Make something not only usable but cool! Good luck guys. On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Naoko Komura <[email protected]> wrote: > Please join me welcoming the new members of the Usability Project Team. > > Arash Boostani, a fourteen-year tech-veteran from Genentech, has joined > the project team as a Senior Software Developer. Arash also previously > directed the development team of an environmental non-profit directory > service called WiserEarth, which runs on collaborative software similar > to MediaWiki. At WiserEarth, Arash led the way in making the software > available as open-source software for the development community. > > As of February 1st, Trevor Parscal was internally transferred from the > Wikimedia tech team to the position of Software Developer on the > Usability project. Trevor has over eight years experience as an > independent consultant in both software development and user interface > design. After joining WMF, Trevor worked on data center management > tools, amongst other development projects. > > Parul Vora, a former resident designer of the Design Innovation Team at > Yahoo! (Yhaus) and researcher at Yahoo! Research Berkeley, joined the > team. Parul brings a unique combined talent of user experience > research, design, and technology to the team. She has worked on various > research and design projects such as experimental information interfaces > and an event-based media sharing application. At Intel Research Labs, > she researched open-source physical computing platforms, their sensors > and actuators, and visual programming languages for mobile phone platforms. > > We are currently interviewing candidates for the second software > developer position. > > It is my honor and privilege to work with Arash, Trevor and Parul on the > Wikipedia Usability Initiative. I am excited to have the mixture of > great talents on the team. > > Naoko Komura > > Program Manager > Wikimedia Foundation > > > > > > > -- > Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >
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