[__derek__]

It wasn't clear from the opening who wrote this announcement:

> In December 2020, Ben MacAskill (President and COO of SmugMug + Flickr) asked me to return to the fold to figure out how to revitalize the Flickr Commons program.

So my brain decided that it was Stewart Butterfield, announcing his next move after leaving Slack. But, no, the "me" was Executive Director George Oates.[1]

[1]: https://www.flickr.org/about-us/people/

[noufalibrahim]

I'm really glad that George is involved in the project. She was part of the original Flickr team AFAIK. I worked for her at the Internet Archive and later for her startup Museum in a Box. Her particular blend of skills makes her ideal in these roles where there's conservation of digital assets with a social purpose involved.