Adding my congratulations to Niklas and Dan. You will bring a lot of wisdom, expertise and POVs to the committee. As we transform its mission and expand its scope, your contributions will be invaluable.
Welcome! Victoria > On Jul 18, 2018, at 2:06 PM, Deb Tankersley <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 <[email protected]> > 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 >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > 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
