Excellent. Glad to see you joined C. Scott. --tomasz
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Terry Chay <tc...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that C. Scott Ananian[1] has > joined the Wikimedia Foundation as a Features Engineer. > > Before joining us, Scott was Director of New Technologies at One Laptop per > Child where he, among other things, worked on Nell, a platform to allow > unsupervised learning of early literacy skills on tablets used in places > like Ethiopia[2], and the OLPC security mechanism to prevent kids’ laptops > from being stolen in transit. In between stints at OLPC, he worked as the > Senior Architect at litl, LLC[3]. Clearly he has a thing for highly mobile > PCs and applications (don’t tell Tomasz, he already stole Kaldari from > Features :-P). > > He started volunteering work on the MediaWiki parser project (Parsoid) on > February 12th and got his first patch merged on February 15th. He’s had over > 150 patches merged since then so it made sense that we should probably hire > him ;-) > > As you probably guessed with my usual tardiness, his first official day was > actually Monday, July 8. He is going to continue his work on the Parsoid > team with Gabriel Wicke and Subbu Sastry. He is super-motivated and has been > mission-aligned since before Wikipedia existed[4], so I expect you’ll see > him range far from our text infrastructure work. When he was at OLPC he > liked to say his job was to “build robust and reliable systems to allow kids > to discover, share, and learn.” > > Scott lives and works in Cambridge, MA[5]. He is a square dancer[6] and > theatrical lighting designer. I have it on good word that he’s a demon on > MIT Mystery Hunt [7]—not sure if he’s on the same team as our Board Members > or not [8], but if not… > > Please join me in welcoming C. Scott to the Wikimedia Foundation. :-) > > Take care, > Terry > > [1]: [[User:Cananian]] > [2]: http://www.dvice.com/archives/2012/10/ethiopian_kids.php > [3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litl > [4]: http://www.salon.com/2000/02/09/linuxdvd/ > [5]: tewwy: interested in relocating? :-) > cscott: no, sorry. > cscott: wife, kid, and house like where they are. ;-) > [6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge_square_dance ; > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech_Squares > [7]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Mystery_Hunt > [8]: [[User:Sj]] did, in fact, recruit him to the Codex team in 2009. Codex > won in 2011. > > terry chay 최태리 > Director of Features Engineering > Wikimedia Foundation > “Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the > sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment.” > > p: +1 (415) 839-6885 x6832 > m: +1 (408) 480-8902 > e: tc...@wikimedia.org > i: http://terrychay.com/ > w: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tychay > aim: terrychay > > > _______________________________________________ > Wmfall mailing list > wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
