[Wikimedia-l] Re: Selena Deckelmann joins as Chief Product & Technology Officer

[Dan Garry (Deskana)]

Welcome, Selena! Great to have you onboard.

Dan
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Selena Deckelmann joins as Chief Product & Technology Officer

[Erik Moeller]

Congrats! An amazing background -- thanks for all your work advancing
the free and open Internet, and welcome! Wishing you all success in
this new role. :-)

Warmly,
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Selena Deckelmann joins as Chief Product & Technology Officer

[Samuel Okepefi]

Hello Selena,

Congratulations and welcome on board!

Regards,
Samuel

On Tue, 14 Jun 2022, 7:33 pm Festus Yemi,  wrote:

> Greate news.
> Congratulations Selena and welcome.
>  Regards
>
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2022, 2:37 PM Shaba 50  wrote:
>
>> Congratulations Selena and welcome
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Aliyu shaba
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 13, 2022, 6:10 PM Maryana Iskander 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> When I started in January, I  shared with you that one of my top
>>> priorities
>>> 
>>> coming to the Wikimedia Foundation was to actively step in and support the
>>> Foundation’s product and technology teams while we recruited executive
>>> leadership of these mission critical functions with a new Chief Product and
>>> Technology Officer.
>>>
>>> I am delighted to introduce you to Selena Deckelmann, who will be
>>> joining the Wikimedia Foundation on August 1. She is based in Portland,
>>> Oregon in the United States.
>>>
>>> Selena is currently the Senior Vice President at Mozilla, where she has
>>> been for the last nine years. She leads the Firefox organization of more
>>> than 400 people responsible for all Firefox product and technology
>>> functions including desktop, mobile, web platform, and browser services.
>>>
>>> I have gotten to know Selena over several months and also learned from
>>> people who have worked with her over many years. She is known for
>>> successfully driving change by getting stakeholders aligned around what’s
>>> needed, and being seen as a trusted partner. Selena has built strong
>>> credibility over many years with colleagues and also with a broader
>>> developer community. She is described as a leader who can make the tough
>>> decisions, develop skills, grow diverse contributors, and inspire teams.
>>> She also has a great laugh and looks for joy in her work!
>>>
>>> As context for the recruitment process: given the critical need to get
>>> this right, we used two firms with global search expertise who
>>> specialized in product/technology executive leadership roles. This meant
>>> double the work, but allowed us to more quickly build a large, globally
>>> diverse pool of over 500 candidates. Once we identified a smaller number of
>>> finalists, they participated in real-life case studies of some of our
>>> current challenges and met with Wikimedia stakeholders over the course of
>>> many months.
>>>
>>> As you all know, we have a highly unique and sometimes difficult
>>> environment with a multifaceted mission, complex structure, and often
>>> competing stakeholders. This is going to be a challenge for anyone,
>>> especially given the steep learning curve at Wikimedia (which I can confirm
>>> from my own experience!). I hope you will sign up to help me successfully
>>> onboard Selena as she gets started!
>>>
>>> Selena will share her own message with you shortly, and she can be
>>> reached directly at sdeckelm...@wikimedia.org.
>>>
>>> Maryana
>>>
>>> Maryana Iskander
>>>
>>> Wikimedia Foundation CEO
>>>
>>> ***
>>>
>>> https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2022/06/13/wikimedia-foundation-welcomes-selena-deckelmann/
>>>
>>>
>>> Wikimedia Foundation welcomes Selena Deckelmann as Chief Product and
>>> Technology Officer
>>>
>>> 13 June 2022, San Francisco  — The Wikimedia Foundation today announced
>>> the appointment of Selena Deckelmann as Chief Product and Technology
>>> Officer. Selena is currently serving as Senior Vice President of Mozilla,
>>> where she was responsible for Firefox. She will officially join on August
>>> 1, 2022.
>>>
>>> Selena will lead the product and technology teams at the Wikimedia
>>> Foundation. These teams support the technology infrastructure and
>>> innovation that powers Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia, one of the
>>> most visited websites in the world with more than 16 billion pageviews per
>>> month. They also enable more than 300,000 global volunteers to edit
>>> Wikimedia projects each month.
>>>
>>> “Selena has a proven track record of delivering results by enabling
>>> individuals and teams to tackle unique and often complex challenges,” said
>>> Maryana Iskander, CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation. “She has dedicated her
>>> career to open source technologies for empowerment and inclusion.”
>>>
>>> At Mozilla, where she has been for nearly a decade, Selena currently
>>> leads the Firefox organization of more than 400 people responsible for all
>>> Firefox product and technology functions including desktop, mobile, web
>>> platform, and browser services. She oversaw some of the company’s most
>>> significant achievements including performance projects like Quantum Flow,
>>> architectural changes like Project Fission, key features like Enhanced
>>> Tracking Protection and Total Cookie Protection, and services such as
>>> Firefox Monitor. In her nine years at Mozilla, Selena held various other
>>> roles 

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Selena Deckelmann joins as Chief Product & Technology Officer

[Festus Yemi]

Greate news.
Congratulations Selena and welcome.
 Regards

On Tue, Jun 14, 2022, 2:37 PM Shaba 50  wrote:

