Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] Announcing the Wikimedia Foundation's Technical Engagement team
This sounds very exciting. Congrats all around, and three cheers for supporting our external FOSS developer community! :) On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 7:35 PM, Victoria Coleman wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > to better serve the technical communities that build free and open source > software for the movement as well as the communities who use Wikimedia's > APIs to interact with our projects, the Wikimedia Foundation is making some > structural changes. The Technical Engagement team is a new team in the > Technology department of the Wikimedia Foundation reporting to the > Foundation's Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Victoria Coleman. This new > team has two sub-teams: the Wikimedia Cloud Services team and the Technical > Advocacy team. Bryan Davis will manage the Technical Engagement teams. He > will also lead the hiring process for a new Developer Advocacy Manager > position, which will take over some of the management duties. > > The Wikimedia Cloud Services team will continue to focus on maintaining > the Wikimedia Cloud VPS infrastructure as a service > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing#Infrastructure_as_a_service_.28IaaS.29> > platform, the Toolforge platform as a service > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_as_a_service> project, and > additional supporting technologies used in the Cloud Services environment > such as the Wiki Replica databases and the hosting infrastructure for > dumps.wikimedia.org. The existing team of Andrew Bogott, Arturo Borrero > Gonzalez, Brooke Storm, and Chase Pettet will be joined by James Hare in > the role of Product Manager. The team is also hiring for a fifth Operations > Engineer and for a part-time technical support contractor. > > The Technical Advocacy team will focus on creating improved documentation > for Wikimedia APIs and services as well as providing support for technical > contributors and API consumers. The new team is being formed by moving the > Foundation's Developer Relations team to the Technology department, with > the exception of Rachel Farrand who will remain in Community Engagement in > close collaboration with other event organizers. Andre Klapper and Srishti > Sethi are both taking the role of Developer Advocate in the new team. A > developer advocate is someone whose primary responsibility is to make it > easy for developers to use a platform. Typically they do this by producing > example software, tutorials, and other documentation explaining how to use > the platform's products and services. Sarah R. Rodlund will also be joining > the team as a Technical Writer. Technical writing has many subspecialties. > Sarah will be focusing on improving our existing documentation by helping > create a style guide and editing existing documentation to fit with that > guide. She will also be supporting volunteers who are interested in > practicing their technical writing skills on Wikimedia documentation. The > team will be hiring for a Developer Advocacy Manager role in July. This new > person will help round out the skills of the team and will take the lead in > developing their programs. > > The Technical Engagement team will work with other teams inside the > Wikimedia Foundation as well as groups at affiliate organizations and the > larger Wikimedia volunteer community to provide technical outreach services > and support. We hope to continue to grow the number of people involved in > our programs until we can confidently say that we are providing the best > help possible to the hundreds of volunteer developers, designers, technical > writers, and end users of the Wikimedia movement's APIs and services. We > will continue to be involved in existing programs to attract and support > new technical contributors like the Wikimedia Hackathons, Outreachy, and > Google Summer of Code. We also hope to find new ways to connect with new > and existing technical contributors as we support the Wikimedia movement's > 2030 strategic direction and the shared goals of knowledge as a service and > knowledge equity. > > Very excited to be getting started down the path of strengthening our > developer advocacy program! > > > > Best wishes, > > Victoria Coleman > > Chief Technology Officer > Wikimedia Foundation > 1 Montgomery Street, Suite 1600 > San Francisco, CA 94104 > > +1-650-703-8112 > > vcole...@wikimedia.org > > > > > > > > > > ___ > Wmfall mailing list > wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall > > -- Tony Sebro Deputy General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation 1 Montgomery Street, Suite 1600 San Francisco, CA 94104 tse...@wikimedia.org (415)839-688
[Wikimedia-l] A note on our approach to privacy
*We at the Wikimedia Foundation are pleased that organizations across the world are currently rethinking their privacy policies. We have always strongly valued the privacy of our volunteers, readers, and donors, but this moment has given us an opportunity to look at our own privacy policy and see how it can be strengthened.