One of us, one of us! :) Congrats, Mark! -- Ori Livneh [email protected]
On Wednesday, September 26, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Terry Chay 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/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Wmfall mailing list > [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