> Congratulations Selena and welcome
>
> Best Regards,
> Aliyu shaba
>
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2022, 6:10 PM Maryana Iskander 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> When I started in January, I  shared with you that one of my top
>> priorities
>> 
>> coming to the Wikimedia Foundation was to actively step in and support the
>> Foundation’s product and technology teams while we recruited executive
>> leadership of these mission critical functions with a new Chief Product and
>> Technology Officer.
>>
>> I am delighted to introduce you to Selena Deckelmann, who will be joining
>> the Wikimedia Foundation on August 1. She is based in Portland, Oregon in
>> the United States.
>>
>> Selena is currently the Senior Vice President at Mozilla, where she has
>> been for the last nine years. She leads the Firefox organization of more
>> than 400 people responsible for all Firefox product and technology
>> functions including desktop, mobile, web platform, and browser services.
>>
>> I have gotten to know Selena over several months and also learned from
>> people who have worked with her over many years. She is known for
>> successfully driving change by getting stakeholders aligned around what’s
>> needed, and being seen as a trusted partner. Selena has built strong
>> credibility over many years with colleagues and also with a broader
>> developer community. She is described as a leader who can make the tough
>> decisions, develop skills, grow diverse contributors, and inspire teams.
>> She also has a great laugh and looks for joy in her work!
>>
>> As context for the recruitment process: given the critical need to get
>> this right, we used two firms with global search expertise who
>> specialized in product/technology executive leadership roles. This meant
>> double the work, but allowed us to more quickly build a large, globally
>> diverse pool of over 500 candidates. Once we identified a smaller number of
>> finalists, they participated in real-life case studies of some of our
>> current challenges and met with Wikimedia stakeholders over the course of
>> many months.
>>
>> As you all know, we have a highly unique and sometimes difficult
>> environment with a multifaceted mission, complex structure, and often
>> competing stakeholders. This is going to be a challenge for anyone,
>> especially given the steep learning curve at Wikimedia (which I can confirm
>> from my own experience!). I hope you will sign up to help me successfully
>> onboard Selena as she gets started!
>>
>> Selena will share her own message with you shortly, and she can be
>> reached directly at sdeckelm...@wikimedia.org.
>>
>> Maryana
>>
>> Maryana Iskander
>>
>> Wikimedia Foundation CEO
>>
>> ***
>>
>> https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2022/06/13/wikimedia-foundation-welcomes-selena-deckelmann/
>>
>>
>> Wikimedia Foundation welcomes Selena Deckelmann as Chief Product and
>> Technology Officer
>>
>> 13 June 2022, San Francisco  — The Wikimedia Foundation today announced
>> the appointment of Selena Deckelmann as Chief Product and Technology
>> Officer. Selena is currently serving as Senior Vice President of Mozilla,
>> where she was responsible for Firefox. She will officially join on August
>> 1, 2022.
>>
>> Selena will lead the product and technology teams at the Wikimedia
>> Foundation. These teams support the technology infrastructure and
>> innovation that powers Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia, one of the
>> most visited websites in the world with more than 16 billion pageviews per
>> month. They also enable more than 300,000 global volunteers to edit
>> Wikimedia projects each month.
>>
>> “Selena has a proven track record of delivering results by enabling
>> individuals and teams to tackle unique and often complex challenges,” said
>> Maryana Iskander, CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation. “She has dedicated her
>> career to open source technologies for empowerment and inclusion.”
>>
>> At Mozilla, where she has been for nearly a decade, Selena currently
>> leads the Firefox organization of more than 400 people responsible for all
>> Firefox product and technology functions including desktop, mobile, web
>> platform, and browser services. She oversaw some of the company’s most
>> significant achievements including performance projects like Quantum Flow,
>> architectural changes like Project Fission, key features like Enhanced
>> Tracking Protection and Total Cookie Protection, and services such as
>> Firefox Monitor. In her nine years at Mozilla, Selena held various other
>> roles including Vice President for Firefox Desktop, Senior Director for Web
>> Platform Engineering and Gecko Runtime, and Senior Manager for Gecko
>> Security Engineering.
>>
>> Selena also brings experience from her previous roles as 

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Selena Deckelmann joins as Chief Product & Technology Officer

[Florence Devouard]

Very happy to see you join the wikimedia world Selena !

Wishing you the very best in your new role. Feel free to reach out if 
needed.


Florence / Anthere


Le 13/06/2022 à 19:12, Selena Deckelmann a écrit :


Hello!


I’m so excited to join you all, and I am grateful to Maryana and the 
many people I’ve met on my journey to today’s announcement. Thank you 
for this opportunity to introduce myself!



My grandfather was a TV repairman and I grew up watching him tinker 
and fix things, but college was when I decided to explore electronics 
and computers. I started college thinking that I would play jazz 
violin and maybe get a chemistry degree! A year later, I’d learned 
about the Internet which resulted in skipping classes to install Linux 
from floppy disks, and landing a job at a help desk.



My first programming language was TI-Basic 
, and my second was C++. I 
spent many years with Perl (I’ve had dreams in Perl!), SQL 
and 
later Python, and I’ve dabbled with wikis, including Federated Wiki 
and MediaWiki. I admire Ursula Franklin 
and love her book The 
Real World of Technology.



As I explored computers back in college, I felt compelled to share. 
The experience didn’t feel complete if I was alone. I vividly remember 
the people I connected with – who mentored me, who I wrote software 
with and who just listened. My love for the internet, its freedoms and 
connectedness, came from discovering a world of knowledge freely 
shared beyond anything I had imagined before.



During my interviews with Wikimedia, I felt that strong connection 
again. I heard each person share their reasons for joining this 
movement and their hopes for its future – often in the form of very 
challenging questions!



In the last few years, I’ve worked on problems at the intersection of 
Mozilla’s mission to help create an internet for the benefit of 
individuals, and its business. Very recently, this work resulted in 
shipping Total Cookie Protection, making several major changes to the 
UX of Firefox and launching a small advertising business called 
Firefox Suggest, designed with lean data practices from the start. I 
loved doing this work because of the difficulty of it, how intensely 
those involved had to work to understand one another and the 
communities they served, and that my pragmatic optimism had a part to 
play in getting things shipped.



