Indeed! I believe the Flickr experinece will be especially valuable given the recent flurry of discussion about the relative merits of Flickr Commons and Wikimedia Commons for GLAMs. Welcome and good luck! -Liam [[witty lama]]
wittylama.com/blog Peace, love & metadata On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>wrote: > Hoi, > Welcome Neil! There are plenty challenges for you, I am sure you will enjoy > many of them and find some puzzling, strange or weird and maybe all three > at > the same time :) > Thanks, > GerardM > > 2010/1/27 Naoko Komura <[email protected]> > > > It is my pleasure to announce that the usability team has a new member. > > Neil Kandalgaonkar joined the team as a software developer for the Ford > > multi-media usability project. Neil brings in the breadth of experience > in > > software engineering from major social networking web sites such as > Flickr > > and Upcoming.org. Neil oversaw improving payment system and > > performance of FlickrMail interface at Flickr, integrated Upcoming.org > into > > Yahoo properties and helped expand the team. Prior to Yahoo!, Neil was > with > > Google and his main responsibility was to enable Google Checkout system > for > > non-US markets. Neil holds Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies > from > > Concordia University, in Montreal, Canada. > > > > Neil will work closely with Guillaume Paumier, who manages the product > side > > of the project, and also Michael Dale who have been developing a ton of > > multi-media support software and tools already. > > > > I just posted the work in progress of the multi-media usability project > for > > those who are curious about the development of the multi-media usability > > project. > > > http://blog.wikimedia.org/2010/01/26/multimedia-usability-project-underway/ > > > > Please join me welcoming, Neil. > > > > Naoko Komura > > Program Manager > > Wikimedia Usability Initiative > > > > -- > > Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
