2009/9/28 Michael Snow <[email protected]>: > Thomas Dalton wrote: >> 2009/9/28 Brion Vibber <[email protected]>: >> >>> I'd like to share some exciting news with you all... After four awesome >>> years working for the Wikimedia Foundation full-time, next month I'm >>> going to be starting a new position at StatusNet, leading development on >>> the open-source microblogging system which powers identi.ca and other sites. >>> >> Congratulations on your new job, but I must confess to seeing this as >> bad news, rather than exciting news... I'm glad you intend to make >> your departure as smooth as possible, but it is disappointing that you >> couldn't stay full-time until there was a new CTO and handover >> properly. The Wikimedia movement is significantly worse off without >> you - I was really looking forward to you handing over the >> administrative part of your job and concentrating on coding, great >> things would have happened, I'm sure! However, I wish you the best of >> luck in the future and I looked forward to seeing you around here, >> even if it is a little less often. >> > Fortunately, if you read Brion's entire message, the Wikimedia movement > is not going to be left without him, and you will still be able to see > him around (probably a little less often, yes). So I'm not sure why you > finish up by referring to him in the past tense.
I can tell you precisely why I finished up by referring to him in the past tense - I can't type! That should have said "look forward". I apologise for the misunderstanding! _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
