General Assembly 2009/Candidatures

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This is the list of candidates for an official role at Wikimedia CH. According to § 8.2 of our bylaws, candidatures must be announced till 28th February 2009, so that the list is now closed to new additions, barring any late candidature as per § 8.3.

Candidatures for Board Member of Wikimedia CH

Petar Marjanovic

Ich kandidiere hiermit fürs Vorstandsamt. Seit 2005 bin ich Wikipedianer und hausiere dort unter dem Nicknamen dvdb herum. 2007 stiess ich zu Wikimedia CH hinzu, seither habe ich bei zahlreichen Veranstaltungen teilgenommen und auch organisiert. Für mich wäre meine Vorstandsaufgabe klar die, mit Institutionen Verhandlungen aufzunehmen, ob sie ihre Inhalte als frei erklären wollen (analog wie Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. tut). Zu meiner Person: Ich bin zur Zeit wenige Monate vor meiner Maturität, ich lese und reise viel, zu dem engagiere ich mich in der Politik. --Petar Marjanovic 09:45, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Bagawathram Maheswaran

Hiermit kandidiere ich für das Amt des Kassiers. Ich bin seit kurzem Wikipedia Mitglied und möchte gerne auch meinen Teil zur Förderung von freiem Wissen beitragen. Als angehender Treuhänder mit Fachausweis bin ich mir mit dem Amt des Kassiers vertraut. Sprachen: Deutsch, English und Tamilisch (mündlich).

Ludovic Péron

Wikipedian

Active in the French Wikipedia since may 2005, sysop since december 2006 (about 40000 edits) More information ;
Active in Commons and French Wikisource ;

Wikimedian

members of WikimédiaCH and WikimédiaFR ;
active in the Wikimedian community in Romandy ;
active in the search for free content (images, books).

Ludovic Péron, 29 ans, je vis à Fribourg et j'y travaille dans le domaine de l'énergétique.

Je contribue sur la version francophone de Wikipédia depuis mai 2005, j'y suis sysop depuis décembre 2006. J'ai commencé par contribuer dans le domaine maritime, la géographie, l'Afrique et la Suisse. Aujourd'hui j'ai environ 40 000 contributions sur ce projet. Je contribue aussi sur Commons, essentiellent dans de l'import de documents libres : des photos que je fais ou alors des documents libres que je trouve (domaine public). Je contribue aussi sur la version francophone de Wikisource.

En tant que Wikimédien, je suis membre des associations Wikimédia Suisse et Wikimédia France. J'y suis actif principalement dans la recherche de contenu libre. Ainsi, j'ai notamment obtenu des accréditations presses au cours de l'été 2008 pour des rassemblements nautiques en Bretagne. Ces accréditations ont permis de réaliser des clichés photographiques de grandes qualités pour illustrer de nombreux articles. J'ai eu aussi l'occasion de répondre à une interview pour un magazine qui souhaitait conseiller les étudiants dans l'utilisation de Wikipédia (L'article en ligne). Je suis aussi actif dans les contacts médias francophones avec Frédéric Schütz. Lors de la dernière assemblée générale de Wikimédia France, à Paris, Pierre Baudouin -président de Wikimédia France en 2007 et 2008 - m'a donné cinq exemplaires du livre écrit par Florence Devouard et Guillaume Paumier. Ces livres sont à donner aux médias pour faire connaitre les projets Wikimédia. Nous sommes en train de voir cela avec Frédéric.

En tant que Wikimédien, je suis aussi très actif avec la communauté romande. Nous nous sommes tous rencontrés en écrivant des articles sur fr.wikipedia. On s'est mis à écrire ensemble sur la Suisse et à se rencontrer régulièrement en Suisse (Genève, Nyon, Lausanne ... et Zurich :)) Maintenant, on monte des projets pour libérer du contenu, pour ma part je suis en contact avec la chancellerie cantonale et la bibilothéque cantonale (Fribourg), en attente de réponses pour obtenir des fonds photos. Avec Stéphane, l'été dernier nous avons organisé une journée de rencontre wikipédienne au bord du lac Léman. Nous étions environ 30 wikipédiens. C'était informel, mais ça a beaucoup plu. J'ai envie de relancer cela en invitant les différentes commuanautés linguistiques. Une journée de rencontre, de détente, mais aussi de partage d'expériences sur les projets dans lesquels nous nous investissons tous.

Why this candidature?

to promote Wikipedia and sister projects;
to promote Wikimedia projects in Western Switzerland;
to start working with Fred Schütz on the media relations;
to act as a coordinator between Wikimedia-CH and Fr. There is a wealth of knowledge and experiences to share between the two groups, it would be ironic that chapters of a collaborative project need to reinvent the wheel each on their side.

