Re: [Wikitech-l] I'm leaving the Wikimedia Foundation
Le 12/09/2014 18:09, Sumana Harihareswara a écrit : I write this email with regret to let you know that I've decided to leave the Wikimedia Foundation after nearly four years working here, and that my last day will be 30 September. I go into my reasoning and plans in this personal blog post: http://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2014/09/12/0 I'm grateful for what I've learned here and will take these lessons wherever I go. And I've made many friends here; thank you. I'll remain [[User:Sumanah]] in any volunteer work I do onwiki. Quim Gil will be the person to contact for any loose threads I leave behind; still, if you have questions for me, the next two weeks would be a good time to ask them. best, Sumana Harihareswara was Volunteer Development Coordinator, then Engineering Community Manager, now Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation Hello Sumana, I am definitely lagged out in my mail processing and I definitely sad to see you go. Although we had some disagreement, your tireless work to coordinate all the volunteers and grow our volunteer developers base has paid off very well. I dont have metric to back it up, but you definitely had a huge impact on MediaWiki! Thank you! -- Antoine hashar Musso ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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Thank you for your contributions to Wikimedia movement and Foundation. You will be missed. Best wishes for the future. Regards Tinu Cherian On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: I write this email with regret to let you know that I've decided to leave the Wikimedia Foundation after nearly four years working here, and that my last day will be 30 September. I go into my reasoning and plans in this personal blog post: http://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2014/09/12/0 I'm grateful for what I've learned here and will take these lessons wherever I go. And I've made many friends here; thank you. I'll remain [[User:Sumanah]] in any volunteer work I do onwiki. Quim Gil will be the person to contact for any loose threads I leave behind; still, if you have questions for me, the next two weeks would be a good time to ask them. best, Sumana Harihareswara was Volunteer Development Coordinator, then Engineering Community Manager, now Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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I am so sincerely sorry to see you leaving. I learned from you so many good things that I shouldn't start listing them. May I keep poking your amazing mind for links to useful blog posts on an endless variety of relevant topics? :) Будем песню беречь, До свиданья, до новых встреч. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 2014-09-12 19:09 GMT+03:00 Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org: I write this email with regret to let you know that I've decided to leave the Wikimedia Foundation after nearly four years working here, and that my last day will be 30 September. I go into my reasoning and plans in this personal blog post: http://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2014/09/12/0 I'm grateful for what I've learned here and will take these lessons wherever I go. And I've made many friends here; thank you. I'll remain [[User:Sumanah]] in any volunteer work I do onwiki. Quim Gil will be the person to contact for any loose threads I leave behind; still, if you have questions for me, the next two weeks would be a good time to ask them. best, Sumana Harihareswara was Volunteer Development Coordinator, then Engineering Community Manager, now Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] I'm leaving the Wikimedia Foundation
On Friday, September 12, 2014, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: I go into my reasoning and plans in this personal blog post: http://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2014/09/12/0 Sumana, more than wishing you good luck (being luck a random factor by definition) I wish you a new phase in which you reach to a point where you feel with excitement that you are giving literally the best of you. I will not insist in the destructive communication aspect that others have resonated, but I would like to quote the rest of that very same sentence in your blog post: And I'd like to try out what it's like to get better at making software, to have more of a blank slate and perhaps less of a public spotlight, to work face-to-face with a team here in New York City This looks like a very good list of ingredients for a radical change of context in your career, keeping Sumana's assets almost intact, just re-purposed. Especially for Foundation employees, today Wikimedia is the opposite of a blank slate or a calm and private place to work. It probably has to be this way, although sometimes I wonder whether we the community and we the Foundation shouldn't allow to ourselves more freedom to experiment simply and explicitly out of our gut feelings. Well, you tried creating such spaces through 20%, LevelUp, and other mechanisms for individuals to work on whatever they felt it was worth trying. Anyway, back to the ingredients: I'm sure they will do good for you. Wikimedia will be always just a click away. I have learned a lot with you, and I have no doubt that I will keep learning from you as we keep working on making this community an interesting, welcoming, useful, and productive place to be. -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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Sumana, You definitely inspired us during WikiConference USA. I look forward to our paths crossing again. Good luck in your future endeavors. Shawn M. Jones Graduate Research Assistant Department of Computer Science Old Dominion University Email: sj...@cs.odu.edu Research group: http://ws-dl.blogspot.com Twitter:@shawnmjones On Sep 12, 2014, at 12:09 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: I write this email with regret to let you know that I've decided to leave the Wikimedia Foundation after nearly four years working here, and that my last day will be 30 September. I go into my reasoning and plans in this personal blog post: http://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2014/09/12/0 I'm grateful for what I've learned here and will take these lessons wherever I go. And I've made many friends here; thank you. I'll remain [[User:Sumanah]] in any volunteer work I do onwiki. Quim Gil will be the person to contact for any loose threads I leave behind; still, if you have questions for me, the next two weeks would be a good time to ask them. best, Sumana Harihareswara was Volunteer Development Coordinator, then Engineering Community Manager, now Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] I'm leaving the Wikimedia Foundation
