What wonderful news! Congratulations, Moriel. Frances
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:58 PM, James Forrester <jforres...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > [Second one today!] > > I am delighted to announce that Moriel Schottlender [0] has converted to > full time staff member status as a Software Engineer in Features > Engineering, as of 1 October. > > Moriel has been working with us, initially as a GSoC 2013 student [1] and > then as a student contractor in the Editing Team since last Summer. She has > significantly improved editing tools, including providing much of the media > editing and language mark-up support in VisualEditor, and creating and > improving the GUI editor for TemplateData. As a native Hebrew speaker, her > RTL expertise has been invaluable in helping the team find issues and > improve experience for our. > > Moriel will continue working as part of the Editing Team [2] to help take > forward our work of extending the various editing tools to make > contributions easy for all our users. She will be moving to San Francisco > from New York City where she is currently based. > > Some details from Moriel herself: > > I am originally from Israel, I've spent the last 9 years living in New York > City, earning a bachelors degree in Physics and just now graduated with a > Masters in Computer Science. I've worked for airline security and then as > the internet applications project manager in the PR office of the Israeli > Consulate in New York, both of which are pretty much the polar opposite to > openness and open source, so if I suddenly revert to asking people to pack > their own bags or to refer to the diplomat for official answers, feel free > to slap me back to a better reality. > > I was a student for so long that the term "hobbies" is almost foreign. Is > that what you do when you don't have homework and exams? > > Science - I do love to talk about, discuss, think about and demonstrate > Physics and science in general, and I even have a science outreach website > with some do-it-yourself science experiment videos and articles. If there's > a microwave oven in the office, I can show everyone how to calculate the > speed of light with a chocolate bar. > > Fiction writing - I love writing (fiction, not school essays) and when I do > have some time I work on a science-fiction novella, though with the > progress I'm making, it might have to be adjusted to holosuite emitters by > the time it is done. (Trekkie reference!) > > Soundtrack music - I also love Broadway shows and listening to soundtracks > in general. The Editing Team can testify how much I like Frozen and its > songs, repeatedly. > > Oh, and I'm really excited to move to San Francisco and join everyone at > the office! > > Please join me in congratulating Moriel. > > [0]: [[mw:User:MSchottlender-WMF > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:MSchottlender-WMF>]] > > [1]: [[mw:Summer of Code 2013 > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2013>]] > > [2]: [[mw:Editing <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing>]] > > Yours, > -- > James D. Forrester > Product Manager, Editing > Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. > > jforres...@wikimedia.org | @jdforrester > _______________________________________________ > 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