I also reflected on this moment in my own life: I grew up in Montana 
, where I attended public 
school. I love talking about, reading about 
and 
sometimes doing weightlifting. I’m hapa 
, and I met the Chinese part of 
my family as an adult. I think privacy and freedom 
are 
intimately connected, and that exercising freedoms is a good way to 
keep them. I’m married to a high school teacher, and I have two kids 
who love to crash video meetings, including my interviews with the 
Wikimedia Foundation.



All of that, together, is why I’m joining the Foundation. Wikipedia is 
the promise of collaboration on the internet and the movement for free 
knowledge made good on, in practice not in theory. I believe that 
Wikimedia projects have successfully demonstrated a model that 
produces trustworthy knowledge, and have created a home on the 
internet that the world profoundly trusts. I want to help make and 
ship things to advance free knowledge using the skills I have, while 
also continuing to learn from this ever expanding community of people 
all around the world.



I plan to follow Maryana’s lead, and will start by meeting many people 
to really understand what we collectively need to create a global, 
equitable and inclusive future for free knowledge.



Although I will  join officially in August, I would love to hear from 
anyone interested in sharing directly with me at 
sdeckelm...@wikimedia.org .



-selena



On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 10:09 AM Maryana Iskander 
 wrote:


Hi all,


When I started in January, I  shared with you that one of my top
priorities

coming
to the Wikimedia Foundation was to actively step in and support
the Foundation’s product and technology teams while we recruited
executive leadership of these mission critical functions with a
new Chief Product and Technology Officer.


I am delighted to introduce you to Selena Deckelmann, who will be
joining the Wikimedia Foundation on August 1. She is based in
Portland, Oregon in 

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Selena Deckelmann joins as Chief Product & Technology Officer

[Shaba 50]

Congratulations Selena and welcome

Best Regards,
Aliyu shaba

On Mon, Jun 13, 2022, 6:10 PM Maryana Iskander 
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> When I started in January, I  shared with you that one of my top
> priorities
> 
> coming to the Wikimedia Foundation was to actively step in and support the
> Foundation’s product and technology teams while we recruited executive
> leadership of these mission critical functions with a new Chief Product and
> Technology Officer.
>
> I am delighted to introduce you to Selena Deckelmann, who will be joining
> the Wikimedia Foundation on August 1. She is based in Portland, Oregon in
> the United States.
>
> Selena is currently the Senior Vice President at Mozilla, where she has
> been for the last nine years. She leads the Firefox organization of more
> than 400 people responsible for all Firefox product and technology
> functions including desktop, mobile, web platform, and browser services.
>
> I have gotten to know Selena over several months and also learned from
> people who have worked with her over many years. She is known for
> successfully driving change by getting stakeholders aligned around what’s
> needed, and being seen as a trusted partner. Selena has built strong
> credibility over many years with colleagues and also with a broader
> developer community. She is described as a leader who can make the tough
> decisions, develop skills, grow diverse contributors, and inspire teams.
> She also has a great laugh and looks for joy in her work!
>
> As context for the recruitment process: given the critical need to get
> this right, we used two firms with global search expertise who
> specialized in product/technology executive leadership roles. This meant
> double the work, but allowed us to more quickly build a large, globally
> diverse pool of over 500 candidates. Once we identified a smaller number of
> finalists, they participated in real-life case studies of some of our
> current challenges and met with Wikimedia stakeholders over the course of
> many months.
>
> As you all know, we have a highly unique and sometimes difficult
> environment with a multifaceted mission, complex structure, and often
> competing stakeholders. This is going to be a challenge for anyone,
> especially given the steep learning curve at Wikimedia (which I can confirm
> from my own experience!). I hope you will sign up to help me successfully
> onboard Selena as she gets started!
>
> Selena will share her own message with you shortly, and she can be reached
> directly at sdeckelm...@wikimedia.org.
>
> Maryana
>
> Maryana Iskander
>
> Wikimedia Foundation CEO
>
> ***
>
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2022/06/13/wikimedia-foundation-welcomes-selena-deckelmann/
>
>
> Wikimedia Foundation welcomes Selena Deckelmann as Chief Product and
> Technology Officer
>
> 13 June 2022, San Francisco  — The Wikimedia Foundation today announced
> the appointment of Selena Deckelmann as Chief Product and Technology
> Officer. Selena is currently serving as Senior Vice President of Mozilla,
> where she was responsible for Firefox. She will officially join on August
> 1, 2022.
>
> Selena will lead the product and technology teams at the Wikimedia
> Foundation. These teams support the technology infrastructure and
> innovation that powers Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia, one of the
> most visited websites in the world with more than 16 billion pageviews per
> month. They also enable more than 300,000 global volunteers to edit
> Wikimedia projects each month.
>
> “Selena has a proven track record of delivering results by enabling
> individuals and teams to tackle unique and often complex challenges,” said
> Maryana Iskander, CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation. “She has dedicated her
> career to open source technologies for empowerment and inclusion.”
>
> At Mozilla, where she has been for nearly a decade, Selena currently leads
> the Firefox organization of more than 400 people responsible for all
> Firefox product and technology functions including desktop, mobile, web
> platform, and browser services. She oversaw some of the company’s most
> significant achievements including performance projects like Quantum Flow,
> architectural changes like Project Fission, key features like Enhanced
> Tracking Protection and Total Cookie Protection, and services such as
> Firefox Monitor. In her nine years at Mozilla, Selena held various other
> roles including Vice President for Firefox Desktop, Senior Director for Web
> Platform Engineering and Gecko Runtime, and Senior Manager for Gecko
> Security Engineering.
>
> Selena also brings experience from her previous roles as co-founder of
> Prime Radiant, a software as a service business that explored how to
> improve business processes at scale with checklist automation software, and
> as Consulting Director of Development for The 

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Selena Deckelmann joins as Chief Product & Technology Officer

[Olushola Olaniyan]

This is an exciting news.

 Selena, we are glad to welcome you to our movement.

regards.

