Meeting:2011 AGM/Candidates/Jutta von Dincklage

Dear members,

My name is Jutta (please listen to the Finnish pronunciation), I have lived in Sydney for the last six years and grew up on this property located in the north-west of Germany.

I have always worked in and been passionate about projects, that are aimed to make information and knowledge freely available to people, so it was only a matter of time until I would stumble across Wikimedia projects and the concepts of free knowledge and culture.

This finally happened in 2010, when I started to work at Cancer Council Australia where I currently lead the development of a wiki platform for clinical practice guideline development. I met quite a few Australian Wikimedians at the RCC in Canberra and the rest is history.

Since then, I have

organised the RCCx in Sydney,
participated in Sydney-based Women4Wikipedia events,
organised and participated in the strategic development workshop in Sydney,
went to Wikimania 2011 in Israel,
supported Liam at the ABC meeting as well as John and Leigh at TINA2011

apart from following and participating in the discussions on various wikimedia-related lists.

I am committed to support Wikimedia Australia and its mission in whatever way I can and I would like to thank everyone that nominated me as an ordinary member.

What I can bring to the table is the following:

excellent organisational skills (I would say, this is an inherent trait)
excellent communication and interpersonal skills (also inherent, but I do have a Masters in Communications)
experience in professionalising a volunteer-driven non-for-profit organisation (Mindd Foundation 2005-2007)
experience working with large non-for-profit and educational organisations (I currently work for Cancer Council Australia and have worked at the University of Sydney)
ability to see the bigger picture and consider multiple points of views, not only my own
driver, enabler and supporter
time, motivation and passion to dedicate to a worthwhile cause