Everybody please join me in welcoming Frédéric Vassard as the latest addition to the Wikimedia Foundation's tech team.

Fred's been doing Linux and Unix system administration around the SF bay area for the last few years, and has enough notches on his belt to dare to step up and tame the beasts that run Wikipedia and her sister projects...

He'll be helping us out with operations, monitoring, and documentation of our servers, making sure everything's running smoothly and improving our responses to and anticipation of problems.

Welcome aboard, Fred!

-- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)