Re: Leaving...

 On 13/09/10 14:54, 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.
>

Yes, this is all a bit sad, and I would see you Anne and others stay.
But let's have some hope for the future of the project and the
individuals leaving Edge IT. I know I will. :-)

-Olav.
- The suspiciously optimistic community guy.