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| full name = Winifred Olliff |
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| hover text = Winifred Olliff, FDC Support Team |
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| organization = Wikimedia Foundation |
| organization = Wikimedia Foundation |
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| short quote = ''"The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance - these are what may make a vast, complex, ever growing, ever changing, ever more specialized and expert technological world, nevertheless a world of human community."'' - J. Robert Oppenheimer |
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| about me = My professional background is in technology and development and I have been working in the nonprofit sector for about five years, though I am educated as a classical musician and music theorist. I speak fluent Albanian, am a native English speaker, and can get by in a number of other European languages with limited fluency. I've lived in California (United States), Illinois (United States), Albania, and Iceland and coordinated volunteer projects in all of those locations. I work here at the foundation because I love working on wikis (and anything with categories) and because I love working with volunteers. At WMF, I get to do these two things every single day! |
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| about me = Since 2007, I have been working with volunteers to expand global access to technology and information. I have worked in Southern and Northern California, Ilinois, Albania, and Iceland, and I speak English and Shqip. I have a degree from Northwestern University, and I spent two years in the United States Peace Corps between 2007 and 2009. I have worked for the Wikimedia Foundation since 2010, in several different roles supporting Wikimedia organizations around the world. |
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| about my work = I'm Winifred Olliff, Program Assistant to Global Development at Wikimedia Foundation. This means I support our Chief Global Development Officer Barry Newstead and focus on the following GD areas, in addition to supporting other areas as needed: |
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*WMF Grants Program |
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I now live in the City of San Francisco, California, where I ride my bicycle to the Wikimedia Foundation office each workday. Outside of international grantmaking and volunteerism, my interests include letterpress printing, music theory, US presidential history, California history, ancient and modern languages, and backpacking. In my free time I do volunteer gardening and trail-building at SF parks, make art, read a lot of biographies, promote safe and happy biking in SF, and give tours at a local historical society. |
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*WM Participation Support Program |
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*Chapter Relations and Chapter Development |
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| about my work = As FDC support staff, I work with our team (me, Katy Love, Anasuya Sengupta) to support grantees and applicants from intent and eligibility through final reporting on their grants. We also support the community-led decision-making process that leads to decisions about those grants, as well as the committee that makes recommendations to the Board about those decisions twice each year (the Funds Dissemination Committee). |
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*Wikipedian Student Organizations |
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*Other global volunteer support programs |
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This involves preparing and coordinating many inputs into the FDC process, such as analysis of grant reports and staff proposal assessments, and also includes a lot of meeting and talking with grantees and committee members. The FDC process is still very new, so our team also works to coordinate feedback from all of our stakeholders to support the continuous improvement of the process. I am deeply involved with keeping the process running on a technical level, both by working with our design team (Heather Walls) to keep our space on Meta functional, and by working with the WMF legal, finance, and grants administration teams to make sure our process can be implemented successfully. |
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I also do things like take notes at staff meetings, prepare global development's monthly report, and maintain our pages on various wikis. Therefore, I am a good person to ask if you think you need to talk to somebody in Global Development but you're not entirely sure who is working on what. |
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I also sit on the staff committee that awards Travel and Participation Grants to Wikimedia contributors, and so you might occasionally encounter me in that role. |
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If you have a question about the Annual Plan Grants / FDC process, please contact me! |
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| contact me = All of these Email addresses will reach me. |
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* E-mail for the FDC staff team: fdcsupport{{@}}wikimedia.org |
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* E-mail for Travel and Participation Support: participation{{@}}wikimedia.org |
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Another good way to reach me is my [[m:User:Wolliff|Userpage on Meta]]. |
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Revision as of 16:41, 16 April 2014
About me
Since 2007, I have been working with volunteers to expand global access to technology and information. I have worked in Southern and Northern California, Ilinois, Albania, and Iceland, and I speak English and Shqip. I have a degree from Northwestern University, and I spent two years in the United States Peace Corps between 2007 and 2009. I have worked for the Wikimedia Foundation since 2010, in several different roles supporting Wikimedia organizations around the world.
I now live in the City of San Francisco, California, where I ride my bicycle to the Wikimedia Foundation office each workday. Outside of international grantmaking and volunteerism, my interests include letterpress printing, music theory, US presidential history, California history, ancient and modern languages, and backpacking. In my free time I do volunteer gardening and trail-building at SF parks, make art, read a lot of biographies, promote safe and happy biking in SF, and give tours at a local historical society.
My work
As FDC support staff, I work with our team (me, Katy Love, Anasuya Sengupta) to support grantees and applicants from intent and eligibility through final reporting on their grants. We also support the community-led decision-making process that leads to decisions about those grants, as well as the committee that makes recommendations to the Board about those decisions twice each year (the Funds Dissemination Committee).
This involves preparing and coordinating many inputs into the FDC process, such as analysis of grant reports and staff proposal assessments, and also includes a lot of meeting and talking with grantees and committee members. The FDC process is still very new, so our team also works to coordinate feedback from all of our stakeholders to support the continuous improvement of the process. I am deeply involved with keeping the process running on a technical level, both by working with our design team (Heather Walls) to keep our space on Meta functional, and by working with the WMF legal, finance, and grants administration teams to make sure our process can be implemented successfully.
I also sit on the staff committee that awards Travel and Participation Grants to Wikimedia contributors, and so you might occasionally encounter me in that role.
If you have a question about the Annual Plan Grants / FDC process, please contact me!
Contact me
All of these Email addresses will reach me.
- My E-mail: wolliff
wikimedia.org - E-mail for the FDC staff team: fdcsupportwikimedia.org
- E-mail for Travel and Participation Support: participationwikimedia.org
Another good way to reach me is my Userpage on Meta.