On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Bod Notbod <[email protected]> wrote:
> < holds up big WELCOME sign > > > If I say that this sounds like a hugely important role the rest of the > office will fold their arms and rightly harumph at me for the implied > negation of their value, so I won't say that. But you can't keep up > with Wikipedia news without being made constantly aware that gaining > new editors is a serious business. I will be fascinated to see what > you make of the ideas for volunteer recruitment we've had so far and > any innovations you can come up with. > > Congratulations and welcome to the other recent new hires as well. > > It would be lovely if each of the new hires could guest post on the > Foundation blog and/or write a page for Signpost once they've settled > in and let us know what their average day is like and some insight > into what they're working on. The staff is now getting to a size where > even close followers of Wikimedia are liable to lose track. Some > effort to keep the community feeling that they know all the staff > would be much appreciated. Hi Bod, I like the idea of having some kind of "first month at WMF" post, especially from someone in a very community-facing position like Fabrice. Let's plan to do that in February. I don't think it's a blog post but we can broadcast it here and in a couple of places. Cheers, Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, 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
