tim: [[m:User:TimShell|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Oscar van Dillen (November 2006-June 2007): Oscar is an editor and bureaucrat for the Dutch-language Wikipedia and other Dutch Wikimedia projects. He also holds the role of steward since May 2005, helping and advising many projects in many languages. Van Dillen is a member of the Special Projects committee, which helps the Foundation pursue grants, oversee expansion efforts, and encourage partnerships between the Foundation and other organizations. Professionally, Van Dillen is a musician and composer, teaching World music composition as well as music theory in the jazz, pop and world music department at the Conservatory of Rotterdam.<br />
: ''More about Oscar: [[User:Oscar|Userpage]]''<br />
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;Florence Nibart-Devouard (June 2004-July 2008): Florence was the Chair of the Wikimedia Board from October 2006 until July of 2008. She served as one of the elected representatives to the Board starting June 2004. Florence was born in [[:en:Versailles|Versailles]] (France). She grew up in Grenoble, and has been living since then in several French cities, as well as Antwerpen in Belgium and Tempe in Arizona. She holds two masters, one in Agricultural Sciences (a 5-year degree in agronomical engineering ([[w:en:Grandes Ecoles|Diplome d'Ingénieur Grande Ecole]]) from [http://www.ensaia.inpl-nancy.fr/ ENSAIA] and the other a postgraduate degree (DEA) in Genetics and Biotechnologies from [http://www.inpl-nancy.fr/index.htm INPL].She has been working in public research, first in flower plant genetic improvement, and second in microbiology to study the feasability of polluted soil bioremediation. She was employed until 2005 in a French company, to conceive decision-making tools in sustainable agriculture. She is now a consultant in Internet Communication Strategy. She joined the Wikipedia adventure in February 2002 and is known as a contributor under the pseudonym ''Anthere''. Florence is 39, and lives in [[w:en:Clermont Ferrand|Clermont Ferrand]] with her husband Bertrand and her three children, Anne-Gaëlle aged nine, William eleven and Thomas two.<br />
: ''More about Florence: [[w:en:Florence Nibart-Devouard|Biography on Wikipedia]], [[m:User:Anthere|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Frieda Brioschi (July 2007-September 2008): Frieda (born in 1976, Italian) joined the Wikimedia Board in July 2007. She has been involved in Wikipedia and other WMF projects since May 2003. In June 2005 she helped found [[Wikimedia Italia]], a local chapter organization associated with Wikimedia, and was president of that organization until September 2007. She currently lives in Rome where she works as a programmer. She resigned from the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees in September 2008.<br />
: ''More about Frieda: [[User:Frieda|Userpage]]''<br />
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;Domas Mituzas (February 2008-July 2009): Domas joined the Wikimedia Board in February 2008. He has been involved with Wikipedia technology since 2004, and has worked on site performance and operations since then. He also works for MySQL AB (recently acquired by Sun Microsystems) services division. Before that he built network services in Lithuania and other Baltic States. He was born and lives in Vilnius, Lithuania. <br />
: ''More about Domas: [[User:Midom|Userpage]]''<br />
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*Board Restructure [[Board_of_Trustees/Restructure_Announcement | announcement]] by Vice-Chair Jan-Bart de Vreede<br />
*Board Restructure [[Board_of_Trustees/Restructure_Announcement_Q%26A | Questions and Answers]]<br />
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The Wikimedia [[Board of Trustees]] manages the foundation and supervises the disposition and solicitation of donations. The Board is the ultimate corporate authority for the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (article IV, sec. 1 of the [[Wikimedia Foundation bylaws]]) and currently consists of seven Trustees:<br />
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*[[#Michael Snow|Michael Snow]], Chair <small>(term until July 2010)</small><br />
*[[#Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]], Founder <small>(term until December 2009)</small><br />
*[[#Jan-Bart de Vreede|Jan-Bart de Vreede]], Vice-chair <small>(term until December 2009)</small><br />
*[[#Kat Walsh|Kat Walsh]], Executive Secretary <small>(term until July 2011)</small><br />
*[[#Stu West|Stu West]], Treasurer <small>(term until December 2009)</small><br />
*[[#Ting Chen|Ting Chen]] <small>(term until July 2011)</small><br />
*[[#Arne Klempert|Arne Klempert]] <small>(term until July 2010)</small><br />
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===Michael Snow===<br />
[[Image:MichaelSnow_April08.jpg|left|thumb|Michael Snow]]<br />
[[User:Michael Snow|Michael Snow]] was named Chair of the Wikimedia Board in July 2008. He joined the Board in February 2008, after participating in Wikimedia projects since 2003. One of his contributions was the creation of [[w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost|''The Wikipedia Signpost'']], a community newspaper for the English-language Wikipedia. Born in Pfullendorf, Germany, he now lives in the Seattle area. Michael is an attorney and earned his [[:en:Juris Doctor|J.D.]] degree from the University of Washington. <br />