On 9/12/14, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: I write this email with regret to let you know that I've decided to leave the Wikimedia Foundation after nearly four years working here, and that my last day will be 30 September. I go into my reasoning and plans in this personal blog post: http://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2014/09/12/0 I'm grateful for what I've learned here and will take these lessons wherever I go. And I've made many friends here; thank you. I'll remain [[User:Sumanah]] in any volunteer work I do onwiki. Quim Gil will be the person to contact for any loose threads I leave behind; still, if you have questions for me, the next two weeks would be a good time to ask them. best, Sumana Harihareswara was Volunteer Development Coordinator, then Engineering Community Manager, now Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l I'm saddened to hear that. I remember when your hiring announcement was posted to wikitech-l - it hardly seems like almost 4 years ago. In that time you've become so integral to the MediaWiki community, it will be hard to imagine what it will be like without you - although I'm sure that things will be in good hands with Quim. I wish you the best of luck with whatever you have planned next and am sure you'll find the opportunities for growth, etc that you are looking for. --bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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I'm also very saddened to hear you are leaving. You were the person that introduced me (and so many other people!) to the MediaWiki developers world and I think this is only the smallest of the great impact you had on the MW community. We will miss you so much. Best wishes, Thomas (Tpt) Le 14 sept. 2014 à 20:22, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com a écrit : On 9/12/14, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: I write this email with regret to let you know that I've decided to leave the Wikimedia Foundation after nearly four years working here, and that my last day will be 30 September. I go into my reasoning and plans in this personal blog post: http://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2014/09/12/0 I'm grateful for what I've learned here and will take these lessons wherever I go. And I've made many friends here; thank you. I'll remain [[User:Sumanah]] in any volunteer work I do onwiki. Quim Gil will be the person to contact for any loose threads I leave behind; still, if you have questions for me, the next two weeks would be a good time to ask them. best, Sumana Harihareswara was Volunteer Development Coordinator, then Engineering Community Manager, now Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l I'm saddened to hear that. I remember when your hiring announcement was posted to wikitech-l - it hardly seems like almost 4 years ago. In that time you've become so integral to the MediaWiki community, it will be hard to imagine what it will be like without you - although I'm sure that things will be in good hands with Quim. I wish you the best of luck with whatever you have planned next and am sure you'll find the opportunities for growth, etc that you are looking for. --bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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Thanks for your work and the explanation, Sumana. If it is any consolation, I agree that it's good to work with nice people, and we have some work to do on how people sometimes treat each other around here. Good luck, Pine On Sep 12, 2014 9:10 PM, Tony Thomas 01tonytho...@gmail.com wrote: All the best Sumana. You will be missed. :) Thanks, Tony Thomas http://tttwrites.wordpress.com/ FOSS@Amrita http://foss.amrita.ac.in *where there is a wifi, there is a way* On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 3:20 AM, Katie Chan k...@ktchan.info wrote: It was a privilege to have meet you at Wikimedia events and you will be missed And I'd like to [...] exclude destructive communication from my life (yes, there's some amount of burnout on toxic people and entitlement). Sad to read this, but so so understandable unfortunately. KTC -- Katie Chan Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the view of any organisation the author is associated with or employed by. Experience is a good school but the fees are high. - Heinrich Heine --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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Hoi, Thanks Sumana.. Have a great life and have fun living it. I hope to see you around :) GerardM On 12 September 2014 18:09, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: I write this email with regret to let you know that I've decided to leave the Wikimedia Foundation after nearly four years working here, and that my last day will be 30 September. I go into my reasoning and plans in this personal blog post: http://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2014/09/12/0 I'm grateful for what I've learned here and will take these lessons wherever I go. And I've made many friends here; thank you. I'll remain [[User:Sumanah]] in any volunteer work I do onwiki. Quim Gil will be the person to contact for any loose threads I leave behind; still, if you have questions for me, the next two weeks would be a good time to ask them. best, Sumana Harihareswara was Volunteer Development Coordinator, then Engineering Community Manager, now Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] I'm leaving the Wikimedia Foundation
