Hi all,
Could we get some kind of information of what is this Engineering
Community Group? So far I know it's headed by Sumana, which is nice
but still I would like to know more :)
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Oren Bochman <orenbochman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Great news.
Congratulations Sumana !!
I think that this is greatly deserved -- I'd be glad that you will be having
an even greater impact bringing in more people into our ecosystem.
Oren Bochman
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[mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rob Lanphier
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 5:30 AM
To: Wikimedia developers
Subject: [Wikitech-l] New Engineering Community Group, headed by Sumana
Harihareswara
Hi everyone,
I'm happy to announce that we have promoted Sumana Harihareswara as manager
of Engineering Community group. Sumana started with us as a contractor back
in February 2011, initially in a targeted engagement to help out with Google
Summer of Code and with the Berlin Hackathon last year. Later that year, as
we interviewed people to bring in as Volunteer Development Coordinator, not
only did Sumana put in a strong application herself, but recruited very
worthy competition for the role. After winning the role, she worked
tirelessly to straighten out many kinks in our processes around volunteer
development and systematically ensured that new volunteer developers get the
recognition and (if needed) help they deserve. She has also applied focus
and organization in many areas outside of her immediate purview, for
example, recently stepping in as project manager for Git, and
occasionally filling in for me when I've been unavailable for the larger
Platform Engineering organization.
The promotion to Engineering Community Manager isn't so much a change in the
way things are done here so much as an official recognition of a vital role
that she has already played for the past year. Sumana has been working with
Guillaume Paumier and Mark Hershberger under the somewhat ad hoc group title
of "Technical Liaison; Developer Relations (tl;dr)", serving as lead of that
group since last year. Under the new "Engineering Community" name, this
group will continue to serve many roles: facilitating collaboration and
communication between Wikimedia Foundation and its employees and the larger
Wikimedia developer community, as well as facilitating collaboration and
communication between the Wikimedia developer community and other Wikimedia
communities.
Thank you, Sumana, for your hard work over the past year. I'm looking
forward to seeing what you and the group accomplish moving forward.
Congratulations!
Rob
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