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=== Jimmy Wales ===<br />
[[Image:JimmyWales_April08.jpg|right|thumb|Jimmy Wales]] <br />
[[w:en:Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]] is an [[:en:Internet|Internet]] [[:en:entrepreneur|entrepreneur]] and [[:en:wiki|wiki]] enthusiast, and founder of the Wikipedia project. <br />
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Jimmy was born in [[:en:Huntsville, Alabama|Huntsville]], [[:en:Alabama|Alabama]] in 1966, and is a graduate of [[:en:Auburn University|Auburn University]] and the [[:en:University of Alabama|University of Alabama]]. He worked as Research Director at Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm then located in [[:en:Chicago|Chicago]]. In the mid-[[:en:1990s|1990s]] he started [[:en:Bomis|Bomis]], a search portal focusing on aspects of [[:en:pop culture|pop culture]], one of the first users of the freely licensed data of the [[:en:Open Directory Project|Open Directory Project]].<br />
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In 1999, Jimmy had the concept of a freely distributable encyclopedia and founded [[:en:Nupedia|Nupedia]], by hiring philosopher Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief and assigning two programmers to write software for it. Nupedia failed, perhaps due to being a top-down cathedral model, as opposed to Wikipedia, which is the ultimate bazaar. After two years of working with the Nupedia concept, that team opened Wikipedia to help channel content into Nupedia; Wikipedia became an instant success, but not in the envisioned way, and Nupedia was shut down. In 2003, Jimmy set up the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization, to support Wikipedia and its sister projects.<br />
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In 2004, Jimmy founded [[:en:Wikia|Wikia]]. He was appointed a fellow of Harvard Law School's [[:en:Berkman Center for Internet & Society|Berkman Center for Internet and Society]] in mid-2005, and in October of 2005 joined the Board of Directors of [[w:Socialtext|Socialtext]], a provider of wiki technology to businesses. He lives in [[:en:St. Petersburg, Florida|St. Petersburg]], [[:en:Florida|Florida]].<br />
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===Jan-Bart de Vreede===<br />
[[Image:JanBartdeVreede_April_08.JPG|left|thumb|Jan-Bart de Vreede]]<br />
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[[User:Jan-Bart|Jan-Bart de Vreede]] was named Vice-chair of Wikimedia Foundation in January 2007 after having joined the board in December 2006. <br />
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Working at the Kennisnet Foundation allowed Jan-Bart to spend time promoting the use of wiki software and Wikimedia projects in education, amongst other things. The [http://www.kennisnet.nl/ Kennisnet Foundation] is a publicly funded Dutch organisation. At Kennisnet Jan-Bart is responsible for the educational portals and content creation tools. Jan-Bart has been involved with Wikimedia since 2004, through his role as a Board member and his work at Kennisnet. He has attended and spoken at all of Wikimania conferences. <br />
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He is currently involved with the [http://Wikiwijs.nl Wikiwijs] project within the Netherlands. This is a countrywide initiative aimed at encouraging teachers to develop and share Open Educational Resources. <br />
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Jan-Bart de Vreede spent most of his childhood in the Netherlands, also living in Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Kenya and the United States. He studied Business Administration at the Rotterdam School of Management. He has three children: Anna (0), Matthias (5) and Ruben (8). <br />
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===Kat Walsh===<br />
[[Image:Kat-teal.jpg|right|thumb|Kat Walsh]]<br />
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[[User:Kat Walsh|Kat Walsh]] is a Wikimedian from Herndon, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC. She is a registered patent agent, currently studying technology and intellectual property law at George Mason University School of Law. <br />
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Kat has been a volunteer for Wikimedia since 2004. She is a press contact for Wikimedia, having appeared in national media, and answers mail sent to the Foundation. In October 2005 she was appointed to the Arbitration Committee on the English Wikipedia, which she served on until joining the Board. She is active in the DC-area free culture and public interest community. Kat is also a classical bassoonist and violist, performing in regional orchestras.<br />
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===Stu West===<br />
[[Image:StuWest_April08.jpg|left|thumb|Stu West]]<br />
