Welcome Andre! Akshay
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:52 PM, Sumana Harihareswara <suma...@wikimedia.org > wrote: > I am delighted to announce that October 8th will be Andre Klapper's > first day as Wikimedia Foundation's Bug Wrangler. [0] > > You've seen him on IRC as "andre__" and on mediawiki.org as Malyacko, > and sadly that's mostly how I'll be seeing him since he lives in the > Czech Republic. He speaks German, English, French, and Czech, and can > kinda read Russian. You might have met him at the 2012 Berlin hackathon. > > Andre got into open source because he switched to Linux, had a support > question about GNOME Evolution, and got sucked into bug triage from > there. You can read more about that in his essay "Kick, Push" in Open > Advice <open-advice.org>. He's an editor of German- and > English-language Wikimedia projects, and has already started commenting > on and nudging bugs in our Bugzilla. > > I know Andre through the GNOME community, where he is Bugzilla > maintainer and bugsquad member, member of the Release Team, member of > the Translation Project Coordination team, member of the Czech GNOME > translation teams, and author & maintainer of the GNOME Evolution user > documentation. And he organized and ran GNOME's part in Google Code-In > 2010/11 and 2011/12, so he might have opinions on whether Wikimedia > should participate this year. > > Remember Maemo? [1] Andre worked as bugmaster on Maemo and MeeGo as well. > > I am thoroughly pleased that we were able to snag Andre for ourselves, > and think his abilities and experience make him a great addition to > WMF's Engineering Community Team and to Wikimedia. Welcome! > > > [0] In case you're new and wondering what a bug wrangler does: > http://tieguy.org/talks-files/LCA-2005-paper-html/index.html . In case > you're an old-timer: this is the same job Mark Hershberger did as > "Bugmeister" and I changed the title to something less gendered. > > [1] Last year at the GSoC mentor summit, Andre and I were sitting next > to each other in a session, both got out our N900s to take notes, and > started laughing. It's like the Newton of our time. > > -- > Sumana Harihareswara > Engineering Community Manager > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
