Congratulations Niklas and Dan, and thanks for your continued contributions!
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 12:22 PM, Victoria Coleman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Katherine Maher Executive Director Wikimedia Foundation 1 Montgomery Street, Suite 1600 San Francisco, CA 94104 +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6635 +1 (415) 712 4873 [email protected] https://annual.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
