Re: [Wikimedia-l] Goodbye as the German president of the Dutch chapter

2014-03-31 Thread Jon Davies
Very sad to hear this - you have done so well. Hie to see you in London.


On 30 March 2014 18:59, Ziko van Dijk vand...@wmnederland.nl wrote:

 Dear colleagues, collaborators and friends of free knowledge,

 After three eventful years I left the board of Wikimedia Nederland;
 yesterday was the General Assembly in Utrecht. This means a 'goodbye'.

 In this time, I had the privilege and pleasure to work with many great
 people in many different organisations. We saw a lot of small steps
 and some bigger ones directed to our common goal, the support of free
 knowledge. Certainly, not everything we as a movement or parts of the
 movement was achieved, though.

 Between many WMNL members and me, there were two grades of separation:
 coming from the humanities, my geekiness differs a little from the
 average Wikipedianess; having the German Wikipedia as my home wiki, I
 was never a very active or 'true' part of the Dutch editing community.
 And when I quoted in my speeches from medieval quests or Prussian
 literary realism, I received therefore some strange looks from some
 members.

 But I remain firmly convinced that good governance and respect have no
 nationality. Indeed, stroopwafels do have, and so I adopted the Dutch
 custom to bring them with me to Wikimedian meetings abroad.

 Wikimedia Nederland has experienced and overcome a difficult period of
 transition. Office space and employees, more members including more
 members without Wikipedia background, more activities, more money,
 more responsibility; more need for an association to mature and focus
 on what is necessary (and not always easy, cool or fun). We achieved
 that as a collective, slower than previously expected, but with the
 appropriate pride and good feelings about the future.

 Goodbye - and Hello: I am looking forward to see many of you again at
 whatever wiki, chat or real life meeting.

 Kind regards
 Ziko

 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Nederland


 
 Dr. Ziko van Dijk

 Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland
 Postbus 167
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Goodbye as the German president of the Dutch chapter

2014-03-31 Thread Charles Gregory
Farewell and good luck Ziko!  You have the dubious notability of being the
first Wikimedian I met outside my home country!  Hopefully you'll still be
active in the community and I'll see you around again!

Charles / User:Chuq
Hobart, Australia



On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.ukwrote:

 Very sad to hear this - you have done so well. Hie to see you in London.


 On 30 March 2014 18:59, Ziko van Dijk vand...@wmnederland.nl wrote:

  Dear colleagues, collaborators and friends of free knowledge,
 
  After three eventful years I left the board of Wikimedia Nederland;
  yesterday was the General Assembly in Utrecht. This means a 'goodbye'.
 
  In this time, I had the privilege and pleasure to work with many great
  people in many different organisations. We saw a lot of small steps
  and some bigger ones directed to our common goal, the support of free
  knowledge. Certainly, not everything we as a movement or parts of the
  movement was achieved, though.
 
  Between many WMNL members and me, there were two grades of separation:
  coming from the humanities, my geekiness differs a little from the
  average Wikipedianess; having the German Wikipedia as my home wiki, I
  was never a very active or 'true' part of the Dutch editing community.
  And when I quoted in my speeches from medieval quests or Prussian
  literary realism, I received therefore some strange looks from some
  members.
 
  But I remain firmly convinced that good governance and respect have no
  nationality. Indeed, stroopwafels do have, and so I adopted the Dutch
  custom to bring them with me to Wikimedian meetings abroad.
 
  Wikimedia Nederland has experienced and overcome a difficult period of
  transition. Office space and employees, more members including more
  members without Wikipedia background, more activities, more money,
  more responsibility; more need for an association to mature and focus
  on what is necessary (and not always easy, cool or fun). We achieved
  that as a collective, slower than previously expected, but with the
  appropriate pride and good feelings about the future.
 
  Goodbye - and Hello: I am looking forward to see many of you again at
  whatever wiki, chat or real life meeting.
 
  Kind regards
  Ziko
 
  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Nederland
 
 
 
 
  Dr. Ziko van Dijk
 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Goodbye as the German president of the Dutch chapter

2014-03-31 Thread Craig Franklin
Ziko,

Although as Presidents of chapters located on the opposite sides of the
world I never had that much to do with you, when I *did* have cause to
interact I always found you unfailingly polite, approachable, and
unfailingly dedicated to our shared mission.  Thankyou for your service,
and I wish you all the very best in your future endeavours.

