[Foundation-l] Upcoming tech hiring: CTO position split

[Benjamin Lees]

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Brion Vibber <brion at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> With the increase in administrative and organizational duties, I've been
> less and less able to devote time to the part of the job that's nearest
> and dearest to me: working with our volunteer developer community and
> end users -- Wikimedians and other MediaWiki users alike -- who have
> bugs, patches, features, ideas, complaints, hopes and dreams that need
> attention.
>
> The last thing I want to be is a bottleneck that prevents our users from
> getting what they need, or our open source developers from being able to
> participate effectively!
>
> Multicore brain upgrades aren't yet available, so to keep us running at
> top speed I've suggested, and gotten Sue & Erik's blessing on, splitting
> out the components of my current CTO role into two separate positions:


This is great news.  I look forward to upping my daily dose of vitamin B
(the supplements just didn't cut it).