For almost three years, Rachel Farrand has been a regular contributor in the organization of public and internal Wikimedia events since she joined the Wikimedia Foundation as an Admin Assistant and then Project Coordinator with the Engineering department. This past year, Rachel has been the lead coordinator at the WMF for the Architecture Summit in San Francisco, the Wikimedia Hackathon in Zürich, the Wikimania Hackathon in London, most of the Tech Talks scheduled, and many on-site and off-site meetings. Those of us lucky to work with Rachel know that she is a reliable and patient team worker who excels at organizing activities for others to enjoy.
For all these reasons and more, we have decided to evolve Rachel's role as Events Coordinator at the Engineering Community team. With this change, Rachel will be able to dedicate more time and attention to this area, where we are already playing good tactics but we need a more consistent strategy movement-wide. Rachel's current goals include merging our Architecture Summit, WMF Tech Days, and SF Hackathon into a single event this Winter; document a HowTo for hackathon organizers compiling our many lessons learned; and keeping a regular stream of online Tech Talks and on-site Wikimedia Tech meetups in San Francisco.
She will also assist in the organization of our outreach programs (Google Summer of Code, FOSS Outreach Program for Women, Google Code-in): time-based activities that share many aspects with our technical events.
It’s been a great process to work with Lynette on Rachel’s transition into the ECT team, and we are delighted Engineering Community events will have the dedication and focus Rachel brings to the work!.
Congrats and "Welcome" Rachel!
On 09/02/2014 01:09 PM, Quim Gil wrote:
For all these reasons and more, we have decided to evolve Rachel's role as Events Coordinator at the Engineering Community team.
Our loss is your gain, Quim! Grats, Rachel - it's well deserved!
-- Marc
yay! congrats!
Yipee!
Charles
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Le 2 sept. 2014 à 19:09, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org a écrit :
For almost three years, Rachel Farrand has been a regular contributor in the organization of public and internal Wikimedia events since she joined the Wikimedia Foundation as an Admin Assistant and then Project Coordinator with the Engineering department. This past year, Rachel has been the lead coordinator at the WMF for the Architecture Summit in San Francisco, the Wikimedia Hackathon in Zürich, the Wikimania Hackathon in London, most of the Tech Talks scheduled, and many on-site and off-site meetings. Those of us lucky to work with Rachel know that she is a reliable and patient team worker who excels at organizing activities for others to enjoy.
For all these reasons and more, we have decided to evolve Rachel's role as Events Coordinator at the Engineering Community team. With this change, Rachel will be able to dedicate more time and attention to this area, where we are already playing good tactics but we need a more consistent strategy movement-wide. Rachel's current goals include merging our Architecture Summit, WMF Tech Days, and SF Hackathon into a single event this Winter; document a HowTo for hackathon organizers compiling our many lessons learned; and keeping a regular stream of online Tech Talks and on-site Wikimedia Tech meetups in San Francisco.
She will also assist in the organization of our outreach programs (Google Summer of Code, FOSS Outreach Program for Women, Google Code-in): time-based activities that share many aspects with our technical events.
It’s been a great process to work with Lynette on Rachel’s transition into the ECT team, and we are delighted Engineering Community events will have the dedication and focus Rachel brings to the work!.
Congrats and "Welcome" Rachel!
-- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Great to see. Congrats Rachel
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
For almost three years, Rachel Farrand has been a regular contributor in the organization of public and internal Wikimedia events since she joined the Wikimedia Foundation as an Admin Assistant and then Project Coordinator with the Engineering department. This past year, Rachel has been the lead coordinator at the WMF for the Architecture Summit in San Francisco, the Wikimedia Hackathon in Zürich, the Wikimania Hackathon in London, most of the Tech Talks scheduled, and many on-site and off-site meetings. Those of us lucky to work with Rachel know that she is a reliable and patient team worker who excels at organizing activities for others to enjoy.
For all these reasons and more, we have decided to evolve Rachel's role as Events Coordinator at the Engineering Community team. With this change, Rachel will be able to dedicate more time and attention to this area, where we are already playing good tactics but we need a more consistent strategy movement-wide. Rachel's current goals include merging our Architecture Summit, WMF Tech Days, and SF Hackathon into a single event this Winter; document a HowTo for hackathon organizers compiling our many lessons learned; and keeping a regular stream of online Tech Talks and on-site Wikimedia Tech meetups in San Francisco.
She will also assist in the organization of our outreach programs (Google Summer of Code, FOSS Outreach Program for Women, Google Code-in): time-based activities that share many aspects with our technical events.
It’s been a great process to work with Lynette on Rachel’s transition into the ECT team, and we are delighted Engineering Community events will have the dedication and focus Rachel brings to the work!.
Congrats and "Welcome" Rachel!
-- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
we have decided to evolve Rachel's role as Events Coordinator at the Engineering Community team
Congratulations! :)
Željko
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