[Foundation-l] Announcement: Naoko Komura

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
Naoko welcome. Usability is a subject that is also of a particular
importance to the "down stream" users of MediaWiki. Organisations like
UNICEF, Kennisnet, Commonwealth of Learning and many others are investing
and have invested in improved usability. I hope you will be interested in
leveraging all this hard word and make it count even more. The tapes of the
usability studies of UNICEF, who are in English by the way, are available to
people working on usability. There is even a really good possibility for you
to make use of the Tanzanian team who executed the UNICEF studies. There are
many more opportunities...

Given the size of the grant, there is this opportunity to make sure that the
usability effort will not only lead to open source but also to open
collaboration.
Thanks,
      GerardM

2008/12/6 Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org>

> I'm pleased to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation is hiring Naoko
> Komura as Program Manager for the Stanton Foundation Usability
> Project. She will begin work on January 2, 2009, and her employment
> contract with us will end on April 1, 2010.
>
> Naoko has worked for us in the past three months as a contractor
> shepherding two important projects: the reader/contributor survey,
> which was successfully launched and received tens of thousands of
> responses, and the Wikimania 2008 postmortem analysis. She's also
> project managed the fundraiser translation work, the development of
> the Stanton Foundation grant proposal, and another grant proposal
> we're actively working on.
>
> Naoko has worked as a Senior Program Manger and Project Manager for
> Yahoo! Mail, Postini, and Cygnus Solutions. She has an MA in
> International Development Policy from Stanford University and an MS in
> Economics from Kobe University in Japan. She's a native speaker of
> Japanese.
>
> I'm very pleased that Naoko has agreed to lead this important
> initiative. Please join me in welcoming her!
> --
> Erik Möller
> Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
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