On Mon, Jun 13, 2022, 6:10 PM Maryana Iskander 
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> When I started in January, I  shared with you that one of my top
> priorities
> 
> coming to the Wikimedia Foundation was to actively step in and support the
> Foundation’s product and technology teams while we recruited executive
> leadership of these mission critical functions with a new Chief Product and
> Technology Officer.
>
> I am delighted to introduce you to Selena Deckelmann, who will be joining
> the Wikimedia Foundation on August 1. She is based in Portland, Oregon in
> the United States.
>
> Selena is currently the Senior Vice President at Mozilla, where she has
> been for the last nine years. She leads the Firefox organization of more
> than 400 people responsible for all Firefox product and technology
> functions including desktop, mobile, web platform, and browser services.
>
> I have gotten to know Selena over several months and also learned from
> people who have worked with her over many years. She is known for
> successfully driving change by getting stakeholders aligned around what’s
> needed, and being seen as a trusted partner. Selena has built strong
> credibility over many years with colleagues and also with a broader
> developer community. She is described as a leader who can make the tough
> decisions, develop skills, grow diverse contributors, and inspire teams.
> She also has a great laugh and looks for joy in her work!
>
> As context for the recruitment process: given the critical need to get
> this right, we used two firms with global search expertise who
> specialized in product/technology executive leadership roles. This meant
> double the work, but allowed us to more quickly build a large, globally
> diverse pool of over 500 candidates. Once we identified a smaller number of
> finalists, they participated in real-life case studies of some of our
> current challenges and met with Wikimedia stakeholders over the course of
> many months.
>
> As you all know, we have a highly unique and sometimes difficult
> environment with a multifaceted mission, complex structure, and often
> competing stakeholders. This is going to be a challenge for anyone,
> especially given the steep learning curve at Wikimedia (which I can confirm
> from my own experience!). I hope you will sign up to help me successfully
> onboard Selena as she gets started!
>
> Selena will share her own message with you shortly, and she can be reached
> directly at sdeckelm...@wikimedia.org.
>
> Maryana
>
> Maryana Iskander
>
> Wikimedia Foundation CEO
>
> ***
>
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2022/06/13/wikimedia-foundation-welcomes-selena-deckelmann/
>
>
> Wikimedia Foundation welcomes Selena Deckelmann as Chief Product and
> Technology Officer
>
> 13 June 2022, San Francisco  — The Wikimedia Foundation today announced
> the appointment of Selena Deckelmann as Chief Product and Technology
> Officer. Selena is currently serving as Senior Vice President of Mozilla,
> where she was responsible for Firefox. She will officially join on August
> 1, 2022.
>
> Selena will lead the product and technology teams at the Wikimedia
> Foundation. These teams support the technology infrastructure and
> innovation that powers Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia, one of the
> most visited websites in the world with more than 16 billion pageviews per
> month. They also enable more than 300,000 global volunteers to edit
> Wikimedia projects each month.
>
> “Selena has a proven track record of delivering results by enabling
> individuals and teams to tackle unique and often complex challenges,” said
> Maryana Iskander, CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation. “She has dedicated her
> career to open source technologies for empowerment and inclusion.”
>
> At Mozilla, where she has been for nearly a decade, Selena currently leads
> the Firefox organization of more than 400 people responsible for all
> Firefox product and technology functions including desktop, mobile, web
> platform, and browser services. She oversaw some of the company’s most
> significant achievements including performance projects like Quantum Flow,
> architectural changes like Project Fission, key features like Enhanced
> Tracking Protection and Total Cookie Protection, and services such as
> Firefox Monitor. In her nine years at Mozilla, Selena held various other
> roles including Vice President for Firefox Desktop, Senior Director for Web
> Platform Engineering and Gecko Runtime, and Senior Manager for Gecko
> Security Engineering.
>
> Selena also brings experience from her previous roles as co-founder of
> Prime Radiant, a software as a service business that explored how to
> improve business processes at scale with checklist automation software, and
> as Consulting 

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Selena Deckelmann joins as Chief Product & Technology Officer

[Mohammed Bachounda]

Welcome / مرحبا / Bienvenue   with us

Mohammed B achounda


Le mar. 14 juin 2022 à 09:56, Butch Bustria  a écrit :

