Welcome , Vahid! It's nice to have new staff to share some workload and bring fresh perspectives! Looking forward to meet you online on Monday!
Liang (Wikimedia Taiwan) Tighe Flanagan <[email protected]> 於 2016年5月11日 星期三寫道： > Cross posting for the Collab list -- Vahid will be joining our monthly > call this Monday so you can meet him over Google Hangout > > Reminder: the May collab meeting will be *Monday, May 16, at 1800 UTC*. A > link to the hangout and an agenda will be shared in advance. > > -- > Tighe Flanagan > Senior Manager, Wikipedia Education Program > Wikimedia Foundation > [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> > education.wikimedia.org > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Tighe Flanagan <[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> > Date: Wed, May 11, 2016 at 10:43 AM > Subject: Welcoming Vahid Masrour to the WMF education team > To: Wikimedia Education <[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> > > > Dear education colleagues, > > I'm delighted to introduce the newest member of the WMF education team, Vahid > Masrour <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:VMasrour_(WMF)>. Vahid > joins as our Community Capacity Manager, and will be working with groups > like the Wikipedia Education Collaborative > <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Wikipedia_Education_Collaborative> > and > other global education program leaders and affiliates to make sure they > have the support they need to be successful. > > Vahid will be working remotely from Quito, Ecuador for his first few > months before moving with his family to San Diego. A little more about > Vahid in his own words: > > World citizen, with a strong experience in South America, I have resided >> in 6 countries so far, and plan to keep on moving. I am keenly interested >> in transformation of educational processes using technology as a lever. I >> have been part of the Ecuador User Group since its inception (2013), as the >> education program specialist, and am a firm believer that “Knowledge is as >> wings to man's life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is >> incumbent upon everyone.” >> > > > Originally trained as a psychologist, I’ve been learning about community >> development through development projects and volunteer service. The overlap >> of my interests in education, technology and community development now >> finds a peculiarly interesting expression through my work at the WMF, where >> I can now serve by enabling a global community’s efforts towards the >> “growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual, educational >> content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to >> the public free of charge”. > > > Please join me in welcoming Vahid to the education team (on-list or > on-wiki <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:VMasrour_(WMF)>)! > > Tighe > > -- > Tighe Flanagan > Senior Manager, Wikipedia Education Program > Wikimedia Foundation > [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> > education.wikimedia.org > >
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