This is great = D I wonder if I'll still be able to call Sumana all the time in the irc to solve my doubts? I hope so, she is patient =D
2012/4/25 Petr Bena benapetr@gmail.com
Hi all,
Could we get some kind of information of what is this Engineering Community Group? So far I know it's headed by Sumana, which is nice but still I would like to know more :)
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Oren Bochman orenbochman@gmail.com wrote:
Great news.
Congratulations Sumana !!
I think that this is greatly deserved -- I'd be glad that you will be
having
an even greater impact bringing in more people into our ecosystem.
Oren Bochman Lead of Search
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-----Original Message----- From: wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rob
Lanphier
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 5:30 AM To: Wikimedia developers Subject: [Wikitech-l] New Engineering Community Group, headed by Sumana Harihareswara
Hi everyone,
I'm happy to announce that we have promoted Sumana Harihareswara as
manager
of Engineering Community group. Sumana started with us as a contractor
back
in February 2011, initially in a targeted engagement to help out with
Summer of Code and with the Berlin Hackathon last year. Later that
year, as
we interviewed people to bring in as Volunteer Development Coordinator,
not
only did Sumana put in a strong application herself, but recruited very worthy competition for the role. After winning the role, she worked tirelessly to straighten out many kinks in our processes around volunteer development and systematically ensured that new volunteer developers get
the
recognition and (if needed) help they deserve. She has also applied
focus
and organization in many areas outside of her immediate purview, for example, recently stepping in as project manager for Git, and occasionally filling in for me when I've been unavailable for the larger Platform Engineering organization.
The promotion to Engineering Community Manager isn't so much a change in
the
way things are done here so much as an official recognition of a vital
role
that she has already played for the past year. Sumana has been working
with
Guillaume Paumier and Mark Hershberger under the somewhat ad hoc group
title
of "Technical Liaison; Developer Relations (tl;dr)", serving as lead of
that
group since last year. Under the new "Engineering Community" name, this group will continue to serve many roles: facilitating collaboration and communication between Wikimedia Foundation and its employees and the
larger
Wikimedia developer community, as well as facilitating collaboration and communication between the Wikimedia developer community and other
Wikimedia
communities.
Thank you, Sumana, for your hard work over the past year. I'm looking forward to seeing what you and the group accomplish moving forward. Congratulations!
Rob
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