Congratulations on the new job Richard - it feels like quite a long time
ago since I interviewed you for the role of "providing poorly specified but
vital help in the 2011 fundraiser until we actually get our act together
and have an office and so on" ;)
Thank you for all your hard work and commitment over the last 5 years!
Chris
On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 3:32 PM, Richard Symonds <
richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> I've worked for Wikimedia UK since just before we hired our first Chief
> Executive, but it's time for me to hang up my "staff" hat. At the end of
> August, I'll be leaving Wikimedia UK for a new role - still in London, but
> doing something rather different, and with a fair bit more responsibility.
> Those of you who are my friends will know what this new job entails - I'd
> ask you to keep it to yourselves. To those of you who don't, you're free to
> ask me on Facebook!
>
> I have thoroughly enjoyed my time at Wikimedia UK under both Jon and Lucy.
> It's really something to see how the charity has changed over the years -
> from a small, absurdly hopeful organisation with limitless opportunities,
> to a larger, but more stable and more focused charity with a solid track
> record of events and partnerships, and with what I firmly believe to now be
> (post-governance-review) the best governance in the movement.
>
> I have full confidence in the team of staff and volunteers here to keep
> things moving forward, even if Richard Nevell does get overly focused on
> castles from time to time. I'll be staying on as a volunteer, of course,
> and I will probably focus my initial efforts on sending Richard Nevell
> pictures of castles while he's working, which I'm pretty sure counts
> towards our metrics.
>
> On a more productive note, highlights of my time here include:
>
> - Learning to cycle in London (pictures not on Commons, although there
> might be a video)
> - Our "Finance and Fundraising communal pickled onion jar", relabelled
> "pickled fox" after went on the NHM Spirits Tour (pictures not on Commons,
> except perhaps in the background)
> - The "Wikimedia UK does WLM" tour of an unlit Grade II listed
> Victorian Public Convenience (pictures on Commons)
> - Driving Katherine Bavage to despair by uploading pictures of her to
> Commons, and only then explaining what Commons is (I await the inevitable
> deletion request from someone who takes this too seriously)
> - Participating in the Chutney Making from Waste Fruit and Vegetables
> World Record Attempt, a World record attempt for amount of people making
> chutney simultaneously (pictures not taken, too busy eating chutney)
> - Wikimania 2014, which only those who served can *truly* understand
> (pictures
> on Commons, I imagine, although I tried to avoid them)
>
> I wish everyone at Wikimedia UK - volunteers and staff - all the best,
> especially Daria, who now holds the crown for "longest serving staff
> member". Working at Wikimedia UK has been an enlightening experience, but
> also a privilege, and something which I will never forget.
>
> {{Template:Witty sign-off}},
>
> Richard Symonds
> Wikimedia UK
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