Hi everyone,

It's been a while since I've been involved here, and I've got a pretty good excuse. I'm going to avoid going into too much detail, but in short, I was involved in a pretty nasty traffic collision, and have only recently returned to work. It turned out the way that a lot of bike versus car collisions go, which is to say, I lost :-(

The good news (for me at least), I've largely recovered. The surgeons here did a remarkable job putting me back together again. I returned to part-time work a couple of weeks ago, and I'm getting back up to speed on things. I still have a number of personal obligations that keep me from working full-time, but I'll keep my user page on mediawiki.org https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:RobLa-WMF updated with the latest (or point you to where I plan to keep that info).

Though we hadn't announced it in April, we had *just* talked about making my title "Director of Architecture" in the big reorg we had here at WMF. We hadn't worked out exactly what that meant when I was in the wreck, but I had a vague idea which I intend to flesh out. In the short term, I want to facilitate the activity of the Architecture Committee https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture%20committee. I've started chairing the private meetings of that group, and I'm taking on a bunch of the administrivia. I'll make things clearer as they become clearer in my head :-) Well, maybe after that, and after I get a chance to write down what I'm thinking. I'm really happy to be back involved! \o/ If you have any questions, or you simply want to wave back, feel free to drop a comment on my MediaWiki talk page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_talk:RobLa-WMF

Rob