Cheers,
Craig Franklin


On 31 March 2014 03:59, Ziko van Dijk vand...@wmnederland.nl wrote:

 Dear colleagues, collaborators and friends of free knowledge,

 After three eventful years I left the board of Wikimedia Nederland;
 yesterday was the General Assembly in Utrecht. This means a 'goodbye'.

 In this time, I had the privilege and pleasure to work with many great
 people in many different organisations. We saw a lot of small steps
 and some bigger ones directed to our common goal, the support of free
 knowledge. Certainly, not everything we as a movement or parts of the
 movement was achieved, though.

 Between many WMNL members and me, there were two grades of separation:
 coming from the humanities, my geekiness differs a little from the
 average Wikipedianess; having the German Wikipedia as my home wiki, I
 was never a very active or 'true' part of the Dutch editing community.
 And when I quoted in my speeches from medieval quests or Prussian
 literary realism, I received therefore some strange looks from some
 members.

 But I remain firmly convinced that good governance and respect have no
 nationality. Indeed, stroopwafels do have, and so I adopted the Dutch
 custom to bring them with me to Wikimedian meetings abroad.

 Wikimedia Nederland has experienced and overcome a difficult period of
 transition. Office space and employees, more members including more
 members without Wikipedia background, more activities, more money,
 more responsibility; more need for an association to mature and focus
 on what is necessary (and not always easy, cool or fun). We achieved
 that as a collective, slower than previously expected, but with the
 appropriate pride and good feelings about the future.

 Goodbye - and Hello: I am looking forward to see many of you again at
 whatever wiki, chat or real life meeting.

 Kind regards
 Ziko

 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Nederland


 
 Dr. Ziko van Dijk

 Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland
 Postbus 167
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Goodbye as the German president of the Dutch chapter

2014-03-31 Thread Itzik Edri
Thank you Ziko for your huge contribution to WMNL, to the chapters, and to
the movement in general.

בהצלחה (Good luck) on whatever you going to do next.


On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Ziko van Dijk vand...@wmnederland.nlwrote:

 Dear colleagues, collaborators and friends of free knowledge,

 After three eventful years I left the board of Wikimedia Nederland;
 yesterday was the General Assembly in Utrecht. This means a 'goodbye'.

 In this time, I had the privilege and pleasure to work with many great
 people in many different organisations. We saw a lot of small steps
 and some bigger ones directed to our common goal, the support of free
 knowledge. Certainly, not everything we as a movement or parts of the
 movement was achieved, though.

 Between many WMNL members and me, there were two grades of separation:
 coming from the humanities, my geekiness differs a little from the
 average Wikipedianess; having the German Wikipedia as my home wiki, I
 was never a very active or 'true' part of the Dutch editing community.
 And when I quoted in my speeches from medieval quests or Prussian
 literary realism, I received therefore some strange looks from some
 members.

 But I remain firmly convinced that good governance and respect have no
 nationality. Indeed, stroopwafels do have, and so I adopted the Dutch
 custom to bring them with me to Wikimedian meetings abroad.

 Wikimedia Nederland has experienced and overcome a difficult period of
 transition. Office space and employees, more members including more
 members without Wikipedia background, more activities, more money,
 more responsibility; more need for an association to mature and focus
 on what is necessary (and not always easy, cool or fun). We achieved
 that as a collective, slower than previously expected, but with the
 appropriate pride and good feelings about the future.

 Goodbye - and Hello: I am looking forward to see many of you again at
 whatever wiki, chat or real life meeting.

 Kind regards
 Ziko

 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Nederland


 
 Dr. Ziko van Dijk

 Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Goodbye as the German president of the Dutch chapter

2014-03-31 Thread Jan-Bart de Vreede
Dear Ziko,

Let me take the opportunity to thank you for all the efforts over the past 
years. While we do not always agree on everything it was pleasure exchanging 
ideas with you and I felt that the leadership of the Dutch chapter was in great 
hands while you where the chair of the Dutch board. I am happy to see that some 
of your thinking behind the WCA has influenced other collaborations between 
chapters and thematic organisations. Wikimedia Netherlands has enjoyed three 
years of your leadership, and is so much the better for it!

