Re: [Wikitech-l] Advance notice: I'm taking a sabbatical October-December
Well, off I go. I'm about to unsubscribe from this list for the first time in years. Looking forward to returning in January with MORE POWERS. -Sumana P.S. I'm sure you can find my personal email address if you need to. :) On 09/04/2013 09:47 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: Thanks, Oren! If I am able to work on pywikipediabot or other Wikimedia tech and I blog about it, I'll syndicate to http://en.planet.wikimedia.org . I may cross-post additional thoughts to http://geekfeminism.org/ . If people want a summary IRC office hour/video tech talk after I come back, I could do that too. -Sumana On 08/31/2013 07:57 AM, Oren Bochman wrote: Congratulations - I hope you get co make many new bugs and even do some cool coding outside the wmf! I'm wandering if you'll update us about this unique experience as time allows? On Wednesday, August 28, 2013, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: I've been accepted to Hacker School https://www.hackerschool.com, a writers' retreat for programmers in New York City. I will therefore be taking an unpaid personal leave of absence from the Wikimedia Foundation via our sabbatical program. My last workday before my leave will be Friday, September 27. I plan to be on leave all of October, November, and December, returning to WMF in January. During my absence, Quim Gil will be the temporary head of the Engineering Community Team. Thank you, Quim! I'll spend much of September turning over responsibilities to him. Over the next month I'll be saying no to a lot of requests so I can ensure I take care of all my commitments by September 27th, when I'll be turning off my wikimedia.org email. If there's anything else I can do to minimize inconvenience, please let me know. And -- I have to say this -- oh my gosh I'm so excited to be going to Hacker School in just a month! Going from advanced beginner to confident programmer! Learning face-to-face with other coders, 30-45% of them women, all teaching each other! Thank you, WMF, for the sabbatical program, and thanks to my team for supporting me on this. I couldn't do this without you. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Advance notice: I'm taking a sabbatical October-December
Good luck and have fun, Sumana! :) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 20:31:37 -0400 From: suma...@wikimedia.org To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Advance notice: I'm taking a sabbatical October-December Well, off I go. I'm about to unsubscribe from this list for the first time in years. Looking forward to returning in January with MORE POWERS. -Sumana P.S. I'm sure you can find my personal email address if you need to. :) On 09/04/2013 09:47 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: Thanks, Oren! If I am able to work on pywikipediabot or other Wikimedia tech and I blog about it, I'll syndicate to http://en.planet.wikimedia.org . I may cross-post additional thoughts to http://geekfeminism.org/ . If people want a summary IRC office hour/video tech talk after I come back, I could do that too. -Sumana On 08/31/2013 07:57 AM, Oren Bochman wrote: Congratulations - I hope you get co make many new bugs and even do some cool coding outside the wmf! I'm wandering if you'll update us about this unique experience as time allows? On Wednesday, August 28, 2013, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: I've been accepted to Hacker School https://www.hackerschool.com, a writers' retreat for programmers in New York City. I will therefore be taking an unpaid personal leave of absence from the Wikimedia Foundation via our sabbatical program. My last workday before my leave will be Friday, September 27. I plan to be on leave all of October, November, and December, returning to WMF in January. During my absence, Quim Gil will be the temporary head of the Engineering Community Team. Thank you, Quim! I'll spend much of September turning over responsibilities to him. Over the next month I'll be saying no to a lot of requests so I can ensure I take care of all my commitments by September 27th, when I'll be turning off my wikimedia.org email. If there's anything else I can do to minimize inconvenience, please let me know. And -- I have to say this -- oh my gosh I'm so excited to be going to Hacker School in just a month! Going from advanced beginner to confident programmer! Learning face-to-face with other coders, 30-45% of them women, all teaching each other! Thank you, WMF, for the sabbatical program, and thanks to my team for supporting me on this. I couldn't do this without you. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Advance notice: I'm taking a sabbatical October-December
Thanks, Oren! If I am able to work on pywikipediabot or other Wikimedia tech and I blog about it, I'll syndicate to http://en.planet.wikimedia.org . I may cross-post additional thoughts to http://geekfeminism.org/ . If people want a summary IRC office hour/video tech talk after I come back, I could do that too. -Sumana On 08/31/2013 07:57 AM, Oren Bochman wrote: Congratulations - I hope you get co make many new bugs and even do some cool coding outside the wmf! I'm wandering if you'll update us about this unique experience as time allows? On Wednesday, August 28, 2013, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: I've been accepted to Hacker School https://www.hackerschool.com, a writers' retreat for programmers in New York City. I will therefore be taking an unpaid personal leave of absence from the Wikimedia Foundation via our sabbatical program. My last workday before my leave will be Friday, September 27. I plan to be on leave all of October, November, and December, returning to WMF in January. During my absence, Quim Gil will be the temporary head of the Engineering Community Team. Thank you, Quim! I'll spend much of September turning over responsibilities to him. Over the next month I'll be saying no to a lot of requests so I can ensure I take care of all my commitments by September 27th, when I'll be turning off my wikimedia.org email. If there's anything else I can do to minimize inconvenience, please let me know. And -- I have to say this -- oh my gosh I'm so excited to be going to Hacker School in just a month! Going from advanced beginner to confident programmer! Learning face-to-face with other coders, 30-45% of them women, all teaching each other! Thank you, WMF, for the sabbatical program, and thanks to my team for supporting me on this. I couldn't do this without you. