Hoi,
Congratulations .... well deserved :)
Thanks,
Gerard
On 25 April 2012 07:11, Danese Cooper <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
> >
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