Hi Everyone,
Please join me in welcoming Runa Bhattacharjee as the Language Engineering team’s outreach and QA coordinator. Runa will be responsible for the team’s language focused technical outreach activities as well as working with Wikimedia’s language communities to get feedback on internationalization and localization features being developed or deployed to Wikimedia sites.
Runa started working in the world of open source software as a volunteer translator for Bengalinux - a community of volunteers working on Indic language technology during its early years. Runa joins us from Red Hat where she worked as part of the Localization Services group. At Red Hat she participated in the development and maturity of Indic language features in open source enterprise products like Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). For the past year she has also helped enhance the latest version of Zanata, an open source translation platform. She has contributed for many years as a localizer to several GNOME, Fedora and Mozilla projects.
Runa believes newer platforms and devices used for content delivery and adoption through local languages make it an exciting time for growth of open source language tools. She is excited to be part of the Language Engineering group at Wikimedia Foundation and looking forward to work on innovations and contributions.
She can be reached on email at runa@wikimedia.org or as ‘arrbee’ on our irc channels including #mediawiki, #wikimedia-dev and #mediawiki-i18n. Her blog is at arrbee.wordpress.com
Welcome Runa! I am excited to have you on the language engineering team!
Alolita
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Alolita Sharma asharma@wikimedia.org wrote:
Welcome Runa! I am excited to have you on the language engineering team!
Wohoooo! Welcome Runa. I was already wondering where you'd go after leaving RH. This is fantastic news.
Cheers Lydia
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Welcome Runa. It's great that we can finally share the good news!
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Op 28 jan. 2013 om 22:10 heeft Alolita Sharma asharma@wikimedia.org het volgende geschreven:
Hi Everyone,
Please join me in welcoming Runa Bhattacharjee as the Language Engineering team’s outreach and QA coordinator. Runa will be responsible for the team’s language focused technical outreach activities as well as working with Wikimedia’s language communities to get feedback on internationalization and localization features being developed or deployed to Wikimedia sites.
Hoi, Runa, welcome and make yourself heard :) Thanks, Gerard
On 28 January 2013 22:10, Alolita Sharma asharma@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Everyone,
Please join me in welcoming Runa Bhattacharjee as the Language Engineering team’s outreach and QA coordinator. Runa will be responsible for the team’s language focused technical outreach activities as well as working with Wikimedia’s language communities to get feedback on internationalization and localization features being developed or deployed to Wikimedia sites.
Runa started working in the world of open source software as a volunteer translator for Bengalinux - a community of volunteers working on Indic language technology during its early years. Runa joins us from Red Hat where she worked as part of the Localization Services group. At Red Hat she participated in the development and maturity of Indic language features in open source enterprise products like Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). For the past year she has also helped enhance the latest version of Zanata, an open source translation platform. She has contributed for many years as a localizer to several GNOME, Fedora and Mozilla projects.
Runa believes newer platforms and devices used for content delivery and adoption through local languages make it an exciting time for growth of open source language tools. She is excited to be part of the Language Engineering group at Wikimedia Foundation and looking forward to work on innovations and contributions.
She can be reached on email at runa@wikimedia.org or as ‘arrbee’ on our irc channels including #mediawiki, #wikimedia-dev and #mediawiki-i18n. Her blog is at arrbee.wordpress.com
Welcome Runa! I am excited to have you on the language engineering team!
Alolita
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On 01/28/2013 04:10 PM, Alolita Sharma wrote:
Hi Everyone,
Please join me in welcoming Runa Bhattacharjee as the Language Engineering team’s outreach and QA coordinator. Runa will be responsible for the team’s language focused technical outreach activities as well as working with Wikimedia’s language communities to get feedback on internationalization and localization features being developed or deployed to Wikimedia sites.
Runa started working in the world of open source software as a volunteer translator for Bengalinux - a community of volunteers working on Indic language technology during its early years. Runa joins us from Red Hat where she worked as part of the Localization Services group. At Red Hat she participated in the development and maturity of Indic language features in open source enterprise products like Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). For the past year she has also helped enhance the latest version of Zanata, an open source translation platform. She has contributed for many years as a localizer to several GNOME, Fedora and Mozilla projects.
Runa believes newer platforms and devices used for content delivery and adoption through local languages make it an exciting time for growth of open source language tools. She is excited to be part of the Language Engineering group at Wikimedia Foundation and looking forward to work on innovations and contributions.
She can be reached on email at runa@wikimedia.org or as ‘arrbee’ on our irc channels including #mediawiki, #wikimedia-dev and #mediawiki-i18n. Her blog is at arrbee.wordpress.com
Welcome Runa! I am excited to have you on the language engineering team!
Alolita
Congrats and welcome, Runa! I'm reading your blog and I agree with what you said in https://arrbee.wordpress.com/2012/07/10/akademy-2012-talk-transcript-localiz... -- that we need to learn from case studies and from others who have worked on similar problems. It is SO GREAT that we will get to benefit from your experience in other projects!
Extremely quick tip: ?uselang=qqx in any MediaWiki URI is *magic*. Example: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page?uselang=qqx
Welcome here!
Languages are your topic? Really great playground!
Marco
Matthew Flaschen mflaschen@wikimedia.org schrieb:
On 01/28/2013 04:10 PM, Alolita Sharma wrote:
Runa believes newer platforms and devices used for content delivery
and
adoption through local languages make it an exciting time for growth
of
open source language tools.
Welcome! Indeed, it's an exciting time.
Matt Flaschen
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