Although some are expressing regret at seeing you go I am assuming that you are 
not going anywhere and that we will see you on the projects or maybe in some 
other volunteer role in the future. 

Jan-Bart de Vreede
Chair
Wikimedia Board of Trustees

PS: I do not envy your successor for having to fill your role during “speech 
time”. I enjoyed every one of your introductions and talks at conferences and 
will miss the sentence “welkom vrienden van vrije kennis”  (I hope I am quoting 
it accurately) and the always inspiring link to something “completely 
different” which turned out to not be so different after all :)



On 30 Mar 2014, at 19:59, Ziko van Dijk vand...@wmnederland.nl wrote:

 Dear colleagues, collaborators and friends of free knowledge,
 
 After three eventful years I left the board of Wikimedia Nederland;
 yesterday was the General Assembly in Utrecht. This means a 'goodbye'.
 
 In this time, I had the privilege and pleasure to work with many great
 people in many different organisations. We saw a lot of small steps
 and some bigger ones directed to our common goal, the support of free
 knowledge. Certainly, not everything we as a movement or parts of the
 movement was achieved, though.
 
 Between many WMNL members and me, there were two grades of separation:
 coming from the humanities, my geekiness differs a little from the
 average Wikipedianess; having the German Wikipedia as my home wiki, I
 was never a very active or 'true' part of the Dutch editing community.
 And when I quoted in my speeches from medieval quests or Prussian
 literary realism, I received therefore some strange looks from some
 members.
 
 But I remain firmly convinced that good governance and respect have no
 nationality. Indeed, stroopwafels do have, and so I adopted the Dutch
 custom to bring them with me to Wikimedian meetings abroad.
 
 Wikimedia Nederland has experienced and overcome a difficult period of
 transition. Office space and employees, more members including more
 members without Wikipedia background, more activities, more money,
 more responsibility; more need for an association to mature and focus
 on what is necessary (and not always easy, cool or fun). We achieved
 that as a collective, slower than previously expected, but with the
 appropriate pride and good feelings about the future.
 
 Goodbye - and Hello: I am looking forward to see many of you again at
 whatever wiki, chat or real life meeting.
 
 Kind regards
 Ziko
 
 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Nederland
 
 
 Dr. Ziko van Dijk
 
 Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Goodbye as the German president of the Dutch chapter

2014-03-31 Thread Florence Devouard
I hope it is just a goodbye chapter-wise and will be happy to share a 
beer with you in London (not an English one ;))


Flo

On 30/03/14 19:59, Ziko van Dijk wrote:

Dear colleagues, collaborators and friends of free knowledge,

After three eventful years I left the board of Wikimedia Nederland;
yesterday was the General Assembly in Utrecht. This means a 'goodbye'.

In this time, I had the privilege and pleasure to work with many great
people in many different organisations. We saw a lot of small steps
and some bigger ones directed to our common goal, the support of free
knowledge. Certainly, not everything we as a movement or parts of the
movement was achieved, though.

Between many WMNL members and me, there were two grades of separation:
coming from the humanities, my geekiness differs a little from the
average Wikipedianess; having the German Wikipedia as my home wiki, I
was never a very active or 'true' part of the Dutch editing community.
And when I quoted in my speeches from medieval quests or Prussian
literary realism, I received therefore some strange looks from some
members.

But I remain firmly convinced that good governance and respect have no
nationality. Indeed, stroopwafels do have, and so I adopted the Dutch
custom to bring them with me to Wikimedian meetings abroad.

Wikimedia Nederland has experienced and overcome a difficult period of
transition. Office space and employees, more members including more
members without Wikipedia background, more activities, more money,
more responsibility; more need for an association to mature and focus
on what is necessary (and not always easy, cool or fun). We achieved
that as a collective, slower than previously expected, but with the
appropriate pride and good feelings about the future.

Goodbye - and Hello: I am looking forward to see many of you again at
whatever wiki, chat or real life meeting.