[[User:Stu|Stu West]] joined the Wikimedia Board in April 2008. He brings over 15 years of financial experience, including senior executive roles at publicly-traded companies including Yahoo!, TiVo, and in investment banking at J.P. Morgan. He also worked with the United States Mission to the United Nations. Stu's educational background includes a B.A. in History from Yale University, where he focused on 20th century diplomacy, and the Executive Program for Growing Companies at the Stanford Business School. He is a dual citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom, and currently resides in the San Francisco bay area.<br />
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=== Ting Chen ===<br />
[[Image:Wing_2007_Wikimania.jpg|right|thumb|Ting Chen]]<br />
[[User:Wing|Ting Chen]] was elected a Trustee by the Wikimedia Community in June 2008 and his term started officially in July 2008.<br />
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Ting Chen was born in Shanghai, China in 1968. He grew up in Harbin, China, in the northeast corner of the country, where he attended elementary school and middle school. In 1989 he went to Braunschweig, Germany and began his study of Electrical engineering. He was especially interested in [[w:semiconductors|semiconductors]] and their physics. He graduated in 1993 with a diploma and now he works as an IT specialist in Mainz, Germany.<br />
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His first experience with a virtual community were during his university time in the German Fido-Net, where he moderated a forum about science and knowledge for many years. He learned of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects through a news article about the German Wikipedia achieving a milestone in 2003. From then on Wikipedia became a new hobby of his. He started on the [[:de:|German Wikipedia]] and changed soon to the young [[:zh:|Chinese Wikipedia]], which was at that time still starting. Ting Chen attended the first [[Wikimania]] ([[wm2005:|Wikimania 2005]]) in Frankfurt, where he took part on a panel discussion and introduced the Chinese community. He also helped organize the third Wikimania ([[wm2007:|Wikimania 2007]]) in Taipei.<br />
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=== Arne Klempert ===<br />
[[Image:Aklempert.jpg|left|thumb|Arne Klempert]]<br />
Arne Klempert was born in 1972 and studied social sciences at the University of Frankfurt in Germany. He has several years of professional experience in publishing houses and agencies with traditional and new media. He's now working as Head of Digital Communications at [http://www.ifok.de/ IFOK], a German consulting firm specialized in dialogue and participation.<br />
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Arne joined Wikipedia in 2003 as an editing community member. A few months later he became press contact of the German Wikipedia<br />
(2004-2008). Arne was co-founder and Vice President of [http://www.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland] (2004-2006), co-organizer of the first Wikimania (2005), and the first employee of a Wikimedia chapter - as Wikimedia Deutschland's Executive Director from 2006 to 2008.<br />
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=== Matt Halprin ===<br />
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Matt Halprin joined the Wikimedia Board in August 2009. Matt leads Omidyar Network's Media, Markets & Transparency initiative, supporting technologies that promote transparency, accountability, and trust across media, markets, and government. Within this initiative, his team pursues investments in Social Media, Marketplaces, and Government Transparency. In his role as Partner, Matt builds Omidyar Network’s team of talented investment professionals and works with portfolio organizations to help them succeed.<br />
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Matt has more than 20 years of business experience, including six at eBay. As Vice President, Global Trust and Safety at eBay, he led a team of 90 statisticians, policy managers, and product managers. He also helped coordinate the efforts of 2,000 customer support personnel to increase revenue while minimizing fraud and other trust-reducing behavior. Prior to eBay, Matt served as a Partner and Vice President at the Boston Consulting Group, where he worked with technology clients on issues of corporate strategy and corporate development. Previously, Matt was Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Quadlux, a VC-backed developer of technology-based ovens that was later sold to GE and Hobart.<br />
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Matt is on the Boards of Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), Sunlight Foundation, DonorsChoose.org, Goodmail Systems and Management Leadership for Tomorrow, which supports the next generation of minority leaders in the United States. He graduated with High Distinction as a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School and holds a BS in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.<br />
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==Former Board members==<br />
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<gallery><br />
