User:Solstag/Portuguese Wikipedia Qualitative Researcher

This is a proposal to the RFP located at foundation:RFP/Portuguese Wikipedia Qualitative Researcher.

We Solstag (Alexandre Hannud Abdo) and Pietro Roveri (Pietro Fornitano Roveri), Brazilians, propose to jointly undertake the contract to accomplish the tasks and duties enumerated in the Portuguese Wikipedia Qualitative Researcher RFP by the Wikimedia Foundation.

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About our double feature
We, Alexandre and Pietro, chose to respond to this RFP with a joint offer, under which we agree to split the contract's payment based on hours worked by each of us and not exceeding the limit of 30 hours a week total. Our reasons lay on the facts that none of us alone has the time to dedicate the minimum of 20 hours a week, and that our complimentary expertise and diverse relations with the community will put us in a much better position to fulfill the contract with the highest quality of research.

About our qualifications

 * Masters degree, PhD candidate or PhD in relevant field such as social science, history, or sociology strongly preferred.
 * Solstag holds a PhD in Physics from the University of São Paulo, acquired in collaboration with the Sociology Department of Columbia University, working on a study of contagion in social networks. (concluded 2009)
 * Pietro Roveri is pursuing a PhD in Social Sciences at Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC), studying ways of production and collaboration on the Internet, especially the Wikimedia projects (conclusion 2014). Holds a master in Management of Organizations from the University of São Paulo, working on a study of the organization of lusophone Wikipedia, a.k.a. Portuguese Wikipedia. (concluded 2007)


 * Experience wrestling with historical, sociological or anthropological questions pertaining to the success, growth and survival of communities, social movements and large scale collaborative work
 * Solstag was assistant to Professor Imre Simon and took over his work at the University of São Paulo (USP) in organizing and teaching a course on computer networks and collaborative production, while extending it to two of the most important culture centers of Brazil. (since 2008)
 * Solstag actively collaborates with the ATOPOS research center of the School of Communication and Arts at USP, which hosts interdisciplinary teams to study networked forms of cooperation, usually composed of sociologists, historians and communications scholars. (since 2010)
 * Pietro Roveri has published two papers  about the structure and maintenance of the lusophone Wikipedia, in particular the political aspects mediated by a socio-technical framework. He also made a presentation about The organization of the lusophone Wikipedia at Wikimania 2010 in Gdansk.
 * Pietro Roveri was the supervisor of 28 MBA monographs in Sustainable Regional Development.
 * Pietro Roveri has taught courses on local development and democracy and has worked as a consultant in the participatory diagnosis and the green map in Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo.


 * Experience wading through dense and complex historical archives or other textual social data
 * Solstag has worked on summarizing and evaluating the dispersed and heterogeneously documented history of remote participation in the European Dialogue on Internet Governance. (2011)
 * Solstag authored most of the chapter reports of Wikimedia Brasil, for the two times the community was invited to the Wikimedia Conference. (reports 2008 and 2009)
 * Pietro Roveri used qualitative instruments to analyze historical data on the structure (social e political) of the lusophone Wikipedia.


 * Experience working with nonprofits or community driven projects
 * Solstag has been a user, contributor and advocate of free software projects for over a decade. (since 1997)
 * Solstag has conceived and edited a peer-reviewed popular science magazine produced voluntarily by the alumni community of his undergraduate program at USP (2005-2006).
 * Solstag works with community projects and nonprofits in the realm of politics through the Nossa São Paulo Network (since 2008s1).
 * Solstag participates in art-activism communities in Brazil, and has worked as mediator in their meetings, (since 2008s2).
 * Pietro Roveri is the chief financial officer of the Foundation Palavra Mágica (since 2011).
 * Pietro Roveri has worked in SENAC an educational and political nonprofit (2009-2010), SESC a cultural nonprofit (2004-2008) and INEPAD an educational nonprofit (since 2006).


 * Strong communications skills across various avenues and to various audiences
 * Solstag has contributed featured articles to Brazil's largest newspaper; has written pieces to popular science magazines; has lectured at culture centers and universities; has spoken to varied audiences at meetings of scientists, technologists, businessman, artists and politicians; has a history of participation in both technical and community mailing lists and IRC channels of free software and free culture projects.
 * Pietro Roveri has spoken in Wikimania 2010, has lectured at university (business and production engineering), has taught short courses in poor communities(entrepreneurship, fundraising and local development), is a professor in MBAs and member of Wikimedia Brasil community.


 * Comfortable operating in new environments and dealing with ambiguity of a "startup"
 * Solstag is cool with new.
 * Pietro Roveri yes, I always worked with projects.


 * Passion for the mission of Wikimedia and positive can-do attitude
 * Solstag is a Knight who says Ni!
 * Pietro Roveri evidenced by more than 5,000 editions on Wikipedia.


 * Speaks both Portuguese and English
 * Solstag ... and Spanish, and Italian, and can read French and a tiny bit of Arabic.
 * Pietro Roveri and French (beginner), and can read Spanish.


 * Wikimedians/Wikipedians a huge plus!
 * Solstag is an administrator at the Portuguese Wikiversity and Wikimedia Brasil, having a significant role in both communities. Also present at two Wikimanias and two Chapter Meetings.
 * Pietro Roveri is an administrator at the Portuguese Wikiversity and moderator at the Wikimedia Brasil mailing list, having a significant role in both communities. Also present at three Wikimanias.

CV

 * Pietro Roveri
 * English
 * Portuguese


 * Solstag
 * Doesn't maintain a generic CV, check the qualifications section above. You can also visit my web page.

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