Happy to see Kunal is joining WMF. Congrats :) Best
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Martijn Hoekstra < martijnhoeks...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Dec 13, 2013 2:09 AM, "Terry Chay" <tc...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Kunal Mehta[1] has > joined the Wikimedia Foundation as contractor in Features Engineering. > > > > Before joining us (and currently), Kunal is a student in college, > switching from computer science to business administration for reasons that > I’m sure warrant more discussion. > > > > Kunal is currently a Wikipedia admin got involved working on the projects > 8 years ago. He also helps writing and maintaining bots (legoktm <3’s > pywikibot) and working on the nether regions of the volunteer developer > community as part of the Volunteer Response Team, which he currently > continues to do[2]. I met him at Wikimania through a Wikidata scholarship > because apparently we were too cheap to spring for his ticket. > > > > Kunal will be working with the Core Features Team since MassMessage[3] > and Echo[4] have overlapping concerns, and Flow[5] can use more development > support now that it is out. When he isn’t doing that you’ll see him around > adding this and that to core or the bots. :-) > > > > Kunal lives and goes to school in San Jose. Most importantly, he’s > unlocked level 2 in Naan Sense on FourSquare[6]. From his username on the > projects, I’d also bet he must like Lego Mindstorms[7]. > > > > For the record, Kunal, I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords. > > > > As you have guessed from my usual tardiness and my drive to finish my > announcements before the calendar year, his first official day was actually > October 28th (Only two months ago? Not bad, not bad at all). > > > > Please join me in a belated welcome of Kunal Mehta to the Wikimedia > Foundation. > > > > Take care, > > Terry > > > > [1]: [[User:legoktm]] > > [2]: https://github.com/legoktm > > [3]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MassMessage > > [4]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo_(Notifications) > > [5]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow_Portal > > > > [6]: > https://foursquare.com/legoktm/badge/51296de6e4b096ae4b48fb8e?ref=tw > > [7]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms_NXT > > > > terry chay 최태리 > > Director of Features Engineering > > Wikimedia Foundation > > Sweet! Congrats Kunal. Also, congrats WMF. > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- Amir _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
