On 17 May 2012 17:52, Howie Fung <hfung(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Everyone,
It’s my pleasure to announce that James Forrester is joining our San
Francisco office as a Technical Product Analyst, supporting the Visual
Editor team. James started his work as a remote contractor yesterday
and will be joining us in San Francisco later this year as a staff
member.
James will help prioritize the short term and long term work log on
the Visual Editor, conduct user research, and incorporate community
feedback into the development process.
As many of you know, James is a long-time Wikimedian. He started
contributing to English Wikipedia in October 2002, and was a founding
member of their Arbitration Committee. He was also the movement’s
volunteer Chief Research Officer, helping shepherd the predecessor of
what is today the Research Committee, has for years been the
“gopher-in-chief” at the Wikimania community conferences, and helped
found Wikimedia UK in 2005.
You forgot one biggie: he has run the London Wikipedia meetup which
first started in June 2004 has now met 57 times.
Hong Kong has met more often, but London is, I believe, the "Original
and Best" (in all 57 varieties).*
* The Heinz joke blatantly stolen from Jon Davies at Wikimedia UK.
Anyway, James F. knows more about Wikipedia than most people on the
planet. Good hire.
--
Tom Morris
<http://tommorris.org/>