Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to WMF September 2014 Metrics Activities Meeting: Thursday, October 2, 18:00 UTC

2014-09-30 Thread Pine W
Sounds good, thanks Erik. Pine On Sep 29, 2014 10:02 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Praveena. For future meetings, could you set up a place on Meta where people can make requests and suggestions for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Damon Sicore joins WMF as Vice President of Engineering

2014-09-30 Thread Nurunnaby Hasive
+1 Welcome, Damon! On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 7:10 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Re: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Template:Staff_and_contractors What's the timeline for re-organizing the current

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2016 - Jury Announcement and Start of Bidding

2014-09-30 Thread Lodewijk
I'm seriously having doubts why this is becoming such a drama for some people. There's a clear process (the Wikimania committee selects a jury, which selects a winning bid to be confirmed by the WMF) and they asked for volunteers, which they selected a jury from. Yay. Because lets face it, being

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2016 - Jury Announcement and Start of Bidding

2014-09-30 Thread
On 30 September 2014 14:12, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote: I'm seriously having doubts why this is becoming such a drama for some people. There's a clear process (the Wikimania committee selects a jury, which selects a winning bid to be confirmed by the WMF) and they asked for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Damon Sicore joins WMF as Vice President of Engineering

2014-09-30 Thread Lila Tretikov
Frederico, in simple terms: Product == what (we build) Engineering == how (well we build it) Think of this as an architect and the builder. Both are required to make sure the building is sound. L On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Lila Tretikov,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Damon Sicore joins WMF as Vice President of Engineering

2014-09-30 Thread Cristian Consonni
2014-09-29 23:37 GMT+02:00 Risker risker...@gmail.com: On 29 September 2014 16:32, Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com wrote: [...] (for the lazy ones: «[Damon] spent six years at the Mozilla Corporation, where he grew a small team of 27 people to a team of more than 600 open source

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quarterly reviews of high priority WMF initiatives

2014-09-30 Thread Tilman Bayer
Minutes and slides from last week's quarterly review meeting of the Foundation's Analytics team are now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews/Analytics/September_2014 . On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quarterly reviews of high priority WMF initiatives

2014-09-30 Thread Tilman Bayer
Minutes and slides from last week's quarterly review meeting of the Foundation's Mobile Contributions team are now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews/Mobile_contributions/September_2014 . On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Erik Moeller

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Damon Sicore joins WMF as Vice President of Engineering

2014-09-30 Thread Wil Sinclair
Hi Damon, looking forward to meeting you. I'd like to welcome you not only to WMF, but to the wikimedia-l list. I encourage you to join the discussions here, even if you feel like you don't have the deep expertise and broad community context that a lot of the big shots who post here may have. I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quarterly reviews of high priority WMF initiatives

2014-09-30 Thread Tilman Bayer
Minutes and slides from last week's mid-year review meeting of the Foundation's Wikipedia Education Program team are now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews/Wikipedia_Education_Program/September_2014 . On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 6:49 PM,