Hello everyone,
It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that C. Scott Ananian[1] has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as a Features Engineer.
Before joining us, Scott was Director of New Technologies at One Laptop per Child where he, among other things, worked on Nell, a platform to allow unsupervised learning of early literacy skills on tablets used in places like Ethiopia[2], and the OLPC security mechanism to prevent kids’ laptops from being stolen in transit. In between stints at OLPC, he worked as the Senior Architect at litl, LLC[3]. Clearly he has a thing for highly mobile PCs and applications (don’t tell Tomasz, he already stole Kaldari from Features :-P).
He started volunteering work on the MediaWiki parser project (Parsoid) on February 12th and got his first patch merged on February 15th. He’s had over 150 patches merged since then so it made sense that we should probably hire him ;-)
As you probably guessed with my usual tardiness, his first official day was actually Monday, July 8. He is going to continue his work on the Parsoid team with Gabriel Wicke and Subbu Sastry. He is super-motivated and has been mission-aligned since before Wikipedia existed[4], so I expect you’ll see him range far from our text infrastructure work. When he was at OLPC he liked to say his job was to “build robust and reliable systems to allow kids to discover, share, and learn.”
Scott lives and works in Cambridge, MA[5]. He is a square dancer[6] and theatrical lighting designer. I have it on good word that he’s a demon on MIT Mystery Hunt [7]—not sure if he’s on the same team as our Board Members or not [8], but if not…
Please join me in welcoming C. Scott to the Wikimedia Foundation. :-)
Take care, Terry
[1]: [[User:Cananian]] [2]: http://www.dvice.com/archives/2012/10/ethiopian_kids.php [3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litl [4]: http://www.salon.com/2000/02/09/linuxdvd/ [5]: tewwy: interested in relocating? :-) cscott: no, sorry. cscott: wife, kid, and house like where they are. ;-) [6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge_square_dance ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech_Squares [7]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Mystery_Hunt [8]: [[User:Sj]] did, in fact, recruit him to the Codex team in 2009. Codex won in 2011.
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Excellent. Glad to see you joined C. Scott.
--tomasz
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Terry Chay tchay@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello everyone,
It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that C. Scott Ananian[1] has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as a Features Engineer.
Before joining us, Scott was Director of New Technologies at One Laptop per Child where he, among other things, worked on Nell, a platform to allow unsupervised learning of early literacy skills on tablets used in places like Ethiopia[2], and the OLPC security mechanism to prevent kids’ laptops from being stolen in transit. In between stints at OLPC, he worked as the Senior Architect at litl, LLC[3]. Clearly he has a thing for highly mobile PCs and applications (don’t tell Tomasz, he already stole Kaldari from Features :-P).
He started volunteering work on the MediaWiki parser project (Parsoid) on February 12th and got his first patch merged on February 15th. He’s had over 150 patches merged since then so it made sense that we should probably hire him ;-)
As you probably guessed with my usual tardiness, his first official day was actually Monday, July 8. He is going to continue his work on the Parsoid team with Gabriel Wicke and Subbu Sastry. He is super-motivated and has been mission-aligned since before Wikipedia existed[4], so I expect you’ll see him range far from our text infrastructure work. When he was at OLPC he liked to say his job was to “build robust and reliable systems to allow kids to discover, share, and learn.”
Scott lives and works in Cambridge, MA[5]. He is a square dancer[6] and theatrical lighting designer. I have it on good word that he’s a demon on MIT Mystery Hunt [7]—not sure if he’s on the same team as our Board Members or not [8], but if not…
Please join me in welcoming C. Scott to the Wikimedia Foundation. :-)
Take care, Terry
[5]: tewwy: interested in relocating? :-) cscott: no, sorry. cscott: wife, kid, and house like where they are. ;-) [6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge_square_dance ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech_Squares [7]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Mystery_Hunt [8]: [[User:Sj]] did, in fact, recruit him to the Codex team in 2009. Codex won in 2011.
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Congratulations, C. Scott! Welcome aboard!
On Thursday, July 11, 2013, Tomasz Finc wrote:
Excellent. Glad to see you joined C. Scott.
--tomasz
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Terry Chay tchay@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello everyone,
It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that C. Scott Ananian[1] has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as a Features Engineer.
Before joining us, Scott was Director of New Technologies at One Laptop
per
Child where he, among other things, worked on Nell, a platform to allow unsupervised learning of early literacy skills on tablets used in places like Ethiopia[2], and the OLPC security mechanism to prevent kids’
laptops
from being stolen in transit. In between stints at OLPC, he worked as
the
Senior Architect at litl, LLC[3]. Clearly he has a thing for highly
mobile
PCs and applications (don’t tell Tomasz, he already stole Kaldari from Features :-P).