Hi Sumana, Sumana Harihareswara schreef op 12-9-2014 18:09: I write this email with regret to let you know that I've decided to leave the Wikimedia Foundation after nearly four years working here, and that my last day will be 30 September. I'm sorry to see you leave. I really liked working with you and enjoyed the constant enthusiasm and positivism you bring. I wish you all the best for you new endeavours and I hope you keep being involved as a volunteer. Maarten ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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Thanks Sumana for sharing this with us and for all your work in the past years. I have to agree with many things said and it is always sad to see someone go. Everything ends at some point and every ending also bears a new start of something else. This applies to you as it does apply to us, the Wikimedia movemenet and Foundation. I wish you all the best for your future. Manuel Am 12.09.2014 18:09, schrieb Sumana Harihareswara: I write this email with regret to let you know that I've decided to leave the Wikimedia Foundation after nearly four years working here, and that my last day will be 30 September. -- Manuel Schneider - Chief Information Officer Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Lausanne, +41 (21) 340 66 22 - www.wikimedia.ch ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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Hey Sumana, this is really sad news. You know, you were one of my very first contacts in the international MediaWiki world! It's hard for me to imagine this world without Sumana. The way you draw people into the community is really exceptional! I wish you all the best for your future and I hope we can nonetheless stay in touch somehow, as a community and on a personal level. Take care, Markus -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] Im Auftrag von Sumana Harihareswara Gesendet: Freitag, 12. September 2014 18:09 An: Wikimedia developers Betreff: [Wikitech-l] I'm leaving the Wikimedia Foundation I write this email with regret to let you know that I've decided to leave the Wikimedia Foundation after nearly four years working here, and that my last day will be 30 September. I go into my reasoning and plans in this personal blog post: http://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2014/09/12/0 I'm grateful for what I've learned here and will take these lessons wherever I go. And I've made many friends here; thank you. I'll remain [[User:Sumanah]] in any volunteer work I do onwiki. Quim Gil will be the person to contact for any loose threads I leave behind; still, if you have questions for me, the next two weeks would be a good time to ask them. best, Sumana Harihareswara was Volunteer Development Coordinator, then Engineering Community Manager, now Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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Farewell, Sumana, Sorry you're leaving WikiMedia, appreciating your good spirits, and looking forward to staying in communication. Best regards, Scott http://scottmacleod.com https://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch http://worlduniversityandschool.org :'( Going to miss you Sumana! (Hopefully we can meet up in the city one day.) *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Sumana, Thanks for writing that up and the bits of helpful advice you gave me over the years. 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. Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw - http://www.bn2vs.com Software craftsmanship advocate Evil software architect at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] I'm leaving the Wikimedia Foundation
I write this email with regret to let you know that I've decided to leave the Wikimedia Foundation after nearly four years working here, and that my last day will be 30 September. I go into my reasoning and plans in this personal blog post: http://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2014/09/12/0 I'm grateful for what I've learned here and will take these lessons wherever I go. And I've made many friends here; thank you. I'll remain [[User:Sumanah]] in any volunteer work I do onwiki. Quim Gil will be the person to contact for any loose threads I leave behind; still, if you have questions for me, the next two weeks would be a good time to ask them. best, Sumana Harihareswara was Volunteer Development Coordinator, then Engineering Community Manager, now Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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Thank you for the work by this time, and good luck! ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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You will be serverly missed. You've always been one of my favourite people at the Foundation. Thank you, Derric Atzrott ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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After reading your blog post, I must agree with this: And I'd like to [...] exclude destructive communication from my life (yes, there's some amount of burnout on toxic people and entitlement). I wish that in your new environment you find a better environment to grow professionally with less attrition.Perhaps here someday we'll realize that the problem was not the software, not the money, not the organization, and not the lack of contributors, but the failure to understand in our community that humanity, wisdom and virtue have to be above everything else. All the best in you new job, Micru On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: I write this email with regret to let you know that I've decided to leave the Wikimedia Foundation after nearly