[sldev] An announcement

[Gordon Wendt]

We'll always have your emails reminding me to stay on topic :) I'm sure
whatever you do after LL you'll be successful at and best of luck.

-Gordon

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Rob Lanphier <robla at lindenlab.com> 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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