Image:Angela Beesley.jpg|Angela Beesley, from UK/Australia.<br />
Image:WM2006 0068.jpg|Michael Davis, from the USA.<br />
Image:Citizen J Unconference0004.JPG|Erik Möller, from Germany.<br />
Image:Tim_Shell_Wikimedia.jpg|Tim Shell, from the USA.<br />
Image:Oscar van Dillen.gif|Oscar van Dillen, from the Netherlands.<br />
Image:Anthere_mg_2820b.jpg|Florence Nibart-Devouard, from France<br />
Image:Frieda.JPG|Frieda Brioschi, from Italy<br />
Image:DomasMituzas_April08.JPG|Domas Mituzas, from Lithuania<br />
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; Angela Beesley (June 2004-July 2006): Involved with Wikimedia projects since February 2003, Angela Beesley was one of the first members of Wikimedia's Board of Trustees, and currently serves on our Advisory Board. A co-founder and Vice President of Community for wiki hosting service "Wikia", she is one of the authors of the book ''Wikis: Tools for information Work and Collaboration'' (2006). Prior to her involvement with Wikipedia, Angela was an educational researcher and developer of student assessments. Angela was born in England and has lived in Germany and Australia.<br />
: Angela was on the Board of Trustees until she resigned from the post; her successor was elected 26 September 2006.<br />
: ''More about Angela: [[w:en:Angela Beesley|Biography on Wikipedia]], [[w:en:User:Angela|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Michael Davis (2003-November 2007): Michael Davis is a graduate of [[:en:Williams College|Williams College]] and the [[:en:University of Chicago|University of Chicago]]. Before joining Wikimedia, Michael was the CEO of Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm in Chicago. Michael currently resides in St. Petersburg, Florida, as the Chief Operating Officer of community-focused wiki hosting service Wikia, Inc.<br />
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; Erik Möller (July 2006-December 2007): Erik is the Deputy Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, a position he assumed in January 2008, stepping down from the Board of Trustees. Erik Möller has been an active editor of Wikipedia since 2001 and has also contributed to the underlying software, MediaWiki. Möller developed the proposal for Wikinews, a Wikimedia project, and organized the vote that implemented it. Before joining Wikimedia as an employee, Erik was a freelance journalist and author (''Die heimliche Medienrevolution: Wie Weblogs, Wikis und freie Software die Welt verändern''), as well as a manager of wiki-related software development projects. He holds a degree in computer science. Beyond Wikimedia, he seeks to promote Free Content, Free Software, and balanced intellectual monopoly rights legislation. Until taking the position at the Wikimedia Foundation, Möller lived in [[w:Berlin|Berlin]].<br />
: ''More about Erik: [[User:Eloquence|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Tim Shell (2003-November 2006): Tim Shell is an Internet entrepreneur with an interest in self-organization, and decentralized order, as exemplified by Wikipedia. In 1996 he was pursuing his degree in computer science when he decided to chuck it and go into business, joining up with Jimmy Wales to start Bomis. Tim has lived in Chicago, Florida, and San Diego, and currently resides in Las Vegas. On December 15, 2006, Shell stepped down from the board.<br />
: ''More about Tim: [[m:User:TimShell|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Oscar van Dillen (November 2006-June 2007): Oscar is an editor and bureaucrat for the Dutch-language Wikipedia and other Dutch Wikimedia projects. He also holds the role of steward since May 2005, helping and advising many projects in many languages. Van Dillen is a member of the Special Projects committee, which helps the Foundation pursue grants, oversee expansion efforts, and encourage partnerships between the Foundation and other organizations. Professionally, Van Dillen is a musician and composer, teaching World music composition as well as music theory in the jazz, pop and world music department at the Conservatory of Rotterdam.<br />
: ''More about Oscar: [[User:Oscar|Userpage]]''<br />
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;Florence Nibart-Devouard (June 2004-July 2008): Florence was the Chair of the Wikimedia Board from October 2006 until July of 2008. She served as one of the elected representatives to the Board starting June 2004. Florence was born in [[:en:Versailles|Versailles]] (France). She grew up in Grenoble, and has been living since then in several French cities, as well as Antwerpen in Belgium and Tempe in Arizona. She holds two masters, one in Agricultural Sciences (a 5-year degree in agronomical engineering ([[w:en:Grandes Ecoles|Diplome d'Ingénieur Grande Ecole]]) from [http://www.ensaia.inpl-nancy.fr/ ENSAIA] and the other a postgraduate degree (DEA) in Genetics and Biotechnologies from [http://www.inpl-nancy.fr/index.htm INPL].She has been working in public research, first in flower plant genetic improvement, and second in microbiology to study the feasability of polluted soil bioremediation. She was employed until 2005 in a French company, to conceive decision-making tools in sustainable agriculture. She is now a consultant in Internet Communication Strategy. She joined the Wikipedia adventure in February 2002 and is known as a contributor under the pseudonym ''Anthere''. Florence is 39, and lives in [[w:en:Clermont Ferrand|Clermont Ferrand]] with her husband Bertrand and her three children, Anne-Gaëlle aged nine, William eleven and Thomas two.<br />
