[Foundation-l] IRC Group Contacts Chairship handover

2011-05-19 Thread Sean Whitton
running our IRC channels. IRC is not important, and it should remain unimportant, so I don’t expect most people to appreciate this, but it has been good to solve problems together and I think we all learnt a lot from the experience, and, hopefully, kept IRC useful for everyone else. S -- Sean

[Foundation-l] mediawiki/ IRC cloaks now available

2009-08-16 Thread Sean Whitton
g all cloaks manually. S -- Sean Whitton / OpenPGP KeyID: 0x25F4EAB7 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Election Results

2009-08-12 Thread Sean Whitton
be successful in the role? We should encourage new contributors in more accessible jobs, where they can make an equally valuable contribution, while putting those who (we would like to think) have proved themselves to be committed and knowledgeable in the ultimate positions of responsibility and po

Re: [Foundation-l] Upcoming tech hiring: CTO position split

2009-08-09 Thread Sean Whitton
move around between activities, which has both advantages and disadvantages within a largely volunteer organisation such as ours. S -- Sean Whitton / OpenPGP KeyID: 0x25F4EAB7 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscrib

Re: [Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] IRC Group Contacts Surgery, August 2009

2009-07-31 Thread Sean Whitton
tes, meaning that little is achieved with the policy other than giving ops a good reason to ban troublesome users. There was however little consensus to change the policy when discussions were held maybe a year ago, so nothing was altered, and we continue to enforce the policy as best we ca

[Foundation-l] IRC Group Contacts Surgery, August 2009

2009-07-30 Thread Sean Whitton
eenode. Yours, Sean Whitton (seanw on IRC) For the IRC Group Contacts I have posted this message to the main public mailing lists to which I subscribe and would appreciate circulation of the meeting's existence to as many other languages/projects as possible as this is open to all - but please no

[Foundation-l] IRC Group Contacts Rearrangements

2009-06-11 Thread Sean Whitton
order that issues from the community can be discussed with other IRC users and contacts around. All of the major IRC channel contacts and the IRC Group Contacts can now be reached on . If you just need to contact a GC there is also . Sean Whitton [[m:User:Sean Whitton]] seanw on IRC for the Wi

Re: [Foundation-l] Goodbye

2009-06-02 Thread Sean Whitton
hing you've done for Wikimedia, Michael, but I don't have to say farewell in quite the same way since I'm coming to that same university you mention with you this October, as you know. Looking forward to meeting you in real life, even if I say farewell to