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
James, you're emigrating? I never thought I'd see that...
Congratulations, traitor!
On 17 May 2012 17:52, Howie Fung hfung@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
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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
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.
Congratulations, James!
I hope this means the Visual Editor will use the correct spellings of words like colour, axe, and aluminium, and will offer to make people tea. :-)
On 17 May 2012 18:19, Chris Keating chriskeatingwiki@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Congratulations, James!
I hope this means the Visual Editor will use the correct spellings of words like colour, axe, and aluminium, and will offer to make people tea. :-)
Oh gods no, don't suggest it makes tea! Shades of Douglas Adams will come to haunt us.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutrimatic_drinks_dispenser#Nutrimatic_Drinks_D...
And probably crash the servers.
Congrats James :)
Tom
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Thomas Morton morton.thomas@googlemail.com wrote:
On 17 May 2012 18:19, Chris Keating chriskeatingwiki@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Congratulations, James!
I hope this means the Visual Editor will use the correct spellings of words like colour, axe, and aluminium, and will offer to make people tea. :-)
Oh gods no, don't suggest it makes tea! Shades of Douglas Adams will come to haunt us.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutrimatic_drinks_dispenser#Nutrimatic_Drinks_D...
I should have figured someone would beat me to the Hitchhiker's Guide joke...
-Kat
On 17 May 2012 18:25, Kat Walsh kat@mindspillage.org wrote:
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Thomas Morton morton.thomas@googlemail.com wrote:
On 17 May 2012 18:19, Chris Keating chriskeatingwiki@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Congratulations, James!
I hope this means the Visual Editor will use the correct spellings of
words
like colour, axe, and aluminium, and will offer to make people tea. :-)
Oh gods no, don't suggest it makes tea! Shades of Douglas Adams will come to haunt us.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutrimatic_drinks_dispenser#Nutrimatic_Drinks_D...
I should have figured someone would beat me to the Hitchhiker's Guide joke...
Your version was better :)
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Chris Keating chriskeatingwiki@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Congratulations, James!
I hope this means the Visual Editor will use the correct spellings of words like colour, axe, and aluminium, and will offer to make people tea. :-)
Just as long as it's not almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea...
Also, I am having serious trouble wrapping my mind around James living outside the UK. Once that happens I'm sure I will have recovered enough to say "congratulations"!
I do wish someone had been chosen who had some more community experience though.
-Kat
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Kat Walsh kat@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. :-)
Here here!
It's a pile on at this point but I'm not sure I care. I honestly think this is one of the best hires the foundation has ever made and am so incredibly excited that I can't explain it properly. There have always been 2-3 Wikipedians who I would have classified as "I'd give up my right foot to have them work with us", James would even be in the category of "I'd give up my own job to have him working here". Having his unique combination of skills, experience, talent and tact is an enormous boon for us and having him here will help us not just in the visual editor group but across the organization.
On a personal level I'm excited to have someone else local to debate politics, law and economics with even (I already have a taste of how fun that will be from his visits) even if he is at an advantage because he's far less likely to ever get drunk while doing it.
James
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Kat Walsh kat@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. :-)
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On 17 May 2012 22:51, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Kat Walsh kat@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,
On 5/18/12 12:42 AM, James Forrester wrote:
On 17 May 2012 22:51, Erik Moellererik@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Kat Walshkat@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,
Late congrats. That's fabulous news !
Flo
Please join me in welcoming James!
Well, in our case it's more like waving good bye, but certainly congratulations!
KTC
On 17 May 2012 17:52, Howie Fung hfung@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.
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org wrote:
Anyway, James F. knows more about Wikipedia than most people on the planet. Good hire.
This^
One of the best hire the Foundation could ever make.
+1 Congratulations, James!
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Guillaume Paumier gpaumier@wikimedia.orgwrote:
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org wrote:
Anyway, James F. knows more about Wikipedia than most people on the planet. Good hire.
This^
One of the best hire the Foundation could ever make.
-- Guillaume Paumier Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation
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I'm still working my way through the brownies James left at our office only a few short days ago...
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On 17 May 2012 20:25, Brad Patrick bradp.wmf@gmail.com wrote:
+1 Congratulations, James!
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Guillaume Paumier gpaumier@wikimedia.orgwrote:
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org wrote:
Anyway, James F. knows more about Wikipedia than most people on the planet. Good hire.
This^
One of the best hire the Foundation could ever make.
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Coffee? ... but not tea?
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Richard Symonds < richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
I'm still working my way through the brownies James left at our office only a few short days ago...
James, you're always welcome in Dev House. There'll always be a seat available, and there'll always be a coffee. Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Disclaimer viewable at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Email_disclaimer Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk
On 17 May 2012 20:25, Brad Patrick bradp.wmf@gmail.com wrote:
+1 Congratulations, James!
