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Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

I support community growth efforts in the Advancement department of the Wikimedia Foundation, ensuring strong coordination and alignment across different teams in their community-facing activities. I'm responsible for the implementation of strategic projects requiring coordination across different stakeholders. I also serve as a strategic thought partner to Community Growth teams, supporting team leads in planning common objectives and driving new ideas that don't fit in the current scope of… Show more I support community growth efforts in the Advancement department of the Wikimedia Foundation, ensuring strong coordination and alignment across different teams in their community-facing activities. I'm responsible for the implementation of strategic projects requiring coordination across different stakeholders. I also serve as a strategic thought partner to Community Growth teams, supporting team leads in planning common objectives and driving new ideas that don't fit in the current scope of existing teams. I report to the Vice-President of Community Growth. Show less

Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

(Coming soon)

Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

(Coming soon)

Promoted as senior manager while managing the same team, I coordinate a team of up to 11 people devoted to good common understanding between the Wikimedia Foundation and the communities, smooth collaboration, and results. This team maintains processes, tools, documentation and data to help Foundation teams understand the communities and communicate effectively with them. The team strives to engage a high quantity and diversity of Wikimedians in the Foundation's projects. I contribute vision… Show more Promoted as senior manager while managing the same team, I coordinate a team of up to 11 people devoted to good common understanding between the Wikimedia Foundation and the communities, smooth collaboration, and results. This team maintains processes, tools, documentation and data to help Foundation teams understand the communities and communicate effectively with them. The team strives to engage a high quantity and diversity of Wikimedians in the Foundation's projects. I contribute vision, strategy and high level plans for the team, and I participate in many Foundation activities related to community engagement. As a line manager, I support team members and their career growth, and I have been successful hiring new colleagues for our organization.In 2018 the Wikimedia movement approved a new strategic direction with equity and support to the underrepresented communities at its core. Since then my team has been driving initiatives to increase the reach and depth in our community communications and to provide welcoming, safe and equal collaboration spaces for everyone:* Wikimedia Space, including a community blog and a discussion forum.* The Wikimedia Movement CRM project.As the Wikimedia Strategy 2030 is taking shape, we continue to work on initiatives supporting their community communications recommendations. Show less

San Francisco

Coordinating the team in charge of technical outreach, events, communication, documentation, community feedback and collaboration. Supporting the free software community developing MediaWiki and more, for Wikipedia and many more. On February 2016 I became the manager of the Community Liaisons team as well, adding community relation support to Product teams to my responsibilities.I believe these are some of my best contributions to the movement, all of them achieved in collaboration with… Show more Coordinating the team in charge of technical outreach, events, communication, documentation, community feedback and collaboration. Supporting the free software community developing MediaWiki and more, for Wikipedia and many more. On February 2016 I became the manager of the Community Liaisons team as well, adding community relation support to Product teams to my responsibilities.I believe these are some of my best contributions to the movement, all of them achieved in collaboration with many other people:* Shaping the Wikimedia Hackathon as we know it.* Leveling up Wikimedia participation in Google Summer of Code, Outreachy and Google Code-in.* Migrating from Bugzilla to Phabricator.* Removing Superprotect.* Proposing the idea that turned into the Community Wishlist Survey.* Co-designing a process for the Foundation to engage with communities in software projects.* Establishing a Code of Conduct for Wikimedia technical spaces. Show less

San Francisco Bay Area

Reaching out to and nurturing testers, coders, documenters, product managers, sysadmins, and other contributors to Wikimedia technologies like MediaWiki, powering Wikipedia and more.

Sunnyvale

Making sure http://qt-project.org strives as a free software project. Helping out with the transition from Qt-by-Nokia to a project with open governance participated by a community of individuals and organizations. Organization of the Qt Contributors Summit and guidance on the community events calendar. Misc OSS marketing activities i.e. Qt 5 on Raspberry Pi and consolidation of Qt local groups. I'm part of the Mobile Phones unit, the team in charge of implementing Nokia's Next Billion strategy.

