Hello everybody,
The Technical Collaboration team is very happy to introduce you to Srishti
Sethi <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:SSethi_(WMF)>, our new
Developer Advocate. Srishti will lead our efforts to engage volunteer
developers in Wikimedia software projects and to grow the Wikimedia
technical community. In her first assignments, she will help promote
Community Wishlist projects, the Wikimedia Developer Summit, and
Wikimedia’s participation in Google Code-in. Srishti just relocated from
Boston to San Francisco, and she will work at the Wikimedia Foundation
office.
Srishti originally hails from Rajasthan, India. She recently finished her
Masters in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab, where she was
exploring how online platforms for learning could be made more peer-led,
engaging, participatory and accessible to diverse populations. At the Media
Lab, Srishti contributed to the design, development, and research of
Unhangout (
http://unhangout.media.mit.edu), a platform for running
large-scale un-conference style events online.
Before joining MIT, she was working as a software developer with a startup
organization in India. As an undergrad, she was involved with the open
source community GNOME and its educational project GCompris.
In her spare time, Srishti likes to play ping-pong, do long bike trips,
take photographs and make masala chai for friends. :)
Please join us in welcoming Srishti!
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Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil