Welcome to the team! All the Best! Regards Akshay
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 5:08 AM, Quim Gil <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everybody, and thank you Sumana for the warm welcome. > > I had expected a first day at work with time to fill a personal > profile properly and write a blog post, but the end of my second day > is approaching and I'm still not there. It's all good, in the meantime > I completed my first task as WMF employee: kicking off > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women > > :) > > This 'Technical Contributor Coordinator' job is better understood by > the actions than by the name of the role. If you are interested, check > my fast-growing task list: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil#Task_list > > Community outreach can be rather distracting, since reading and > socializing is the best AND the worst thing to do if you want to > accomplish anything. It's not easy to mix the right dose. Trying to > find the appropriate balance, my work is guided by a rather simple > trinity: > > 1. Focus on the WMF focus. > 2. Agreement with Sumana. > 3. No more than three ongoing tasks at a time. > > I don't mention openness and transparency because they are intrinsic > and assumed. > > Feel free suggesting new items and different priorities. Most of my > work needs to be done next to somebody else i.e. you (yes, you!). > > If you care about who I am and where do I (professionally) come from, > here is a couple of useful links: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Qgil > http://www.linkedin.com/in/quimgil > > More about all this in the blog post that (hopefully) will be > published tomorrow celebrating THE GREAT JOY OF BEING HERE WITH YOU - > and even be paid for it. :) > > -- > Quim > > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Sumana Harihareswara > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am very happy to announce that tomorrow is Quim Gil's first day in the >> Engineering Community Team of the Wikimedia Foundation. His title is >> Technical Contributor Coordinator (IT Communications Manager) which >> means that he'll be reaching out to and nurturing our testers, coders, >> documenters, product managers, sysadmins, and other contributors to >> Wikimedia technologies like MediaWiki. His blog entry about coming to >> WMF: https://flors.wordpress.com/2012/08/27/moving-up-in-the-freedom-stack/ >> >> Quim is a contributor to Catalan Wikisource & Wikipedia and English >> Wikipedia (User:Qgil), and has helped Wikimedia's mobile team as a >> volunteer. Most recently he's dug into statistical analysis of >> MediaWiki's coder community and the philosophical conundrum of >> RESOLVED:LATER. You might also know him from his activity in the worlds >> of GNOME, Qt, and Maemo -- he's coming to us from Nokia. If I try to >> detail all the consulting, event-running, volunteer recruiting, open >> source community management, writing, and projects he's done, I'll hit >> some kind of mailman limit so I won't try. :-) >> >> Quim lives in the Bay Area and will be working out of the San Francisco >> office while reporting to me remotely, which is kind of hilarious. In >> the near future he'll be encouraging volunteer testers and running our >> Outreach Program for Women. >> >> And tomorrow is Quim's birthday! So, happy birthday and welcome, Quim! >> -- >> Sumana Harihareswara >> Engineering Community Manager >> Wikimedia Foundation >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Engineering mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/engineering > > _______________________________________________ > 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
