[Foundation-l] Announce: Brion moving to StatusNet

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/9/28 Michael Snow <wikipedia at verizon.net>:
> Thomas Dalton 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.
>>>
>> 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!