Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] [Announcement] James Forrester joins WMF as Technical Product Analyst

Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 18:06:48 +0100 From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] [Announcement] James Forrester joins WMF as Technical Product Analyst Message-ID: <CALTQcccacjzO5Zucp4M-uwDyFDwD4ZWy4ow7Nyfg-OowVuWdaA(a)mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 James, you're emigrating? I never thought I'd see that... Congratulations, traitor! 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. > James joins us following a successful career in the UK government, > where he implemented key open access and open government initiatives. > Most recently, he was the acting Head of data.gov.uk, and then the > Digital Engagement Policy Lead in the Government Digital Service, both > at the Cabinet Office. James holds a Masters of Engineering in > Computer Science from the University of Warwick. > Beyond technology, James has strong interests in international > politics, physics, communications, economics, law, the constitutional > history of Britain, and education. > Please join me in welcoming James! > Howie > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 10:14:05 -0700 From: Michael Snow <wikipedia(a)frontier.com> To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] [Announcement] James Forrester joins WMF as Technical Product Analyst Message-ID: <4FB531DD.5030403(a)frontier.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed On 5/17/2012 10:06 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > James, you're emigrating? I never thought I'd see that... > Congratulations, traitor! Just wait until he starts speaking like an uhmurricun, I mean American. --Michael Snow End of Wikimedia-l Digest, Vol 98, Issue 37 *******************************************