On 17 May 2012 22:51, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Kat Walsh
<kat(a)mindspillage.org> wrote:
Also, I am having serious trouble wrapping my
mind around James living
outside the UK.
We've confirmed through experimental visits to San Francisco that
James can in fact exist outside the UK in a stable state. But let's
face it -- we'll either see some significant changes in James'
Britishness, or we'll see Californians increasingly pick up some new
and strange habits. I'm betting it's the latter.
On a more personal note, it's kind of funny - James and I probably
most frequently touched base in person at Wikimania, so whenever he
visits I get flashbacks of Wikimanias past. With James joining, and
some other recent additions, it's really gratifying to see WMF be more
and more a reflection of who we are.
We're very lucky that the timing has aligned for James to join us for
the Visual Editor project; I highly doubt we would have been able to
find the combination of skills (deep community expertise, ability to
ship product, technical depth) otherwise. He's an old colleague and
friend, and I look forward to working more closely with him. :-)
Thank you, Erik, and everyone else. I hope to live up to your
expectations! It is of course a huge honour to join the Foundation and
especially the hugely-important Visual Editor project.
I can assure those who are worried that I drink both coffee and tea in
near-equal quantities, that my neuro-stability has been observed at
linear distances from London exceeding that of San Francisco, that any
spelling correction tools we ship will fix "humor", and that you can
take my cut-glass accent from my cold dead hands. Or something. :-)
Yours,
--
James D. Forrester
jdforrester(a)wikimedia.org | jdforrester(a)gmail.com
[[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]]