Re: [Cooker] Leaving...

On 09/13/2010 09:54 AM, Anne NICOLAS wrote:
> 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.


Thank you Anne for being the best boss ever!!! It was a real pleasure
and honor to work with you! All the best of luck and success to you!

-- 
Eugeni Dodonov