Frédéric Schütz (recandidature)

Active in the French and English Wikipedia as well as on commons since 2004; sysop on English wikipedia
Currently press contact for Wikimedia CH in Suisse Romande
Member of the board of Wikimedia CH since its foundation
Active in the search for free images and content, particularly from Swiss administrations
Active in the coordination of projects between WM CH and the WMF (in particular, in 2008, the funding of statistical services for the WMF)
Liaison between Wikimedia CH and other associations involved with free content (e.g. Creative Commons) or free software (e.g. FSFE, etc) in Switzerland.

Ilario Valdelli (recandidature)

Active in the Italian Wikipedia since 2005; sysop on Italian Wikipedia since 2005 [1]
Currently press contact for Wikimedia CH in Italian language and Italian speaker for Wikimedia Ch (i.e. management of OTRS ticket for Italian language)
Member of the board of Wikimedia CH since its foundation (first like president and after like board member)
Active also in Wikimedia Italia
Active in the coordination with WMF (participation to all board retreats)
Coordination of Italian wikimedians and coordination of Wikipedia Day in Lugano in the 2007 [2]
my vision: to have more participation of all members to projects and decisions, the board should have in charge most of all some defined actions like WMF's coordination, financial support, general vision and follow up of annual goals

Mourad Ben Abdallah (also as President)

Summary

Active in the French Wikipedia since March 2005 and administrator since December 2006 (around 36 000 edits): complete profile ;
Active in Wikimedia Commons ;
Active in the search for free images and content (Canton of Geneva / Tunisian institutions)
Active in the French-speaking Wikipedian community ;
Fluent in English, French (native language) and German.

Personal: My name is Mourad Ben Abdallah. I was born in 1982 from Swiss and Tunisian parents. I live in Geneva where I work in the chemical industry as a project coordinator.

Contributions: I began contributing on Wikipedia under IP addresses before creating my account in March 2005; I was elected as administrator in December 2006. I mainly contribute on articles related to Switzerland (Geneva in particular) and Tunisia but I am also interested in articles about history and politics in general. I also contribute on Wikimedia Commons, by importing self-made pictures (Geneva region and Tunisia) and free-licensed documents (fallen in the public domain). I have occasionally made contributions on Wikiquote and Wikisource during Wikiconcours (equivalent of the German Schreibwettbewerb).

Activities: As a Wikimedian, I had a contact with Patrice Delpin, history teacher in a Geneva college (Wikipedia page), who put in place a pedagogical project during the first part of 2008: his students made presentations about different topics and, after corrected, had to contribute in the equivalent Wikipedia articles (project account). In this context, I made some follow-up on the contributions, making corrections and sending some comments about improvements to be made (missing sources in particular). Following this experience, I organized and gave with Nicolas Ray a one-day training to a dozen of teachers from the secondary level in the Geneva canton on December 9, 2008 (teaching presentation). We presented the world of Wikipedia and possible solutions for the teachers who would also be interested to put in place the same type of project in their class (PDF presentation); a new two-days training is to be organized in late 2009, with the first day devoted to Wikipedia and the second to the pratical way of puting a pedagogical project in place.

I have launched a contact with the cantonal administration of Geneva to obtain biographical images from Councillors of State and deputies to be released under free license (ongoing); an initiative will be launched very soon with Stéphane to contact political parties in order to obtain (possibly through a law) the entire production of the cantonal administration to be released under free license based on the model of the US administration.

In order to formalize all these activities, I became a member of Wikimedia CH and intend to play a more active role in the Board.

I am also active in the French-speaking Wikipedian community with informal meeting organized several times per year. This is very important to create a good climate of exchange and collaboration which are essential for the type of projects we are defending.

Ideas

to promote Wikipedia and sister projects, particularly in the educational domain (schools, colleges, etc.);
to promote Wikimedia projects in Romandie;
to promote partnerships between Wikimedia CH and institutions, in the example of the Zentralbibliothek Zürich;
to facilitate contacts between the different linguistic communities.

Gion Hosang

Allegra. Ich bin seit etwa ein Jahr Mitglied bei Wikimedia CH und mache die rätoromanischen Übersetzungen für die Seite des Vereins. In der rätoromanischen Wikipedia bin ich seit 2006 aktiv. Meine Muttersprache ist, man kann es erahnen, Rätoromanisch. Deshalb möchte ich mich unter anderem auch, falls es möglich ist, mich für rätoromanische Projekte einsetzen. Zu meiner Person: Ich arbeite bei Radio e Televisiun Rumantscha in Chur.

Manuel Schneider (also as President)

Manuel is one of our founding members and CIO. He has quite some experience with non-profit organisations, and also in communicating electronically in english and german. Son francais est mediocre, mais ... :) He is also quite talented in organizing projects, and delivering things at an agreed time. Therefor i'd like to propose Manuel for the board. --ThurnerRupert 08:38, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Nomination: Thanks Rupert for the nomination. I was asked if I would run for board and I agreed if someone feels like he wants to nominate me, because I'll never do on my own.
Activities: As a member of Wikimedia Deutschland living on the boarder to Switzerland and France I moderated the first swiss Wikipedians meeting in Zürich where the foundation of Wikimedia CH has been discussed, bylaws have been fixed and a provisional board has been appointed. Since then I follow and support the development of this young association.

