[Wikimedia-l] [Announcement] James Forrester joins WMF as Technical Product Analyst

[Kat Walsh]

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Chris Keating
<chriskeatingwiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> It’s my pleasure to announce that James Forrester is joining our San
>> Francisco office as a Technical Product Analyst, supporting the Visual
>> Editor team. James started his work as a remote contractor yesterday
>> and will be joining us in San Francisco later this year as a staff
>> member.
>
>
> Congratulations, James!
>
> I hope this means the Visual Editor will use the correct spellings of words
> like colour, axe, and aluminium, and will offer to make people tea. :-)

Just as long as it's not almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea...

Also, I am having serious trouble wrapping my mind around James living
outside the UK. Once that happens I'm sure I will have recovered
enough to say "congratulations"!

I do wish someone had been chosen who had some more community experience though.

-Kat


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