Welcome, Greg! Great to have you here.
J.
On 19 February 2013 13:09, Rob Lanphier <ro...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm excited to welcome Greg Grossmeier as our new Release Manager at
> the Wikimedia Foundation. Greg comes to us from Creative Commons,
> where he served as Education Technology and Policy Coordinator, as
> well as serving as an interim leader for their engineering group.
> Prior to Creative Commons, Greg worked at the University of Michigan
> Library on copyright issues.
>
> In his spare time, Greg founded the Ubuntu LoCo team for Michigan
> ("LoCo"=="Local Community).
>
> Greg lives here in San Francisco (down in Bernal Heights) with his
> partner Carrie and 14 month old son Rowan.
>
> Greg will be managing the deployment process for the Wikimedia
> websites, focusing at first on improving release notes and outbound
> communication, freeing up folks like Sam to focus the engineering
> aspects of the role. He'll help our Bug Wrangler (Andre) figure out
> how to deal with high priority deployment-related issues; Andre will
> continue to broadly manage the flow of all bugs, while Greg will
> narrowly focus on very high priority issues through fix deployment.
> He'll also take over coordination of our deployment calendar[1], and
> will likely be a little nosier than many of us have had the time to
> do. Over time, Greg will look more holistically at our deployment
> practice, and potentially lead a change over to a more continuous
> deployment model.
>
> Greg's email is g...@wikimedia.org and is on Freenode as greg-g.
>
> Please join me in welcoming Greg in his new role!
>
> Rob
>
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James D. Forrester
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Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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