Congratulations all & good luck..
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 2:29 AM, Steven Zhang <[email protected]> wrote: > Congratulations to you all, and good luck. I'm sure you will all do a > great job! > > Steven Zhang > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On 20/06/2013, at 4:04 am, Philippe Beaudette <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > Howie and I are pleased to announce the onboarding of four new community > > liaisons for the product team. Howie has generously allowed me to send > > this email, since their initial tasking will be to VisualEditor and the > > Change Management team, working with me. At the conclusion of the > > deployment of VisualEditor, they will be assigned as community liaisons > to > > other groups within the product team. > > > > Please welcome four new contractors: Erica Litrenta, Sherry Snyder, > > Patrick Earley, and (a returning face) Keegan Peterzell. > > > > These positions are temporary, contract-based positions, each with an > > initial term of roughly 90 days. Below, I've pasted below a brief > summary > > of each of the four so that you can get to know them. I know you'll join > > me in wishing them the best with their new work! > > pb > > > > ___________________ > > Philippe Beaudette > > Director, Community Advocacy > > Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. > > > > > > > > *Erica / Elitre* > > Erica will be initially primarily tasked with supporting the deployment > on > > Italian Wikipedia, but will also be helping out with other wikis as well. > > She edits as User:Elitre <https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Elitre> > on > > the Italian Wikipedia. Born and raised in Cosenza, Italy, she graduated > > from Università della Calabria (with a Master's degree in Foreign > Languages > > and Literature), and now lives in Bologna. Her favorite work experience > so > > far was last year with lettera27 Foundation, where she wrote case studies > > for the WikiAfrica/Share Your Knowledge projects (go GLAMs!) and hunted > for > > more free contents and institutions to involve (She's been involved with > > the Wikimedia Movement and has evangelized about our projects since > 2005). > > She's fond of: playing life/construction and management videogames, > taking > > pictures, making cheesecakes, studying and writing about Italian > folklore - > > notably the Palio di Siena, listening to symphonic metal/rock. > > > > She's in a romantic relationship with OTRS (yes, you read that right - > she > > was once dubbed "romantic and dreadful" because of this) since 2006 > which, > > she points out, is longer than her relationship with her boyfriend: she > met > > him later. > > > > > > *Sherry / WhatamIdoing* > > Some of you know her well, if nothing else, for her descriptive username > (" > > WhatamIdoing <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing>"). She > > writes: > > > > *My name is Sherry Snyder, better known as "WhatamIdoing" on several > > English-speaking projects. My culinary quest for the summer is a > low-sugar > > chocolate peanut butter, which those of you with European tendencies > should > > interpret as "like Nutella, only better." (In response to this, my > husband > > says, "POV-inline, dubious - discuss?") I've been a Wikipedian since > > 2007. I am a metapedian by nature and a typo fixer by compulsion. I'm > > still a little amazed that the WMF hired me for this project and happy to > > be joining the team that is trying to make the transition to VisualEditor > > be more successful and less surprising. > > * > > > > Sherry will be supporting the deployment on the English Wikipedia and > > non-English speaking projects to be assigned still. She was a huge help > > during the development of the Terms of Use, and I'm looking forward to > > working with her. > > > > > > *Patrick / The Interior* > > Patrick is from Kamloops, British Columbia (yes, another Canadian!), a > > logging and cattle town in the Interior of the province. He edits enwiki > > as "The Interior <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:The_Interior>". He > > has studied library science and film, and has worked a variety of > > interesting jobs so far, including wildland firefighting, documentary > > filmmaking, treeplanting, sorting books at a second hand store, > > cataloguing, screenwriting, teaching English in Taiwan and, now, liaising > > for the WMF! He currently lives in Vancouver in the aptly named Mount > > Pleasant neighbourhood. He wishes to point out that he uses Canadian > > spelling. :P > > > > Patrick has been a Wikipedia editor since 2008. He loves working on > > geography and both natural and human history. He has worked with the > > Education Program, hopes to be more involved in GLAM projects in the > > future, and is very interested in the Wikipedia/library interface. > Patrick > > will be focused on non-English speaking wikis. > > > > *Keegan* > > Some of you will remember that > > Keegan<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan> previously > > worked with us on the 2010 Fundraiser. He has been editing since 2005, > > and has a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of > > Tennessee-Chattanooga. An English Wikipedia administrator, oversighter, > > and CheckUser, he served a year-long appointment to the audit > subcommittee > > for 2011-2012. > > > > Globally he is a volunteer response team leader (OTRS admin) and member > of > > the Communications committee. > > > > He says that he's not an article writer, so he tries to give back in > other > > ways. Keegan will be reprising his role from the 2010 fundraiser, where > he > > was a workhorse in communicating with non-English wikis. > > ___________________ > > Philippe Beaudette > > Director, Community Advocacy > > Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. > > > > 415-839-6885, x 6643 > > > > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > -- * Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive* Sent from my iPhone _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
