On 12 sep. 2014, at 20:08, Jeroen De Dauw <jeroendedauw(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Sumana,
Thanks for writing that up and the bits of helpful advice you gave me over
the years.
Same here Sumana. You are the one who convinced me to come to my first MediaWiki
Hackathon. You've inspired me to learn things that I now use every day and I'm
truly grateful for that.
And like Micru, I have to agree with this part:
And I'd like to [...] exclude destructive
communication from my life (yes,
there's some amount of burnout on toxic people and entitlement).
This is such a tragic waste on many levels. It's very hard to make real
progress towards an organizations goals and have fun in doing so, if the
environment contains to much of this. Even if every single person involved
is putting effort towards those goals. You are definitely not the first
person to leave the WMF (in part) because of this.
Triple that. I've left environments over destructive communication, so I can relate to
that...
Thank you, good luck, grow and reinvent yourself. Hope to see you IRL again.
DJ