On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Steve Ovens <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all, > Hi Steve and everyone, I was about to start studying for my course then start working on my CV/Resume (*I lost counting*) and applying for jobs but I saw this email and wanted to reply before going offline. > > I have been evaluating my own situation lately and I feel it is time to > resign from Ubuntu Gnome. > If truth to be told, I did see that coming. I admit that I couldn't do much due to other commitments and as always busy life. I have chatted with you before more than once and tried to give you the brighter side of the picture but it seems I failed to do so. Should have tried harder! > I haven't really found a way to be useful. I don't seem to be overly > useful in the packaging team and I feel like I am a bigger drain on > resources than I am a help. > I DISAGREE! Because there are many areas you could contribute to and packaging is 'just' one of these :) You haven't failed. You found few ways that didn't work. You should never give up and try one more time. If you fall 9 times, stand up for the 10 times and carry on. This is what I usually do. > Therefore I am submitting my resignation today. I have mixed feelings > about this because I know this is a small, dedicated team and every > resource lost is felt. But at the same time I haven't been pulling my own > weight. > You know what is the worst moment that I do hate to see when I deal with people whether in real-life or GNU/Linux world? it is this moment when I see someone is leaving. I does truly break my heart. Building could take years. Anti-building could take seconds. I hate to see anyone leaves. If it is up to me, I'd disapprove this application of yours and I'd appeal to you to withdraw it. But I don't think I can do that. That's part of the 'freedom' we all enjoy while working with such projects. However, I'm asking you to please re-consider than and try to find 'other' ways to help! we need people and you've been around for more than a year and know how things work here. > > On to some lighter news. I am still contributing in my own way. I am on > the philanthropy committee at work. Part of what I do is take computers > which have been life cycled out, wipe them, and put linux on them. I have > been deploying Ubuntu Gnome on a bunch of these computers so the user base > is going up (particularly since this will be a lot of people's introduction > to linux) > That's great news, thank you for sharing! > > Anyways thanks for the chance to contribute. I wish the team luck! > Thank YOU for everything and please, don't ever feel that way and look at it from the other sides ... the other side is much better and more beautiful :) Do you think I'm a successful contributor? do you think I'm helpful? I don't really see that sometimes in myself. Why I didn't leave? because I can't. It breaks my heart and leaving Ubuntu GNOME is a failure. I am here unless someone will kick me out :P Yes, I stepped down from many projects at once (have written about that on amjjawad.net) but two projects I can NOT leave: Ubuntu GNOME and ToriOS. Both are deep in my heart :) Take a break. Keep a low profile. Contribute only when you feel so whenever possible. But leaving is really the extreme way that anyone might think about. Now, it is your call ... > > Cheers > > -- > Red Hat 6 Certified Engineer > Ubuntu Certified Professional > Novell Certified Linux Administrator > > -- > Ubuntu-GNOME mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-gnome > > Thank you! -- Best Regards, Ali/amjjawad <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad> *Remember: *"All of us are smarter than any one of us." Ubuntu GNOME OneStopPage <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/OneStopPage> http://torios.org - http://amjjawad.net <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/GetUbuntuGNOME>
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