Leaving...

Hi all

I will not be much original in writting that email. As all my talented 
colleagues, I have also to leave Edge-It in a few days. All the story 
started 7 years ago when joining Edge-It founders to develop activity 
around open source support and consulting. After some time, we started 
speaking with Mandriva and finally the company was bought. It was the 
beginning of a great human adventure. Because Mandriva Linux position as 
engineering manager was just more than a job. It was also a big 
commitment to a wonderful open source project and all its values around. 
Mandriva Linux was also such a big challenge to ensure users all the 
best from open source projects and at the same time last innovations to 
make Linux desktop even more friendly and usable.

Community and team are made of human beings (yes! I've seen some of them 
! :) ) making sometimes my role not that easy :). But I guess such a big 
work has been done together these last years. What I could see  was a 
growing up part of people so proud to be part of this project and 
sharing this with new incomers. IMHO this is one of the key success for 
an open source community.

I'd like to thank all engineering team who did work so well in very hard 
conditions but kept going, giving all the best of them. A special 
dedicace to the guys leaving at the end of this week: We did it ;). Also 
many thanks to all of you, users, testers, packagers, translators and 
all supporters. I was so happy for sharing all this with so many 
talented and enthousiastic guys. Finally I'd be proud to work again with 
all of you in any incoming project.

Sadly and freely

Anne (aka ennael)

PS: You can reach me later on my personal mail [email protected]

PS (bis): As he is too shy to speak about it, Arnaud Patard is also 
leaving Edge-It. He was our favourite grumpy kernel hacker but also a 
talented guy working on architectures ports like MIPS and ARM.

-- 
Anne NICOLAS
Edge-It