(Posted on India list and would like to share with larger wikimedia community)
Dear Hisham, I’m thinking back on your time here and want to thank you for so much that you’ve done and built in these one and a half years. For setting up things from scratch when there was neither a team nor an office and you were on your own. For building and motivating a small team to venture into unknown terrain (and for even daring to step into this terrain) without any surefire guarantee of success. For tirelessly and successfully supporting many Indic language wikipedias and the first-ever community-led WikiConference India. For keeping up team morale in the difficult days following the India Education program. For reaching out to hundreds of people in India through any means necessary to create new editors. And, yes, for being bold. One of the things that makes this kind of work difficult is not just its newness or its experimental unsure nature, but also its publicness. Brickbats pour in much faster than bouquets in public fora, creating a narrative of their own that is hard to buck. I want to thank you for being able to smell the roses, for having a tough enough hide to survive the brickbats while continuing to steer India programs and motivating your team to do its best. I also want to urge the Wikimedia India community to be constructive and rigorous in holding India programs accountable in its next avatar - without being destructive or personal. You’ve laid a very solid foundation for India programs that I expect the team will continue to build on. I hope you enjoy your remaining time here and leave with many more good memories than bad. Will miss you, my friend! Bishakha On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 9:55 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 3:43 AM, Hisham <his...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > Dear Wikimedia Community > > > > Here's a copy of an email I have just sent to all the individual > community mailing lists in India. > > > > I'm writing to inform you that I plan to leave my current role > supporting Wikimedia in India. I am going to be exploring opportunities > and evaluating options that are closer to my career aspirations and my > personal circumstances. I will be working through to ensure that there is > a smooth transition - and this is likely to take 2-3 months. I am writing > now because I felt it appropriate and opportune to inform you as early as > possible. > > :( I am sorry to hear this -- you will be greatly missed! I hope the > transition is smooth and productive, and the future brings wonderful > things for you. > > all best, > phoebe > > -- > * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers > <at> gmail.com * > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l