[Wikitech-l] TechOps welcomes Mike Wang...

2012-12-03 Thread Ct Woo
welcome Mike and you can chat with him on our IRC #wikimedia-operations and #wikimedia-labs channels - his nick is 'wangatlargo'. Thanks, CT Woo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinf

[Wikitech-l] Update on Ashburn data center switchover / migration – target date is week of 1/22/13

2013-01-11 Thread Ct Woo
sted in tracking the progress, the meeting notes are captured on this wikitech page<http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Eqiad_Migration_Planning#Improving_Switchover> . *Please note that we will be restricting code deployment during that week, allowing only emergency and critical ones o

[Wikitech-l] More Update on Ashburn data center switchover / migration – target date is week of 1/22/13

2013-01-19 Thread Ct Woo
erations channel. Thanks, CT Woo -- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ct Woo Date: Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:07 PM Subject: Update on Ashburn data center switchover / migration – target date is week of 1/22/13 To: Wikimedia developers , Development and Operations Engineers All, The Migratio

[Wikitech-l] Completed ! Re: More Update on Ashburn data center switchover / migration – target date is week of 1/22/13

2013-01-22 Thread Ct Woo
. Thank you all for your patience and understanding. Regards, CT Woo On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Ct Woo wrote: > All, > > We will be proceeding with the datacenter switchover plan this coming > Tuesday (Jan 22, 2013), unless we discover some unexpected and > insurmountable issu

[Wikitech-l] Engineering Announcement: Marc-Andre Pelletier joins TechOps

2013-02-15 Thread Ct Woo
on to game development. He studied IT at École de Technologie Supérieure (Canada). Please join me to welcome him and you can find him on IRC (freenode.net) using the nick 'Coren'. Thanks. CT Woo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists

[Wikitech-l] Announcing Latest Member to Operations Engineering Team - Brandon Black

2013-03-29 Thread Ct Woo
being a professional amateur, and learning new skills by starting projects which he has no idea how to finish. Brandon will be in San Francisco office this coming Monday and please drop by to welcome him! Thanks, CT Woo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wiki

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Wmfall] Announcing Pending Departure

2013-04-16 Thread Ct Woo
Forwarding my earlier message to wikitech-l. Best, CT -- Forwarded message -- From: Ct Woo Date: Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:44 AM Subject: [Wmfall] Announcing Pending Departure To: "Staff (All)" All, It is never a good time or easy to leave the job you love. With r

[Wikitech-l] Please Welcome Latest TechOps member - Alexandros Kosiaris

2013-05-13 Thread Ct Woo
umber of FreeBSD ports plus a couple of small open-source projects. He lives in Athens, Greece. Aside from all things technical, he also enjoys wind-surfing, skiing and basketball. Alex will be in San Francisco office this coming Monday and please drop by to welcome him! Thanks, C

[Wikitech-l] Please Welcome Sean Pringle, our latest TechOps member

2013-06-24 Thread Ct Woo
be spotted behind a telescope on starry nights and with nose in a book when the cloud rolls in. To quote him, "I am excited to be joining the WMF, an opportunity which I see as an 11 on the awesomeness scale of 1 to 10" ! Please join us in welcoming Sean! CT Woo &a

[Wikitech-l] Welcome Faidon Liambotis - our latest TechOps team member!

2012-04-09 Thread Ct Woo
Happy Monday. Please join me to welcome our latest member (contractor) to the Operations Engineering team, Faidon Liambotis. Faidon hails from Greece and he will be working remotely out of Athens. His immediate work at WMF with Ryan, Andrew and Sara is to enhance and deploy more services on th

[Wikitech-l] potential network issue due to packet losses

2012-07-02 Thread Ct Woo
All, The Technical Operations team noticed abnormal network package losses sometime after yesterday's 'leap second' switch (midnight UTC). While it does not seem to impact the site availability at this moment, it is a concern. We are still not sure if is even related to the 'leap second' switch y

[Wikitech-l] Announcement: Peter Youngmeister joins Wikimedia as Technical Operations Engineer

2012-07-09 Thread Ct Woo
Hello Everyone, Please welcome Peter Youngmeister who joins us today (7/9/12) as a full-time member of the Technical Operations staff. He has been working as a contractor with the Foundation since last March 2011. Prior to that, he was with another great non-profit, kiva.org. Peter lives in Ann

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Update on Ashburn data center migration/switchover date

2012-10-04 Thread Ct Woo
Forwarding to wider reach. Cheers, CT -- Forwarded message -- From: Ct Woo Date: Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:24 AM Subject: Update on Ashburn data center migration/switchover date To: o...@wikimedia.org, WMF Engineering Management All, We set a Q2 goal to migrate our primary

[Wikitech-l] Please welcome Asher Feldman

2011-05-05 Thread CT Woo
Hi Everyone, Please join me in welcoming Asher Feldman to the Wikimedia Foundation where he is our newest member of the Technical Operations team. He will be starting in the San Francisco office on May 9, 2011, but you may see him around before then. He uses the nick handle of binasher in IRC.

[Wikitech-l] Site Incident report - 1/20/12

2012-01-20 Thread CT Woo
All, Earlier today, while fixing some network congestion problem with the bits servers, the varnish servers for bits.wikimedia.org went into an overload condition. While most affected users had incorrectly formatted wiki pages rendered due to missing javascript and css (the primary function of bit

[Wikitech-l] Please Welcome Christian Aistleitner to Technical Operations

2012-02-23 Thread Ct Woo
). Thanks, CT Woo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] WMF Staff Announcement - Welcome Leslie Carr!

2011-10-10 Thread CT Woo
lue hair!). Thanks, CT Woo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMF Staff Announcement - Welcome Leslie Carr!

2011-10-10 Thread CT Woo
o the use of MediaWiki. > > ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] > > On 11-10-10 09:52 AM, CT Woo wrote: > > All, > > > > Technical Operations department is pleased to announce another new > fabulous > > staff member to its t

[Wikitech-l] New Employee Announcement - Jeff Green

2011-06-30 Thread CT Woo
All, Please join me to welcome Jeff Green to Wikimedia Foundation. Jeff is taking up the Special Ops position in the Tech Ops department where one of his responsibilities is to keep our Fundraising infrastructure secured, in compliance with regulation, scalable and highly available. Jeff comes wi

[Wikitech-l] Please welcome Ben Hartshorne and Daniel Zahn

2011-07-22 Thread CT Woo
All, Please join me in welcoming Ben and Daniel to Wikimedia Foundation. Both Ben and Daniel are joining the Technical Operations team to help us to build, improve, scale and support our web systems and infrastructure. Ben, who is based in SF office, comes with a broad set of expertise and