Welcome Mark! - Akshay
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Terry Chay <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
