Dear Fluid, I am Jess.

[Mara Hancock]

Jess --

Welcome! We are so happy that you have agreed to join the Fluid  
community to share your creativity and project management prowess!  We  
are happy to host you at Berkeley for as long and as often as you can  
bear (http://www.uah.edu/student_life/organizations/ASCE/websites/CalBear.gif 
) to be with us.

Mara


On May 6, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Jutta Treviranus wrote:

> Welcome Jess!
> Here is a perfect example of why Jess is a critically important
> addition to the Fluid Team. I had prepared a welcoming, introductory
> email for this list but was distracted by an overwhelming number of
> crisis and deadlines that it sat in my outbox waiting for some
> remaining facts I wanted to add.
>
> Thank you Jess for introducing yourself :-)
>
> Here is my belated introduction:
>
> I am elated and excited to introduce Fluid's Project Manager, Jess
> Mitchell. Jess comes with an incredibly rich and relevant background
> in managing large complex distributed projects. She is very familiar
> with the academic environment, the schools engaged in Fluid and the
> open source and community source development process. Until recently
> Jess was the Innovative Projects Manager at Duke University and
> managed among many innovative projects the Duke Digital Initiative.
>
> Jess's home of operations will be Boston but she will be visiting the
> Fluid partners on a regular basis beginning with a one week visit to
> Toronto on March 12th.
>
> One of Jess's first tasks is to look at how we communicate in the
> community and to the outside world through our Website and other
> mechanisms.
>
> She will be working very closely with Colin to transition many of the
> additional responsibilities he has so ably taken on over the past
> year.
>
> I can't exaggerate how happy I am to have Jess on board.
>
> Jutta
>
> At 3:20 PM -0400 5/6/08, Colin Clark wrote:
>> Jess,
>>
>> Welcome to the community! We're all really excited to have you on  
>> board.
>>
>> Colin
>>
>> On 6-May-08, at 2:28 PM, Jess Mitchell wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Fluid collaborators!
>>>
>>> Just a quick email to introduce myself:
>>> I am thrilled to be joining the Fluid Project as a Project Manager
>>> and thrilled to meet and work with all of you.
>>>
>>> I'll be working in Toronto next week May 12-16, will be hurrying to
>>> schedule a trip to Berkeley as soon as possible, and will be moving
>>> to Boston in July.  So, I hope to cross paths with many of you soon
>>> (and ask you lots of questions).
>>>
>>> I am inspired by all the work that has already been completed (I'm
>>> digging through the wiki!) and can't wait to hear from you what you
>>> would like me to contribute to this project.
>>>
>>> Here's my vcard with all my contact info -- feel free to get in
>>> touch with me.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jess Mitchell
>>>
>>>
>>> <Jess Mitchell.vcf>
>>> _______________________________________________
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>>> fluid-work at fluidproject.org
>>> http://fluidproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work
>>
>> ---
>> Colin Clark
>> Technical Lead, Fluid Project
>> Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto
>> http://fluidproject.org
>>
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