I am very happy to announce that tomorrow is Quim Gil's first day in the Engineering Community Team of the Wikimedia Foundation. His title is Technical Contributor Coordinator (IT Communications Manager) which means that he'll be reaching out to and nurturing our testers, coders, documenters, product managers, sysadmins, and other contributors to Wikimedia technologies like MediaWiki. His blog entry about coming to WMF: https://flors.wordpress.com/2012/08/27/moving-up-in-the-freedom-stack/
Quim is a contributor to Catalan Wikisource & Wikipedia and English Wikipedia (User:Qgil), and has helped Wikimedia's mobile team as a volunteer. Most recently he's dug into statistical analysis of MediaWiki's coder community and the philosophical conundrum of RESOLVED:LATER. You might also know him from his activity in the worlds of GNOME, Qt, and Maemo -- he's coming to us from Nokia. If I try to detail all the consulting, event-running, volunteer recruiting, open source community management, writing, and projects he's done, I'll hit some kind of mailman limit so I won't try. :-)
Quim lives in the Bay Area and will be working out of the San Francisco office while reporting to me remotely, which is kind of hilarious. In the near future he'll be encouraging volunteer testers and running our Outreach Program for Women.
And tomorrow is Quim's birthday! So, happy birthday and welcome, Quim!