: ''More about Florence: [[w:en:Florence Nibart-Devouard|Biography on Wikipedia]], [[m:User:Anthere|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Frieda Brioschi (July 2007-September 2008): Frieda (born in 1976, Italian) joined the Wikimedia Board in July 2007. She has been involved in Wikipedia and other WMF projects since May 2003. In June 2005 she helped found [[Wikimedia Italia]], a local chapter organization associated with Wikimedia, and was president of that organization until September 2007. She currently lives in Rome where she works as a programmer. She resigned from the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees in September 2008.<br />
: ''More about Frieda: [[User:Frieda|Userpage]]''<br />
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;Domas Mituzas (February 2008-July 2009): Domas joined the Wikimedia Board in February 2008. He has been involved with Wikipedia technology since 2004, and has worked on site performance and operations since then. He also works for MySQL AB (recently acquired by Sun Microsystems) services division. Before that he built network services in Lithuania and other Baltic States. He was born and lives in Vilnius, Lithuania. <br />
: ''More about Domas: [[User:Midom|Userpage]]''<br />
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'''April 26, 2008 Board Restructure'''<br />
*Board Restructure [[Board_of_Trustees/Restructure_Announcement | announcement]] by Vice-Chair Jan-Bart de Vreede<br />
*Board Restructure [[Board_of_Trustees/Restructure_Announcement_Q%26A | Questions and Answers]]<br />
*Board Restructure [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/b/b2/BOARD_RESTRUCTURE_FINAL_April_2008.pdf diagram]<br />
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The Wikimedia [[Board of Trustees]] manages the foundation and supervises the disposition and solicitation of donations. The Board is the ultimate corporate authority for the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (article IV, sec. 1 of the [[Wikimedia Foundation bylaws]]) and currently consists of seven Trustees:<br />
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*[[#Michael Snow|Michael Snow]], Chair <small>(term until July 2010)</small><br />
*[[#Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]], Chairman Emeritus <small>(term until December 2009)</small><br />
*[[#Jan-Bart de Vreede|Jan-Bart de Vreede]], Vice-chair <small>(term until December 2009)</small><br />
*[[#Kat Walsh|Kat Walsh]], Executive Secretary <small>(term until July 2011)</small><br />
*[[#Stu West|Stu West]], Treasurer <small>(term until December 2009)</small><br />
*[[#Ting Chen|Ting Chen]] <small>(term until July 2011)</small><br />
*[[#Arne Klempert|Arne Klempert]] <small>(term until July 2010)</small><br />
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===Michael Snow===<br />
[[Image:MichaelSnow_April08.jpg|left|thumb|Michael Snow]]<br />
[[User:Michael Snow|Michael Snow]] was named Chair of the Wikimedia Board in July 2008. He joined the Board in February 2008, after participating in Wikimedia projects since 2003. One of his contributions was the creation of [[w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost|''The Wikipedia Signpost'']], a community newspaper for the English-language Wikipedia. Born in Pfullendorf, Germany, he now lives in the Seattle area. Michael is an attorney and earned his [[:en:Juris Doctor|J.D.]] degree from the University of Washington. <br />
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=== Jimmy Wales ===<br />
[[Image:JimmyWales_April08.jpg|right|thumb|Jimmy Wales]] <br />
[[w:en:Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]] is an [[:en:Internet|Internet]] [[:en:entrepreneur|entrepreneur]] and [[:en:wiki|wiki]] enthusiast, and founder of the Wikipedia project. <br />
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Jimmy was born in [[:en:Huntsville, Alabama|Huntsville]], [[:en:Alabama|Alabama]] in 1966, and is a graduate of [[:en:Auburn University|Auburn University]] and the [[:en:University of Alabama|University of Alabama]]. He worked as Research Director at Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm then located in [[:en:Chicago|Chicago]]. In the mid-[[:en:1990s|1990s]] he started [[:en:Bomis|Bomis]], a search portal focusing on aspects of [[:en:pop culture|pop culture]], one of the first users of the freely licensed data of the [[:en:Open Directory Project|Open Directory Project]].<br />
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In 1999, Jimmy had the concept of a freely distributable encyclopedia and founded [[:en:Nupedia|Nupedia]], by hiring philosopher Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief and assigning two programmers to write software for it. Nupedia failed, perhaps due to being a top-down cathedral model, as opposed to Wikipedia, which is the ultimate bazaar. After two years of working with the Nupedia concept, that team opened Wikipedia to help channel content into Nupedia; Wikipedia became an instant success, but not in the envisioned way, and Nupedia was shut down. In 2003, Jimmy set up the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization, to support Wikipedia and its sister projects.<br />
