CHAD!

You’re enthusiasm is breathtaking, I’m happy to know you. Thanks for all your 
contributions and good luck!

Ok, so stay in touch, but also please send me your resume, it wasn’t really 
attached.

—laura

Laura Hilliger
laurahilliger.com <http://laurahilliger.com/>
co-founder of weareopen.coop <http://weareopen.coop/>
@epilepticrabbit <http://twitter.com/epilepticrabbit>


> On Oct 27, 2017, at 3:55 PM, Jason Hibbets <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Best of luck in your new adventures Chad. You know where to find us!
> 
> Jason
> 
> On 10/27/2017 09:49 AM, Sam Knuth wrote:
>> Chad! I hope you don't step too far away. I very much value your
>> perspective and insights, and your desire to push the envelope on just
>> how "open" we can be. 
>> 
>> Let's keep in touch
>> 
>> Sam
>> 
>> On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 8:29 AM, Chad Whitacre <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>
>> <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
>> 
>>    Thanks for the kind words, Bryan. It's been a pleasure and an honor
>>    to be part of this group.
>> 
>>    What Bryan was gracious enough to elide is that my stepping back
>>    from the Open Organization Ambassadors is due to my also stepping
>>    away from Gratipay, the startup I've worked on for over five years
>>    and the context in which I've been exploring open organizational
>>    patterns and possibilities. I'm currently looking for my next
>>    opportunity (in software engineering or engineering
>>    management—resume attached! :), and who knows? Perhaps down the line
>>    I will pop up again in the issue tracker with new open organization
>>    stories to share from a new perspective.
>> 
>>    Until then, all the best to all of you. Keep changing the world, and
>>    I will catch up if I can down the line!
>> 
>> 
>>    chad
>> 
>> 
>>    ----
>>    Chad Whitacre
>>    http://whit537.org/ <http://whit537.org/>
>>    +1-412-925-4220 <tel:(412)%20925-4220> (cell)
>> 
>>    On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 7:32 AM, Bryan Behrenshausen
>>    <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
>> <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
>> 
>>        At the end of October, Chad Whitacre will finish his term as an Open
>>        Organization Ambassador at Opensource.com <http://opensource.com/>. 
>> I'd like to thank
>>        Chad—and I
>>        hope (as Chad would say) yinz'll join me in doing so too—for his
>>        outstanding service to the group.
>> 
>>        Chad joined our community in August 2016 after sharing two
>>        insightful
>>        stories about the way his startup, Gratipay, handled "hire-yourself
>>        employment" [1] and "take-what-you-want compensation" [2]. As
>>        you might
>>        imagine, those articles turned some heads. Clearly, Gratipay was
>>        paving
>>        the way for organizations to think differently about some
>>        tried-and-true
>>        processes, and Chad joined forces with us to help explain this
>>        new age
>>        of open and distributed work to Opensource.com 
>> <http://opensource.com/> readers.
>> 
>>        To that end, Chad composed columns on issues like open source
>>        community
>>        branding [3] and organizational ethics [4]. His tutorial on
>>        public issue
>>        trackers [5] appeared in _The Open Organization Leaders Manual_.
>>        And his
>>        piece on "open source's free rider problem" remains one of the most
>>        popular open organization stories on Opensource.com 
>> <http://opensource.com/> [6].
>> 
>>        As a community member, Chad was instrumental in ensuring we
>>        practiced
>>        what we advocated every day. He was instrumental in establishing the
>>        ambassador community's GitHub organization—now a fundamental
>>        component
>>        in our ongoing activities—and helped open the community's
>>        publication
>>        schedule there. He also spurred development of the Open Organization
>>        Definition more than a year ago, after a robust discussion at
>>        All Things
>>        Open in Raleigh, NC.
>> 
>>        Chad, I wish you all the very best as you embark on your next great
>>        adventure. Thanks for all you've given to our community!
>> 
>>        Sincerely,
>>        Bryan
>> 
>>        -----
>> 
>>        [1]
>>        
>> <https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/5/employees-let-them-hire-themselves
>>  
>> <https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/5/employees-let-them-hire-themselves>
>>        
>> <https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/5/employees-let-them-hire-themselves
>>  
>> <https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/5/employees-let-them-hire-themselves>>>
>> 
>>        [2]
>>        
>> <https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/7/compensating-employees-letting-them-take-what-they-want
>>  
>> <https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/7/compensating-employees-letting-them-take-what-they-want>
>>        
>> <https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/7/compensating-employees-letting-them-take-what-they-want
>>  
>> <https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/7/compensating-employees-letting-them-take-what-they-want>>>
>> 
>>        [3]
>>        
>> <https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/4/how-branding-decisions-open 
>> <https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/4/how-branding-decisions-open>
>>        
>> <https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/4/how-branding-decisions-open 
>> <https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/4/how-branding-decisions-open>>>
>> 
>>        [4]
>>        <https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/7/open-org-hacker-ethic 
>> <https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/7/open-org-hacker-ethic>
>>        <https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/7/open-org-hacker-ethic 
>> <https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/7/open-org-hacker-ethic>>>
>> 
>>        [5]
>>        
>> <https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/2/tracking-issues-publicly 
>> <https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/2/tracking-issues-publicly>
>>        
>> <https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/2/tracking-issues-publicly 
>> <https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/2/tracking-issues-publicly>>>
>> 
>>        [6]
>>        
>> <https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/11/open-source-free-rider-problem
>>  
>> <https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/11/open-source-free-rider-problem>
>>        
>> <https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/11/open-source-free-rider-problem
>>  
>> <https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/11/open-source-free-rider-problem>>>
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