I am very happy to announce that tomorrow is Quim Gil's first day in the Engineering Community Team of the Wikimedia Foundation. His title is Technical Contributor Coordinator (IT Communications Manager) which means that he'll be reaching out to and nurturing our testers, coders, documenters, product managers, sysadmins, and other contributors to Wikimedia technologies like MediaWiki. His blog entry about coming to WMF: https://flors.wordpress.com/2012/08/27/moving-up-in-the-freedom-stack/ Quim is a contributor to Catalan Wikisource & Wikipedia and English Wikipedia (User:Qgil), and has helped Wikimedia's mobile team as a volunteer. Most recently he's dug into statistical analysis of MediaWiki's coder community and the philosophical conundrum of RESOLVED:LATER. You might also know him from his activity in the worlds of GNOME, Qt, and Maemo -- he's coming to us from Nokia. If I try to detail all the consulting, event-running, volunteer recruiting, open source community management, writing, and projects he's done, I'll hit some kind of mailman limit so I won't try. :-) Quim lives in the Bay Area and will be working out of the San Francisco office while reporting to me remotely, which is kind of hilarious. In the near future he'll be encouraging volunteer testers and running our Outreach Program for Women. And tomorrow is Quim's birthday! So, happy birthday and welcome, Quim!

Hello everybody, and thank you Sumana for the warm welcome. I had expected a first day at work with time to fill a personal profile properly and write a blog post, but the end of my second day is approaching and I'm still not there. It's all good, in the meantime I completed my first task as WMF employee: kicking off https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women :) This 'Technical Contributor Coordinator' job is better understood by the actions than by the name of the role. If you are interested, check my fast-growing task list: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil#Task_list Community outreach can be rather distracting, since reading and socializing is the best AND the worst thing to do if you want to accomplish anything. It's not easy to mix the right dose. Trying to find the appropriate balance, my work is guided by a rather simple trinity: 1. Focus on the WMF focus. 2. Agreement with Sumana. 3. No more than three ongoing tasks at a time. I don't mention openness and transparency because they are intrinsic and assumed. Feel free suggesting new items and different priorities. Most of my work needs to be done next to somebody else i.e. you (yes, you!). If you care about who I am and where do I (professionally) come from, here is a couple of useful links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Qgil http://www.linkedin.com/in/quimgil More about all this in the blog post that (hopefully) will be published tomorrow celebrating THE GREAT JOY OF BEING HERE WITH YOU - and even be paid for it. :) -- Quim On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l