Woot! Kartik is an amazing guy, and will be a great contributor to the language team I'm sure.
Danese On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Alolita Sharma <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Please join me in welcoming Kartik Mistry as Software Engineer on the > Language Engineering team. Kartik started contributing part-time to the > team earlier this May. He will now be focusing full-time on improving our > internationalization libraries in jQuery specializing in input tools as > well as fonts. Kartik brings in-depth expertise on Indic font development > as well as Gujarati language content translation tools to the team. > > Kartik is well known in India’s open source community for his many > contributions to Debian. He has been a Debian developer and package > maintainer since August 2008 and has contributed deeply to > internationalization and localization of various packages and Debian > installer for Gujarati. Kartik actively maintains about 45 packages for > Debian including aspell-gu, fortune-debian-hints, nginx as well as Aakar, > Rekha and Kalapi fonts for Gujarati. He is a Wikipedian actively > contributing in Gujarati and English as well as on Commons. He also > contributes as a MediaWiki localizer through translatewiki.net. > > Kartik's journey with open source started in 2004 and believes his ultimate > goal is to keep contributing various open source projects which are useful > to people across the world. When not at work, at Debian or at FOSS world, > he loves to run in marathons or spend time with his 6 year old son. > > Kartik can be reached on email at kmistry at wikimedia.org or as ‘kart_’ > on > our irc channels including #mediawiki, #wikimedia-dev and #mediawiki-i18n. > Kartik blogs at http://kartikm.wordpress.com in Gujarati and > http://0x1f1f.wordpress.com in English. > > Welcome again Kartik! I am excited to have you contribute full time to the > language engineering team! > > -Alolita > -- > Alolita Sharma > Director of Engineering > Language Engineering (i18n/L10n) > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > 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