> Hi Selena,
>
> Welcome to the Wikimedia movement! We hope you spend time for us and hear
> our suggestions to improve the Wikimedia products and technical services.
>
>
> Kind regards
>
> Butch
> ESEAP
>
>
>
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2022, 1:24 am Selena Deckelmann, 
> wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I’m so excited to join you all, and I am grateful to Maryana and the many
>> people I’ve met on my journey to today’s announcement. Thank you for this
>> opportunity to introduce myself!
>>
>> My grandfather was a TV repairman and I grew up watching him tinker and
>> fix things, but college was when I decided to explore electronics and
>> computers. I started college thinking that I would play jazz violin and
>> maybe get a chemistry degree! A year later, I’d learned about the Internet
>> which resulted in skipping classes to install Linux from floppy disks, and
>> landing a job at a help desk.
>>
>> My first programming language was TI-Basic
>> , and my second was C++. I spent
>> many years with Perl (I’ve had dreams in Perl!), SQL
>> 
>> and later Python, and I’ve dabbled with wikis, including Federated Wiki and
>> MediaWiki. I admire Ursula Franklin
>>  and love her book The
>> Real World of Technology.
>>
>> As I explored computers back in college, I felt compelled to share. The
>> experience didn’t feel complete if I was alone. I vividly remember the
>> people I connected with – who mentored me, who I wrote software with and
>> who just listened. My love for the internet, its freedoms and
>> connectedness, came from discovering a world of knowledge freely shared
>> beyond anything I had imagined before.
>>
>> During my interviews with Wikimedia, I felt that strong connection again.
>> I heard each person share their reasons for joining this movement and their
>> hopes for its future – often in the form of very challenging questions!
>>
>> In the last few years, I’ve worked on problems at the intersection of
>> Mozilla’s mission to help create an internet for the benefit of
>> individuals, and its business. Very recently, this work resulted in
>> shipping Total Cookie Protection, making several major changes to the UX of
>> Firefox and launching a small advertising business called Firefox Suggest,
>> designed with lean data practices from the start. I loved doing this work
>> because of the difficulty of it, how intensely those involved had to work
>> to understand one another and the communities they served, and that my
>> pragmatic optimism had a part to play in getting things shipped.
>>
>> I also reflected on this moment in my own life: I grew up in Montana
>> , where I attended public school.
>> I love talking about, reading about
>> 
>> and sometimes doing weightlifting. I’m hapa
>> , and I met the Chinese part of
>> my family as an adult. I think privacy and freedom
>>  are
>> intimately connected, and that exercising freedoms is a good way to keep
>> them. I’m married to a high school teacher, and I have two kids who love to
>> crash video meetings, including my interviews with the Wikimedia
>> Foundation.
>>
>> All of that, together, is why I’m joining the Foundation. Wikipedia is
>> the promise of collaboration on the internet and the movement for free
>> knowledge made good on, in practice not in theory. I believe that Wikimedia
>> projects have successfully demonstrated a model that produces trustworthy
>> knowledge, and have created a home on the internet that the world
>> profoundly trusts. I want to help make and ship things to advance free
>> knowledge using the skills I have, while also continuing to learn from this
>> ever expanding community of people all around the world.
>>
>> I plan to follow Maryana’s lead, and will start by meeting many people to
>> really understand what we collectively need to create a global, equitable
>> and inclusive future for free knowledge.
>>
>> Although I will  join officially in August, I would love to hear from
>> anyone interested in sharing directly with me at
>> sdeckelm...@wikimedia.org.
>>
>> -selena
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 10:09 AM Maryana Iskander <
>> miskan...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> When I started in January, I  shared with you that one of my top
>>> priorities
>>> 
>>> coming to the Wikimedia Foundation was to 

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Selena Deckelmann joins as Chief Product & Technology Officer

[Goody Ignatius]

Congratulations Selena and welcome!

Best,
Goodness Ignatius
(User: Olugold)


On Mon, Jun 13, 2022, 6:56 PM James Popoola  wrote:

> Congratulations Selena.
>
> Wishing you the very best in your new role.
>
> You are welcome!
>
> On Mon, 13 Jun 2022 at 18:35, Risker  wrote:
>
>> Welcome to Wikimedia, Selena. It is very good to see this role being
>> filled by someone with your level of experience - especially your
>> experience in the open source and free knowledge communities.
>>
>> I am sure many people will be looking forward to meeting you and getting
>> to work with you, even those of us in the non-tech/non-product areas.
>>
>> Risker/Anne
>>
>> On Mon, 13 Jun 2022 at 13:24, Selena Deckelmann <
>> sdeckelm...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> I’m so excited to join you all, and I am grateful to Maryana and the
>>> many people I’ve met on my journey to today’s announcement. Thank you for
>>> this opportunity to introduce myself!
>>>
>>> My grandfather was a TV repairman and I grew up watching him tinker and
>>> fix things, but college was when I decided to explore electronics and
>>> computers. I started college thinking that I would play jazz violin and
>>> maybe get a chemistry degree! A year later, I’d learned about the Internet
>>> which resulted in skipping classes to install Linux from floppy disks, and
>>> landing a job at a help desk.
>>>
>>> My first programming language was TI-Basic
>>> , and my second was C++. I
>>> spent many years with Perl (I’ve had dreams in Perl!), SQL
>>> 
>>> and later Python, and I’ve dabbled with wikis, including Federated Wiki and
>>> MediaWiki. I admire Ursula Franklin
>>>  and love her book The
>>> Real World of Technology.
>>>
>>> As I explored computers back in college, I felt compelled to share. The
>>> experience didn’t feel complete if I was alone. I vividly remember the
>>> people I connected with – who mentored me, who I wrote software with and
>>> who just listened. My love for the internet, its freedoms and
>>> connectedness, came from discovering a world of knowledge freely shared
>>> beyond anything I had imagined before.
>>>
>>> During my interviews with Wikimedia, I felt that strong connection
>>> again. I heard each person share their reasons for joining this movement
>>> and their hopes for its future – often in the form of very challenging
>>> questions!
>>>
>>> In the last few years, I’ve worked on problems at the intersection of
>>> Mozilla’s mission to help create an internet for the benefit of
>>> individuals, and its business. Very recently, this work resulted in
>>> shipping Total Cookie Protection, making several major changes to the UX of
>>> Firefox and launching a small advertising business called Firefox Suggest,
>>> designed with lean data practices from the start. I loved doing this work
>>> because of the difficulty of it, how intensely those involved had to work
>>> to understand one another and the communities they served, and that my
>>> pragmatic optimism had a part to play in getting things shipped.
>>>
>>> I also reflected on this moment in my own life: I grew up in Montana
>>> , where I attended public
>>> school. I love talking about, reading about
>>> 
>>> and sometimes doing weightlifting. I’m hapa
>>> , and I met the Chinese part of
>>> my family as an adult. I think privacy and freedom
>>>  are
>>> intimately connected, and that exercising freedoms is a good way to keep
>>> them. I’m married to a high school teacher, and I have two kids who love to
>>> crash video meetings, including my interviews with the Wikimedia
>>> Foundation.
>>>
>>> All of that, together, is why I’m joining the Foundation. Wikipedia is
>>> the promise of collaboration on the internet and the movement for free
>>> knowledge made good on, in practice not in theory. I believe that Wikimedia
>>> projects have successfully demonstrated a model that produces trustworthy
>>> knowledge, and have created a home on the internet that the world
>>> profoundly trusts. I want to help make and ship things to advance free
>>> knowledge using the skills I have, while also continuing to learn from this
>>> ever expanding community of people all around the world.
>>>
>>> I plan to follow Maryana’s lead, and will start by meeting many people
>>> to really understand what we collectively need to create a global,
>>> equitable and inclusive future for free knowledge.
>>>
>>> Although I will  join officially in August, I would love to hear from
>>> anyone interested in sharing directly with me at
>>> sdeckelm...@wikimedia.org.
>>>
>>> -selena

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Selena Deckelmann joins as Chief Product & Technology Officer

[Butch Bustria]

Hi Selena,

Welcome to the Wikimedia movement! We hope you spend time for us and hear
our suggestions to improve the Wikimedia products and technical services.


