[sldev] An announcement

[Soft Linden]

Coco and Which speak truth.

I'll add that Rob pulls from an impressive body of knowledge, finding
these analogs to other projects and companies that few others could
match. While we've stumbled along, learning how to make open source
work to mutual benefit, without Rob we'd have made so many more
mistakes. All around, he's been as much an educator as an advocate for
our open source work.

And yeah, he's great to work with. I actually look forward to what
should be pretty dry patch triage sessions and other goings on,
largely because of his involvement. Even before working at the Lab, I
enjoyed the public open source meetings, largely because of his
patience, warmth and humor. It's so rare to find those traits in
someone otherwise so driven and principled - he's Lindeny to the core.

You're going to be missed, Rob. I doubt I'm the only one jealous of
the next company that gets your time. :/

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Ryan Williams (Which) <rdw at lindenlab.com> wrote:
> Personally, and professionally, it's been a pleasure to work with you,
> Rob.  You've always had a cool head and an enthusiasm that's really
> infectious.  It's hard to foster a real sense of camraderie and respect,
> but you've totally done a stellar job at that.   It's clear that you
> care deeply about what you work on, and you're always more honest than I
> think is physically possible.  With your guidance, this little "open
> source project" has grown into quite the phenomenon, and it's been fun
> the whole way.
>
> I'm sure that your next venture will benefit as much from your
> busybody-ing as we have.  :-)
>
> On 11/6/09 2:31 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote:
>> Hi everyone
>>
>> I'm sad to announce that I've decided to leave Linden Lab.  My last
>> day is slated for November 13 (next Friday).
>>
>> This has been quite an adventure!  I'm really proud of where the
>> community is today and its potential.  Over the years, this community
>> has attracted a lot of really stellar people who now form a great
>> team.  Snowglobe is off to a great start.  Things aren't perfect by
>> any stretch of the imagination (as anyone who tries to build with VS
>> 2008 will testify), and there's all sorts of things that still need to
>> be done and need to improve, but things right now really aren't bad,
>> and there's a lot of great people around to make it better.  This
>> latest Snowglobe release is a great example of that, with 28 of the
>> 100 direct commits in the 1.2 cycle (so far) coming from four
>> different non-Lindens, and many of the Linden commits being checkins
>> of contributed code from those that don't yet have commit access.
>> That's not to mention the swell of activity around alternative viewers
>> outside of Linden Lab.  I'm sure future versions of Snowglobe will
>> have even greater levels of non-Linden participation, and with any
>> luck, maybe even combine with one or two of the alternative viewer
>> efforts.
>>
>> What does my departure mean for open source at Linden Lab?  Don't read
>> too much into it.  My departure is about my personal circumstances,
>> not about any abrupt change in direction on Linden's part.  My hope is
>> that this will make room for a fresh approach to our open development
>> work.  We're working on the general plan for my replacement now, which
>> you should all hear more details about soon.  I have no doubt that
>> Linden Lab will be able to attract more great people to augment the
>> talented and passionate team we already have working in the community,
>> and that the company will continue to develop its open source chops.
>>
>> I'm going to hold a couple extra office hours next week in addition to
>> the normal 2pm Thursday one.  We'll keep the Thursday office hour in
>> Hippotropolis and text-only (typical Thursday), but the other two I'd
>> like to use voice + text (accommodating text only folks as best we
>> can), and hold them in the cubicle on the hill in Grasmere:
>> http://slurl.com/secondlife/Grasmere/114/82/27
>>
>> Agendas:
>> Monday, 2pm PST (Grasmere) - voice+text - informal gab/Q&A session
>> Wednesday, 8am PST (Grasmere) - voice+text - informal gab/Q&A session
>> Thursday, 2pm PST (Hippotropolis) - text only - advice for the future
>> of Snowglobe - we'll capture the transcript and save it off for the
>> future regime
>>
>> As for what's next for me, I'm not yet in a position to talk about it.
>>   One thing I will say is that I'm definitely planning on staying in
>> open source development.
>>
>> I'm going to miss working with you all as much as I do today, but I'll
>> still be around.  I'm going to get signed up for sldev@ on my personal
>> email address, log into IRC (though probably just as "robla") and I'll
>> weigh in from time-to-time.  I'll be sure to fill everyone in when I
>> land in my new spot.
>>
>> Thanks for the ride!
>>
>> Rob
>> p.s. now let's get Snowglobe 1.2 out the door ;-)   RC1 available now:
>> https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Download_Snowglobe
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