Congratulations Niklas and Dan — we're happy to have you on the committee and we're looking forward to adding your experiences, expertise and strengths as well as your unique perspectives during our discussions! :)
Cheers, Deb -- deb tankersley Program Manager, Engineering Wikimedia Foundation On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 10:06 PM Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinz...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > Dear All, > > back in June the Wikimedia Technical Committee (TechCom) began a process to > recruit two new members to broaden the committee’s area of expertise[1]. > After > some deliberation, we have now concluded our process and would like to > welcome > Niklas Laxström and Dan Andreescu to TechCom. Congratulations, we are > looking > forward to you bringing your expertise to the committee! > > For those who wonder what this is about: TechCom is the guardian of the > integrity, consistency, stability, and performance of all software > supporting > the Wikimedia projects. It acts as the senior advisor and the convergence > point > of all decisions related to technical work that is strategic, > cross-cutting, > and/or hard to undo. You can find more information in the TechCom > Charter[2]. > > To those who applied or were nominated, but were not selected, I want to > say: > thank you for offering your time and brain power! It was a difficult > decision to > make. We evaluated all candidates based on the following criteria: > - Activity on RFCs and other Phabricator tickets > - Area(s) of expertise > - Having a unique engineering perspective > - Experience working in and with the Wikimedia movement and community > > It was a challenge to balance these criteria, especially with candidates > who > have a lot of experience, but whose expertise and perspective is similar > to that > of existing members. In such cases, we aimed to improve the diversity of > perspective and knowledge on the committee by picking candidates that > would help > us cover any blind spots. > > We plan to do another round of nominations again soon, and hope to have > continued interested from others in joining TechCom. > > Thank you all, > > [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-June/090068.html > [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/Charter > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
