Greetings all,
The Mobile and Special Projects department is pleased to announce the addition of two new contractors to the team: Yuvaraj Pandian and Max Seminik.
Yuvaraj Pandian or Yuvi as we gotten to know him was one of our 2011 Google Summer of Code students. During GSoC he worked with Arthur Richards on porting the Wikipedia 1.0 bot to a PHP extension named Selection Sifter. This was in important offline project as it allowed us to better support and extend our offline tool chains. Previous to this he had been active in the busroutes.in community where users @logic and @planemad motivated him to come on and help the Wikimedia community. One of his early Wikimedia project memories includes the tawiki community discussing the ShortUrl extension. He found the entire channel so lively and helpful that he applied for GSoC.
Yuvi will be working for us remotely while on a six month sabbatical from KCG College of Technology, India. He'll be extending the Android app, enhancing MobileFrontend, and working with our various offline efforts to further the reach of the projects. You can find him on irc under the nick 'yuviapanda' .
Max Semink has been an active MediaWiki contributor since 2009. He's recently been most involved in developing the API Sandbox for MediaWiki. An extension that allows any user to easily create complex API queries through a visual interface. When not hacking on MediaWiki, Max has been busy developing C++ software for embedded systems in the railroad industry. While train switching has captured the majority of his recent developer cycles, he's super eager to change direction and focus his full time efforts on MediaWiki.
Max will be continuing his interest in the API by helping us improve and extend its use within mobile. He'll be adding a proper API to MobileFrontend, extending support for GPS, and in general moving the API forward for our mobile clients. Max will be working for us remotely and can be found under the nick 'MaxSem' .
It's great to be able to see two active community members be able to join us full time.
Please join me in (re)-welcoming Yuvi and Max!
--tomasz
On 12/19/2011 03:28 AM, Tomasz Finc wrote:
Greetings all,
The Mobile and Special Projects department is pleased to announce the addition of two new contractors to the team: Yuvaraj Pandian and Max Seminik.
Yuvaraj Pandian or Yuvi as we gotten to know him was one of our 2011 Google Summer of Code students. During GSoC he worked with Arthur Richards on porting the Wikipedia 1.0 bot to a PHP extension named Selection Sifter. This was in important offline project as it allowed us to better support and extend our offline tool chains. Previous to this he had been active in the busroutes.in community where users @logic and @planemad motivated him to come on and help the Wikimedia community. One of his early Wikimedia project memories includes the tawiki community discussing the ShortUrl extension. He found the entire channel so lively and helpful that he applied for GSoC.
Yuvi will be working for us remotely while on a six month sabbatical from KCG College of Technology, India. He'll be extending the Android app, enhancing MobileFrontend, and working with our various offline efforts to further the reach of the projects. You can find him on irc under the nick 'yuviapanda' .
Max Semink has been an active MediaWiki contributor since 2009. He's recently been most involved in developing the API Sandbox for MediaWiki. An extension that allows any user to easily create complex API queries through a visual interface. When not hacking on MediaWiki, Max has been busy developing C++ software for embedded systems in the railroad industry. While train switching has captured the majority of his recent developer cycles, he's super eager to change direction and focus his full time efforts on MediaWiki.
Max will be continuing his interest in the API by helping us improve and extend its use within mobile. He'll be adding a proper API to MobileFrontend, extending support for GPS, and in general moving the API forward for our mobile clients. Max will be working for us remotely and can be found under the nick 'MaxSem' .
It's great to be able to see two active community members be able to join us full time.
Please join me in (re)-welcoming Yuvi and Max!
--tomasz
It was great getting to work with Yuvi and Max this past summer (during GSoC) and getting to meet them at Wikimedia events this fall, and I'm glad that Wikimedia will get to benefit even more from their expertise, attitudes and perspectives. Yay!
Quick correction .. that should have been Max Semenik :) Spelling was never my strong suit.
--tomasz
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org wrote:
Greetings all,
The Mobile and Special Projects department is pleased to announce the addition of two new contractors to the team: Yuvaraj Pandian and Max Seminik.
Yuvaraj Pandian or Yuvi as we gotten to know him was one of our 2011 Google Summer of Code students. During GSoC he worked with Arthur Richards on porting the Wikipedia 1.0 bot to a PHP extension named Selection Sifter. This was in important offline project as it allowed us to better support and extend our offline tool chains. Previous to this he had been active in the busroutes.in community where users @logic and @planemad motivated him to come on and help the Wikimedia community. One of his early Wikimedia project memories includes the tawiki community discussing the ShortUrl extension. He found the entire channel so lively and helpful that he applied for GSoC.
Yuvi will be working for us remotely while on a six month sabbatical from KCG College of Technology, India. He'll be extending the Android app, enhancing MobileFrontend, and working with our various offline efforts to further the reach of the projects. You can find him on irc under the nick 'yuviapanda' .
