Welcome, Steve. I am down in Portland, but I hope you find others to assist you with these sorts of projects. Glad to hear of your interest in Wikimedia Cascadia. Jason
On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Steve, > > Welcome to the group. Seattle is a good place for people with multilingual > abilities and international project manager localization experience. I > think that some of our local employers would be interested in talking with > you. You might also want to keep an eye on Wikimedia Foundation and public > sector job postings. > > We have an editathon planned for tomorrow at UW. After that our next > meetings will be in May. I need to coordinate with Peaceray about > scheduling, and one of us will post a note to the list when a decision is > reached. We sometimes meet socially on a Tuesday evening when we are not > having editathons and other events. > > I look forward to meeting you! > > Pine > On Apr 24, 2015 3:43 PM, "Steve Zitkovich" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hello Wikimedia-Cascadians, > > > > > > > > I just joined the group and want to introduce myself. > > > > > > > > I am a native Seattleite (Garfield High School, 1984) but majored in > German > > and have lived/worked 12 years of my adult life in Europe (Germany, > France, > > UK, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Slovakia). > > > > > > > > Professionally I am an international product manager specialized in > > localization. I recently left my last position and am looking for a new > job > > based in Seattle with international travel or be based abroad. > > > > > > > > There are two reasons I joined the Wikimedia-Cascadia group: > > > > > > > > 1/ Wikimedia is for me the ultimate internet organization: my internet > > career is a extension of my interest in languages and inspiration of the > > internet as a communications medium to make information available across > > languages regardless of time + geography -- exactly what Wikimedia does! > I > > want to be involved with Wikimedia. > > > > > > > > 2/ I have a social-entrepreneurial idea around digitizing old print > > periodicals for which I would like to use some of Wikimedia's open-source > > tools or potentially even partner with Wikimedia itself. I have talked to > > Jonathan Morgan about it and he suggested I join this group and see if > > there > > are some people who would be interested in working on the idea with me. > > > > > > > > So if anyone in this group (or has friends outside this group) has a > > passion > > for digitizing print materials from the past (ex. DIY music/culture > > magazines, neighborhood newsletters, school newsletters), send me an > email. > > > > > > > > In any case, I hope to meet you in person at an upcoming > Wikimedia-Cascadia > > gathering. > > > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > > > > > > Steve Zitkovich > > > > subscribed with "[email protected]", primary email = > > "[email protected]" > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia
