On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:47 PM, George Herbert wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
>> On 8/7/09 5:43 PM, George Herbert wrote:
>>> I suspect you're going to have to be prepared to do a lot of internal
>>> discovery and discovery with potential hires to show them the web op
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
> On 8/7/09 5:43 PM, George Herbert wrote:
>> I suspect you're going to have to be prepared to do a lot of internal
>> discovery and discovery with potential hires to show them the web ops
>> side - it's not well documented now (I keep meaning to
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
> With the increase in administrative and organizational duties, I've been
> less and less able to devote time to the part of the job that's nearest
> and dearest to me: working with our volunteer developer community and
> end users -- Wikimedia
On 8/7/09 5:43 PM, George Herbert wrote:
> I suspect you're going to have to be prepared to do a lot of internal
> discovery and discovery with potential hires to show them the web ops
> side - it's not well documented now (I keep meaning to find out more
> about the ops team and finding I have no
> A high turnover rate would indicate a lot of people joining and
> leaving,
> instead of long-term volunteers.
ah! that! no, site is operated by same people as five years ago (with
brilliant exception of search), few people left during that time,
because of various reasons.
some volunteers
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Domas Mituzas wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > I have a question on this for the tech team: as a rule, do you have a
> > high turnover of volunteers on the sysadmin ...
>
> turn-what?
> Jens is building a house or something, if that was your question.
>
> Domas
>
A high turnove
Hi!
> I have a question on this for the tech team: as a rule, do you have a
> high turnover of volunteers on the sysadmin ...
turn-what?
Jens is building a house or something, if that was your question.
Domas
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On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Geoffrey Plourde wrote:
> High Priest of Mediawiki?
I propose robes as his official outfit, similar to this:
http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Stallman/index.shtml
Magnus
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On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 01:43, George Herbert wrote:
> I suspect you're going to have to be prepared to do a lot of internal
> discovery and discovery with potential hires to show them the web ops
> side - it's not well documented now (I keep meaning to find out more
> about the ops team and finding
High Priest of Mediawiki?
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Somehow I'm not disappointed that we're having a prob
My favorite is "Chief Handshaker". :)
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On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
> On 8/7/09 2:35 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> > By containing the magic words "senior" and "architect" the proposed
> > "Senior Software Architect" is, in my experience, not inconsistent
> > with industry naming practice for the most important t
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Chad wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
>>
>> * ensure that the developers have what they need and are coding smoothly
>>
>
> Personally, I'm just waiting for Mediawiki to become self-aware and start
> coding itself :)
If SkyNet is PHP base
2009/8/9 Kat Walsh :
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
>
>> Now, if we really think of a _totally badass title_ before we get the
>> business cards printed up I'm open to changing it, but honestly I like
>> it and it fits the role I see for myself just fine. :)
>
> Or you could
Somehow I'm not disappointed that we're having a problem trying to
find a title to describe how incredibly awesome Brion is.
Congrats.
-Dan
On Aug 8, 2009, at 8:45 PM, Jim Redmond wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 19:32, Kat Walsh
> wrote:
>
>> Or you could have two sets of business cards. :-)
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 19:32, Kat Walsh wrote:
> Or you could have two sets of business cards. :-)
>
And here I was going to suggest a slashed title: "Senior Software
Architect/Lead Hacker". (Maybe "Senior Software Architect/Sourceror" if
he's the eighth son of an eighth son.)
Congratulations
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
>
> * ensure that the developers have what they need and are coding smoothly
>
Personally, I'm just waiting for Mediawiki to become self-aware and start
coding itself :)
-Chad
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On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
> Now, if we really think of a _totally badass title_ before we get the
> business cards printed up I'm open to changing it, but honestly I like
> it and it fits the role I see for myself just fine. :)
Or you could have two sets of business card
2009/8/7 Brion Vibber :
> On 8/7/09 2:35 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>> By containing the magic words "senior" and "architect" the proposed
>> "Senior Software Architect" is, in my experience, not inconsistent
>> with industry naming practice for the most important tech guru who
>> isn't primarily a
lolz
2009/8/8 Domas Mituzas
> Hi!
>
> > And I have to assume that's primarily due to your
> > efforts.
> >
> > Thanks Brion. Excellent work.
>
> Yes, thank you Brion! :)
>
> Domas
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Hi!
> And I have to assume that's primarily due to your
> efforts.
>
> Thanks Brion. Excellent work.
Yes, thank you Brion! :)
Domas
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On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
> Now, if we really think of a _totally badass title_ before we get the
> business cards printed up I'm open to changing it, but honestly I like
> it and it fits the role I see for myself just fine. :)
Ah, hi Brion. I didn't realise you were on
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Robert Rohde wrote:
> Brion is also engaged in a
> significant amount of interaction with external communities...
Just so happens I got my first view of Brion only yesterday.
