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

2014-09-30 Thread
On 29 September 2014 15:53, Ellie Young wrote: > We have a system that works for jury selection. What I would STRONGLY like > to encourage people in the community to do is seek out prospective people who > would be good hosts and work with me on preparing a bid. That is is our > biggest nee

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 o

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

2014-09-30 Thread
On 30 September 2014 14:12, Lodewijk 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 > volunteers, which they sele

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) wrote: > Lila Tretikov, 29/09/2014 19:38:

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 : > On 29 September 2014 16:32, Cristian Consonni > 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 >> software engineers, technical leads

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 wrote: > Hi folks, >

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 don

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,