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Sep 28, 2009, 11:32 AM

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Announce: Brion moving to StatusNet

I'd like to share some exciting news with you all... After four awesome
years working for the Wikimedia Foundation full-time, next month I'm
going to be starting a new position at StatusNet, leading development on
the open-source microblogging system which powers identi.ca and other sites.

I've been contributing to StatusNet (formerly Laconica) as a user, bug
reporter, and patch submitter since 2008, and I'm really excited at the
opportunity to get more involved in the project at this key time as we
gear up for a 1.0 release, hosted services, and support offerings.

StatusNet was born in the same free-culture and free-software community
that brought me to Wikipedia; many of you probably already know founder
Evan Prodromou from his longtime work in the wiki community, launching
the awesome Wikitravel and helping out with MediaWiki development on
various fronts. The "big idea" driving StatusNet is rebalancing power in
the modern social web -- pushing data portability and open protocols to
protect your autonomy from siloed proprietary services... People need
the ability to control their own presence on the web instead of hoping
Facebook or Twitter always treat you the way you want.

This does unfortunately mean that I'll have less time for MediaWiki as
I'll be leaving my position as Wikimedia CTO sooner than originally
anticipated, but that doesn't mean I'm leaving the Wikimedia community
or MediaWiki development!

Just as I was in the MediaWiki development community before Wikimedia
hired me, you'll all see me in the same IRC channels and on the same
mailing lists... I know this is also a busy time with our fundraiser
coming up and lots of cool ongoing developments, so to help ease the
transition I've worked out a commitment to come into the WMF office one
day a week through the end of December to make sure all our tech staff
has a chance to pick my brain as we smooth out the code review processes
and make sure things are as well documented as I like to think they are. ;)

We've got a great tech team here at Wikimedia, and we've done so much
with so little over the last few years. A lot of really good work is
going on now, modernizing both our infrastructure and our user
interface... I have every confidence that Wikipedia and friends will
continue to thrive!

I'll start full-time at StatusNet on October 12. My key priorities until
then are getting some of our key software rollouts going, supporting the
Usability Initiative's next scheduled update and getting a useful but
minimally-disruptive Flagged Revisions configuration going on English
Wikipedia. I'm also hoping to make further improvements to our code
review process, based on my experience with our recent big updates as
well as the git-based workflow we're using at StatusNet -- I've got a
lot of great ideas for improving the CodeReview extension...

Erik Moeller will be the primary point of contact for WMF tech
management issues starting October 12, until the new CTO is hired. I'll
support the hiring process as much as I can, and we're hoping to have a
candidate in the door by the end of the year.

-- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
CTO, Wikimedia Foundation
San Francisco

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Sep 28, 2009, 12:55 PM

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Re: [Foundation-l] Announce: Brion moving to StatusNet [In reply to]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Brion Vibber <brion [at] wikimedia> wrote:

> I'd like to share some exciting news with you all... After four awesome
> years working for the Wikimedia Foundation full-time, next month I'm
> going to be starting a new position at StatusNet, leading development on
> the open-source microblogging system which powers identi.ca and other
> sites.
>
>
* *Oppose* - It won't necessarily be so easy to find someone to fill your
shoes and manage things as well as you have with improvements in MediaWiki,
as well as site operations. You will be missed. ~~~~

Seriously, I'm disappointed to see you go, though wish you the best with
your new position.

-Aude

> -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
> CTO, Wikimedia Foundation
> San Francisco
>
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Sep 28, 2009, 1:38 PM

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Re: [Foundation-l] Announce: Brion moving to StatusNet [In reply to]

On 9/28/09 12:55 PM, Aude wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Brion Vibber<brion [at] wikimedia> wrote:
>
>> I'd like to share some exciting news with you all... After four awesome
>> years working for the Wikimedia Foundation full-time, next month I'm
>> going to be starting a new position at StatusNet, leading development on
>> the open-source microblogging system which powers identi.ca and other
>> sites.
>>
>>
> * *Oppose* - It won't necessarily be so easy to find someone to fill your
> shoes and manage things as well as you have with improvements in MediaWiki,
> as well as site operations. You will be missed. ~~~~

:D

> Seriously, I'm disappointed to see you go, though wish you the best with
> your new position.

Thanks! And I'll still be here poking my fingers in wiki stuff, but on a
more limited scope...

-- brion

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Sep 28, 2009, 11:56 PM

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Re: [Foundation-l] Announce: Brion moving to StatusNet [In reply to]

* Aude <aude.wiki [at] gmail> [Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:55:23 -0400]:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Brion Vibber <brion [at] wikimedia>
> wrote:
>
> > I'd like to share some exciting news with you all... After four
> awesome
> > years working for the Wikimedia Foundation full-time, next month I'm
> > going to be starting a new position at StatusNet, leading
development
> on
> > the open-source microblogging system which powers identi.ca and
other
> > sites.
> >
> >
> * *Oppose* - It won't necessarily be so easy to find someone to fill
> your
> shoes and manage things as well as you have with improvements in
> MediaWiki,
> as well as site operations. You will be missed. ~~~~
>
> Seriously, I'm disappointed to see you go, though wish you the best
with
> your new position.
>
It probably was hard to manage such large project. Just a good coding
skills are not enough - there must be foreseeing, management, group
work, consensus and lots of complex things.. Let's hope that MediaWiki
won't get hurt.
Dmitriy

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robert at rhl

Sep 29, 2009, 8:46 AM

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Re: Announce: Brion moving to StatusNet [In reply to]

On 2009-09-28, Brion Vibber wrote:
> I'd like to share some exciting news with you all... After four awesome
> years working for the Wikimedia Foundation full-time, next month I'm
> going to be starting a new position at StatusNet, leading development on
> the open-source microblogging system which powers identi.ca and other sites.

Good luck.

> Erik Moeller will be the primary point of contact for WMF tech
> management issues starting October 12, until the new CTO is hired. I'll
> support the hiring process as much as I can, and we're hoping to have a
> candidate in the door by the end of the year.

Is the "Senior Software Architect" position that was originally going to
be opened for you to move to still planned, or will the new CTO have a
simillar number of responsibilities?

--
Robert Leverington
http://rhl.me.uk/

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Sep 29, 2009, 11:05 AM

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Re: Announce: Brion moving to StatusNet [In reply to]

Seeing all your posts on identi.ca I could see it coming ;)
Good luck at new place and hope you guys will save that Twitter monster from
dying but creating tons of small personal ones like Wordpress did!

MediaWiki community will definitely miss you, but I hope that shear size of
it will help it survive the transition period. Great to see you being as
committed to it as you were before being paid.

Sergey

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Robert Leverington <robert [at] rhl>wrote:

> On 2009-09-28, Brion Vibber wrote:
> > I'd like to share some exciting news with you all... After four awesome
> > years working for the Wikimedia Foundation full-time, next month I'm
> > going to be starting a new position at StatusNet, leading development on
> > the open-source microblogging system which powers identi.ca and other
> sites.
>
> Good luck.
>
> > Erik Moeller will be the primary point of contact for WMF tech
> > management issues starting October 12, until the new CTO is hired. I'll
> > support the hiring process as much as I can, and we're hoping to have a
> > candidate in the door by the end of the year.
>
> Is the "Senior Software Architect" position that was originally going to
> be opened for you to move to still planned, or will the new CTO have a
> simillar number of responsibilities?
>
> --
> Robert Leverington
> http://rhl.me.uk/
>
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