Wow, Thanks Steph, Maggie, Subhashish, Alollita, Joslyn, Mani, Victor, Barry, Ayush and Rachel! And I thought nobody reads these mails :)
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:38 AM, Rachel Farrand <rfarr...@wikimedia.org>wrote: > Yay Arun! It was great to meet you in Pune and I am glad that you have > finally officially joined up! > > > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Ayush Khanna <akha...@wikimedia.org>wrote: > >> Welcome! >> >> Also, the MTC project sounds very interesting. As some who was heavily >> reliant on public transport back in Mumbai, I can imagine how helpful that >> would be. >> >> Ayush Khanna >> Data Analyst, Global Development >> Wikimedia Foundation >> 415.839.6885 x6805 >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Barry Newstead (WMF) < >> bnewst...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> >>> Welcome Arun. It was a nice surprise to meet you in person at CIS in >>> Bangalore on Sunday. Great to have you onboard. >>> Best, >>> Barry >>> >>> -- >>> Barry Newstead >>> Chief Global Development Officer >>> Wikimedia Foundation >>> >>> On Thursday, May 3, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Victor Grigas wrote: >>> >>> ARUN!!! I'm happy you are on board! You are perfect for our team :) >>> >>> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Mani Pande <mpa...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >>> >>> Welcome aboard.!! >>> >>> >>> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:12 AM, asha...@wikimedia.org < >>> asha...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Arun, >>> >>> A very warm welcome to you on the I18n/L10N engineering team. We are >>> excited about the Universal Language Selector UI/UX work that you and Pau >>> are helping us with. >>> >>> Happy to see you onboard! >>> >>> Alolita >>> >>> __ >>> Alolita Sharma >>> Wikimedia Foundation >>> >>> >>> ----- Reply message ----- >>> From: "Subhashish Panigrahi" <su...@wikimedia.org> >>> To: >>> Cc: <wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org>, <wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org>, >>> "Arun Ganesh" <arun.plane...@gmail.com> >>> Subject: [Wmfall] Introduction - Arun >>> Date: Thu, May 3, 2012 6:55 am >>> >>> >>> Congratulations Arun! >>> >>> Happy that I met you a month back, now the L10n have more people from >>> Indic >>> communities and it makes me happier again ;-) >>> >>> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Maggie Dennis <mden...@wikimedia.org> >>> wrote: >>> >>> > Welcome, Arun! Somehow I feel sure that you are in for an interesting >>> > ride. :D >>> > >>> > Maggie >>> > >>> > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Arun Ganesh <arun.plane...@gmail.com >>> >wrote: >>> > >>> >> Hi everyone, >>> >> I wanted to introduce myself to the community and the WMF team, I'm >>> Arun >>> >> Ganesh (user:planemad)[1a] from Bangalore, India and have joined as >>> >> contractor for the foundation's L10n team[1b] as an Interaction >>> designer >>> >> along with Pau to improve the user experience of language tools and >>> >> features. >>> >> >>> >> I have been a longtime contributer to both commons[2] and the >>> >> openstreetmap[3] project and got involved with foundation work during >>> the >>> >> Mumbai and Pune hackathons recently[4][5][6] where I proposed some of >>> the >>> >> first ideas for the Universal Language Selector widget with Brandon, >>> with >>> >> which we want to make language selection for anyone easy peasy. >>> >> >>> >> Apart from that, I love cartography and maps [7], which would explain >>> my >>> >> map contributions and the occasional headline for wikipedia [8], use >>> only >>> >> public transport[9] and traveling with my pocket camera[10]. >>> >> >>> >> Its feels great to have this opportunity to work more seriously on a >>> >> project which has been an important part of my life. I'm new here, I >>> wont >>> >> claim to know much, but I hope to make a difference in whichever way >>> >> possible. I also look forward to interacting more closely and >>> learning from >>> >> the rest of the designers - Brandon, Heather and Pau to do the >>> wonderful >>> >> things that designers like to do .So keep the usability bugs coming :) >>> >> -Arun >>> >> >>> >> [1a] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad >>> >> [1b] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Localization_team >>> >> [2] >>> >> >>> http://tools.wikimedia.de/~daniel/WikiSense/Gallery.php?&wiki=commons.wikimedia.org&img_user_text=Planemad >>> >> [3] >>> >> >>> http://yosmhm.neis-one.org/?zoom=4&lat=21.96627&lon=81.68268&layers=B0T&u=PlaneMad >>> >> [4] >>> >> >>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector#Arun_Ganesh.27s_Original_design >>> >> [5] >>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mobile_language_selector.pdf >>> >> [6] >>> >> >>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:L10n-ux-Universal_Language_Selector-Wireframes1.pdf >>> >> [7] http://bit.ly/timesofindia-osm >>> >> [8] >>> >> >>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/jul/30/information-beautiful-india-cameron >>> >> [9] >>> >> >>> http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/article182223.ece >>> >> [10] http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1663025,00.html >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >>> >> Wmfall mailing list >>> >> wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org >>> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall >>> >> >>> >> >>> > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Maggie Dennis >>> > Community Liaison >>> > WikimediaFoundation.org >>> > >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Wmfall mailing list >>> > wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org >>> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall >>> > >>> > >>> >>> >>> -- >>> *Subha* >>> >>> >>> *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in >>> the >>> sum of all knowledge. 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