Congratulations to both of you! -Frances
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Rob Lanphier <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'd like to announce some changes in the Engineering Community > Team[1]. The headlines: > * Quim Gil is taking over as the new Engineering Community Manager, > effective immediately > * Sumana Harihareswara is stepping into a new role as Senior Technical > Writer, also effective immediately > > The details: > The Engineering Community Team (ECT) is made up of Andre Klapper, > Guillaume Paumier, Quim Gil, and Sumana Harihareswara. We started ECT > with Sumana leading the group back in 2012. The ECT team has > flourished under Sumana's leadership. Our internship programs have > scaled up pretty dramatically, all of the while increasing in quality > of output and diversity of students. We've also gotten steadily > better in engineering communications, with weekly engineering updates > (translated even!) and great two way communication around software > bugs and other site issues. She would be the first to point out that > a lot of this was driven by members of the team, but she set up the > conditions for many of the team's achievements (e.g. getting us > involved in Outreach Program for Women, tirelessly recruiting and > nurturing new volunteers, and working with the team to hammer out > requirements for the new things they've rolled out). > > Sumana led the team until taking a three month sabbatical to attend > Hacker School in New York starting in October of last year. In the > interim, Quim Gil stepped in to lead ECT. After coming back from > sabbatical, Sumana has decided that she would like to take on a role > with more of a technical emphasis to utilize her newly honed skills. > As it turned out, we also independently identified the need to hire a > technical writer (even going so far as advertising an RFP while Sumana > was out, though we weren't able to fill the role). Sumana's increased > focus on technical work combined with her background as a professional > writer made this a pretty obvious fit for the role. Her current > project is organizing RFC review[2] and documenting the process, using > the process for reviewing MediaWiki architectural changes as a means > for documenting our architecture. > > Thankfully, Sumana hired a ready-made successor with Quim Gil, who was > until now our Technical Contributor Coordinator. In the past couple > of years, he overseen a big increase in the number of interns that get > involved in our projects via Google Summer of Code and Outreach > Program for Women. Quim has deep experience in engineering community > management, and kept things working really well during Sumana's > absence. > > With Sumana moving into a different role that then one vacated by > Quim, Quim will hold onto many of his previous technical contributor > coordination responsibilities. So, for things you used to contact > Quim about, please still contact Quim. > > Congratulations Quim and Sumana on your new roles! > > Rob > > [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Engineering_Community_Team > [2] RFC review: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment > > _______________________________________________ > 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
