Brion, congrats on your new opportunity and project and I'm bit on a relief to hear you would like to stay on our community, and I still remember the days you was a volunteer developer with great devotion (in those days e started to celebrate Brion Vibber Day) but still you won't be surprised I think your departure a loss in the project and you'll be greatly missed, though still your future is fully blessed by your friend Wikipedians.
Dankon Brion for your all commitments until now and hopefully also in advance. Cheers, On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:32 AM, Brion Vibber <br...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > 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 > -- KIZU Naoko http://d.hatena.ne.jp/Britty (in Japanese) Quote of the Day (English): http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/WQ:QOTD _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
