Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Welcoming Wikimedia Foundation’s new CTO, Grant Ingersoll

2019-09-19 Thread James Salsman 
Well, I'm thrilled about this, especially after having had a look
through 
https://www.slideshare.net/lucidworks/searching-for-better-code-presented-by-grant-ingersoll-lucidworks

Honestly, though, it's only the third best thing that happened this
week after Valerie Plame entering politics and the UC system divesting
from fossil fuels.

Grant, welcome! My advice is to set make a long list of concrete KPIs
for contributor (e.g. editor) support, reach, and cloud support, in a
way that can be used for fundraising. The fundraising messaging has
been stuck for years on this thing about, "if everyone reading this
contributed the cost of a cup of coffee, then _some goal here_," which
is okay, but could be so much better flipped with the KPIs as the ask,
e.g., "Each $CURRENCY you donate will pay to support N additional
$CONTENTS," where the wikipedias can use ops measurements of the
resources typical to, e.g., take an article from Start to B class, for
example, or how much time, server electricity including idle time, and
other resource it takes to get a new word added to Wiktionary to some
level of proficiency. If these units relate to the potential donor's
language or geography, all the better. People geolocated in the
developed world using languages with highly developed wikipedias and
wiktionaries can be told how much it would cost to, for example,
eliminate units of the various WP:BACKLOG items you find suitable in
multivariate e.g. Latin squares donation message testing. (Or add new
technology projects like an intelligibility- and natural spoken
feedback version of https://www.speechace.co/api_sample/ hint
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166929#5473028 hint.)

Also please take Curecoin instead of Bitcoin, even if that means
paying the extra transaction fee before converting the Curecoin to
cash. It is the height of folly to be as close to endorsing wasted
electricity-based cryptocurrency as we already do, when alternatives
with a benefit are less commonly known. The only other blockchain
thing I like is that long-term state-sponsored censorship mitigation
program can be based on copying the dumps to IPFS, but please also
support the CDN efforts like Encrypted-SNI:

https://twitter.com/jsalsman/status/1142172682751864832

https://twitter.com/jsalsman/status/1142940652851695616

https://twitter.com/jsalsman/status/1053786384463355905

Please let me know your thoughts.

Best regards,
Jim


On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 12:31 PM Andy Mabbett  wrote:
>
> On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 17:55, Katherine Maher  wrote:
>
> > I’m excited to officially welcome Grant Ingersoll as our Chief Technology
> > Officer! Grant
>
> It is UTTERLY OUTRAGEOUS of Katherine to post this...
>
> > In Grant’s own words
>
> > We're adjusting to the empty nest life with our dog Allie (a
> > black lab mix).
>
> ...without linking to at least one cute pic of Allie ;-)
>
> --
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> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Welcoming Wikimedia Foundation’s new CTO, Grant Ingersoll

2019-09-19 Thread Amirouche Boubekki 
Le mer. 18 sept. 2019 à 19:44, Katherine Maher  a
écrit :

> Hi all,
>
> I’m excited to officially welcome Grant Ingersoll as our Chief Technology
> Officer! Grant will be starting September 23. He’ll be based in Charlotte,
> North Carolina.
>

[...]


> Please join me in welcoming Grant to the Wikimedia Foundation!
>

Welcome and good luck with your future wiki (data) challenges!

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Welcoming Wikimedia Foundation’s new CTO, Grant Ingersoll

2019-09-19 Thread Bobby Shabangu 
Welcome to your new role Grant, looking forward to working with you and
perhaps meet you in person one day.

Kind regards,
Bobby Shabangu

On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 11:47, Lucas Werkmeister 
wrote:

> Congratulations to Grant on his new position, and to the Foundation on
> the new CTO! I look forward seeing your work.
>
>
> On 19.09.19 07:35, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 12:32 PM Andy Mabbett  >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 17:55, Katherine Maher 
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I’m excited to officially welcome Grant Ingersoll as our Chief
> Technology
> >>> Officer! Grant
> >>
> >> It is UTTERLY OUTRAGEOUS of Katherine to post this...
> >>
> >>> In Grant’s own words
> >>
> >>> We're adjusting to the empty nest life with our dog Allie (a
> >>> black lab mix).
> >>
> >> ...without linking to at least one cute pic of Allie ;-)
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  Frankly I am shocked ... shocked! that a woman of Katherine’s obvious
> > talents must be reminded of this basic pillar of the movement: If you
> > invoke a cute puppy, you better be prepared to prove it.
> >
> > Geez, K, have we taught you nothing in the, what, half a decade, that
> > you’ve been part of this movement?
> >
> > -philippe
>
>
> Can someone explain to me why it’s so funny to repeat the exact same
> toxic tone that this mailing list is notorious for, but this time
> jokingly? It’s not like this is a fun, harmless reminder of a dreadful
> past we’ve long left behind us…
>
> Cheers,
> Lucas
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Welcoming Wikimedia Foundation’s new CTO, Grant Ingersoll

