Thanks Pine. I joined up.
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > Arlo, > > That is a very professional picture. > > I see that you live in British Columbia. May I invite you to join the > illustrious ranks of the Cascadia Wikimedians group and sign up for our > email list? We are hoping for formal approval of our group from Affcom > shortly. > > Email list > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > > Meta talk > https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cascadia_Wikimedians > > Pine > On Aug 18, 2014 11:39 AM, "Terry Chay" <tc...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Arlo Breault joined the > > Wikimedia Foundation as a Features Engineer. Note the past tense. :-D > > > > Before joining us, Arlo worked as an independent open-source software > > developer. He’s held various contracts at the Tor Project[1], > > DuckDuckGo[2], Storify[3], and Right & Democracy[4], amongst others, > where > > he’s worked on everything from novel censorship circumvention systems to > > navigable visualizations of the web graph. > > > > I first found out about him in April of 2012, but we only managed to find > > a fit a year ago in July of 2013 as an international contractor. His > first > > official day as a member of our staff was July 7, 2014. I tell myself > that > > announcing Arlo and Marc together is the reason I’ve been tardy on these > > announcements. :-D Along with Marcoil (previous e-mail), the two of them > > work with Subbu Sastry and C. Scott Ananian to form the Parsoid team, > which > > provides the back-end voodoo that turns your VisualEditing into wikitext > > and back again.[5] > > > > Arlo studied physics and mathematics at McGill in Montréal, and now lives > > in Victoria, BC. He has been spending a lot of his free time lately > looking > > at cryptographic protocols, contributing OTR.js[6] to Cryptocat[7], a > > privacy preserving chat application. He’s otherwise typically Canadian, > > enjoying his maple syrup, hockey, and reading by the warm glow of a fire. > > > > Please join me in a belated welcome of Arlo to the Wikimedia Foundation. > > :-) > > > > Take care, > > Terry > > > > P.S. In keeping with Jared’s demand of a picture to accompany every new > > hire announcement, here is one: > > https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/123708?v=2&s=400 > > > > [1] https://www.torproject.org/ > > [2] https://duckduckgo.com/ > > [3] https://storify.com/ > > [4] > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Centre_for_Human_Rights_and_Democratic_Development > > [5] > > > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/04/parsoid-how-wikipedia-catches-up-with-the-web/ > > [6] https://github.com/arlolra/otr > > [7] https://crypto.cat/ > > > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
