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Patricio Lorente

氏名:

Patricio Lorente

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Patricio.lorente

候補者への質問

声明

La Plata, 10 de febrero de 2014

Dear friends of Wikimedia Argentina,

I’m writing this letter to ask you to consider endorsing my candidacy to serve for another term as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation.

The Wikimedia Foundation is facing a complex transition: our long time Executive Director is leaving and we need to facilitate the onboarding of a new ED. At the same time, strategic discussions remain unfinished: how to build a synergic environment between the different players of our rich wikiverse, from the Wikimedia Foundation to chapters, thematic organizations, user groups, informal groups of Wikimedians and, last but not least, individual and unaffiliated contributors; how to improve the distribution of movement funds in terms of community decision making, transparency, accountability, sustainability and, of course, tangible results; how to help our biggest projects to keep running safe and how to empower our hundreds of tiny communities of smaller projects to grow. We have exciting challenges in front of us.

I think I can contribute to this transition, taking to the Board a different voice: the voice of a non native English speaker Wikimedian who comes from the developing world, with a strong chapter background and knowledge of different Wikimedia organizations. I believe in a Wikimedia movement where the Wikimedia Foundation has a central, but not exclusive, role.

The Wikimedia Foundation BoT is first and foremost the BoT of a specific organization with its own set of procedures, sources of information and interests; but it does also impact and serve the whole Wikimedia movement. In my view, the BoT must transcend the immediate reality of the Foundation’s own view and embrace a broader dialogue with our driving force, Wikimedia’s community of volunteers --be them organized or not, affiliated or not. This is even more important, IMHO, in a moment of transition as the Foundation is undergoing: I’ll do my best to help the new leadership to get a balanced view of the Foundation’s scope of action and of our communities’ ideas, worries and proposals. I want the Foundation and its staff to serve the movement, and I think my presence in the Board can help that mission.

Thanks in advance for considering my candidacy.

Afectuosamente,

Patricio

Résumé

I am user Patricio.lorente, and I am currently member of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation. I’ve been many years a collaborator in Wikimedia projects and a chapter's leader (as President of Wikimedia Argentina), having an extended experience of organization and work within Wikimedia projects in developing countries, and a first hand vision of our international community after organizing a Wikimania (and attending all of them since 2007) and being part of the Iberocoop network.

I was born in 1969, I’m married and I have two children. I live in La Plata, Argentina. I have studies in Philosophy and Law. Aside from my commitment within the Wikimedia movement I have extensive experience in the field of Development Cooperation and in university management, two activities in which I’ve served professionally for many years.

From 1992 to 2002 I worked in development cooperation in different positions, being especially noteworthy my work as Project Manager of the Asociación para el Desarrollo Social (Association for Social Development), an Argentine NGO, where I was in charge of the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of local development projects funded by the Italian Republic and the European Union. The core of these experiences was strengthening local capacity as a condition for development, transcending the traditional approach of North-South cooperation, promoting South-South and also decentralized cooperation by building horizontal networks of exchange between different cities and regions of Argentina.

After my experience in the field of development cooperation, I serve since 2004 on the management of the National University of La Plata, having been successively Secretary of Administration and General ProSecretary in charge of the General Secretary. Being this my current position, I have to deal both with the strategic planning and the everyday issues and conflicts of a large and restless community, including both academics and student organizations. The National University of La Plata is a public Argentine university and the second largest in the country, both in size (with 100,000 students and 15,000 teachers) and in scientific production. As all other public universities in Argentina, there is no tuition and enrollment is free.

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Patricio Lorente

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Letter of endorsement from Wikimedia Argentina

Comisión Directiva de la A. C. Wikimedia Argentina:

Galileo Vidoni, presidente; Ivana Lysholm, vicepresidenta; Patricio Molina, secretario; Ivana Molena, prosecretaria; Nicolás Giorgetti, tesorero; Mariano Pérez, protesorero; Beatrice Murch, vocal; Esteban Zárate, vocal; Juan Iglesias, vocal