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 <tflanagan(a)wikimedia.org> 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.
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Tighe Flanagan
Senior Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
Wikimedia Foundation
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From: Tighe Flanagan <tflanagan(a)wikimedia.org
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Date: Wed, May 11, 2016 at 10:43 AM
Subject: Welcoming Vahid Masrour to the WMF education team
To: Wikimedia Education <education(a)lists.wikimedia.org
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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
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Tighe Flanagan
Senior Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
Wikimedia Foundation
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