Kind regards

Butch
ESEAP



On Tue, 14 Jun 2022, 1:24 am Selena Deckelmann, 
wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I’m so excited to join you all, and I am grateful to Maryana and the many
> people I’ve met on my journey to today’s announcement. Thank you for this
> opportunity to introduce myself!
>
> My grandfather was a TV repairman and I grew up watching him tinker and
> fix things, but college was when I decided to explore electronics and
> computers. I started college thinking that I would play jazz violin and
> maybe get a chemistry degree! A year later, I’d learned about the Internet
> which resulted in skipping classes to install Linux from floppy disks, and
> landing a job at a help desk.
>
> My first programming language was TI-Basic
> , and my second was C++. I spent
> many years with Perl (I’ve had dreams in Perl!), SQL
> 
> and later Python, and I’ve dabbled with wikis, including Federated Wiki and
> MediaWiki. I admire Ursula Franklin
>  and love her book The
> Real World of Technology.
>
> As I explored computers back in college, I felt compelled to share. The
> experience didn’t feel complete if I was alone. I vividly remember the
> people I connected with – who mentored me, who I wrote software with and
> who just listened. My love for the internet, its freedoms and
> connectedness, came from discovering a world of knowledge freely shared
> beyond anything I had imagined before.
>
> During my interviews with Wikimedia, I felt that strong connection again.
> I heard each person share their reasons for joining this movement and their
> hopes for its future – often in the form of very challenging questions!
>
> In the last few years, I’ve worked on problems at the intersection of
> Mozilla’s mission to help create an internet for the benefit of
> individuals, and its business. Very recently, this work resulted in
> shipping Total Cookie Protection, making several major changes to the UX of
> Firefox and launching a small advertising business called Firefox Suggest,
> designed with lean data practices from the start. I loved doing this work
> because of the difficulty of it, how intensely those involved had to work
> to understand one another and the communities they served, and that my
> pragmatic optimism had a part to play in getting things shipped.
>
> I also reflected on this moment in my own life: I grew up in Montana
> , where I attended public school.
> I love talking about, reading about
> 
> and sometimes doing weightlifting. I’m hapa
> , and I met the Chinese part of my
> family as an adult. I think privacy and freedom
>  are
> intimately connected, and that exercising freedoms is a good way to keep
> them. I’m married to a high school teacher, and I have two kids who love to
> crash video meetings, including my interviews with the Wikimedia
> Foundation.
>
> All of that, together, is why I’m joining the Foundation. Wikipedia is the
> promise of collaboration on the internet and the movement for free
> knowledge made good on, in practice not in theory. I believe that Wikimedia
> projects have successfully demonstrated a model that produces trustworthy
> knowledge, and have created a home on the internet that the world
> profoundly trusts. I want to help make and ship things to advance free
> knowledge using the skills I have, while also continuing to learn from this
> ever expanding community of people all around the world.
>
> I plan to follow Maryana’s lead, and will start by meeting many people to
> really understand what we collectively need to create a global, equitable
> and inclusive future for free knowledge.
>
> Although I will  join officially in August, I would love to hear from
> anyone interested in sharing directly with me at sdeckelm...@wikimedia.org
> .
>
> -selena
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 10:09 AM Maryana Iskander 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> When I started in January, I  shared with you that one of my top
>> priorities
>> 
>> coming to the Wikimedia Foundation was to actively step in and support the
>> Foundation’s product and technology teams while we recruited executive
>> leadership of these mission critical functions with a new Chief Product and
>> Technology Officer.
>>
>> I am delighted to introduce you to Selena Deckelmann, who will be joining
>> the Wikimedia 

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Selena Deckelmann joins as Chief Product & Technology Officer

[Camelia Boban]

Welcome to Wikimedia Selena, so happy to see this sisterhood, people from
Mozilla inside our movement.

Camelia

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*
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On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 8:54 AM Bobby Shabangu 
wrote:

> Congratulations and welcome on board Selena,
>
> From your introduction I can see you get it. Looking forward to bumping
> into you on Wiki streets.
>
> Best,
> Bobby Shabangu
>
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2022 at 00:16, Samuel Klein  wrote:
>
>> Welcome Selena -- thank you for this kind introduction.
>> I hope you find the Foundation and projects warm and welcoming, with
>> ample humor and beauty in them (and in 'practice, not theory'!).
>>
>> SJ
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Selena Deckelmann joins as Chief Product & Technology Officer

[Bobby Shabangu]

Congratulations and welcome on board Selena,

>From your introduction I can see you get it. Looking forward to bumping
into you on Wiki streets.

Best,
Bobby Shabangu

On Tue, 14 Jun 2022 at 00:16, Samuel Klein  wrote:

> Welcome Selena -- thank you for this kind introduction.
> I hope you find the Foundation and projects warm and welcoming, with ample
> humor and beauty in them (and in 'practice, not theory'!).
>
> SJ
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Selena Deckelmann joins as Chief Product & Technology Officer

[Samuel Klein]

Welcome Selena -- thank you for this kind introduction.
I hope you find the Foundation and projects warm and welcoming, with ample
humor and beauty in them (and in 'practice, not theory'!).

