Great to see community contributors spend some time on Staff :-). Danese
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Tomasz Finc <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings all, > > The Mobile and Special Projects department is pleased to announce the > addition of two new contractors to the team: Yuvaraj Pandian and Max > Seminik. > > Yuvaraj Pandian or Yuvi as we gotten to know him was one of our 2011 > Google Summer of Code students. During GSoC he worked with Arthur > Richards on porting the Wikipedia 1.0 bot to a PHP extension named > Selection Sifter. This was in important offline project as it allowed > us to better support and extend our offline tool chains. Previous to > this he had been active in the busroutes.in community where users > @logic and @planemad motivated him to come on and help the Wikimedia > community. One of his early Wikimedia project memories includes the > tawiki community discussing the ShortUrl extension. He found the > entire channel so lively and helpful that he applied for GSoC. > > Yuvi will be working for us remotely while on a six month sabbatical > from KCG College of Technology, India. He'll be extending the Android > app, enhancing MobileFrontend, and working with our various offline > efforts to further the reach of the projects. You can find him on irc > under the nick 'yuviapanda' . > > Max Semink has been an active MediaWiki contributor since 2009. He's > recently been most involved in developing the API Sandbox for > MediaWiki. An extension that allows any user to easily create complex > API queries through a visual interface. When not hacking on MediaWiki, > Max has been busy developing C++ software for embedded systems in the > railroad industry. While train switching has captured the majority of > his recent developer cycles, he's super eager to change direction and > focus his full time efforts on MediaWiki. > > Max will be continuing his interest in the API by helping us improve > and extend its use within mobile. He'll be adding a proper API to > MobileFrontend, extending support for GPS, and in general moving the > API forward for our mobile clients. Max will be working for us > remotely and can be found under the nick 'MaxSem' . > > It's great to be able to see two active community members be able to > join us full time. > > Please join me in (re)-welcoming Yuvi and Max! > > --tomasz > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