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In 2004, Jimmy founded [[:en:Wikia|Wikia]]. He was appointed a fellow of Harvard Law School's [[:en:Berkman Center for Internet & Society|Berkman Center for Internet and Society]] in mid-2005, and in October of 2005 joined the Board of Directors of [[w:Socialtext|Socialtext]], a provider of wiki technology to businesses. He lives in [[:en:St. Petersburg, Florida|St. Petersburg]], [[:en:Florida|Florida]].<br />
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===Jan-Bart de Vreede===<br />
[[Image:JanBartdeVreede_April_08.JPG|left|thumb|Jan-Bart de Vreede]]<br />
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[[User:Jan-Bart|Jan-Bart de Vreede]] was named Vice-chair of Wikimedia Foundation in January 2007 after having joined the board in December 2006. <br />
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Working at the Kennisnet Foundation allowed Jan-Bart to spend time promoting the use of wiki software and Wikimedia projects in education, amongst other things. The [http://www.kennisnet.nl/ Kennisnet Foundation] is a publicly funded Dutch organisation. At Kennisnet Jan-Bart is responsible for the educational portals and content creation tools. Jan-Bart has been involved with Wikimedia since 2004, through his role as a Board member and his work at Kennisnet. He has attended and spoken at all of Wikimania conferences. <br />
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He is currently involved with the [http://Wikiwijs.nl Wikiwijs] project within the Netherlands. This is a countrywide initiative aimed at encouraging teachers to develop and share Open Educational Resources. <br />
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Jan-Bart de Vreede spent most of his childhood in the Netherlands, also living in Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Kenya and the United States. He studied Business Administration at the Rotterdam School of Management. He has three children: Anna (0), Matthias (5) and Ruben (8). <br />
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===Kat Walsh===<br />
[[Image:Kat-teal.jpg|right|thumb|Kat Walsh]]<br />
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[[User:Kat Walsh|Kat Walsh]] is a Wikimedian from Herndon, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC. She is a registered patent agent, currently studying technology and intellectual property law at George Mason University School of Law. <br />
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Kat has been a volunteer for Wikimedia since 2004. She is a press contact for Wikimedia, having appeared in national media, and answers mail sent to the Foundation. In October 2005 she was appointed to the Arbitration Committee on the English Wikipedia, which she served on until joining the Board. She is active in the DC-area free culture and public interest community. Kat is also a classical bassoonist and violist, performing in regional orchestras.<br />
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===Stu West===<br />
[[Image:StuWest_April08.jpg|left|thumb|Stu West]]<br />
[[User:Stu|Stu West]] joined the Wikimedia Board in April 2008. He brings over 15 years of financial experience, including senior executive roles at publicly-traded companies including Yahoo!, TiVo, and in investment banking at J.P. Morgan. He also worked with the United States Mission to the United Nations. Stu's educational background includes a B.A. in History from Yale University, where he focused on 20th century diplomacy, and the Executive Program for Growing Companies at the Stanford Business School. He is a dual citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom, and currently resides in the San Francisco bay area.<br />
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=== Ting Chen ===<br />
[[Image:Wing_2007_Wikimania.jpg|right|thumb|Ting Chen]]<br />
[[User:Wing|Ting Chen]] was elected a Trustee by the Wikimedia Community in June 2008 and his term started officially in July 2008.<br />
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Ting Chen was born in Shanghai, China in 1968. He grew up in Harbin, China, in the northeast corner of the country, where he attended elementary school and middle school. In 1989 he went to Braunschweig, Germany and began his study of Electrical engineering. He was especially interested in [[w:semiconductors|semiconductors]] and their physics. He graduated in 1993 with a diploma and now he works as an IT specialist in Mainz, Germany.<br />
