[School-of-data] See you on the other side!

Mon Aug 24 14:49:25 UTC 2015

Hey Milena,

You're a great inspiration and an amazing leader, thanks for developing the
Scoda and transforming it in such a brilliant community. I hope to keep in
touch with you (let me know when you visit Rio). :)

I wish you the very best in your new role in AI.

Warm hugs

2015-08-24 10:42 GMT-03:00 Okwuone Nkechi <nokwuone at gmail.com>:

> Hi Milena,
>
> I can’t begin to tell you how much of a great person you are.  Yes! your
> positive energy is so infectious. Thank you for the great work you have
> done in making the SCODA community get to where it has now. wish you all
> the best in your newest adventure. i’m sure we will meet again.
>
> Warm thoughts.
>
> Nkechi.
>
> On Aug 24, 2015, at 2:31 PM, David Selassie Opoku <opoku.david at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Milena,
>
> Thank you for all the amazing work you've done to get the School of Data
> community where it is. We will miss your energy and vision but looking
> forward to hearing about all your new adventures with Amnesty
> International.  Hope we can get an opportunity to work together again in
> the future.
>
> Hugs,
>
> David
>
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Oludotun Babayemi <
> oludotunbabayemi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Milena,
>>
>> This is wishing you all the best in your new endeavor, we will continue
>> holding
>> all the good memories.
>>
>> #NeverSettle
>>
>> Olu!
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Milena Marin <milena.marin at okfn.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Friends,
>>>
>>>
>>> I am writing to bid you farewell as this is my last day with School of
>>> Data.
>>>
>>>
>>> I am at a loss for words to express what an immense joy it was to work
>>> with you for the past two years. The energy and dedication of this
>>> community is extremely inspiring and something I will miss a lot.
>>>
>>>
>>> School of Data grew and matured quite a lot in the past few years and I
>>> am so very proud to have been around to witness it all. As I am the last
>>> one from my team or “generation”, I feel compelled to round up some of our
>>> community wide achievements in the past years:
>>>
>>>
>>>    - We are now a proper network of individuals and organisations working
>>>    to improve data literacy in their communities and the network is owned
>>>    by its members
>>>    <http://schoolofdata.org/2015/06/15/the-future-of-school-of-data/>
>>>    - We've ran numerous of lessons and hands-on tutorials on how to
>>>    work with data published online benefiting thousands of people around the
>>>    world
>>>    - We've trained over 4500 people trained in person
>>>    - We've mentored directly tens of organisations to become tech savvy
>>>    and data driven, in over 40 different countries
>>>    - We kicked off and mainstreamed the School of Data Fellowship
>>>    programme, which now counts 26 fellows from 25 countries to provide
>>>    long-term data support to CSOs in their community
>>>    - We pioneered hands-on data training and literacy methods such as
>>>    the data expedition, now replicated in various formats by organisations
>>>    around the world.
>>>
>>>
>>> I am extremely proud to leave School of Data in the capable hands of the new
>>> coordination team
>>> <http://schoolofdata.org/2015/07/01/fresh-faces-in-the-school-of-data-coordination-team/>:
>>> Marco, Cedric, Meg and Katelyn. They are all amazing and together are make
>>> a super strong team, have fun working with them all!
>>>
>>>
>>> As for me, I am moving on to a new and exciting role with Amnesty
>>> International as Senior Innovations Campaigner. There I will explore how
>>> Amnesty can use new technologies to engage its membership in collating,
>>> documenting and verifying evidence of human right violations. My aim is to
>>> turn regular people into human rights investigators and I will experiment
>>> with using various crowd-sourcing approached to analyse, classify and
>>> verify intelligence coming from satellite imagery, videos, images and
>>> social media reports.
>>>
>>>
>>> I will of course remain an active member of this community – I am
>>> already planning a series of data expeditions in Amnesty and looking
>>> forward to share my experiences with you all.
>>>
>>>
>>> Don’t hesitate to stay in touch! I am always up for a chat and if you
>>> are in London for a drink of your choice. Otherwise, I can be reached on
>>> email at marin.milena at gmail.com  and on Twitter @milena_iul
>>>
>>>
>>> See you on the other side,
>>>
>>> Milena
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Milena Marin
>>> School of Data Programme Manager  | email: milena.marin at okfn.org | skype:
>>> milena_iul  | @milena_iul <https://twitter.com/milena_iul>
>>>   <https://twitter.com/milena_iul>
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>>
>>
>> --
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