* We see privacy as an important foundation for intellectual freedom, and we believe that the trust of our community is deeply linked to several practices: * We intentionally collect very little data about readers and contributors, and provide a transparent view of the data we keep—and do not keep. * We work with our communities and invite open community vetting of our privacy-related policies. * We remain accountable to the community, including a volunteer ombudsman commission that responds to any reported privacy-related concerns. * We support our open source platform, which among other benefits, allows anyone to examine and discover any vulnerabilities in our code. We do not allow third-party tracking of visitors to our sites. We have short data retention periods (see our data retention guidelines[1]). We proactively publish a transparency report[2], informing the public about requests for data about our contributors. We have a comprehensive privacy policy[3], developed with community input. We are always looking for ways to improve our privacy and data security practices in partnership with our community of contributors and users. As a result of our most recent review, we are updating our privacy policy, which now clarifies the definition of “personal information,” and has been reorganized to improve readability without changing the overall intentions previously set by the community. As promised[4] in the policy, we are providing these minor changes with three (3) calendar days’ prior notice. These changes will go into effect on May 24, 2018. As always, we want your thoughts and feedback, and invite everyone to comment on the policy talk page[5] over the next thirty (30) calendar days. We are also grateful to our volunteer community, who are actively working on translations of this policy. We will continue looking for ways to improve and help make clearer to everyone our privacy practices and policy as technology and the world change rapidly around us. Look out for more updates here on the Wikimedia-l mailing list to learn more about our approach to privacy and data security practices. [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_retention_guidelines [2] https://transparency.wikimedia.org/ [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy [4] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy#Changes_to_ This_Privacy_Policy [5] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Talk:Privacy_policy -- Tony Sebro Deputy General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation 1 Montgomery Street, Suite 1600 San Francisco, CA 94104 tse...@wikimedia.org (415)839-6885 ext. 6784 *NOTICE: This message may be confidential or legally privileged. If you have received it by accident, please delete it and let us know about the mistake. As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation, for legal and ethical reasons, I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity. For more on what this means, please see our legal disclaimer <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Legal_Disclaimer>.* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] A note on our approach to privacy
*We at the Wikimedia Foundation are pleased that organizations across the world are currently rethinking their privacy policies. We have always strongly valued the privacy of our volunteers, readers, and donors, but this moment has given us an opportunity to look at our own privacy policy and see how it can be strengthened.* We see privacy as an important foundation for intellectual freedom, and we believe that the trust of our community is deeply linked to several practices: * We intentionally collect very little data about readers and contributors, and provide a transparent view of the data we keep—and do not keep. * We work with our communities and invite open community vetting of our privacy-related policies. * We remain accountable to the community, including a volunteer ombudsman commission that responds to any reported privacy-related concerns. * We support our open source platform, which among other benefits, allows anyone to examine and discover any vulnerabilities in our code. We do not allow third-party tracking of visitors to our sites. We have short data retention periods (see our data retention guidelines[1]). We proactively publish a transparency report[2], informing the public about requests for data about our contributors. We have a comprehensive privacy policy[3], developed with community input. We are always looking for ways to improve our privacy and data security practices in partnership with our community of contributors and users. As a result of our most recent review, we are updating our privacy policy, which now clarifies the definition of “personal information,” and has been reorganized to improve readability without changing the overall intentions previously set by the community. As promised[4] in the policy, we are providing these minor changes with three (3) calendar days’ prior notice. These changes will go into effect on May 24, 2018. As always, we want your thoughts and feedback, and invite everyone to comment on the policy talk page[5] over the next thirty (30) calendar days. We are also grateful to our volunteer community, who are actively working on translations of this policy. We will continue looking for ways to improve and help make clearer to everyone our privacy practices and policy as technology and the world change rapidly around us. Look out for more updates, both here and on the Wikimedia-l mailing list, to learn more about our approach to privacy and data security practices. [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_retention_guidelines [2] https://transparency.wikimedia.org/ [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy [4] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy#Changes_to_This_Privacy_Policy [5] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Talk:Privacy_policy -- Tony Sebro Deputy General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation 1 Montgomery Street, Suite 1600 San Francisco, CA 94104 tse...@wikimedia.org (415)839-6885 ext. 6784 *NOTICE: This message may be confidential or legally privileged. If you have received it by accident, please delete it and let us know about the mistake. As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation, for legal and ethical reasons, I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity. For more on what this means, please see our legal disclaimer <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Legal_Disclaimer>.* ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
