Welcome Andrew! Happy to see you onboard the Wikimedia train :-) -- Alolita Sharma Features Engineering WMF
----- Reply message ----- From: "Diederik van Liere" <[email protected]> To: "Wikimedia developers" <[email protected]> Cc: "Wikimedia developers" <[email protected]>, "Andrew Otto" <[email protected]> Subject: [Wikitech-l] Welcome, Andrew Otto - Software Developer for Analytics Date: Fri, Jan 6, 2012 10:28 am Welcome andrew! Super excited to have you joining us! Diederik Sent from my iPhone On 2012-01-06, at 13:13, Sumana Harihareswara <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/06/2012 01:08 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote: >> We're really excited to have Andrew on board to help bring some >> systems rigor to our data gathering process. Our current data mining >> regime involves a few pieces of lightweight data gathering >> infrastructure (e.g. udp2log), a combination of one-off special >> purpose log crunching scripts, along with other scripts that started >> their lives as one-off special purpose scripts, but have gradually >> become core infrastructure. Most of these scripts have single >> maintainers, and there is a lot of duplication of effort. In >> addition, the systems have a nasty tendency to break at the least >> opportune times. Andrew's background bringing sanity to insane >> environments will be enormously helpful here. > > (See episode S10E07, "The Shadow Scripts," > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/10/31/data-analytics-at-wikimedia-foundation/ > )* > >> Andrew is based out of Virginia, but is still traveling the world. >> Right now, you'll find him in New York City. Please join me in >> welcoming Andrew to the team! > > I congratulated him IN PERSON five minutes ago, because we're coworking > today. There's another New Yorker now, yay! > > -- > Sumana Harihareswara > Volunteer Development Coordinator > Wikimedia Foundation > > * I am being silly and acting as though this blog entry were an episode > of a science fiction TV show. > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