He started volunteering work on the MediaWiki parser project (Parsoid) on February 12th and got his first patch merged on February 15th. He’s had
over
150 patches merged since then so it made sense that we should probably
hire
him ;-)
As you probably guessed with my usual tardiness, his first official day
was
actually Monday, July 8. He is going to continue his work on the Parsoid team with Gabriel Wicke and Subbu Sastry. He is super-motivated and has
been
mission-aligned since before Wikipedia existed[4], so I expect you’ll see him range far from our text infrastructure work. When he was at OLPC he liked to say his job was to “build robust and reliable systems to allow
kids
to discover, share, and learn.”
Scott lives and works in Cambridge, MA[5]. He is a square dancer[6] and theatrical lighting designer. I have it on good word that he’s a demon on MIT Mystery Hunt [7]—not sure if he’s on the same team as our Board
Members
or not [8], but if not…
Please join me in welcoming C. Scott to the Wikimedia Foundation. :-)
Take care, Terry
[5]: tewwy: interested in relocating? :-) cscott: no, sorry. cscott: wife, kid, and house like where they are. ;-) [6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge_square_dance ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech_Squares [7]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Mystery_Hunt [8]: [[User:Sj]] did, in fact, recruit him to the Codex team in 2009.
Codex
won in 2011.
terry chay 최태리 Director of Features Engineering Wikimedia Foundation “Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
the
sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment.”
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On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Terry Chay tchay@wikimedia.org wrote:
Scott lives and works in Cambridge, MA[5]. He is a square dancer[6] and theatrical lighting designer. I have it on good word that he’s a demon on MIT Mystery Hunt [7]—not sure if he’s on the same team as our Board Members or not [8], but if not…
Welcome, Scott! And yes, Team Codex features WMF board members (2.5*) and advisory board members (2)... innumerable editors... and now features engineers... things are looking up for hunt/world domination!
-- phoebe
* I'm the .5. I am not very good at the mystery hunt.
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Terry Chay tchay@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello everyone,
It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that C. Scott Ananian[1] has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as a Features Engineer.
Welcome! I'm excited to hear you're officially with us now.
Roan
Welcome back to the team, C. Scott!
With you on board we'll make much more progress with our secret mission of converting MediaWiki to HTML5 ;)
Gabriel
On 07/11/2013 03:24 PM, Terry Chay wrote:
Hello everyone,
It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that C. Scott Ananian[1] has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as a Features Engineer.
Before joining us, Scott was Director of New Technologies at One Laptop per Child where he, among other things, worked on Nell, a platform to allow unsupervised learning of early literacy skills on tablets used in places like Ethiopia[2], and the OLPC security mechanism to prevent kids’ laptops from being stolen in transit. In between stints at OLPC, he worked as the Senior Architect at litl, LLC[3]. Clearly he has a thing for highly mobile PCs and applications (don’t tell Tomasz, he already stole Kaldari from Features :-P).
He started volunteering work on the MediaWiki parser project (Parsoid) on February 12th and got his first patch merged on February 15th. He’s had over 150 patches merged since then so it made sense that we should probably hire him ;-)
As you probably guessed with my usual tardiness, his first official day was actually Monday, July 8. He is going to continue his work on the Parsoid team with Gabriel Wicke and Subbu Sastry. He is super-motivated and has been mission-aligned since before Wikipedia existed[4], so I expect you’ll see him range far from our text infrastructure work. When he was at OLPC he liked to say his job was to “build robust and reliable systems to allow kids to discover, share, and learn.”
Scott lives and works in Cambridge, MA[5]. He is a square dancer[6] and theatrical lighting designer. I have it on good word that he’s a demon on MIT Mystery Hunt [7]—not sure if he’s on the same team as our Board Members or not [8], but if not…
Please join me in welcoming C. Scott to the Wikimedia Foundation. :-)
Take care, Terry
[5]: tewwy: interested in relocating? :-) cscott: no, sorry. cscott: wife, kid, and house like where they are. ;-) [6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge_square_dance; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech_Squares [7]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Mystery_Hunt [8]: [[User:Sj]] did, in fact, recruit him to the Codex team in 2009. Codex won in 2011.
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( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age )
Welcome C. Scott and thanks for all your past, present, and future contributions.
Hey,
Welcome to community the Scott! Looks like we are one good engineer stronger now :)
Cheers
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On 07/11/2013 05:53 PM, Jeroen De Dauw wrote:
Hey,
Welcome to community the Scott! Looks like we are one good engineer stronger now :)
Cheers
-- Jeroen De Dauw
Seconding this - welcome to WMF and thanks for joining us!
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Sumana Harihareswara < sumanah@wikimedia.org> wrote:
On 07/11/2013 05:53 PM, Jeroen De Dauw wrote:
Hey,
Welcome to community the Scott! Looks like we are one good engineer stronger now :)
Cheers
-- Jeroen De Dauw
Seconding this - welcome to WMF and thanks for joining us!
Ditto. It's exciting to have you on board. Welcome!
Scott -
I'm really glad that you've joined WMF engineering! The work on Parsoid is groundbreaking. It will open the door to collaboration at a scale not seen before. And it will require contributors of your level of experience to pull it off.
Thanks for coming on board -- I look forward to working with you. And thanks to Terry for investing in growing this mission-critical team.
Erik
-- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
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