[Foundation-l] [Announcement] Neil Kandalgaonkar as Software Developer for Ford Multimedia Usability Project

[Liam Wyatt]

Indeed! I believe the Flickr experinece will  be especially valuable given
the recent flurry of discussion about the relative merits of Flickr Commons
and Wikimedia Commons for GLAMs. Welcome and good luck!
-Liam [[witty lama]]


wittylama.com/blog
Peace, love & metadata


On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hoi,
> Welcome Neil! There are plenty challenges for you, I am sure you will enjoy
> many of them and find some puzzling, strange or weird and maybe all three
> at
> the same time :)
> Thanks,
>     GerardM
>
> 2010/1/27 Naoko Komura <nkomura at wikimedia.org>
>
> > It is my pleasure to announce that the usability team has a new member.
> >  Neil Kandalgaonkar joined the team as a software developer for the Ford
> > multi-media usability project.  Neil brings in the breadth of experience
> in
> > software engineering from major social networking web sites such as
> Flickr
> > and Upcoming.org.  Neil oversaw improving payment system and
> > performance of FlickrMail interface at Flickr, integrated Upcoming.org
> into
> > Yahoo properties and helped expand the team.  Prior to Yahoo!, Neil was
> with
> > Google and his main responsibility was to enable Google Checkout system
> for
> > non-US markets.  Neil holds Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies
> from
> > Concordia University, in Montreal, Canada.
> >
> > Neil will work closely with Guillaume Paumier, who manages the product
> side
> > of the project, and also Michael Dale who have been developing a ton of
> > multi-media support software and tools already.
> >
> > I just posted the work in progress of the multi-media usability project
> for
> > those who are curious about the development of the multi-media usability
> > project.
> >
> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2010/01/26/multimedia-usability-project-underway/
> >
> > Please join me welcoming, Neil.
> >
> > Naoko Komura
> > Program Manager
> > Wikimedia Usability Initiative
> >
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