[Foundation-l] Announce: Brion moving to StatusNet

[Samuel Klein]

Brion, thank you for your tremendous work, enthusiasm, and grace, and
congratulations on your new job.  StatusNet will be lucky to have you,
and I hope this means among other things that we will see better
integration of real-time communication into platforms such as wikis.


On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Brion Vibber <brion at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> social interaction is probably one of the key areas we really need to improve on for
> Wikipedia/Wikimedia.

Agreed, including both tracking real-time discussions and persistent
personal status.  There are many toolserver tools and extensions that
share bits of this information, but it's tricky to maintain or search
through.


Michael Snow writes:
> I hope that his other work will also add significantly to the free
> culture movement, so that it really develops an ecosystem and not
> just a couple of peculiar organizations.

Yes, an ecosystem of peculiar organizations would be handy.  :-)

SJ