Hello,
I don't like to sound like a bad guy, but I really find it quite inappropriate to discuss this sort of stuff on a public mailing list. This really is a personal matter. If he didn't post any dramatical announcement perhaps he wanted to "leave quietly"?
You know, people sometimes do this sort of stuff for very personal reasons, they just don't want to discuss with public, and who knows, maybe he would return back one day? He wouldn't be first to do that :) Or maybe he is going to stick around as a volunteer? Let's be optimistic!
If you really want to know the details, you can always ask him directly. Fortunately he is not dead, so no need to mourn him. As an employee of WMF, he was always very friendly and extremely useful, so indeed I /do/ hope he will stay with us, at least as a volunteer.
On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Tilman Bayer tbayer@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 3:54 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
As a reminder on goodbyes, WMF HR used to announce everyone's last day at https://identi.ca/wikimediaatwork (can't take more than a couple minutes); then the announcements became monthly, then quarterly; then we lost this courtesy as well https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik i/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_reports#Staff .
As already noted higher up on that talk page, that's a misconception. Timely updates now happen on the WMF wiki instead, where RobLa's departure had already been recorded by HR before you sent this email: https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Staff_and_ contractors&action=history
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