On 10/16/2011 12:47 PM, Tim Starling wrote:
On 16/10/11 12:39, Tim Starling wrote:
Ben Loblaugh (blobaugh): FileRepo refactoring,
Azure support
Sorry that should be "Ben Lobaugh". I blame Sumana for the Arrested
Developent jokes.
-- Tim Starling
My apologies to Tim and to Ben. For those who haven't watched "Arrested
Development": it features a lawyer named Bob Loblaw. Also it's amazing
and magical. Like git stash.[0]
Unlike Bob Loblaw, Ben Lobaugh is a PHP dude in Seattle's WordPress
community. He attended the New Orleans hackathon this past weekend
<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/NOLA_Hackathon> and aims to make more
connections among MediaWiki developers and users in the Seattle area.
He and I talked about the possibility of Microsoft sponsoring a
get-together of Microsoft's MediaWiki users (of which there are
evidently many) with some MediaWiki developers, for knowledge-sharing
and hacking. He's at ben(a)lobaugh.net in case you want to contact him to
help work on that.
[0] I am not about to start a thread where we just make Arrested
Development references -- that kind of thing belongs on Reddit -- but I
will point out that AD has a demanding learning curve, but is very
rewarding in the long run and turns its viewers/users into zealots who
grab other people and say "YOU HAVE TO TRY THIS, IT'S SO AWESOME." Kind
of like git.
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation