Welcome Bishakha and looking forward to meet you soon in person. Ting
Michael Snow wrote: > As many of you know, we have had one vacant seat left on the Wikimedia > Foundation Board of Trustees for the board to appoint. We have now > filled that seat by appointing Bishakha Datta, a journalist, filmmaker, > and nonprofit leader from India. In the course of finding Bishakha, we > met with a number of great people and had a lot of support going through > the process, and I want to thank everyone who participated. > > I hope everyone will warmly welcome Bishakha as part of our community. > By way of background, Bishakha runs a nonprofit based in Mumbai that > focuses on conveying women's perspectives in culture and the media. She > also has been involved in other international nonprofit work, and her > knowledge of India should be a great help to us as we move forward with > the strategic plan. In general, her experience will be a wonderful asset > and I think she is an ideal fit for the remaining board seat. > > In a bit of an ironic twist, Bishakha's organization is called Point of > View, but rest assured that she understands and endorses the neutral > point of view approach for Wikimedia projects. Her journalistic > background means she appreciates the value of an objective presentation, > and throughout our conversations with her it was clear that she supports > our mission and values. > > We will have an official press release in the next day or so with some > more information. I'm excited to be able to work with Bishakha, and I > know that she is looking forward to being involved as well. > > --Michael Snow > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Ting Ting's Blog: http://wingphilopp.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
