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

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> Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 18:06:48 +0100
> From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
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> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] [Announcement] James Forrester
>        joins WMF as Technical Product Analyst
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> James, you're emigrating? I never thought I'd see that...
>
> Congratulations, traitor!
>
> On 17 May 2012 17:52, Howie Fung <hfung at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > Everyone,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > James will help prioritize the short term and long term work log on
> > the Visual Editor, conduct user research, and incorporate community
> > feedback into the development process.
> >
> > As many of you know, James is a long-time Wikimedian. He started
> > contributing to English Wikipedia in October 2002, and was a founding
> > member of their Arbitration Committee. He was also the movement?s
> > volunteer Chief Research Officer, helping shepherd the predecessor of
> > what is today the Research Committee, has for years been the
> > ?gopher-in-chief? at the Wikimania community conferences, and helped
> > found Wikimedia UK in 2005.
> >
> > James joins us following a successful career in the UK government,
> > where he implemented key open access and open government initiatives.
> > Most recently, he was the acting Head of data.gov.uk, and then the
> > Digital Engagement Policy Lead in the Government Digital Service, both
> > at the Cabinet Office. James holds a Masters of Engineering in
> > Computer Science from the University of Warwick.
> >
> > Beyond technology, James has strong interests in international
> > politics, physics, communications, economics, law, the constitutional
> > history of Britain, and education.
> >
> > Please join me in welcoming James!
> >
> > Howie
> >
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> Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 10:14:05 -0700
> From: Michael Snow <wikipedia at frontier.com>
> To: wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] [Announcement] James Forrester
>        joins WMF as Technical Product Analyst
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> On 5/17/2012 10:06 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> > James, you're emigrating? I never thought I'd see that...
> >
> > Congratulations, traitor!
> Just wait until he starts speaking like an uhmurricun, I mean American.
>
> --Michael Snow
>
> End of Wikimedia-l Digest, Vol 98, Issue 37
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>

I was wondering why his hair was getting longer. Congratulations to our
newest surfer dude!

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