[Foundation-l] Announce: Brion moving to StatusNet

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/9/28 Brion Vibber <brion at wikimedia.org>:
> 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.