On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Terry Chay <tc...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Adam Wight has > joined the Wikimedia Foundation as a Fundraising Engineer. > > Before joining us, Adam was customizing open-source web services for > non-profits at Giant Rabbit. This makes him the first Fundraising engineer to > be familiar with CiviCRM **before** joining the team — in fact, he has > contributed event registration workflow and other minor changes back to the > project. :-) He also did work on the Atako Project (the first open-source > Google Gadget directory), “Halfway Library” to share and review books, and > “Prokaryote” a evolution/behavior patterns simulator used in university and > high school classrooms. If you ever snuck into the Unix lab to get their > workstations running SETI@home, you probably used his code (he wrote the > X-windows implementation). He has recently contributed an "Offline" extension > for Mediawiki, and he is helping with a distributed wiki project "OneCommons".
Welcome Adam! All very cool projects :) > On the side, he’s involved with a number of education and agricultural > projects, including being the programmer at the Multinational Exchange for > Sustainable Agriculture and is a cofounder and worker at The Local food coop > at UC Berkeley. He also is obsessed with blacksmithing (no, this is not a new > coding process — I mean that he’s a blacksmith and has been a carpenter and > housepainter). We should start having local foodie/Wikipedian dinners! Edit this eggplant? -- phoebe -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers <at> gmail.com * _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
