Welcome!
Also, the MTC project sounds very interesting. As some who was heavily
reliant on public transport back in Mumbai, I can imagine how helpful that
would be.
Ayush Khanna
Data Analyst, Global Development
Wikimedia Foundation
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On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Barry Newstead (WMF) <
bnewstead(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Welcome Arun. It was a nice surprise to meet you
in person at CIS in
Bangalore on Sunday. Great to have you onboard.
Best,
Barry
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On Thursday, May 3, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Victor Grigas wrote:
ARUN!!! I'm happy you are on board! You are perfect for our team :)
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Mani Pande <mpande(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Welcome aboard.!!
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:12 AM, asharma(a)wikimedia.org <
asharma(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi Arun,
A very warm welcome to you on the I18n/L10N engineering team. We are
excited about the Universal Language Selector UI/UX work that you and Pau
are helping us with.
Happy to see you onboard!
Alolita
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Subject: [Wmfall] Introduction - Arun
Date: Thu, May 3, 2012 6:55 am
Congratulations Arun!
Happy that I met you a month back, now the L10n have more people from
Indic
communities and it makes me happier again ;-)
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Maggie Dennis <mdennis(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Welcome, Arun! Somehow I feel sure that you are
in for an interesting
ride. :D
Maggie
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Arun Ganesh <arun.planemad(a)gmail.com
wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I wanted to introduce myself to the community and the WMF team, I'm
Arun
> Ganesh (user:planemad)[1a] from Bangalore,
India and have joined as
> contractor for the foundation's L10n team[1b] as an Interaction
designer
> along with Pau to improve the user experience
of language tools and
> features.
>
> I have been a longtime contributer to both commons[2] and the
> openstreetmap[3] project and got involved with foundation work during
the
> Mumbai and Pune hackathons recently[4][5][6]
where I proposed some of
the
> first ideas for the Universal Language
Selector widget with Brandon,
with
> which we want to make language selection for
anyone easy peasy.
>
> Apart from that, I love cartography and maps [7], which would explain
my
> map contributions and the occasional headline
for wikipedia [8], use
only
> public transport[9] and traveling with my
pocket camera[10].
>
> Its feels great to have this opportunity to work more seriously on a
> project which has been an important part of my life. I'm new here, I
wont
> claim to know much, but I hope to make a
difference in whichever way
> possible. I also look forward to interacting more closely and
learning from
> the rest of the designers - Brandon, Heather
and Pau to do the
wonderful
> things that designers like to do .So keep the
usability bugs coming :)
> -Arun
>
> [1a]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad
> [1b]
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Localization_team
> [2]
>
> [3]
>
http://yosmhm.neis-one.org/?zoom=4&lat=21.96627&lon=81.68268&la…
> [4]
>
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector#Arun_Ganesh.27s_O…
> [5]
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mobile_language_selector.pdf
> [6]
>
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:L10n-ux-Universal_Language_Selector-…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/jul/30/information-beautiful-i…
> [9]
>
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/article182223…
> [10]
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1663025,00.html
>
>
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