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Guillaume Paumier gpaumier@wikimedia.orgwrote:
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org wrote:
Anyway, James F. knows more about Wikipedia than most people on the planet. Good hire.
This^
One of the best hire the Foundation could ever make.
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On 17 May 2012, at 21:33, Kim Bruning wrote:
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 01:02:30PM -0700, James Alexander wrote:
Coffee? ... but not tea?
Despite the stereotype, brits tend to drink more coffee than tea. ;-)
That depends on the brit - I know my average ratio is about 5 cups of tea to 1 coffee. ;-)
Congratulations to James on his appointment - and darn you, WMF, for quietly and quickly hiring him without letting WMUK get our hands on him first!
Mike
No, tea is for staff and board members only.
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On 17 May 2012 21:02, James Alexander jalexander@wikimedia.org wrote:
Coffee? ... but not tea?
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Richard Symonds < richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
I'm still working my way through the brownies James left at our office
only
a few short days ago...
James, you're always welcome in Dev House. There'll always be a seat available, and there'll always be a coffee. Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Disclaimer viewable at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Email_disclaimer Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk
On 17 May 2012 20:25, Brad Patrick bradp.wmf@gmail.com wrote:
+1 Congratulations, James!
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Guillaume Paumier gpaumier@wikimedia.orgwrote:
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org
wrote:
Anyway, James F. knows more about Wikipedia than most people on the planet. Good hire.
This^
One of the best hire the Foundation could ever make.
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On 17 May 2012 21:34, Richard Symonds richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.ukwrote:
No, tea is for staff and board members only.
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On 17 May 2012 21:02, James Alexander jalexander@wikimedia.org wrote:
Coffee? ... but not tea?
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Richard Symonds < richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
I'm still working my way through the brownies James left at our office
only
a few short days ago...
James, you're always welcome in Dev House. There'll always be a seat available, and there'll always be a coffee. Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Disclaimer viewable at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Email_disclaimer Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk
On 17 May 2012 20:25, Brad Patrick bradp.wmf@gmail.com wrote:
+1 Congratulations, James!
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Guillaume Paumier gpaumier@wikimedia.orgwrote:
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org
wrote:
Anyway, James F. knows more about Wikipedia than most people on
the
planet. Good hire.
This^
One of the best hire the Foundation could ever make.
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On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org wrote:
Anyway, James F. knows more about Wikipedia than most people on the planet. Good hire.
+1
Great choice! :)
Best, anirudh
On 05/17/2012 07:22 PM, Tom Morris wrote:
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).*
According to <s>urban legends</s> meta[1], Munich's meetup in 2003 was the first. Also, it has met around 100 times since then (monthly meetings since 2006 + some before and some extra meetings, like barbecue with Jimbo, visiting mainframe computer sites, and hiking in the wonderful bavarian landscape).
I guess Germany's "Stammtisch" culture is just much stronger, thats also why there is a regular Wikipedia meetup in every mid-sized German city.
Nevertheless, that does not diminish JF's many accomplishments. ;-) Congratulations on the new job!
Regards, Tobias
Tobias, 21/05/2012 01:32:
On 05/17/2012 07:22 PM, Tom Morris wrote:
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).*
According to<s>urban legends</s> meta[1], Munich's meetup in 2003 was the first.
Was Fantasy responsible of instigating the first UK and HK meetup too, besides the first German, (Swiss? and) Italian ones? :)
Nemo
Congrats James! I 'm looking forward to most tongue in cheek design documents I have ever seen. :-)
Erik
-----Original Message----- From: wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Howie Fung Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 6:52 PM To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org; Wikimedia developers Subject: [Wikimedia-l] [Announcement] James Forrester joins WMF as Technical Product Analyst
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
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On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 09:52:23AM -0700, Howie Fung 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.
Took your time!
Nice to see James at WMF, where he can get into the proper kinds of trouble. :-)
sincerely, Kim Bruning
I don't think "welcome" is the appropiate word to say him :) SO I sum myself to the other people on this thread saying instead: Congratulations!
Congratulations, James!
Patricio Molina http://twitter.com/patriciomolina
On 17/05/2012, at 13:52, Howie Fung hfung@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
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Congrtz James!
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Patricio Molina patriciomolina@gmail.comwrote:
Congratulations, James!
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On 17/05/2012, at 13:52, Howie Fung hfung@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
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Hurray for even more Britishness in the SF office! Congrats! On 19 May 2012 06:59, "Nurunnaby Chowdhury" nh@nhasive.com wrote:
Congrtz James!
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Patricio Molina patriciomolina@gmail.comwrote:
Congratulations, James!
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On 17/05/2012, at 13:52, Howie Fung hfung@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
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