On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Sue Gardner <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/9/28 Brion Vibber <[email protected]>: >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >
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 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
