Floor, so sorry to hear you're leaving us. I hope I'll see you and Rose around SF!
Best wishes!!!
Jami
On Mar 16, 2016, at 5:05 PM, Floor Koudijs
<fkoudijs(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Dear Collab members,
I am sad to announce that I will be leaving the Wikimedia Foundation. March 31st will be
my last day. After I leave, Tighe will take over the leadership of the Education team. I
have no doubt that the Wikipedia Education Program will be moving forward in the best way
possible with Tighe leading it.
It has been two very educational, inspiring, awesome, intense and exhausting years. I
have loved working on building the Education team and guiding it forward in a good
direction, despite difficult times. It has been wonderful getting to know all of you and
to build the Collab together with you.
You all know conditions within the WMF are difficult at the moment. We are going through
a transition that has been a long time coming. The months (and maybe years) ahead will be
difficult for us at the Wikimedia Foundation and for the movement as a whole that is
impacted by what the Wikimedia Foundation does. I do not have the energy anymore to go
through that period with the right mindset and the can-do attitude that is needed.
It's time for someone else who does have that energy and optimism to move the team and
the Wikimedia Foundation forward.
I was so happy to be able to spend time with you all in Stockholm, and to do that in a
positive an appreciative atmosphere. It was the best goodbye I could get (without you
knowing this would be a goodbye), to see you all doing so well and to see the Collab truly
come together as a group. It was a true joy. And for me personally, it has been one of the
greatest achievements in my role to have built the Collab together with you all. I hope
you will move the Collab forward together with all your amazing experiences! And I know
that together with Tighe and his leadership, you will, and you will thrive.
I can be reached on my personal email address: floorkoudijs(a)gmail.com.
Take care, wonderful people.
Warmly,
Floor
Floor Koudijs
Senior Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
Wikimedia Foundation
+1.415.839.6885 x6806 (landline)
+1.415.692.5289 (cell phone)
fkoudijs(a)wikimedia.org
education.wikimedia.org
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