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I am pleased to welcome Tomasz Finc as a new full-time software developer. Tomasz will start officially next week on August 4 in our San Francisco office.
Tomasz is a systems and software engineer with more than 7 years of experience. He joins us from Amazon.com, where he administered and supported the Amazon.com A9 search engine, optimized production performance, developed automation tools, implemented C/C++ changes in the core search engine code, trained new hires, and fulfilled other duties. Tomasz is fluent speaker of both Polish and English.
Tomasz will report to me and will work on general MediaWiki development, code review, systems and administration tools, and optimization. He will also initially help to support the San Francisco office.
I am delighted that Tomasz is joining our team; please join me in welcoming him to the Wikimedia Foundation staff.
- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org) CTO, Wikimedia Foundation
2008/7/29 Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org
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I am pleased to welcome Tomasz Finc as a new full-time software developer.
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I am delighted that Tomasz is joining our team; please join me in welcoming him to the Wikimedia Foundation staff.
Welcome Tomasz!
Welcome indeed!
Brion Vibber-3 wrote:
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I am pleased to welcome Tomasz Finc as a new full-time software developer. Tomasz will start officially next week on August 4 in our San Francisco office.
Welcome Tomasz,
May the wiki be with you :)
Waerth
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I am pleased to welcome Tomasz Finc as a new full-time software developer. Tomasz will start officially next week on August 4 in our San Francisco office.
Tomasz is a systems and software engineer with more than 7 years of experience. He joins us from Amazon.com, where he administered and supported the Amazon.com A9 search engine, optimized production performance, developed automation tools, implemented C/C++ changes in the core search engine code, trained new hires, and fulfilled other duties. Tomasz is fluent speaker of both Polish and English.
Tomasz will report to me and will work on general MediaWiki development, code review, systems and administration tools, and optimization. He will also initially help to support the San Francisco office.
I am delighted that Tomasz is joining our team; please join me in welcoming him to the Wikimedia Foundation staff.
- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
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On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Waerth waerth@asianet.co.th wrote:
Welcome Tomasz,
May the wiki be with you :)
Waerth
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I am pleased to welcome Tomasz Finc as a new full-time software developer. Tomasz will start officially next week on August 4 in our San Francisco office.
Tomasz is a systems and software engineer with more than 7 years of experience. He joins us from Amazon.com, where he administered and supported the Amazon.com A9 search engine, optimized production performance, developed automation tools, implemented C/C++ changes in the core search engine code, trained new hires, and fulfilled other duties. Tomasz is fluent speaker of both Polish and English.
Tomasz will report to me and will work on general MediaWiki development, code review, systems and administration tools, and optimization. He will also initially help to support the San Francisco office.
I am delighted that Tomasz is joining our team; please join me in welcoming him to the Wikimedia Foundation staff.
- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
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Whoo! Another person to code review! :-)
Welcome aboard Tomasz.
-Chad
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 1:39 AM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
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I am pleased to welcome Tomasz Finc as a new full-time software developer. Tomasz will start officially next week on August 4 in our San Francisco office.
Tomasz is a systems and software engineer with more than 7 years of experience. He joins us from Amazon.com, where he administered and supported the Amazon.com A9 search engine, optimized production performance, developed automation tools, implemented C/C++ changes in the core search engine code, trained new hires, and fulfilled other duties. Tomasz is fluent speaker of both Polish and English.
Tomasz will report to me and will work on general MediaWiki development, code review, systems and administration tools, and optimization. He will also initially help to support the San Francisco office.
I am delighted that Tomasz is joining our team; please join me in welcoming him to the Wikimedia Foundation staff.
Sounds like a great addition. Welcome Finc!
Welcome aboard :)
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 7:39 AM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
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I am pleased to welcome Tomasz Finc as a new full-time software developer. Tomasz will start officially next week on August 4 in our San Francisco office.
Tomasz is a systems and software engineer with more than 7 years of experience. He joins us from Amazon.com, where he administered and supported the Amazon.com A9 search engine, optimized production performance, developed automation tools, implemented C/C++ changes in the core search engine code, trained new hires, and fulfilled other duties. Tomasz is fluent speaker of both Polish and English.
Welcome, and happy coding!
Magnus
On 29 Jul 2008, at 23:39, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
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I am pleased to welcome Tomasz Finc as a new full-time software developer. Tomasz will start officially next week on August 4 in our San Francisco office.