four years working here, and that my last day will be 30 September. I go into my reasoning and plans in this personal blog post: http://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2014/09/12/0 I'm grateful for what I've learned here and will take these lessons wherever I go. And I've made many friends here; thank you. I'll remain [[User:Sumanah]] in any volunteer work I do onwiki. Quim Gil will be the person to contact for any loose threads I leave behind; still, if you have questions for me, the next two weeks would be a good time to ask them. best, Sumana Harihareswara was Volunteer Development Coordinator, then Engineering Community Manager, now Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Etiamsi omnes, ego non ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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It was a pleasure to meet you and to work with you at the NOLA Hackathon. Best of luck. On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: I write this email with regret to let you know that I've decided to leave the Wikimedia Foundation after nearly four years working here, and that my last day will be 30 September. I go into my reasoning and plans in this personal blog post: http://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2014/09/12/0 I'm grateful for what I've learned here and will take these lessons wherever I go. And I've made many friends here; thank you. I'll remain [[User:Sumanah]] in any volunteer work I do onwiki. Quim Gil will be the person to contact for any loose threads I leave behind; still, if you have questions for me, the next two weeks would be a good time to ask them. best, Sumana Harihareswara was Volunteer Development Coordinator, then Engineering Community Manager, now Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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Hey Sumana, Thanks for writing that up and the bits of helpful advice you gave me over the years. 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. Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw - http://www.bn2vs.com Software craftsmanship advocate Evil software architect at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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:'( Going to miss you Sumana! (Hopefully we can meet up in the city one day.) *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Sumana, Thanks for writing that up and the bits of helpful advice you gave me over the years. 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. Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw - http://www.bn2vs.com Software craftsmanship advocate Evil software architect at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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You will be missed Sumana, I personally will never forget what you did in WMF to make Wiki a better place. Best wishes On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 12:09 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman d.j.hartman+wmf...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 sep. 2014, at 20:08, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@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 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Amir ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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Hey Sumana, I would like to say all the best in your future endeavors and say a big Thank You for mentoring me (a lot of which wasn't even part of your job). A lot of credit behind my small successes are attributed to you :) Let me know how to stay in touch. On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: I write this email with regret to let you know that I've decided to leave the Wikimedia Foundation after nearly four years working here, and that my last day will be 30 September. I go into my reasoning and plans in this personal blog post: http://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2014/09/12/0 I'm grateful for what I've learned here and will take these lessons wherever I go. And I've made many friends here; thank you. I'll remain [[User:Sumanah]] in any volunteer work I do onwiki. Quim Gil will be the person to contact for any loose threads I leave behind; still, if you have questions for me, the next two weeks would be a good time to ask them. best, Sumana Harihareswara was Volunteer Development Coordinator, then Engineering Community Manager, now Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Cheers, Nischay Nahata ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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It was a privilege to have meet you at Wikimedia events and you will be missed And I'd like to [...] exclude destructive communication from my life (yes, there's some amount of burnout on toxic people and entitlement). Sad to read this, but so so understandable unfortunately. KTC -- Katie Chan Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the view of any organisation the author is associated with or employed by. Experience is a good school but the fees are high. - Heinrich Heine --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] I'm leaving the Wikimedia Foundation
All the best Sumana. You will be missed. :) Thanks, Tony Thomas http://tttwrites.wordpress.com/ FOSS@Amrita http://foss.amrita.ac.in *where there is a wifi, there is a way* On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 3:20 AM, Katie Chan k...@ktchan.info wrote: It was a privilege to have meet you at Wikimedia events and you will be missed And I'd like to [...] exclude destructive communication from my life (yes, there's some amount of burnout on toxic people and entitlement). Sad to read this, but so so understandable unfortunately. KTC -- Katie Chan Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the view of any organisation the author is associated with or employed by. Experience is a good school but the fees are high. - Heinrich Heine --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
