Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Shahyar Ghobadpour joins Wikimedia Core features team as Software Engineer

2014-01-09 Thread Andrew Green
Welcome, Shahyar!!! It's really fun that recent arrivals include folks from two places where I really feel I belong--Montreal and Mexico. Now, if only they were a 30-minute subway ride away from each other... :) P.S. Montreal is better than Toronto. P.P.S. Carnitas are better than poutine. On

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Shahyar Ghobadpour joins Wikimedia Core features team as Software Engineer

2014-01-06 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Welcome, Shahyar. Thank you for joining us! Can you point to a pronunciation of your name? (I'm guessing shaa-h-yayer)? I look forward to your work on Flow; it's a super important project. Thanks! Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Shahyar Ghobadpour joins Wikimedia Core features team as Software Engineer

2014-01-06 Thread Arthur Richards
Welcome Shahyar :) On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: Welcome, Shahyar. Thank you for joining us! Can you point to a pronunciation of your name? (I'm guessing shaa-h-yayer)? I look forward to your work on Flow; it's a super important

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Shahyar Ghobadpour joins Wikimedia Core features team as Software Engineer

2014-01-06 Thread Steven Walling
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Terry Chay tc...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello everyone, It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Shahyar G(whatever)[1] has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as Software Engineer in Features Engineering. Before joining us, Shahyar worked as an engineer

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Shahyar Ghobadpour joins Wikimedia Core features team as Software Engineer

2014-01-06 Thread Luis Villa
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Shahyar Ghobadpour sghobadp...@wikimedia.org wrote: Lastly, I don't know what the poutine situation is in San Francisco. I have seen only one place with poutine in the entire city, and it is conveniently two and a half blocks from the office. Luis (also,

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Shahyar Ghobadpour joins Wikimedia Core features team as Software Engineer

2014-01-06 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
On 01/06/2014 08:00 PM, Luis Villa wrote: I have seen only one place with poutine in the entire city, and it is conveniently two and a half blocks from the office. I don't know if it's the same place you are referring to, but the Club Quarters restaurant actually has a selection of poutines

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Shahyar Ghobadpour joins Wikimedia Core features team as Software Engineer

2014-01-06 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
Happy to see Persian people in WMF, welcome to the WMF @Sumana: It pounces like shah-ry-yaar gho-baad-poor Best On 1/7/14, Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org wrote: On 01/06/2014 08:00 PM, Luis Villa wrote: I have seen only one place with poutine in the entire city, and it is conveniently two

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Shahyar Ghobadpour joins Wikimedia Core features team as Software Engineer

2014-01-06 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
*pronounces, stupid spellchecker On 1/7/14, Amir Ladsgroup ladsgr...@gmail.com wrote: Happy to see Persian people in WMF, welcome to the WMF @Sumana: It pounces like shah-ry-yaar gho-baad-poor Best On 1/7/14, Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org wrote: On 01/06/2014 08:00 PM, Luis Villa