2019-09-19 Thread Lucas Werkmeister 
Congratulations to Grant on his new position, and to the Foundation on
the new CTO! I look forward seeing your work.


On 19.09.19 07:35, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 12:32 PM Andy Mabbett 
> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 17:55, Katherine Maher 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I’m excited to officially welcome Grant Ingersoll as our Chief Technology
>>> Officer! Grant
>>
>> It is UTTERLY OUTRAGEOUS of Katherine to post this...
>>
>>> In Grant’s own words
>>
>>> We're adjusting to the empty nest life with our dog Allie (a
>>> black lab mix).
>>
>> ...without linking to at least one cute pic of Allie ;-)
>>
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  Frankly I am shocked ... shocked! that a woman of Katherine’s obvious
> talents must be reminded of this basic pillar of the movement: If you
> invoke a cute puppy, you better be prepared to prove it.
> 
> Geez, K, have we taught you nothing in the, what, half a decade, that
> you’ve been part of this movement?
> 
> -philippe


Can someone explain to me why it’s so funny to repeat the exact same
toxic tone that this mailing list is notorious for, but this time
jokingly? It’s not like this is a fun, harmless reminder of a dreadful
past we’ve long left behind us…

Cheers,
Lucas

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Welcoming Wikimedia Foundation’s new CTO, Grant Ingersoll

2019-09-18 Thread Philippe Beaudette 
On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 12:32 PM Andy Mabbett 
wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 17:55, Katherine Maher 
> wrote:
>
> > I’m excited to officially welcome Grant Ingersoll as our Chief Technology
> > Officer! Grant
>
> It is UTTERLY OUTRAGEOUS of Katherine to post this...
>
> > In Grant’s own words
>
> > We're adjusting to the empty nest life with our dog Allie (a
> > black lab mix).
>
> ...without linking to at least one cute pic of Allie ;-)
>




 Frankly I am shocked ... shocked! that a woman of Katherine’s obvious
talents must be reminded of this basic pillar of the movement: If you
invoke a cute puppy, you better be prepared to prove it.

Geez, K, have we taught you nothing in the, what, half a decade, that
you’ve been part of this movement?

-philippe

>
> --
Philippe Beaudette
phili...@beaudette.me
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Welcoming Wikimedia Foundation’s new CTO, Grant Ingersoll

2019-09-18 Thread Robert Fernandez 
Of all the useless pontificating that happens both on this list and on
Wikipedia, *this* is the comment that you call out?  smh

On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 3:57 PM Aron Manning  wrote:

> > ...without linking to at least one cute pic of Allie ;-)
> >
>
> Well, Wikipedia is not a social networking service like Facebook or
> Twitter.
> <
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_a_blog,_web_hosting_service,_social_networking_service,_or_memorial_site
> >
> Although fun and uplifting comments are always welcome, please notice that
> your mail can be understood in many different ways, neither of which is
> beneficial.
> Thank you.
>
> Aron
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Welcoming Wikimedia Foundation’s new CTO, Grant Ingersoll

2019-09-18 Thread Aron Manning 
> ...without linking to at least one cute pic of Allie ;-)
>

Well, Wikipedia is not a social networking service like Facebook or Twitter.

Although fun and uplifting comments are always welcome, please notice that
your mail can be understood in many different ways, neither of which is
beneficial.
Thank you.

Aron
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Welcoming Wikimedia Foundation’s new CTO, Grant Ingersoll

2019-09-18 Thread Andy Mabbett 
On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 17:55, Katherine Maher  wrote:

> I’m excited to officially welcome Grant Ingersoll as our Chief Technology
> Officer! Grant

It is UTTERLY OUTRAGEOUS of Katherine to post this...

> In Grant’s own words

> We're adjusting to the empty nest life with our dog Allie (a
> black lab mix).

...without linking to at least one cute pic of Allie ;-)

-- 
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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