Hi everyone, I’m extremely pleased to welcome Aaron Schulz to Wikimedia Foundation as a full-time developer in Platform Engineering.  Aaron is a long-time MediaWiki developer, starting as a volunteer in 2007.  He quickly proved adept at working with the FlaggedRevs extension, so WMF hired him as a student contractor to take on development, and is now still the primary developer of the FlaggedRevs extension in use on many of our larger wikis today.  More recently, he volunteered a lot of the initial work on IPv6 compliance, and has made many small fixes and improvement in the MediaWiki core.  Aaron has been so active in MediaWiki in the past few years that 5,527 of the 95,732 revisions in our main source code repository have his name on them.[1] This summer, Aaron continued his student contractor work on our software deployment infrastructure, working on the Heterogeneous Deployment project, which we plan to use to roll out MediaWiki 1.18 in a controlled manner in September.  He's one of many developers who is slogging away at reviewing code commits in anticipation of 1.18, and will generally be working on operational and performance-oriented projects. Welcome, Aaron! Rob [1] See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/author/aaron