For Wikimedia CH I sponsor and maintain server space for webpages, the portal of all swiss Wikimedia domains (http://portal.wikimedia.ch/), do the programming of those and have visited Wikimanias since 2006 (Boston, Taipeh, Alexandria).

Recently I got the project lead of the openZIM project which was founded by me and is funded by Wikimedia CH. My task is to organize or delegate the organization of events like developer meetings or exhibitions and to handle the budget like acquiring additional funds, accounting and controlling. And of course I try to motivate and lead the developers as far as needed, participate in the roadmap planning and scheduling. In 2006 and 2007 I handled the Wikipedia DVD online distribution (looking for mirrors, running a distribution server, hosting http://dvd.wikimedia.org/), this was the trigger for the free toolchain development for offline wikis which now opened out into openZIM.

In the past I have lead and supported other projects like the free radio station for which I am still technician and made the live transmissions of the Wikipedia Days in Switzerland. Both radio projects I was active in I have left in the last time since I worked for them quite a long year and wanted to focus on Wikimedia.

Personal: I was born 1981, will get married this year. I was educated by apprenticeship as IT specialist (Fachinformatiker Systemintegration) in Germany and studied applied computer science in Switzerland (Dipl. Ing. für angewandte Informatik der FHNW). I live in Steinen (Germany) near Basel and work nearby for a worldwide operating engineering company as IT Engineer / Europe.

It is very easy to get into an argument with me, because I like doing things and not discussing them, though I prefer live meetings to plan things instead of just letting things go. But I want quick decisions and start doing things after the concept. So I may describe me as an inpatient person. But you should always keep in mind: I'm a person of very clear and direct words which might be understood as personal affront or missing diplomacy - but I always respect people, don't take that personally! I just don't like "politics" but clear words, a clear strategy and hard work. I will never put someone down on errors or mistakes - they just happen. But I might get angry at (in my opinion) unneccessary discussions. Just don't feel bad about that. I also accept - and ask for - clear words to me by others.

some more details can be seen on http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:80686

Aims: a small and incomplete list of things I like to focus on. This does not mean that I won't support other motions - I support everything the board agrees on within the scope of my talents.
- Community: bringing together the "swiss" projects, especially the small ones - fr:wp, it:wp, de:wp, rm:wp, als:wp
  - realising a Wikimedia Camp
  - creating and sponsoring flyer and other material for the projects which don't have any (but long for it)
- Board: scheduling and planning a roadmap
  - realising a board retreat
  - defining projects and budgets
  - define a five year vision
  - plan a detailed roadmap for 2009
- Technical: keep up and running which is already available
  - try to get back the domains which are still grabbed by others
  - get the first Wikipedia DVD of Wikimedia CH and openZIM done
  - setting up a mirror system for free offline web content published using openZIM
  - get a video converting and uploading system for SF up and running

Patrick Kenel (also as President)

(see President candidature)

Rupert Thurner (also as President)

(see President candidature)

Candidatures for President of Wikimedia CH

Patrick Kenel

Active in the German Wikipedia since November 2004
Auditor of Wikimania CH since its foundation
Strong interests in social issues and the media (Social Anthropology student), aspiring to become a journalist
Fluent in German, English, French and Italian
Familiar with many Wikimedia representatives whom I met at Wikimania 2008

Mourad Ben Abdallah

(see board candidature)

Rupert Thurner

on the board since inception, focused on wm-ch income (tax exemption, fundraiser) and work with other chapters.
is really happy wm-ch, and the "stammtische" attracted so many people recently.
is aware that people are not perfect sometimes, and really appreciates working together with a group that gives feedback and allows you to do it better next time
is fluent in english, german (native), ok with french.
thinks that we might loose too many experienced board people at once (minimum 3-4 out of 6 of the former board?).
would like to concentrate on "left-over" things nobody else wants to do (the typcial president admin stuff during the year), and on measures to get even more people into wm-ch
thinks vision/goals are important, as well as really living them/doing what is necessary to reach them
thinks change is a good thing, brings new ideas, projects, results, therefor
either the last year was or this year will be my last on the board :)

Manuel Schneider

(see board candidature)

I allow it. --Wurzel 11:47, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Candidatures for Auditor of Wikimedia CH

Stéphane Coillet-Matillon

Ich kandidiere hiermit als Revisor. Je suis wikipédien depuis 2005, admin en 2006, et bureaucrate depuis 2008.

Fluent in English, French & German;
WikimediaCH member, I initiated the now regular meetings of the French-speaking Wikipedians in Switzerland;
Active in the search for free content;

Jürg Studer (recandidature)

Ich kandidiere erneut als Rechnungsrevisor.
Rechnungsrevisor seit der Gründung von Wikimedia CH