Great to see. Congrats Rachel On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Quim Gil <[email protected]> wrote: > For almost three years, Rachel Farrand has been a regular contributor in > the organization of public and internal Wikimedia events since she joined > the Wikimedia Foundation as an Admin Assistant and then Project Coordinator > with the Engineering department. This past year, Rachel has been the lead > coordinator at the WMF for the Architecture Summit in San Francisco, the > Wikimedia Hackathon in Zürich, the Wikimania Hackathon in London, most of > the Tech Talks scheduled, and many on-site and off-site meetings. Those of > us lucky to work with Rachel know that she is a reliable and patient team > worker who excels at organizing activities for others to enjoy. > > For all these reasons and more, we have decided to evolve Rachel's role as > Events Coordinator at the Engineering Community team. With this change, > Rachel will be able to dedicate more time and attention to this area, where > we are already playing good tactics but we need a more consistent strategy > movement-wide. Rachel's current goals include merging our Architecture > Summit, WMF Tech Days, and SF Hackathon into a single event this Winter; > document a HowTo for hackathon organizers compiling our many lessons > learned; and keeping a regular stream of online Tech Talks and on-site > Wikimedia Tech meetups in San Francisco. > > She will also assist in the organization of our outreach programs (Google > Summer of Code, FOSS Outreach Program for Women, Google Code-in): > time-based activities that share many aspects with our technical events. > > It’s been a great process to work with Lynette on Rachel’s transition into > the ECT team, and we are delighted Engineering Community events will have > the dedication and focus Rachel brings to the work!. > > Congrats and "Welcome" Rachel! > > -- > Quim Gil > Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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