Many congrats from me as well, Sumana. I knew you were going to really shine in your role, and you have!
D On Apr 24, 2012, at 8:30 PM, Rob Lanphier <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm happy to announce that we have promoted Sumana Harihareswara as > manager of Engineering Community group. Sumana started with us as a > contractor back in February 2011, initially in a targeted engagement > to help out with Google Summer of Code and with the Berlin Hackathon > last year. Later that year, as we interviewed people to bring in as > Volunteer Development Coordinator, not only did Sumana put in a strong > application herself, but recruited very worthy competition for the > role. After winning the role, she worked tirelessly to straighten out > many kinks in our processes around volunteer development and > systematically ensured that new volunteer developers get the > recognition and (if needed) help they deserve. She has also applied > focus and organization in many areas outside of her immediate purview, > for example, recently stepping in as project manager for Git, and > occasionally filling in for me when I've been unavailable for the > larger Platform Engineering organization. > > The promotion to Engineering Community Manager isn't so much a change > in the way things are done here so much as an official recognition of > a vital role that she has already played for the past year. Sumana > has been working with Guillaume Paumier and Mark Hershberger under the > somewhat ad hoc group title of "Technical Liaison; Developer Relations > (tl;dr)", serving as lead of that group since last year. Under the > new "Engineering Community" name, this group will continue to serve > many roles: facilitating collaboration and communication between > Wikimedia Foundation and its employees and the larger Wikimedia > developer community, as well as facilitating collaboration and > communication between the Wikimedia developer community and other > Wikimedia communities. > > Thank you, Sumana, for your hard work over the past year. I'm looking > forward to seeing what you and the group accomplish moving forward. > Congratulations! > > Rob > > _______________________________________________ > 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