Kind regards
Ziko

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Nederland


Dr. Ziko van Dijk

Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland
Postbus 167
3500 AD Utrecht
http://wikimedia.nl


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Goodbye as the German president of the Dutch chapter

2014-03-31 Thread
Thanks for all your hard work Ziko. It has always been appreciated.

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[Wikimedia-l] Goodbye as the German president of the Dutch chapter

2014-03-30 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Dear colleagues, collaborators and friends of free knowledge,

After three eventful years I left the board of Wikimedia Nederland;
yesterday was the General Assembly in Utrecht. This means a 'goodbye'.

In this time, I had the privilege and pleasure to work with many great
people in many different organisations. We saw a lot of small steps
and some bigger ones directed to our common goal, the support of free
knowledge. Certainly, not everything we as a movement or parts of the
movement was achieved, though.

Between many WMNL members and me, there were two grades of separation:
coming from the humanities, my geekiness differs a little from the
average Wikipedianess; having the German Wikipedia as my home wiki, I
was never a very active or 'true' part of the Dutch editing community.
And when I quoted in my speeches from medieval quests or Prussian
literary realism, I received therefore some strange looks from some
members.

But I remain firmly convinced that good governance and respect have no
nationality. Indeed, stroopwafels do have, and so I adopted the Dutch
custom to bring them with me to Wikimedian meetings abroad.

Wikimedia Nederland has experienced and overcome a difficult period of
transition. Office space and employees, more members including more
members without Wikipedia background, more activities, more money,
more responsibility; more need for an association to mature and focus
on what is necessary (and not always easy, cool or fun). We achieved
that as a collective, slower than previously expected, but with the
appropriate pride and good feelings about the future.

Goodbye - and Hello: I am looking forward to see many of you again at
whatever wiki, chat or real life meeting.

Kind regards
Ziko

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Nederland


Dr. Ziko van Dijk

Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland
Postbus 167
3500 AD Utrecht
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Goodbye as the German president of the Dutch chapter

2014-03-30 Thread Pavel Richter
Dear Ziko, thank you for everything you have done, both concerning the
Netherlands and your international activities. We did not always shared the
same views, but you were always open for debate and arguments. And you were
always a honest and friendly person, a true Wikimedian.

Whatever your next endeavour will be, they can be happy to have your
support.

All the best,

Pavel

Pavel Richter
Am 30.03.2014 20:00 schrieb Ziko van Dijk vand...@wmnederland.nl:

 Dear colleagues, collaborators and friends of free knowledge,

 After three eventful years I left the board of Wikimedia Nederland;
 yesterday was the General Assembly in Utrecht. This means a 'goodbye'.

 In this time, I had the privilege and pleasure to work with many great
 people in many different organisations. We saw a lot of small steps
 and some bigger ones directed to our common goal, the support of free
 knowledge. Certainly, not everything we as a movement or parts of the
 movement was achieved, though.

 Between many WMNL members and me, there were two grades of separation:
 coming from the humanities, my geekiness differs a little from the
 average Wikipedianess; having the German Wikipedia as my home wiki, I
 was never a very active or 'true' part of the Dutch editing community.
 And when I quoted in my speeches from medieval quests or Prussian
 literary realism, I received therefore some strange looks from some
 members.

 But I remain firmly convinced that good governance and respect have no
 nationality. Indeed, stroopwafels do have, and so I adopted the Dutch
 custom to bring them with me to Wikimedian meetings abroad.

 Wikimedia Nederland has experienced and overcome a difficult period of
 transition. Office space and employees, more members including more
 members without Wikipedia background, more activities, more money,
 more responsibility; more need for an association to mature and focus
 on what is necessary (and not always easy, cool or fun). We achieved
 that as a collective, slower than previously expected, but with the
 appropriate pride and good feelings about the future.

 Goodbye - and Hello: I am looking forward to see many of you again at
 whatever wiki, chat or real life meeting.

 Kind regards
 Ziko

 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Nederland


 
 Dr. Ziko van Dijk

 Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland
 Postbus 167
 3500 AD Utrecht
 http://wikimedia.nl

 

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Goodbye as the German president of the Dutch chapter

2014-03-30 Thread Charles Andrès
Despite all the arguments we had, I always respect the wikimedian you are, and 
with hindsight... even more 


Hope to see you soon!


