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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