SJ
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Selena Deckelmann joins as Chief Product & Technology Officer

[James Popoola]

Congratulations Selena.

Wishing you the very best in your new role.

You are welcome!

On Mon, 13 Jun 2022 at 18:35, Risker  wrote:

> Welcome to Wikimedia, Selena. It is very good to see this role being
> filled by someone with your level of experience - especially your
> experience in the open source and free knowledge communities.
>
> I am sure many people will be looking forward to meeting you and getting
> to work with you, even those of us in the non-tech/non-product areas.
>
> Risker/Anne
>
> On Mon, 13 Jun 2022 at 13:24, Selena Deckelmann 
> wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I’m so excited to join you all, and I am grateful to Maryana and the many
>> people I’ve met on my journey to today’s announcement. Thank you for this
>> opportunity to introduce myself!
>>
>> My grandfather was a TV repairman and I grew up watching him tinker and
>> fix things, but college was when I decided to explore electronics and
>> computers. I started college thinking that I would play jazz violin and
>> maybe get a chemistry degree! A year later, I’d learned about the Internet
>> which resulted in skipping classes to install Linux from floppy disks, and
>> landing a job at a help desk.
>>
>> My first programming language was TI-Basic
>> , and my second was C++. I spent
>> many years with Perl (I’ve had dreams in Perl!), SQL
>> 
>> and later Python, and I’ve dabbled with wikis, including Federated Wiki and
>> MediaWiki. I admire Ursula Franklin
>>  and love her book The
>> Real World of Technology.
>>
>> As I explored computers back in college, I felt compelled to share. The
>> experience didn’t feel complete if I was alone. I vividly remember the
>> people I connected with – who mentored me, who I wrote software with and
>> who just listened. My love for the internet, its freedoms and
>> connectedness, came from discovering a world of knowledge freely shared
>> beyond anything I had imagined before.
>>
>> During my interviews with Wikimedia, I felt that strong connection again.
>> I heard each person share their reasons for joining this movement and their
>> hopes for its future – often in the form of very challenging questions!
>>
>> In the last few years, I’ve worked on problems at the intersection of
>> Mozilla’s mission to help create an internet for the benefit of
>> individuals, and its business. Very recently, this work resulted in
>> shipping Total Cookie Protection, making several major changes to the UX of
>> Firefox and launching a small advertising business called Firefox Suggest,
>> designed with lean data practices from the start. I loved doing this work
>> because of the difficulty of it, how intensely those involved had to work
>> to understand one another and the communities they served, and that my
>> pragmatic optimism had a part to play in getting things shipped.
>>
>> I also reflected on this moment in my own life: I grew up in Montana
>> , where I attended public school.
>> I love talking about, reading about
>> 
>> and sometimes doing weightlifting. I’m hapa
>> , and I met the Chinese part of
>> my family as an adult. I think privacy and freedom
>>  are
>> intimately connected, and that exercising freedoms is a good way to keep
>> them. I’m married to a high school teacher, and I have two kids who love to
>> crash video meetings, including my interviews with the Wikimedia
>> Foundation.
>>
>> All of that, together, is why I’m joining the Foundation. Wikipedia is
>> the promise of collaboration on the internet and the movement for free
>> knowledge made good on, in practice not in theory. I believe that Wikimedia
>> projects have successfully demonstrated a model that produces trustworthy
>> knowledge, and have created a home on the internet that the world
>> profoundly trusts. I want to help make and ship things to advance free
>> knowledge using the skills I have, while also continuing to learn from this
>> ever expanding community of people all around the world.
>>
>> I plan to follow Maryana’s lead, and will start by meeting many people to
>> really understand what we collectively need to create a global, equitable
>> and inclusive future for free knowledge.
>>
>> Although I will  join officially in August, I would love to hear from
>> anyone interested in sharing directly with me at
>> sdeckelm...@wikimedia.org.
>>
>> -selena
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 10:09 AM Maryana Iskander <
>> miskan...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> When I started in January, I  shared with you that one of my top
>>> priorities
>>> 

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Selena Deckelmann joins as Chief Product & Technology Officer

[Risker]

Welcome to Wikimedia, Selena. It is very good to see this role being filled
by someone with your level of experience - especially your experience in
the open source and free knowledge communities.

I am sure many people will be looking forward to meeting you and getting to
work with you, even those of us in the non-tech/non-product areas.