Here he is giving a talk to Google staff: seems like a lovely,
down-to-earth guy. Inform
David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/8/7 Gregory Maxwell:
>
>> It's not bad to have an internal pattern, but I think it's more
>> important to match the practices in industry.
>> By containing the magic words "senior" and "architect" the proposed
>> "Senior Software Architect" is, in my experience, not in
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
> On 8/7/09 3:39 PM, James Forrester wrote:
>> 2009/8/7 Brion Vibber:
>>> On 8/7/09 3:06 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
It's not just about resumes, it's also about being taken seriously
when communicating with others. A "Head Software Archite
On 8/7/09 3:39 PM, James Forrester wrote:
> 2009/8/7 Brion Vibber:
>> On 8/7/09 3:06 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
>>> It's not just about resumes, it's also about being taken seriously
>>> when communicating with others. A "Head Software Architect" will
>>> probably be taken more seriously than a "Seni
On 8/7/09 2:35 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> By containing the magic words "senior" and "architect" the proposed
> "Senior Software Architect" is, in my experience, not inconsistent
> with industry naming practice for the most important tech guru who
> isn't primarily a manager.
>
> It's not a bad t
2009/8/7 Brion Vibber :
> On 8/7/09 3:06 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
>> It's not just about resumes, it's also about being taken seriously
>> when communicating with others. A "Head Software Architect" will
>> probably be taken more seriously than a "Senior Software Architect",
>> since the former sho
On 8/7/09 3:06 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> It's not just about resumes, it's also about being taken seriously
> when communicating with others. A "Head Software Architect" will
> probably be taken more seriously than a "Senior Software Architect",
> since the former shows you are the boss, that latt
2009/8/7 Aryeh Gregor :
> Well, we can still informally call him the lead developer.
We can informally call him "Brion". It's worked up until now!
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2009/8/7 David Gerard :
> 2009/8/7 Gregory Maxwell :
>
>> It's not bad to have an internal pattern, but I think it's more
>> important to match the practices in industry.
>> By containing the magic words "senior" and "architect" the proposed
>> "Senior Software Architect" is, in my experience, not
It's great to hear this. We've really been lacking in senior
developer time for the last year or two, and I hope we can put an end
to that!
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Robert Rohde wrote:
> I would like to note that it isn't just internal naming schemes and/or
> industry conventions that matt
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
>> Our approach to job titles actually has an emerging basic pattern. :-)
>> It's not 100% consistent because we sometimes have stuck with commonly
>> used titles like "Office Manager" and "
2009/8/7 Gregory Maxwell :
> It's not bad to have an internal pattern, but I think it's more
> important to match the practices in industry.
> By containing the magic words "senior" and "architect" the proposed
> "Senior Software Architect" is, in my experience, not inconsistent
> with industry na
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
> Our approach to job titles actually has an emerging basic pattern. :-)
> It's not 100% consistent because we sometimes have stuck with commonly
> used titles like "Office Manager" and "General Counsel", but generally
> one we try to follow:
[sni
2009/8/7 Thomas Dalton :
> It's not really title inflation to give someone that is in charge of
> something a title which says that.
Our approach to job titles actually has an emerging basic pattern. :-)
It's not 100% consistent because we sometimes have stuck with commonly
used titles like "Offic
2009/8/7 Michael Snow :
> So you're suggesting we should join in the rampant title inflation of
> corporate America, where everyone is a Sr. Executive Vice-President of
> something? Anyway, your assessment of Brion's ongoing significance to
> our operations is perceptive, and I hope everyone else m
Robert Rohde wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
>
>> I think this is a fantastic idea. I think the biggest problem the tech
>> side of the WMF has had over the last year or two has been
>> prioritisation and splitting the job like this should help that no
>> end.
>>
>
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> I think this is a fantastic idea. I think the biggest problem the tech
> side of the WMF has had over the last year or two has been
> prioritisation and splitting the job like this should help that no
> end.
>
> I'm curious - would the Senior
On 8/7/09 11:12 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> I think this is a fantastic idea. I think the biggest problem the tech
> side of the WMF has had over the last year or two has been
> prioritisation and splitting the job like this should help that no
> end.
>
> I'm curious - would the Senior Software Arch
I think this is a fantastic idea. I think the biggest problem the tech
side of the WMF has had over the last year or two has been
prioritisation and splitting the job like this should help that no
end.
I'm curious - would the Senior Software Architect report to the CTO?
If so, that means Brion has
Thank you for the update, Brion. You've been effectively wearing every
hat there is to wear for a person with technical skills in the
Wikimedia Foundation. That's an enormously challenging set of
responsibilities, and you've managed them very well, both in good
times and in emergency-crisis-mode-ti
I'm very excited to announce some new upcoming hiring for tech... I've
also posted this on our tech blog which is mirrored on Planet Wikimedia:
http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/08/cto-position-split/
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