Welcome, Frances! It was a pleasure working with (and learning from) you during our work on the Inspire campaign and the Co-op. I look forward to the opportunity to work together again soon!
- Jonathan On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Bryan Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm excited to announce that Frances Hocutt has been hired as a Software > Engineer on the Community Tech team starting 2015-05-26. > > She has gotten a good start on getting things done by writing a great > introduction blurb for me to forward on: > > Frances is looking forward to starting on a [new team doing cool but > unspecified stuff]. Frances has been with the WMF for most of the last > year, first as an OPW intern and then as a developer for Community > Resources. Frances has primarily worked in the MediaWiki API ecosystem: she > wrote the standard for API client libraries, evaluated a number of them, > and developed wiki bots to support this Inspire campaign and the Co-op > mentorship project on English Wikipedia. She also has contributed patches > and product management to Wikimetrics. Before starting work in F/OSS, > Frances worked as a medicinal chemist, studied organic chemistry and > materials science, and founded a hackerspace. She moved to the Bay Area in > January. She enjoys giving talks, mentoring new programmers, and practicing > various fiber arts. > > Frances can be found as fhocutt on IRC, Fhocutt as a volunteer, and > Fhocutt (WMF) officially. > > > -- > Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <[email protected]> > [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software Engineer Boise, ID USA > irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855 > > _______________________________________________ > Wmfall mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall > > -- Jonathan T. Morgan Senior Design Researcher Wikimedia Foundation User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