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His first experience with a virtual community were during his university time in the German Fido-Net, where he moderated a forum about science and knowledge for many years. He learned of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects through a news article about the German Wikipedia achieving a milestone in 2003. From then on Wikipedia became a new hobby of his. He started on the [[:de:|German Wikipedia]] and changed soon to the young [[:zh:|Chinese Wikipedia]], which was at that time still starting. Ting Chen attended the first [[Wikimania]] ([[wm2005:|Wikimania 2005]]) in Frankfurt, where he took part on a panel discussion and introduced the Chinese community. He also helped organize the third Wikimania ([[wm2007:|Wikimania 2007]]) in Taipei.<br />
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=== Arne Klempert ===<br />
[[Image:Aklempert.jpg|left|thumb|Arne Klempert]]<br />
Arne Klempert was born in 1972 and studied social sciences at the University of Frankfurt in Germany. He has several years of professional experience in publishing houses and agencies with traditional and new media. He's now working as Head of Digital Communications at [http://www.ifok.de/ IFOK], a German consulting firm specialized in dialogue and participation.<br />
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Arne joined Wikipedia in 2003 as an editing community member. A few months later he became press contact of the German Wikipedia<br />
(2004-2008). Arne was co-founder and Vice President of [http://www.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland] (2004-2006), co-organizer of the first Wikimania (2005), and the first employee of a Wikimedia chapter - as Wikimedia Deutschland's Executive Director from 2006 to 2008.<br />
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=== Matt Halprin ===<br />
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Matt Halprin joined the Wikimedia Board in August 2009. Matt leads Omidyar Network's Media, Markets & Transparency initiative, supporting technologies that promote transparency, accountability, and trust across media, markets, and government. Within this initiative, his team pursues investments in Social Media, Marketplaces, and Government Transparency. In his role as Partner, Matt builds Omidyar Network’s team of talented investment professionals and works with portfolio organizations to help them succeed.<br />
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Matt has more than 20 years of business experience, including six at eBay. As Vice President, Global Trust and Safety at eBay, he led a team of 90 statisticians, policy managers, and product managers. He also helped coordinate the efforts of 2,000 customer support personnel to increase revenue while minimizing fraud and other trust-reducing behavior. Prior to eBay, Matt served as a Partner and Vice President at the Boston Consulting Group, where he worked with technology clients on issues of corporate strategy and corporate development. Previously, Matt was Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Quadlux, a VC-backed developer of technology-based ovens that was later sold to GE and Hobart.<br />
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Matt is on the Boards of Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), Sunlight Foundation, DonorsChoose.org, Goodmail Systems and Management Leadership for Tomorrow, which supports the next generation of minority leaders in the United States. He graduated with High Distinction as a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School and holds a BS in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.<br />
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==Former Board members==<br />
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Image:Angela Beesley.jpg|Angela Beesley, from UK/Australia.<br />
Image:WM2006 0068.jpg|Michael Davis, from the USA.<br />
Image:Citizen J Unconference0004.JPG|Erik Möller, from Germany.<br />
Image:Tim_Shell_Wikimedia.jpg|Tim Shell, from the USA.<br />
Image:Oscar van Dillen.gif|Oscar van Dillen, from the Netherlands.<br />
Image:Anthere_mg_2820b.jpg|Florence Nibart-Devouard, from France<br />
Image:Frieda.JPG|Frieda Brioschi, from Italy<br />
Image:DomasMituzas_April08.JPG|Domas Mituzas, from Lithuania<br />
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; Angela Beesley (June 2004-July 2006): Involved with Wikimedia projects since February 2003, Angela Beesley was one of the first members of Wikimedia's Board of Trustees, and currently serves on our Advisory Board. A co-founder and Vice President of Community for wiki hosting service "Wikia", she is one of the authors of the book ''Wikis: Tools for information Work and Collaboration'' (2006). Prior to her involvement with Wikipedia, Angela was an educational researcher and developer of student assessments. Angela was born in England and has lived in Germany and Australia.<br />
: Angela was on the Board of Trustees until she resigned from the post; her successor was elected 26 September 2006.<br />
: ''More about Angela: [[w:en:Angela Beesley|Biography on Wikipedia]], [[w:en:User:Angela|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Michael Davis (2003-November 2007): Michael Davis is a graduate of [[:en:Williams College|Williams College]] and the [[:en:University of Chicago|University of Chicago]]. Before joining Wikimedia, Michael was the CEO of Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm in Chicago. Michael currently resides in St. Petersburg, Florida, as the Chief Operating Officer of community-focused wiki hosting service Wikia, Inc.<br />