Tomasz is a systems and software engineer with more than 7 years of experience. He joins us from Amazon.com, where he administered and supported the Amazon.com A9 search engine, optimized production performance, developed automation tools, implemented C/C++ changes in the core search engine code, trained new hires, and fulfilled other duties. Tomasz is fluent speaker of both Polish and English.
Tomasz will report to me and will work on general MediaWiki development, code review, systems and administration tools, and optimization. He will also initially help to support the San Francisco office.
I am delighted that Tomasz is joining our team; please join me in welcoming him to the Wikimedia Foundation staff.
- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
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Many thanks for the very welcoming reception! I'm thrilled to be joining such an enthusiastic and energetic community that I'm sure will teach me lots.
Just to round out a bit about me. When not in front of large and crazy clusters of systems or open source software, I can be found tumbling and flying in the air at the circus training in aerial arts or hanging on for dear life climbing mountains. Currently live in San Francisco and can still remember how excited I was when I heard the WikiMedia foundation was moving here. Crazy to think that I'll actually get the chance to contribute so much.
Having lived and worked in various parts of the world within setups of all sorts of sizes, I'm hoping to bring a diverse set of skills that can benefit everyone involved. Either from new ideas or just another pair of hands, I plan on contributing what's needed and makes good sense to have.
Enough for now .. I'll be turning myself onto listen mode and will just be trying to absorb all the info that is coming my way.
see you on IRC.
--tomasz
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
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I am pleased to welcome Tomasz Finc as a new full-time software developer. Tomasz will start officially next week on August 4 in our San Francisco office.
Tomasz is a systems and software engineer with more than 7 years of experience. He joins us from Amazon.com, where he administered and supported the Amazon.com A9 search engine, optimized production performance, developed automation tools, implemented C/C++ changes in the core search engine code, trained new hires, and fulfilled other duties. Tomasz is fluent speaker of both Polish and English.
Tomasz will report to me and will work on general MediaWiki development, code review, systems and administration tools, and optimization. He will also initially help to support the San Francisco office.
I am delighted that Tomasz is joining our team; please join me in welcoming him to the Wikimedia Foundation staff.
- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
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On 7/30/08, Tomasz Finc tomasz@gmail.com wrote:
Enough for now .. I'll be turning myself onto listen mode and will
just be trying to absorb all the info that is coming my way.
A hearty welcome, Tomasz! I'm sure that this could easily lean towards information overload - as I'm sure it does for all new staff. :-)
I'm not sure of your exact role though, and therefore how it fits in with the existing community of developers. I suppose some clarification would be helpful to say how community requests for software development should proceed, and whether your activity is being directed towards specific projects for now.
In any case, this is great news - and bodes well for MediaWiki. :-)
Cormac
Cormac Lawler wrote:
A hearty welcome, Tomasz! I'm sure that this could easily lean towards information overload - as I'm sure it does for all new staff. :-)
I'm not sure of your exact role though, and therefore how it fits in with the existing community of developers. I suppose some clarification would be helpful to say how community requests for software development should proceed, and whether your activity is being directed towards specific projects for now.
I believe that community requests for software development continue to go through Bugzilla, I'm not sure why hiring Tomasz would change any of that. And if you read Brion's original announcement, he said Tomasz would be working on general MediaWiki development, though I imagine the team will figure out over time what areas are best for him. The foundation is exploring possible sources of funds for some more specific software development projects, but until we have something to announce we wouldn't be hiring specifically for those.
By the way, welcome aboard Tomasz!
--Michael Snow
<MASSIVE GRIN> Congrats to Tomasz for a new job with a great team and congrats to the tech team for finding the right person to fill the space!
Mike
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I am pleased to welcome Tomasz Finc as a new full-time software developer. Tomasz will start officially next week on August 4 in our San Francisco office.
Tomasz is a systems and software engineer with more than 7 years of experience. He joins us from Amazon.com, where he administered and supported the Amazon.com A9 search engine, optimized production performance, developed automation tools, implemented C/C++ changes in the core search engine code, trained new hires, and fulfilled other duties. Tomasz is fluent speaker of both Polish and English.
Tomasz will report to me and will work on general MediaWiki development, code review, systems and administration tools, and optimization. He will also initially help to support the San Francisco office.
I am delighted that Tomasz is joining our team; please join me in welcoming him to the Wikimedia Foundation staff.
- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org) CTO, Wikimedia Foundation
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 23:39, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
I am pleased to welcome Tomasz Finc as a new full-time software developer. Tomasz will start officially next week on August 4 in our San Francisco office.
Welcome aboard. Our software is at the heart of keeping things moving so another pair of hands will, I'm sure, be very much welcomed.
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