Best wishes for you and your future endeavors Rob. Hope our paths cross again :)
-Dahlia On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Rob Lanphier <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone > > I'm sad to announce that I've decided to leave Linden Lab. My last > day is slated for November 13 (next Friday). > > This has been quite an adventure! I'm really proud of where the > community is today and its potential. Over the years, this community > has attracted a lot of really stellar people who now form a great > team. Snowglobe is off to a great start. Things aren't perfect by > any stretch of the imagination (as anyone who tries to build with VS > 2008 will testify), and there's all sorts of things that still need to > be done and need to improve, but things right now really aren't bad, > and there's a lot of great people around to make it better. This > latest Snowglobe release is a great example of that, with 28 of the > 100 direct commits in the 1.2 cycle (so far) coming from four > different non-Lindens, and many of the Linden commits being checkins > of contributed code from those that don't yet have commit access. > That's not to mention the swell of activity around alternative viewers > outside of Linden Lab. I'm sure future versions of Snowglobe will > have even greater levels of non-Linden participation, and with any > luck, maybe even combine with one or two of the alternative viewer > efforts. > > What does my departure mean for open source at Linden Lab? Don't read > too much into it. My departure is about my personal circumstances, > not about any abrupt change in direction on Linden's part. My hope is > that this will make room for a fresh approach to our open development > work. We're working on the general plan for my replacement now, which > you should all hear more details about soon. I have no doubt that > Linden Lab will be able to attract more great people to augment the > talented and passionate team we already have working in the community, > and that the company will continue to develop its open source chops. > > I'm going to hold a couple extra office hours next week in addition to > the normal 2pm Thursday one. We'll keep the Thursday office hour in > Hippotropolis and text-only (typical Thursday), but the other two I'd > like to use voice + text (accommodating text only folks as best we > can), and hold them in the cubicle on the hill in Grasmere: > http://slurl.com/secondlife/Grasmere/114/82/27 > > Agendas: > Monday, 2pm PST (Grasmere) - voice+text - informal gab/Q&A session > Wednesday, 8am PST (Grasmere) - voice+text - informal gab/Q&A session > Thursday, 2pm PST (Hippotropolis) - text only - advice for the future > of Snowglobe - we'll capture the transcript and save it off for the > future regime > > As for what's next for me, I'm not yet in a position to talk about it. > One thing I will say is that I'm definitely planning on staying in > open source development. > > I'm going to miss working with you all as much as I do today, but I'll > still be around. I'm going to get signed up for sldev@ on my personal > email address, log into IRC (though probably just as "robla") and I'll > weigh in from time-to-time. I'll be sure to fill everyone in when I > land in my new spot. > > Thanks for the ride! > > Rob > p.s. now let's get Snowglobe 1.2 out the door ;-) RC1 available now: > https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Download_Snowglobe > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting > privileges >
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