Max Semink has been an active MediaWiki contributor since 2009. He's recently been most involved in developing the API Sandbox for MediaWiki. An extension that allows any user to easily create complex API queries through a visual interface. When not hacking on MediaWiki, Max has been busy developing C++ software for embedded systems in the railroad industry. While train switching has captured the majority of his recent developer cycles, he's super eager to change direction and focus his full time efforts on MediaWiki.
Max will be continuing his interest in the API by helping us improve and extend its use within mobile. He'll be adding a proper API to MobileFrontend, extending support for GPS, and in general moving the API forward for our mobile clients. Max will be working for us remotely and can be found under the nick 'MaxSem' .
It's great to be able to see two active community members be able to join us full time.
Please join me in (re)-welcoming Yuvi and Max!
--tomasz
Welcome Yuvi and Max! I'm glad to see that we're still hiring awesome devs from the community.
Roan
2011/12/19 Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org:
Greetings all,
The Mobile and Special Projects department is pleased to announce the addition of two new contractors to the team: Yuvaraj Pandian and Max Seminik.
நல்வரவு / добро пожаловать!
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
Awesome to see Yuvi and Max join the engineering team! Welcome!
-Alolita
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
2011/12/19 Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org:
Greetings all,
The Mobile and Special Projects department is pleased to announce the addition of two new contractors to the team: Yuvaraj Pandian and Max Seminik.
நல்வரவு / добро пожаловать!
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Congrats to you both! It's great to have you on board :D
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Alolita Sharma asharma@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Awesome to see Yuvi and Max join the engineering team! Welcome!
-Alolita
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
2011/12/19 Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org:
Greetings all,
The Mobile and Special Projects department is pleased to announce the addition of two new contractors to the team: Yuvaraj Pandian and Max Seminik.
நல்வரவு / добро пожаловать!
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
-- Alolita Sharma Features Engineering Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Welcome Yuvi and Max!
— Patrick
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Arthur Richards arichards@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Congrats to you both! It's great to have you on board :D
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Alolita Sharma <asharma@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Awesome to see Yuvi and Max join the engineering team! Welcome!
-Alolita
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
2011/12/19 Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org:
Greetings all,
The Mobile and Special Projects department is pleased to announce the addition of two new contractors to the team: Yuvaraj Pandian and Max Seminik.
நல்வரவு / добро пожаловать!
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
-- Alolita Sharma Features Engineering Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
-- Arthur Richards Software Engineer Fundraising/Features/Offline/Mobile [[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Great to see community contributors spend some time on Staff :-).
Danese
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org wrote:
Greetings all,
The Mobile and Special Projects department is pleased to announce the addition of two new contractors to the team: Yuvaraj Pandian and Max Seminik.
Yuvaraj Pandian or Yuvi as we gotten to know him was one of our 2011 Google Summer of Code students. During GSoC he worked with Arthur Richards on porting the Wikipedia 1.0 bot to a PHP extension named Selection Sifter. This was in important offline project as it allowed us to better support and extend our offline tool chains. Previous to this he had been active in the busroutes.in community where users @logic and @planemad motivated him to come on and help the Wikimedia community. One of his early Wikimedia project memories includes the tawiki community discussing the ShortUrl extension. He found the entire channel so lively and helpful that he applied for GSoC.
Yuvi will be working for us remotely while on a six month sabbatical from KCG College of Technology, India. He'll be extending the Android app, enhancing MobileFrontend, and working with our various offline efforts to further the reach of the projects. You can find him on irc under the nick 'yuviapanda' .
Max Semink has been an active MediaWiki contributor since 2009. He's recently been most involved in developing the API Sandbox for MediaWiki. An extension that allows any user to easily create complex API queries through a visual interface. When not hacking on MediaWiki, Max has been busy developing C++ software for embedded systems in the railroad industry. While train switching has captured the majority of his recent developer cycles, he's super eager to change direction and focus his full time efforts on MediaWiki.
Max will be continuing his interest in the API by helping us improve and extend its use within mobile. He'll be adding a proper API to MobileFrontend, extending support for GPS, and in general moving the API forward for our mobile clients. Max will be working for us remotely and can be found under the nick 'MaxSem' .
It's great to be able to see two active community members be able to join us full time.
Please join me in (re)-welcoming Yuvi and Max!
--tomasz
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Welcome to you both!
On 12/19/11 12:28 AM, Tomasz Finc wrote:
Greetings all,
The Mobile and Special Projects department is pleased to announce the addition of two new contractors to the team: Yuvaraj Pandian and Max Seminik.
A very warm welcome to two talented team members!
Phil On Dec 19, 2011 3:53 PM, "Neil Kandalgaonkar" neilk@wikimedia.org wrote:
Welcome to you both!
On 12/19/11 12:28 AM, Tomasz Finc wrote:
Greetings all,
The Mobile and Special Projects department is pleased to announce the addition of two new contractors to the team: Yuvaraj Pandian and Max Seminik.
-- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( neilk@wikimedia.org
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