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; Erik Möller (July 2006-December 2007): Erik is the Deputy Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, a position he assumed in January 2008, stepping down from the Board of Trustees. Erik Möller has been an active editor of Wikipedia since 2001 and has also contributed to the underlying software, MediaWiki. Möller developed the proposal for Wikinews, a Wikimedia project, and organized the vote that implemented it. Before joining Wikimedia as an employee, Erik was a freelance journalist and author (''Die heimliche Medienrevolution: Wie Weblogs, Wikis und freie Software die Welt verändern''), as well as a manager of wiki-related software development projects. He holds a degree in computer science. Beyond Wikimedia, he seeks to promote Free Content, Free Software, and balanced intellectual monopoly rights legislation. Until taking the position at the Wikimedia Foundation, Möller lived in [[w:Berlin|Berlin]].<br />
: ''More about Erik: [[User:Eloquence|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Tim Shell (2003-November 2006): Tim Shell is an Internet entrepreneur with an interest in self-organization, and decentralized order, as exemplified by Wikipedia. In 1996 he was pursuing his degree in computer science when he decided to chuck it and go into business, joining up with Jimmy Wales to start Bomis. Tim has lived in Chicago, Florida, and San Diego, and currently resides in Las Vegas. On December 15, 2006, Shell stepped down from the board.<br />
: ''More about Tim: [[m:User:TimShell|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Oscar van Dillen (November 2006-June 2007): Oscar is an editor and bureaucrat for the Dutch-language Wikipedia and other Dutch Wikimedia projects. He also holds the role of steward since May 2005, helping and advising many projects in many languages. Van Dillen is a member of the Special Projects committee, which helps the Foundation pursue grants, oversee expansion efforts, and encourage partnerships between the Foundation and other organizations. Professionally, Van Dillen is a musician and composer, teaching World music composition as well as music theory in the jazz, pop and world music department at the Conservatory of Rotterdam.<br />
: ''More about Oscar: [[User:Oscar|Userpage]]''<br />
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;Florence Nibart-Devouard (June 2004-July 2008): Florence was the Chair of the Wikimedia Board from October 2006 until July of 2008. She served as one of the elected representatives to the Board starting June 2004. Florence was born in [[:en:Versailles|Versailles]] (France). She grew up in Grenoble, and has been living since then in several French cities, as well as Antwerpen in Belgium and Tempe in Arizona. She holds two masters, one in Agricultural Sciences (a 5-year degree in agronomical engineering ([[w:en:Grandes Ecoles|Diplome d'Ingénieur Grande Ecole]]) from [http://www.ensaia.inpl-nancy.fr/ ENSAIA] and the other a postgraduate degree (DEA) in Genetics and Biotechnologies from [http://www.inpl-nancy.fr/index.htm INPL].She has been working in public research, first in flower plant genetic improvement, and second in microbiology to study the feasability of polluted soil bioremediation. She was employed until 2005 in a French company, to conceive decision-making tools in sustainable agriculture. She is now a consultant in Internet Communication Strategy. She joined the Wikipedia adventure in February 2002 and is known as a contributor under the pseudonym ''Anthere''. Florence is 39, and lives in [[w:en:Clermont Ferrand|Clermont Ferrand]] with her husband Bertrand and her three children, Anne-Gaëlle aged nine, William eleven and Thomas two.<br />
: ''More about Florence: [[w:en:Florence Nibart-Devouard|Biography on Wikipedia]], [[m:User:Anthere|Userpage]]''<br />
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; Frieda Brioschi (July 2007-September 2008): Frieda (born in 1976, Italian) joined the Wikimedia Board in July 2007. She has been involved in Wikipedia and other WMF projects since May 2003. In June 2005 she helped found [[Wikimedia Italia]], a local chapter organization associated with Wikimedia, and was president of that organization until September 2007. She currently lives in Rome where she works as a programmer. She resigned from the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees in September 2008.<br />
: ''More about Frieda: [[User:Frieda|Userpage]]''<br />
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;Domas Mituzas (February 2008-July 2009): Domas joined the Wikimedia Board in February 2008. He has been involved with Wikipedia technology since 2004, and has worked on site performance and operations since then. He also works for MySQL AB (recently acquired by Sun Microsystems) services division. Before that he built network services in Lithuania and other Baltic States. He was born and lives in Vilnius, Lithuania. <br />
: ''More about Domas: [[User:Midom|Userpage]]''<br />
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