[Foundation-l] Announce: Brion moving to StatusNet

[Chad]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Sue Gardner <sgardner at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Obviously I've talked with Brion in person, so he knows this, but I
> will say it publicly too: he will be hugely, enormously, massively
> missed.
>
> What Michael says is true: people have a right to pursue their dreams
> and goals and personal development wherever it takes them, and I too
> am happy that Brion will continue to be moving forward the free
> culture agenda and helping to build a better ecosystem of projects and
> organizations. I've got an account on identi.ca which I haven't yet
> used: perhaps my first use of it will be congratulate Brion on his new
> job :-)
>
> IMO Brion is the single most central figure in the Wikimedia movement,
> second only to Jimmy.  His work with us should be honoured and
> celebrated.  We'll be doing some of that inside the staff within the
> next few weeks, and I expect the Board will plan something for him
> too.  But we'll need to be creative: after all, there is already a
> Brion Vibber Day.  New ideas are welcome :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Sue
>
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And on that note, I propose we rename MediaWiki to BrionWiki.
Added benefit: we can finally put the name confusion to rest ;-)

In all seriousness though. Brion: best of luck on the new job and
with future endeavors. You will be missed greatly by both devs
and Wikimedians alike. And you'll still have commit access, so I
hope to keep seeing "Revert rXXX, totally broken"

-Chad