Welcome aboard Bishaka, great to see a female activist and creator from Asia, I hope you enjoy your new role and feel comfortable in our community.
Greetings warmly from Wikiquote, On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Bishakha Datta <bishakhada...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, Michael and Ting. > > Look forward to this new adventure, to becoming part of the community - > and to meeting up soon. > > Yes, I did wonder whether you'll had noticed the POV-NPOV irony - but no > worries on that score. > > Cheers > Bishakha > > > > On 05-04-2010 14:06, Ting Chen wrote: >> 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 >>> >>> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- KIZU Naoko http://d.hatena.ne.jp/Britty (in Japanese) Quote of the Day (English): http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/WQ:QOTD _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