Connecting the Nokia internals to the Maemo, MeeGo and free software communities, and vice versa. I work in the team developing the first MeeGo based product from Nokia, in regular collaboration with the Qt team and Forum Nokia. I have been involved in the MeeGo project before its launch and I have been directy involved in the coordination of the Community Office, meego.com and the MeeGo Conference. Collaborating regularly with Intel, The Linux Foundation and other companies around MeeGo is… Show more Connecting the Nokia internals to the Maemo, MeeGo and free software communities, and vice versa. I work in the team developing the first MeeGo based product from Nokia, in regular collaboration with the Qt team and Forum Nokia. I have been involved in the MeeGo project before its launch and I have been directy involved in the coordination of the Community Office, meego.com and the MeeGo Conference. Collaborating regularly with Intel, The Linux Foundation and other companies around MeeGo is part of my job. Show less

Making the Maemo development platform rock. In this position I was in charge of the Maemo SDK releases as well as taking care of http://maemo.org, at the time the official site for the Maemo platform. In this position I organized the Maemo Summits, several developer device seeding programs and talks in developer events. Member of Nokia Multimedia / Open Source Software Operations team.

Coordination of www.gnome.org, focusing in marketing and events. This is an elected position based on volunteering work, not a paid job.

Organizer of GUADEC, the annual conference of the GNOME project. I was hired/funded full time by the Catalan Governement (Generalitat de Catalunya), who supported the event held at Vilanova i la Geltrú (Catalonia - Spain). More at http://guadec.org and http://gnome.org.

Company co-founder, business strategy, project definition and management, web content. Working with free software web tools like Drupal and GForge and software for GNU/Linux (primarly Ubuntu). Main clients: SADESI - Junta de Andalucía (Guadalinex V3), Canonical (Ubuntu in Spain), STSI (lafarga.cat), London Borough of Greenwich (European Certificate of Community Enterprise)

* A chain of 23 interviews, starting in San Jose (California) and finishing in San José (Costa Rica).* 300 days and 8.000 km backpacking and writing at local cybercafes.* Sustainable thanks from donations (ok, and some savings).* Won the Best News Story prize at the 2001 European Online Journalism Awards.* More: http://desdeamericaconamor.org/blog/desdeamerica

London based printed magazine focusing on 'Culture and politics after the Net', with a secondary website since 1995. I worked in the redesign of their business strategy. The goal was to have an online community as centerpoint of their activity (Metamute) while keeping the production of the cult magazine Mute.

- Writing and updating learning materials of two modules of the Online Journalism Postgraduate: Information Society and Online Projects Management.- Supporting and evaluating the students in these two modules during the two first editions of the postgraduate.- Supporting and evaluating the students of the Information Society module at the regular Documentation studies.- Supporting and evaluating the students of the Online Projects Management module during two editions of the Summer… Show more - Writing and updating learning materials of two modules of the Online Journalism Postgraduate: Information Society and Online Projects Management.- Supporting and evaluating the students in these two modules during the two first editions of the postgraduate.- Supporting and evaluating the students of the Information Society module at the regular Documentation studies.- Supporting and evaluating the students of the Online Projects Management module during two editions of the Summer studies. Show less

Planning of the structure and organization of vodafone.co.uk, reporting to the product manager and taking part in the coordination of the development team.

Coordination of a team of 10 teachers in an intensive professional training course (20h/week) focusing on Internet & new media skills for 100 youngsters looking for their first job. The course was known as Casa d'Oficis Ciutat del Coneixement and it was promoted by Barcelona Activa, a public company own by the Council of Barcelona.

Starting up one of the first web agencies of Spain. Coordination of dozens of web projects since the early years of the WWW until the beginning of the bubble burst. I left the company looking for new horizons. They are still active at http://putput.es

First real job. Hundreds of articles published (in Catalan), mainly about sports, also society and international politics. Interviews, trips, pictures and other types of press coverage, including the Barcelona'92 Olimpic Games, one Rally Paris-Dakar and pre/post war scenarios at Kosovo/Serbia, Kurdistan/Irak and Western Sahara.

Bachelor'S Degree, Communication Sciences - Journalism Speciality

Activities and Societies: Moviment d'Objecció de Consciència (MOC)

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