[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Fabrice Florin joins Wikimedia

[Erik Moeller]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Bod Notbod <bodnotbod at gmail.com> wrote:

> < holds up big WELCOME sign >
>
> If I say that this sounds like a hugely important role the rest of the
> office will fold their arms and  rightly harumph at me for the implied
> negation of their value, so I won't say that. But you can't keep up
> with Wikipedia news without being made constantly aware that gaining
> new editors is a serious business. I will be fascinated to see what
> you make of the ideas for volunteer recruitment we've had so far and
> any innovations you can come up with.
>
> Congratulations and welcome to the other recent new hires as well.
>
> It would be lovely if each of the new hires could guest post on the
> Foundation blog and/or write a page for Signpost once they've settled
> in and let us know what their average day is like and some insight
> into what they're working on. The staff is now getting to a size where
> even close followers of Wikimedia are liable to lose track. Some
> effort to keep the community feeling that they know all the staff
> would be much appreciated.

Hi Bod,

I like the idea of having some kind of "first month at WMF" post,
especially from someone in a very community-facing position like
Fabrice. Let's plan to do that in February. I don't think it's a blog
post but we can broadcast it here and in a couple of places.

Cheers,
Erik

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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation

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