Hi everyone,
it is with great pleasure that Daniel and I would like to announce that Giuseppe Lavagetto
is joining the TechCom. Giuseppe works in the Technical Operations team, which is
responsible for the reliability, availability and performance of the WMF infrastructure.
Within the team, he works on a great deal of different problems, but mostly focuses on
the MediaWiki and the other services that constitute our application layer, and on
automation of the infrastructure. He has been involved in the work to transition our
infrastructure to use HHVM, and has put a lot of effort in our project to serve our
application layer from multiple datacenters. He is also one of the early advocates for
our current effort to use Kubernetes and containers for our services layer. We are very
excited to have him join the TechCom where he will have even more impact on our mission.
Welcome Giuseppe!
Warm regards,
Victoria & Daniel
PS If you would like to hear more about the TechCom and the new charter, please join us on
Sept 5th for a webcast. I append Srishti’s announcement below:
Please join us for the *Wikimedia Technical Committee (**TechCom)
announcement webcast* by Victoria Coleman
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:VColeman_(WMF)
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:VColeman_(WMF)>> (Chief
Technology Officer, Wikimedia Foundation) and Daniel Kinzler
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Kinzler_(WMDE)
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Kinzler_(WMDE)>> (Principal
Platform Engineer, Wikimedia Deutschland) on September 5, 2017, at 17:30 UTC
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=TechCom+announcement+webcast&iso=20170905T1730&p1=1440&ah=1
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=TechCom+announcement+webcast&iso=20170905T1730&p1=1440&ah=1>>
via YouTube live.
Link to live YouTube stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtH-EmGmOWs
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtH-EmGmOWs>
IRC channel for questions/discussion: #wikimedia-office
In this webcast, we will share the revised charter of the TechCom
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/Charter
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/Charter>> with
the developer community and answer any questions you might have. We will
also ask for your suggestions on how you think the committee can best
support you.
Looking forward to your presence!
Best,
Srishti
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Srishti Sethi
Developer Advocate
Technical Collaboration team
Wikimedia Foundation
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SSethi_(WMF)
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SSethi_(WMF)>