[Building Sakai] New Stuff

[Nate Angell]

Steve:

We will release thegithens from active service, but only for such a worthy endeavor as you propose!

I'm sure you'll be considering how OpenMRS might have a role to play in a medical school open academic and/or administrative environment ;)

Thanks for all your energy and creativity. See you on the flip side!

= Nate

On Feb 10, 2012, at 7:18 AM, Steven Githens <swgithen at mtu.edu> wrote:

> Hello Sakai Dev,
> 
> The time has come for me to write one of these emails.  Next week will 
> be the last week in my current role.  On February 20th I'll be starting 
> a new chapter of my life in the Biostatistics department in the IU 
> School of Medicine.  I'll be working closely with a doctor whose primary 
> research interest is in reducing mother to child transmission of HIV and 
> other diseases. As part of this I'll be working on OpenMRS, an open 
> source medical record project, across a number of institutions and 
> countries.  I'll probably spend a month a year or so in Kenya working 
> with our colleagues there.
> 
> I'd like to thank everyone in the Sakai community I've worked with for 
> the past 6 years, which have been some of the best of my life.  While 
> I've always been an open source advocate, Sakai was the first project I 
> really latched on to, and dived in to with everything I had.  I've 
> learned an incredible amount about coding, testing, refactoring, 
> tooling, and the entire software development ecosystem.  Even more so 
> though, I'm happy to have developed such a number of great friendships 
> in the community, and been surrounded by such great camaraderie.   We 
> should never forgot how awesome our community is.
> 
> With that said, it's likely I may pop up again in the future, but 
> starting sometime midweek next week I'll probably be going off the Sakai 
> grid for a while, so that I can really dive into this new source code 
> base with a fresh mind.
> 
> I do hope to continue to catch up with folks during my travels, and if 
> you're ever in Indianapolis be sure to ping me!
> 
> Cheers to the Max!
> 
> ~steve
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