Hi all, Could we get some kind of information of what is this Engineering Community Group? So far I know it's headed by Sumana, which is nice but still I would like to know more :)
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Oren Bochman <[email protected]> wrote: > Great news. > > Congratulations Sumana !! > > I think that this is greatly deserved -- I'd be glad that you will be having > an even greater impact bringing in more people into our ecosystem. > > Oren Bochman > Lead of Search > > Operation Manager > E-mail: [email protected] > Mobil: +36 30 866 6706 > > > > Római Horizon Kft. > H-1039 Budapest > Királyok útja 291. D. ép. fszt. 2. > Tel: +36 1 492 1492 > Fax: +36 1 266 5529 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rob Lanphier > Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 5:30 AM > To: Wikimedia developers > Subject: [Wikitech-l] New Engineering Community Group, headed by Sumana > Harihareswara > > 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
