On 12 sep. 2014, at 20:08, Jeroen De Dauw <[email protected]> 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

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