We'll always have incredibly unflattering photos of me making courgette
kebabs for the Development House Barbeque...
I would say 'you will be missed' but you won't because I full intend to
keep turning up at your flat for American national holidays/on your
facebook page with memes that cause Liam Wyatt to despair.
So I will say GOOD LUCK (not to your new employers who are clearly already
very lucky - boo hiss etc) and to offer to chip in to any collection to buy
you a jar of pickled fox as a parting pressie...
On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 at 15:57 Katie Chan <k...@ktchan.info> wrote:
> It was a pleasure working with you Richard. Thank you for all your hard
> work with Wikimedia UK over the years. Best wishes in your new job, and
> looking forward to seeing you around as a volunteer in future Wikimedia
> events.
>
> Katie
>
> On 03/08/2016 15:32, Richard Symonds 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
> > 0207 065 0992
>
>
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