Shame to see you go Brion, but good luck in your new job! Walter
> I'd like to share some exciting news with you all... After four awesome > years working for the Wikimedia Foundation full-time, next month I'm > going to be starting a new position at StatusNet, leading development on > the open-source microblogging system which powers identi.ca and other sites. > > I've been contributing to StatusNet (formerly Laconica) as a user, bug > reporter, and patch submitter since 2008, and I'm really excited at the > opportunity to get more involved in the project at this key time as we > gear up for a 1.0 release, hosted services, and support offerings. > > StatusNet was born in the same free-culture and free-software community > that brought me to Wikipedia; many of you probably already know founder > Evan Prodromou from his longtime work in the wiki community, launching > the awesome Wikitravel and helping out with MediaWiki development on > various fronts. The "big idea" driving StatusNet is rebalancing power in > the modern social web -- pushing data portability and open protocols to > protect your autonomy from siloed proprietary services... People need > the ability to control their own presence on the web instead of hoping > Facebook or Twitter always treat you the way you want. > > This does unfortunately mean that I'll have less time for MediaWiki as > I'll be leaving my position as Wikimedia CTO sooner than originally > anticipated, but that doesn't mean I'm leaving the Wikimedia community > or MediaWiki development! > > Just as I was in the MediaWiki development community before Wikimedia > hired me, you'll all see me in the same IRC channels and on the same > mailing lists... I know this is also a busy time with our fundraiser > coming up and lots of cool ongoing developments, so to help ease the > transition I've worked out a commitment to come into the WMF office one > day a week through the end of December to make sure all our tech staff > has a chance to pick my brain as we smooth out the code review processes > and make sure things are as well documented as I like to think they are. ;) > > We've got a great tech team here at Wikimedia, and we've done so much > with so little over the last few years. A lot of really good work is > going on now, modernizing both our infrastructure and our user > interface... I have every confidence that Wikipedia and friends will > continue to thrive! > > I'll start full-time at StatusNet on October 12. My key priorities until > then are getting some of our key software rollouts going, supporting the > Usability Initiative's next scheduled update and getting a useful but > minimally-disruptive Flagged Revisions configuration going on English > Wikipedia. I'm also hoping to make further improvements to our code > review process, based on my experience with our recent big updates as > well as the git-based workflow we're using at StatusNet -- I've got a > lot of great ideas for improving the CodeReview extension... > > Erik Moeller will be the primary point of contact for WMF tech > management issues starting October 12, until the new CTO is hired. I'll > support the hiring process as much as I can, and we're hoping to have a > candidate in the door by the end of the year. > > -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org) > CTO, Wikimedia Foundation > San Francisco > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