Risker/Anne

On Mon, 13 Jun 2022 at 13:24, Selena Deckelmann 
wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I’m so excited to join you all, and I am grateful to Maryana and the many
> people I’ve met on my journey to today’s announcement. Thank you for this
> opportunity to introduce myself!
>
> My grandfather was a TV repairman and I grew up watching him tinker and
> fix things, but college was when I decided to explore electronics and
> computers. I started college thinking that I would play jazz violin and
> maybe get a chemistry degree! A year later, I’d learned about the Internet
> which resulted in skipping classes to install Linux from floppy disks, and
> landing a job at a help desk.
>
> My first programming language was TI-Basic
> , and my second was C++. I spent
> many years with Perl (I’ve had dreams in Perl!), SQL
> 
> and later Python, and I’ve dabbled with wikis, including Federated Wiki and
> MediaWiki. I admire Ursula Franklin
>  and love her book The
> Real World of Technology.
>
> As I explored computers back in college, I felt compelled to share. The
> experience didn’t feel complete if I was alone. I vividly remember the
> people I connected with – who mentored me, who I wrote software with and
> who just listened. My love for the internet, its freedoms and
> connectedness, came from discovering a world of knowledge freely shared
> beyond anything I had imagined before.
>
> During my interviews with Wikimedia, I felt that strong connection again.
> I heard each person share their reasons for joining this movement and their
> hopes for its future – often in the form of very challenging questions!
>
> In the last few years, I’ve worked on problems at the intersection of
> Mozilla’s mission to help create an internet for the benefit of
> individuals, and its business. Very recently, this work resulted in
> shipping Total Cookie Protection, making several major changes to the UX of
> Firefox and launching a small advertising business called Firefox Suggest,
> designed with lean data practices from the start. I loved doing this work
> because of the difficulty of it, how intensely those involved had to work
> to understand one another and the communities they served, and that my
> pragmatic optimism had a part to play in getting things shipped.
>
> I also reflected on this moment in my own life: I grew up in Montana
> , where I attended public school.
> I love talking about, reading about
> 
> and sometimes doing weightlifting. I’m hapa
> , and I met the Chinese part of my
> family as an adult. I think privacy and freedom
>  are
> intimately connected, and that exercising freedoms is a good way to keep
> them. I’m married to a high school teacher, and I have two kids who love to
> crash video meetings, including my interviews with the Wikimedia
> Foundation.
>
> All of that, together, is why I’m joining the Foundation. Wikipedia is the
> promise of collaboration on the internet and the movement for free
> knowledge made good on, in practice not in theory. I believe that Wikimedia
> projects have successfully demonstrated a model that produces trustworthy
> knowledge, and have created a home on the internet that the world
> profoundly trusts. I want to help make and ship things to advance free
> knowledge using the skills I have, while also continuing to learn from this
> ever expanding community of people all around the world.
>
> I plan to follow Maryana’s lead, and will start by meeting many people to
> really understand what we collectively need to create a global, equitable
> and inclusive future for free knowledge.
>
> Although I will  join officially in August, I would love to hear from
> anyone interested in sharing directly with me at sdeckelm...@wikimedia.org
> .
>
> -selena
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 10:09 AM Maryana Iskander 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> When I started in January, I  shared with you that one of my top
>> priorities
>> 
>> coming to the Wikimedia Foundation was to actively step in and support the
>> Foundation’s product and technology teams while we recruited executive
>> leadership of these mission 

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Selena Deckelmann joins as Chief Product & Technology Officer

[Selena Deckelmann]

Hello!

I’m so excited to join you all, and I am grateful to Maryana and the many
people I’ve met on my journey to today’s announcement. Thank you for this
opportunity to introduce myself!

My grandfather was a TV repairman and I grew up watching him tinker and fix
things, but college was when I decided to explore electronics and
computers. I started college thinking that I would play jazz violin and
maybe get a chemistry degree! A year later, I’d learned about the Internet
which resulted in skipping classes to install Linux from floppy disks, and
landing a job at a help desk.

My first programming language was TI-Basic
, and my second was C++. I spent
many years with Perl (I’ve had dreams in Perl!), SQL

and later Python, and I’ve dabbled with wikis, including Federated Wiki and
MediaWiki. I admire Ursula Franklin
 and love her book The Real
World of Technology.

As I explored computers back in college, I felt compelled to share. The
experience didn’t feel complete if I was alone. I vividly remember the
people I connected with – who mentored me, who I wrote software with and
who just listened. My love for the internet, its freedoms and
connectedness, came from discovering a world of knowledge freely shared
beyond anything I had imagined before.

During my interviews with Wikimedia, I felt that strong connection again. I
heard each person share their reasons for joining this movement and their
hopes for its future – often in the form of very challenging questions!

In the last few years, I’ve worked on problems at the intersection of
Mozilla’s mission to help create an internet for the benefit of
individuals, and its business. Very recently, this work resulted in
shipping Total Cookie Protection, making several major changes to the UX of
Firefox and launching a small advertising business called Firefox Suggest,
designed with lean data practices from the start. I loved doing this work
because of the difficulty of it, how intensely those involved had to work
to understand one another and the communities they served, and that my
pragmatic optimism had a part to play in getting things shipped.

I also reflected on this moment in my own life: I grew up in Montana
, where I attended public school. I
love talking about, reading about

and sometimes doing weightlifting. I’m hapa
, and I met the Chinese part of my
family as an adult. I think privacy and freedom
 are
intimately connected, and that exercising freedoms is a good way to keep
them. I’m married to a high school teacher, and I have two kids who love to
crash video meetings, including my interviews with the Wikimedia
Foundation.

All of that, together, is why I’m joining the Foundation. Wikipedia is the
promise of collaboration on the internet and the movement for free
knowledge made good on, in practice not in theory. I believe that Wikimedia
projects have successfully demonstrated a model that produces trustworthy
knowledge, and have created a home on the internet that the world
profoundly trusts. I want to help make and ship things to advance free
knowledge using the skills I have, while also continuing to learn from this
ever expanding community of people all around the world.

I plan to follow Maryana’s lead, and will start by meeting many people to
really understand what we collectively need to create a global, equitable
and inclusive future for free knowledge.

Although I will  join officially in August, I would love to hear from
anyone interested in sharing directly with me at sdeckelm...@wikimedia.org.

-selena


On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 10:09 AM Maryana Iskander 
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> When I started in January, I  shared with you that one of my top
> priorities
> 
> coming to the Wikimedia Foundation was to actively step in and support the
> Foundation’s product and technology teams while we recruited executive
> leadership of these mission critical functions with a new Chief Product and
> Technology Officer.
>
> I am delighted to introduce you to Selena Deckelmann, who will be joining
> the Wikimedia Foundation on August 1. She is based in Portland, Oregon in
> the United States.
>
> Selena is currently the Senior Vice President at Mozilla, where she has
> been for the last nine years. She leads the Firefox organization of more
> than 400 people responsible for all Firefox product and technology
> functions including desktop, mobile, web platform, and browser services.
>
> I have gotten to know