Welcome, Adam Wight!
Scott
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 8:22 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Terry Chay
<tchay(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hello everyone,
It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Adam Wight has joined the
Wikimedia Foundation as a Fundraising Engineer.
Before joining us, Adam was customizing open-source web services for non-profits
at Giant Rabbit. This makes him the first Fundraising engineer to be familiar with CiviCRM
**before** joining the team — in fact, he has contributed event registration workflow and
other minor changes back to the project. :-) He also did work on the Atako Project (the
first open-source Google Gadget directory), “Halfway Library” to share and review books,
and “Prokaryote” a evolution/behavior patterns simulator used in university and high
school classrooms. If you ever snuck into the Unix lab to get their workstations running
SETI@home, you probably used his code (he wrote the X-windows implementation). He has
recently contributed an "Offline" extension for Mediawiki, and he is helping
with a distributed wiki project "OneCommons".
Welcome Adam! All very cool projects :)
On the side, he’s involved with a number
of education and agricultural projects, including being the programmer at the
Multinational Exchange for Sustainable Agriculture and is a cofounder and worker at The
Local food coop at UC Berkeley. He also is obsessed with blacksmithing (no, this is not a
new coding process — I mean that he’s a blacksmith and has been a carpenter and
housepainter).
We should start having local foodie/Wikipedian dinners! Edit this eggplant?
-- phoebe
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