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org javascript:; https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Advance notice: I'm taking a sabbatical October-December
Le 30/08/13 17:18, Sumana Harihareswara a écrit : You might not even have to wait that long! If you see a Sumana Harihareswara contributing patches to pywikipediabot sometime in November, that'll be me. :) I am sure you will make good use of flake8! (a python styling helper) -- Antoine hashar Musso ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Advance notice: I'm taking a sabbatical October-December
Congratulations - I hope you get co make many new bugs and even do some cool coding outside the wmf! I'm wandering if you'll update us about this unique experience as time allows? On Wednesday, August 28, 2013, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: I've been accepted to Hacker School https://www.hackerschool.com, a writers' retreat for programmers in New York City. I will therefore be taking an unpaid personal leave of absence from the Wikimedia Foundation via our sabbatical program. My last workday before my leave will be Friday, September 27. I plan to be on leave all of October, November, and December, returning to WMF in January. During my absence, Quim Gil will be the temporary head of the Engineering Community Team. Thank you, Quim! I'll spend much of September turning over responsibilities to him. Over the next month I'll be saying no to a lot of requests so I can ensure I take care of all my commitments by September 27th, when I'll be turning off my wikimedia.org email. If there's anything else I can do to minimize inconvenience, please let me know. And -- I have to say this -- oh my gosh I'm so excited to be going to Hacker School in just a month! Going from advanced beginner to confident programmer! Learning face-to-face with other coders, 30-45% of them women, all teaching each other! Thank you, WMF, for the sabbatical program, and thanks to my team for supporting me on this. I couldn't do this without you. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org javascript:; https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Oren Bochman Mobile +972 54 4320067 skype id: orenbochman e-mail: oren.boch...@gmail.com ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Advance notice: I'm taking a sabbatical October-December
On 08/28/2013 10:41 AM, Quim Gil wrote: PS: if we get bored here we will start collecting bugs to test you when you're back. ;) You might not even have to wait that long! If you see a Sumana Harihareswara contributing patches to pywikipediabot sometime in November, that'll be me. :) -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Advance notice: I'm taking a sabbatical October-December
Hi! On 08/28/2013 07:24 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: I've been accepted to Hacker School https://www.hackerschool.com Congratulations! You have worked a lot to achieve this (and it is only the beginning). During my absence, Quim Gil will be the temporary head of the Engineering Community Team. ... which I don't expect to bring much change to the quite horizontal and distributed way of working of our team. But in any case: happy to Be Useful. PS: if we get bored here we will start collecting bugs to test you when you're back. ;) -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Advance notice: I'm taking a sabbatical October-December
Sumana Harihareswara sumanah at wikimedia.org writes: I've been accepted to Hacker School https://www.hackerschool.com, a writers' retreat for programmers in New York City. I will therefore be taking an unpaid personal leave of absence from the Wikimedia Foundation via our sabbatical program. My last workday before my leave will be Friday, September 27. I plan to be on leave all of October, November, and December, returning to WMF in January. During my absence, Quim Gil will be the temporary head of the Engineering Community Team. Thank you, Quim! I'll spend much of September turning over responsibilities to him. Over the next month I'll be saying no to a lot of requests so I can ensure I take care of all my commitments by September 27th, when I'll be turning off my wikimedia.org email. If there's anything else I can do to minimize inconvenience, please let me know. And -- I have to say this -- oh my gosh I'm so excited to be going to Hacker School in just a month! Going from advanced beginner to confident programmer! Learning face-to-face with other coders, 30-45% of them women, all teaching each other! Thank you, WMF, for the sabbatical program, and thanks to my team for supporting me on this. I couldn't do this without you. Congratulations, Sumana! This sounds like a great opportunity for you. It is so great that programs like Hacker School and OPW are springing up these days to help people that are out of school get experience becoming better programmers. I'm looking forward to hearing about your experiences there. --Rachel *Gnome FOSS Outreach Program for Women Intern Browser Test Automation, Wikimedia Foundation* ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
