Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 18:06:48 +0100
From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] [Announcement] James Forrester
joins WMF as Technical Product Analyst
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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
>
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Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 10:14:05 -0700
From: Michael Snow <wikipedia(a)frontier.com>
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Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] [Announcement] James Forrester
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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
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I was wondering why his hair was getting longer. Congratulations to our
newest surfer dude!
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