Welcome, Steve. I am down in Portland, but I hope you find others to assist you with these sorts of projects. Glad to hear of your interest in Wikimedia Cascadia. Jason
On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Steve,
Welcome to the group. Seattle is a good place for people with multilingual abilities and international project manager localization experience. I think that some of our local employers would be interested in talking with you. You might also want to keep an eye on Wikimedia Foundation and public sector job postings.
We have an editathon planned for tomorrow at UW. After that our next meetings will be in May. I need to coordinate with Peaceray about scheduling, and one of us will post a note to the list when a decision is reached. We sometimes meet socially on a Tuesday evening when we are not having editathons and other events.
I look forward to meeting you!
Pine On Apr 24, 2015 3:43 PM, "Steve Zitkovich" mailinglists@zitkovich.com wrote:
Hello Wikimedia-Cascadians,
I just joined the group and want to introduce myself.
I am a native Seattleite (Garfield High School, 1984) but majored in
German
and have lived/worked 12 years of my adult life in Europe (Germany,
France,
UK, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Slovakia).
Professionally I am an international product manager specialized in localization. I recently left my last position and am looking for a new
job
based in Seattle with international travel or be based abroad.
There are two reasons I joined the Wikimedia-Cascadia group:
1/ Wikimedia is for me the ultimate internet organization: my internet career is a extension of my interest in languages and inspiration of the internet as a communications medium to make information available across languages regardless of time + geography -- exactly what Wikimedia does!
I
want to be involved with Wikimedia.
2/ I have a social-entrepreneurial idea around digitizing old print periodicals for which I would like to use some of Wikimedia's open-source tools or potentially even partner with Wikimedia itself. I have talked to Jonathan Morgan about it and he suggested I join this group and see if there are some people who would be interested in working on the idea with me.
So if anyone in this group (or has friends outside this group) has a passion for digitizing print materials from the past (ex. DIY music/culture magazines, neighborhood newsletters, school newsletters), send me an
email.
In any case, I hope to meet you in person at an upcoming
Wikimedia-Cascadia
gathering.
Kind regards,
Steve Zitkovich
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