Welcome, Coren (Marc-Andre Pelletier); I look forward to working with you to help build Tools Labs and help those who'd like to move bots and webtools to the Wikimedia Labs infrastructure.

You can look at his TODO list here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Labs/TODO and his profile here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MPelletier_%28WMF%29

Coren, thank you for agreeing to join us and help work on this.

best, Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Engineering] Engineering Announcement: Marc-Andre Pelletier joins TechOps Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 23:25:09 -0800 From: Ct Woo ctwoo@wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org, Development and Operations Engineers engineering@lists.wikimedia.org

All,

I am pleased to announce Marc-Andre will be joining us as aTechnical Operations Engineer (contractor) starting this February 25, 2013. His primary focus will be to build up the Wikimedia Labs infrastructure and to assist the community developers to migrate their tools to that infrastructure, especially those residing on the Toolserver today.

Marc-Andre is an active wikipedian and he is better known as 'Coren' on English Wikipedia and has been a volunteer editor since 2006 where he has served as administrator and arbitrator. He also always kept himself involved with the technical and procedural aspects of automated editing (so-called bots), having written and operated a copyright-violation detection bot for several years.

Marc has been a Unix system administrator and occasional computer science instructor for 20+ years, in fields ranging from telecommunication to game development. He studied IT at École de Technologie Supérieure (Canada).

Please join me to welcome him and you can find him on IRC (freenode.net) using the nick 'Coren'.

Thanks.

CT Woo