Welcome Monte! Welcome to the awesome mobile team.
-Alolita
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Kul Wadhwa <kwadhwa(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Monte - we're glad you left the ice fishing behind to join us. Welcome
> aboard!
>
> --Kul
>
> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Rachel Farrand <rfarrand(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Message from Tomasz!:
>>
>> ------
>> Greetings all!
>>
>> I'm pleased to welcome Monte Hurd to the Wikimedia Foundation. He
>> starts on April Fools Day!
>>
>> Arriving (most recently and quite gladly) from snowy Minnesota to join
>> WMF as a software engineer, he's been enthusiastically focused on
>> native mobile app development for the last few years since getting off
>> the startup roller coaster.
>>
>> His native app projects have included image processing, drawing,
>> physics asset pipelines, video creation, background server sync and
>> experimental user interfaces.
>>
>> He joins the community and mobile team efforts to develop native, user
>> friendly media management apps which co-evolve with the exploding
>> capabilities of modern mobile hardware, with the goal of expanding the
>> contribution possibilities of both users on-the-go and users whose
>> only computing device may be a mobile device. Monte joining will
>> complete the app team of Brion and Yuvi and will allow for them to
>> knowledge share effectively across both iOS and Android. His initial
>> task will be to support the store launch of the iOS Commons App to get
>> us closer to our monthly 1,000 unique uploaders goal annual goal.
>>
>> Monte lives for solving programming and climbing challenges and spent
>> a good portion of last year near Yosemite to be close to some of the
>> best climbing on the planet. He's glad to be back in sunny CA!
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> --tomasz
>>
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On 03/31/2013 10:58 PM, Dmitrii Kouznetsov wrote:
> Should I install git ?
No, this is a complete, downloadable version.
> Should I install PHP ?
Yes, MediaWiki requires at least version 5.3.2 of PHP.
> Should I install MathJax ?
> Should I install C++?
> Suould I install Latex?
None of these is needed.
> What versions of the software above are required for and compatible with
> your version of wiki?
Note that this is a release candidate for MediaWiki 1.21.0 -- it is not
"my" version of the software as I've done nothing special with this. I
am the release manager for MediaWiki and this is a release candidate for
a normal release.
This may not be absolutely clear since I used my own server for the
release instead of download.wikimedia.org. I had the release ready and
didn't want to wait for someone to upload it to download.wm.o, so I put
it on my own server. The next release candidate will be on download.wm.o.
> Does your version of wiki support pictures in PDF and/or EPS format?
MediaWiki supports uploading PDF and EPS files with the right
configuration. I haven't tried uploading EPS files, but providing
thumbnails of these and the PDFs should work.
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