Charles



Le 30 mars 2014 à 19:59, Ziko van Dijk vand...@wmnederland.nl a écrit :

 Dear colleagues, collaborators and friends of free knowledge,
 
 After three eventful years I left the board of Wikimedia Nederland;
 yesterday was the General Assembly in Utrecht. This means a 'goodbye'.
 
 In this time, I had the privilege and pleasure to work with many great
 people in many different organisations. We saw a lot of small steps
 and some bigger ones directed to our common goal, the support of free
 knowledge. Certainly, not everything we as a movement or parts of the
 movement was achieved, though.
 
 Between many WMNL members and me, there were two grades of separation:
 coming from the humanities, my geekiness differs a little from the
 average Wikipedianess; having the German Wikipedia as my home wiki, I
 was never a very active or 'true' part of the Dutch editing community.
 And when I quoted in my speeches from medieval quests or Prussian
 literary realism, I received therefore some strange looks from some
 members.
 
 But I remain firmly convinced that good governance and respect have no
 nationality. Indeed, stroopwafels do have, and so I adopted the Dutch
 custom to bring them with me to Wikimedian meetings abroad.
 
 Wikimedia Nederland has experienced and overcome a difficult period of
 transition. Office space and employees, more members including more
 members without Wikipedia background, more activities, more money,
 more responsibility; more need for an association to mature and focus
 on what is necessary (and not always easy, cool or fun). We achieved
 that as a collective, slower than previously expected, but with the
 appropriate pride and good feelings about the future.
 
 Goodbye - and Hello: I am looking forward to see many of you again at
 whatever wiki, chat or real life meeting.
 
 Kind regards
 Ziko
 
 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Nederland
 
 
 Dr. Ziko van Dijk
 
 Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland
 Postbus 167
 3500 AD Utrecht
 http://wikimedia.nl
 
 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Goodbye as the German president of the Dutch chapter

2014-03-30 Thread Kim Bruning

Hope to see you again soon in whatever your next capacity may be!

sincerely,
Kim Bruning

On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 07:59:45PM +0200, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
 Dear colleagues, collaborators and friends of free knowledge,
 
 After three eventful years I left the board of Wikimedia Nederland;
 yesterday was the General Assembly in Utrecht. This means a 'goodbye'.
 
 In this time, I had the privilege and pleasure to work with many great
 people in many different organisations. We saw a lot of small steps
 and some bigger ones directed to our common goal, the support of free
 knowledge. Certainly, not everything we as a movement or parts of the
 movement was achieved, though.
 
 Between many WMNL members and me, there were two grades of separation:
 coming from the humanities, my geekiness differs a little from the
 average Wikipedianess; having the German Wikipedia as my home wiki, I
 was never a very active or 'true' part of the Dutch editing community.
 And when I quoted in my speeches from medieval quests or Prussian
 literary realism, I received therefore some strange looks from some
 members.
 
 But I remain firmly convinced that good governance and respect have no
 nationality. Indeed, stroopwafels do have, and so I adopted the Dutch
 custom to bring them with me to Wikimedian meetings abroad.
 
 Wikimedia Nederland has experienced and overcome a difficult period of
 transition. Office space and employees, more members including more
 members without Wikipedia background, more activities, more money,
 more responsibility; more need for an association to mature and focus
 on what is necessary (and not always easy, cool or fun). We achieved
 that as a collective, slower than previously expected, but with the
 appropriate pride and good feelings about the future.
 
 Goodbye - and Hello: I am looking forward to see many of you again at
 whatever wiki, chat or real life meeting.
 
 Kind regards
 Ziko
 
 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Nederland
 
 
 Dr. Ziko van Dijk
 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Goodbye as the German president of the Dutch chapter

2014-03-30 Thread Cristian Consonni
2014-03-30 19:59 GMT+02:00 Ziko van Dijk vand...@wmnederland.nl:
 Dear colleagues, collaborators and friends of free knowledge,

 After three eventful years I left the board of Wikimedia Nederland;
 yesterday was the General Assembly in Utrecht. This means a 'goodbye'.

[...]

 Goodbye - and Hello: I am looking forward to see many of you again at
 whatever wiki, chat or real life meeting.

Thank you, Ziko. See you soon.

Cristian

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