User:Jan-Bart

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Hi all,

I am a 38 year old married man from the Netherlands, father of two sons and daughter (Ruben (8), Matthias (6) and Anna (0)). I am married to Sandra and live in Gouda.

Most of my childhood was spent in the Netherlands. But I also spent 6 years in Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Kenya and the United States during my teenage years. I studied Business Administration at the Rotterdam School of Management.

I work at the Kennisnet Foundation who allow me to spend a certain amount of time on promoting the use of wikis and Wikimedia projects in education (amongst other things). The Kennisnet Foundation is a public Dutch organisation which is publicly funded and has the goal to be "THE dutch organisation for ICT use in Education". My most recent project there is the Wikiwijs project which aims to encourage Dutch teachers to develop and share Open Educational Resources.

Through my work at Kennisnet I have been involved with Wikimedia since February 2005. I have attended all the past Wikimania conferences (giving talks on the educational uses of Wiki(pedia)).

On December 15th, 2006, I became part of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation as an appointed member. From January onwards I have been serving as the Vice-Chair forming a dynamic duo together with Anthere and now Michael. Issues I have been involved with more than the normal amount are:

1. Hiring an ED/General Counsel
2. Board Elections 2007/2008/2009
3. Branding Strategy
4. Board Restructuring
5. Chapter seat selection process
6. ED Evaluation

I hope to be more involved in the educational use of Wikimedia projects and the opportunities that await us in countries which are just entering the internet age. Feel free to let me know your thoughts on these topics.

If you feel that there are important things to be achieved in the coming year which I should support you are invited to post these on my Talk page. Also: I will be attending Wikimania 2009, find me if you have concerns.