On 01/12/2012 06:22 AM, Tomasz Finc wrote: > Greetings all, > > I'm pleased to announce that Andre Engles has decided to join the Mobile > team as our data analyst contractor. In this role he'll provide the mobile > team with key metrics to guide our software development efforts. He'll be > working closely with Diederik, Phil, Erick Zachte, me, and others to > standardize, automate, and expand our growing analytics needs. > > For those that don't know ... Andre is one of the 'oldest' Wikipedians (in > terms of years on the site). His first edits on Wikipedia were from March > 2001 (two things to show how early: 1. That's before the first > slashdotting; 2. English Wikipedia several years ago had a list of the > oldest still active editors, He was at number 8. Number 7 was Jimbo). Apart > from being an editor and sysop he has also been active as both an operator > and a programmer of bots (still active as an operator, but only very > little as a programmer nowadays), and has Steward rights. He also helped in > the creation of Wikimedia Commons. > Apart from Wikipedia, he is active in various open content projects. These > include PGDP (Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders) and > Openstreetmap; recently has done similar things in the area of Dutch > etymology. > > Andre studied mathematics, got his PhD in computer science. His last job > was at C-Content, which is a company working in search engines. For them he > mostly did harvesting and search request analysis. Before that he worked > for the R&D department of Ericsson Netherlands. > > He just celebrated his 40th birthday, and is (and always have been) single, > living in the city of ´s-Hertogenbosch. His free time is mostly spent > behind his computer, either with the above mentioned projects or playing > games. Apart from that he's an avid Go player, having reached the grade of > 3 dan. > > I'm really honored to bring on such a long time community member to the > Mobile team. > > Please join me in welcoming Andre! > > --tomasz
I'm constantly awed at the caliber of people I get to work with. Welcome, Andre! -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
