Wow,
Thanks Steph, Maggie, Subhashish, Alollita, Joslyn, Mani, Victor, Barry,
Ayush and Rachel! And I thought nobody reads these mails :)
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:38 AM, Rachel Farrand wrote:
> Yay Arun! It was great to meet you in Pune and I am glad that you have
> finally officially joined up!
>
>
> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Ayush Khanna wrote:
>
>> Welcome!
>>
>> Also, the MTC project sounds very interesting. As some who was heavily
>> reliant on public transport back in Mumbai, I can imagine how helpful that
>> would be.
>>
>> Ayush Khanna
>> Data Analyst, Global Development
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>> 415.839.6885 x6805
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Barry Newstead (WMF) <
>> bnewst...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Welcome Arun. It was a nice surprise to meet you in person at CIS in
>>> Bangalore on Sunday. Great to have you onboard.
>>> Best,
>>> Barry
>>>
>>> --
>>> Barry Newstead
>>> Chief Global Development Officer
>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>>
>>> On Thursday, May 3, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Victor Grigas wrote:
>>>
>>> ARUN!!! I'm happy you are on board! You are perfect for our team :)
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Mani Pande wrote:
>>>
>>> Welcome aboard.!!
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:12 AM, asha...@wikimedia.org <
>>> asha...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Arun,
>>>
>>> A very warm welcome to you on the I18n/L10N engineering team. We are
>>> excited about the Universal Language Selector UI/UX work that you and Pau
>>> are helping us with.
>>>
>>> Happy to see you onboard!
>>>
>>> Alolita
>>>
>>> __
>>> Alolita Sharma
>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>>
>>>
>>> - Reply message -
>>> From: "Subhashish Panigrahi"
>>> To:
>>> Cc: , ,
>>> "Arun Ganesh"
>>> Subject: [Wmfall] Introduction - Arun
>>> Date: Thu, May 3, 2012 6:55 am
>>>
>>>
>>> Congratulations Arun!
>>>
>>> Happy that I met you a month back, now the L10n have more people from
>>> Indic
>>> communities and it makes me happier again ;-)
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Maggie Dennis
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Welcome, Arun! Somehow I feel sure that you are in for an interesting
>>> > ride. :D
>>> >
>>> > Maggie
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Arun Ganesh >> >wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Hi everyone,
>>> >> I wanted to introduce myself to the community and the WMF team, I'm
>>> Arun
>>> >> Ganesh (user:planemad)[1a] from Bangalore, India and have joined as
>>> >> contractor for the foundation's L10n team[1b] as an Interaction
>>> designer
>>> >> along with Pau to improve the user experience of language tools and
>>> >> features.
>>> >>
>>> >> I have been a longtime contributer to both commons[2] and the
>>> >> openstreetmap[3] project and got involved with foundation work during
>>> the
>>> >> Mumbai and Pune hackathons recently[4][5][6] where I proposed some of
>>> the
>>> >> first ideas for the Universal Language Selector widget with Brandon,
>>> with
>>> >> which we want to make language selection for anyone easy peasy.
>>> >>
>>> >> Apart from that, I love cartography and maps [7], which would explain
>>> my
>>> >> map contributions and the occasional headline for wikipedia [8], use
>>> only
>>> >> public transport[9] and traveling with my pocket camera[10].
>>> >>
>>> >> Its feels great to have this opportunity to work more seriously on a
>>> >> project which has been an important part of my life. I'm new here, I
>>> wont
>>> >> claim to know much, but I hope to make a difference in whichever way
>>> >> possible. I also look forward to interacting more closely and
>>> learning from
>>> >> the rest of the designers - Brandon, Heather and Pau to do the
>>> wonderful
>>> >> things that designers like to do .So keep the usability bugs coming :)
>>> >> -Arun
>>> >>
>>> >> [1a] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad
>>> >> [1b] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Localization_team
>>> >> [2]
>>> >>
>>> http://tools.wikimedia.de/~daniel/WikiSense/Gallery.php?&wiki=commons.wikimedia.org&img_user_text=Planemad
>>> >> [3]
>>> >>
>>> http://yosmhm.neis-one.org/?zoom=4&lat=21.96627&lon=81.68268&layers=B0T&u=PlaneMad
>>> >> [4]
>>> >>
>>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector#Arun_Ganesh.27s_Original_design
>>> >> [5]
>>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mobile_language_selector.pdf
>>> >> [6]
>>> >>
>>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:L10n-ux-Universal_Language_Selector-Wireframes1.pdf
>>> >> [7] http://bit.ly/timesofindia-osm
>>> >> [8]
>>> >>
>>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/jul/30/information-beautiful-india-cameron
>>> >> [9]
>>> >>
>>> http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/article182223.ece
>>> >> [10] http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1663025,00.html
>>> >>
>>> >>
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>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Maggie Dennis
>>> > Community L
