Welcome Mark!
I've never been that great at bridge but I'll definitely need to engage you in a couple legal discussions. We have a couple legal nuts in the office (not even counting our amazing legal team, who is also nuts!), we may have to start having more organized debates over drinks/food/bridge etc :)
James
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Terry Chay tchay@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello everyone,
It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Mark Holmquist hasjoined the Wikimedia Foundation as a Feature Engineer.
Mark is a free software advocate and software engineer. Before joiningus, he was getting his B.S. in Computer Science at the University of Redlands. You may have remembered him from back when he was a student doing the WMF org chart before he graduated in June of this year, or as a contractor working on UploadWizard and assorted bug zapping. :-)
He has contributed to many free software projects in the past,including Minetest, Etherpad, and OpenHatch. Recently he has worked on the EtherEditor extension for MediaWiki[0]. BTW, Erik will be wanting to suck your 20% time into finishing out the outstanding bugs. ;-)
On the side, he enjoys playing Bridge[1] and the occasional jaunt forParkour[2]. He lives in the Mission in foggy San Francisco. He also really enjoy reading and discussing court cases, either oral arguments or decisions. He's subscribed to the Cornell Supreme Court bulletin [3], so bug him about the cases that are in the news. :-)
His first official day was on September 17th, but I flaked out becauseof the all-staff and then decided to procrastinate some more on this announcement since you already know him from all his participation on IRC and wikitech-l. Until December, he will be working with Gabriel Wicke on the Parsoid, which is the rewrite of the Wikitext parser to work with the VisualEditor proejct (I assume James and Trevor have completed the necessary hazing on the VE Team and he has gotten his t-shirt). But more generally, he'll be on the Features team with Editor Engagement and assorted front-end technical debt here at the WMF.
Please join me in welcoming Mark Holmquist to the WikimediaFoundation. :-)
Take care, Terry[0] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EtherEditor [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_bridge [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkour [3] http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/cert/
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