User:WDoran (WMF)/User Guide

A User Guide to: Will Doran

Availability: EST/EDT

• Monday 0800-1600
• Tuesday-Thursday 0700 - 1500
• Friday 0800-1600

Location/Timezone: Montreal, Quebec EST/EDT Preferred Name: Will

How to talk to me:

• I am on Slack, IRC and email. I am unreliably on Element as well.
• If you want to read me fast Slack or IRC.
• If you email me, I will be quite slow to respond.

(Optional) Pronouns: he/him

(Optional) Things I like:

• Drawing
• Punk
• Software Practices
• Machine Learning
• Protein binding sites
• Photography
• Chatting about anarchism
• Dogs
• Active listening
• Nonviolent Communications

(Optional) Things I’m bad at:

• Email
• Remembering things without a reminder, task or list
• Writing succinctly

(Optional) Annoying things I do:

• I have a need for everything to be fully explained, that can lead me to push past what is a reasonable depth of explanation
• To be effective I need information that means I will ask you to not only code but to keep your work visible so that I can bug you less
• My tendency is to take on many things, I struggle to make sure I control my own WIP
• Because I need to get better at being succinct, I will often send you too verbose a message

(Optional) Hot takes:

• Arguing is ok if we resolve the argument or tension. Papering over tensions will not help us long term

(Optional) Anything else you should know about me:

• I'm thinking...