Hello everyone,
It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Mark Holmquist has joined
the Wikimedia Foundation as a Feature Engineer.
Mark is a free software advocate and software engineer. Before joining us,
he was getting his B.S. in Computer Science at the University of Redlands. You
may have remembered him from back when he was a student doing the WMF org chart
before he graduated in June of this year, or as a contractor working on
UploadWizard and assorted bug zapping. :-)
He has contributed to many free software projects in the past, including
Minetest, Etherpad, and OpenHatch. Recently he has worked on the EtherEditor
extension for MediaWiki[0]. BTW, Erik will be wanting to suck your 20% time
into finishing out the outstanding bugs. ;-)
On the side, he enjoys playing Bridge[1] and the occasional jaunt for
Parkour[2]. He lives in the Mission in foggy San Francisco. He also really
enjoy reading and discussing court cases, either oral arguments or decisions.
He's subscribed to the Cornell Supreme Court bulletin [3], so bug him about
the cases that are in the news. :-)
His first official day was on September 17th, but I flaked out because of
the all-staff and then decided to procrastinate some more on this announcement
since you already know him from all his participation on IRC and wikitech-l.
Until December, he will be working with Gabriel Wicke on the Parsoid, which is
the rewrite of the Wikitext parser to work with the VisualEditor proejct (I
assume James and Trevor have completed the necessary hazing on the VE Team and
he has gotten his t-shirt). But more generally, he'll be on the Features team
with Editor Engagement and assorted front-end technical debt here at the WMF.
Please join me in welcoming Mark Holmquist to the Wikimedia Foundation. :-)
Take care,
Terry
[0] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EtherEditor
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_bridge
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkour
[3] http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/cert/
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