Bod Notbod, 10/01/2012 21:57:
If I say that this sounds like a hugely important role the rest of the office will fold their arms and rightly harumph at me for the implied negation of their value, so I won't say that. But you can't keep up with Wikipedia news without being made constantly aware that gaining new editors is a serious business. I will be fascinated to see what you make of the ideas for volunteer recruitment we've had so far and any innovations you can come up with.
Congratulations and welcome to the other recent new hires as well.
It would be lovely if each of the new hires could guest post on the Foundation blog and/or write a page for Signpost once they've settled in and let us know what their average day is like and some insight into what they're working on. The staff is now getting to a size where even close followers of Wikimedia are liable to lose track. Some effort to keep the community feeling that they know all the staff would be much appreciated.
Personal perspectives are perhaps not very suitable for the "official blog" (but may be), anyway engineering reports are being published regularly since a while and they're a very good way to know what's going on at least in the technology department, without having to read MiB of text. https://blog.wikimedia.org/c/technology/wmf-engineering-reports/ The other departments are more obscure. :-)
Nemo