Chad, You will be missed during your time away. It was such a pleasure to get to know you this week and see your passion for life and community!
Jen On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 10:09 AM Laura Hilliger <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > co-founder of 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] <[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/ > +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] <[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 > >> > > [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 > >> > > [3] > < > 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>> > > [5] > < > 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 > >> > > _______________________________________________ > Openorg-list mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected] > <[email protected]>> > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/openorg-list > <https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/openorg-list> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openorg-list mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected] > <[email protected]>> > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/openorg-list > <https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/openorg-list> > > > > > -- > Sam Knuth > Director, Customer Content Services > Red Hat, Inc > Mobile: +1 612-840-1785 > > > _______________________________________________ > Openorg-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/openorg-list > > > _______________________________________________ > Openorg-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/openorg-list > > > _______________________________________________ > Openorg-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/openorg-list > -- Jen Kelchner | LDR21 sent via my iPhone please excuse errors
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