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" <su...@wikimedia.org> To: Cc: <wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org>, <wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org>, "Arun Ganesh" <arun.plane...@gmail.com> 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 <mden...@wikimedia.org> 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 <arun.plane...@gmail.com>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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wmfall mailing list >> wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall >> >> > > > -- > Maggie Dennis > Community Liaison > WikimediaFoundation.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Wmfall mailing list > wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall > > -- *Subha* *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!* _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
