Excellent. Glad to see you joined C. Scott.
--tomasz
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Terry Chay tc...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello everyone,
It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that C. Scott Ananian[1] has
joined the Wikimedia Foundation as a Features Engineer.
Before joining us, Scott was Director of New Technologies at One Laptop per
Child where he, among other things, worked on Nell, a platform to allow
unsupervised learning of early literacy skills on tablets used in places
like Ethiopia[2], and the OLPC security mechanism to prevent kids’ laptops
from being stolen in transit. In between stints at OLPC, he worked as the
Senior Architect at litl, LLC[3]. Clearly he has a thing for highly mobile
PCs and applications (don’t tell Tomasz, he already stole Kaldari from
Features :-P).
He started volunteering work on the MediaWiki parser project (Parsoid) on
February 12th and got his first patch merged on February 15th. He’s had over
150 patches merged since then so it made sense that we should probably hire
him ;-)
As you probably guessed with my usual tardiness, his first official day was
actually Monday, July 8. He is going to continue his work on the Parsoid
team with Gabriel Wicke and Subbu Sastry. He is super-motivated and has been
mission-aligned since before Wikipedia existed[4], so I expect you’ll see
him range far from our text infrastructure work. When he was at OLPC he
liked to say his job was to “build robust and reliable systems to allow kids
to discover, share, and learn.”
Scott lives and works in Cambridge, MA[5]. He is a square dancer[6] and
theatrical lighting designer. I have it on good word that he’s a demon on
MIT Mystery Hunt [7]—not sure if he’s on the same team as our Board Members
or not [8], but if not…
Please join me in welcoming C. Scott to the Wikimedia Foundation. :-)
Take care,
Terry
[1]: [[User:Cananian]]
[2]: http://www.dvice.com/archives/2012/10/ethiopian_kids.php
[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litl
[4]: http://www.salon.com/2000/02/09/linuxdvd/
[5]: tewwy: interested in relocating? :-)
cscott: no, sorry.
cscott: wife, kid, and house like where they are. ;-)
[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge_square_dance ;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech_Squares
[7]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Mystery_Hunt
[8]: [[User:Sj]] did, in fact, recruit him to the Codex team in 2009. Codex
won in 2011.
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