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

[Florence Devouard]

On 5/18/12 12:42 AM, James Forrester wrote:
> On 17 May 2012 22:51, Erik Moeller<erik at wikimedia.org>  wrote:
>> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Kat Walsh<kat at mindspillage.org>  wrote:
>>> Also, I am having serious trouble wrapping my mind around James living
>>> outside the UK.
>>
>> We've confirmed through experimental visits to San Francisco that
>> James can in fact exist outside the UK in a stable state. But let's
>> face it -- we'll either see some significant changes in James'
>> Britishness, or we'll see Californians increasingly pick up some new
>> and strange habits. I'm betting it's the latter.
>>
>> On a more personal note, it's kind of funny - James and I probably
>> most frequently touched base in person at Wikimania, so whenever he
>> visits I get flashbacks of Wikimanias past. With James joining, and
>> some other recent additions, it's really gratifying to see WMF be more
>> and more a reflection of who we are.
>>
>> We're very lucky that the timing has aligned for James to join us for
>> the Visual Editor project; I highly doubt we would have been able to
>> find the combination of skills (deep community expertise, ability to
>> ship product, technical depth) otherwise. He's an old colleague and
>> friend, and I look forward to working more closely with him. :-)
>
> Thank you, Erik, and everyone else. I hope to live up to your
> expectations! It is of course a huge honour to join the Foundation and
> especially the hugely-important Visual Editor project.
>
> I can assure those who are worried that I drink both coffee and tea in
> near-equal quantities, that my neuro-stability has been observed at
> linear distances from London exceeding that of San Francisco, that any
> spelling correction tools we ship will fix "humor", and that you can
> take my cut-glass accent from my cold dead hands. Or something. :-)
>
> Yours,


Late congrats. That's fabulous news !

Flo