[Building Sakai] New Stuff

[Raad Al-Rawi]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-
> bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Steven Githens
> Sent: 10 February 2012 15:19
> To: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> Subject: [Building Sakai] New Stuff
> 
> Hello Sakai Dev,

Duuude!

> The time has come for me to write one of these emails. 

Uh-oh...

> 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.

Awesome! Sounds like a fabulous project - I'm sure you'll bring a heap of energy and enthusiasm to it.

> As part of this I'll be working on OpenMRS, an open source
> medical record project, across a number of institutions and countries.

Hmm, Java, JSP, jQuery, REST API, Hibernate, MySQL, svn, JIRA - Sweeet!
Are you sure you're not still working on Sakai...? ;)

> I'll probably spend a month a year or so in Kenya working with our
> colleagues there.

You lucky chap. Don't forget to wear your Sakaiger disguise when strolling
out and about - that way the big cats won't bother you too much...

> 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.

Thanks for all your past work here at Cambridge, and let's not forget your
contribs - there's the WOW family, sash, and more.

> 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!

Cheers Steve - Enjoy

All the best

Raad