Congrats Niklas and Dan!!
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 3:06 PM Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinzler(a)wikimedia.de>
wrote:
Dear All,
back in June the Wikimedia Technical Committee (TechCom) began a process to
recruit two new members to broaden the committee’s area of expertise[1].
After
some deliberation, we have now concluded our process and would like to
welcome
Niklas Laxström and Dan Andreescu to TechCom. Congratulations, we are
looking
forward to you bringing your expertise to the committee!
For those who wonder what this is about: TechCom is the guardian of the
integrity, consistency, stability, and performance of all software
supporting
the Wikimedia projects. It acts as the senior advisor and the convergence
point
of all decisions related to technical work that is strategic,
cross-cutting,
and/or hard to undo. You can find more information in the TechCom
Charter[2].
To those who applied or were nominated, but were not selected, I want to
say:
thank you for offering your time and brain power! It was a difficult
decision to
make. We evaluated all candidates based on the following criteria:
- Activity on RFCs and other Phabricator tickets
- Area(s) of expertise
- Having a unique engineering perspective
- Experience working in and with the Wikimedia movement and community
It was a challenge to balance these criteria, especially with candidates
who
have a lot of experience, but whose expertise and perspective is similar
to that
of existing members. In such cases, we aimed to improve the diversity of
perspective and knowledge on the committee by picking candidates that
would help
us cover any blind spots.
We plan to do another round of nominations again soon, and hope to have
continued interested from others in joining TechCom.
Thank you all,
[1]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-June/090068.html
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/Charter
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