Re: Leaving...

Too pity, but some time life just sin't fair!
What's left of Mandriva in the end? Is the 2010.1 the final relase of it?

It's freacky and scarry all this story with Mandriva. We just love this distro, 
spent too many hours (years!) with it and do not want to see this adventure 
ending so soon and so brutal!

We'll regret all this departuires and thak you for all this time in the "French 
resistance"!

Good luck for all of you.

Best regards,
Florin Catalin RUSSEN
Romanian Translation Team



----- Original Message ----
From: Anne NICOLAS <[email protected]>
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Sent: Mon, 13 September, 2010 14:54:04
Subject: [i18n] 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