[Building Sakai] New Stuff

[Jean-Francois Leveque]

Hi Steve!

We will both miss and remember you.

Please keep being as we've known you, the OpenMRS project will benefit 
from both your skills and your great enthusiasm.

Au revoir.

Cheers

J-F

On 10/02/2012 16:18, Steven Githens 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