[Building Sakai] Changing jobs

[Nate Angell]

Jim:

What a great message! I look forward to hearing more about what you
are working on at the Library with such august company ;)

Have you connected with the folks at UPenn library ever? They are of a
like mind.... If not, let me know and I'll make connections.

= nate



On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Jim Eng <jimeng at umich.edu> wrote:
> I will be changing jobs at the University of Michigan in the next couple weeks.  I will no longer be working directly on CTools (The University of Michigan's Sakai instance).  Instead, I will be working in a group in the University Library focused on incubation of projects to support learning and teaching.  I will be joining John Leasia and Noah Botimer, two people familiar to the Sakai community, in this group.
>
> This doesn't mean I will no longer be involved in Sakai, but it does mean that my day-to-day activity will no longer be focused on Sakai and CTools.  This week, I am working with other CTools developers to close out my work on a number of projects and hand off local responsibility for the projects in which I have been involved.
>
> I can't give much information yet about what I'll be doing in the near future, but I won't be resigning my membership in various Sakai lists at this time, so there's no need to lament or celebrate my leaving at this time.  Please save that for later.  I will also refrain from making speeches or sending thanks to all the people who have made working on Sakai all these years such a divine experience and/or hell on earth.  There will be time for that later.
>
> But maybe this would be a good time for me to annunciate some best practices.  Here goes:
>
> 1) You should all eat more vegetables.  Some of you have not been getting enough fiber.  I say this based on trends I have noticed in the codebase based on careful attention to subversion commits.  Since I have not been using GIT, I can't say much about OAE committers, but I suspect this advice could be doubled over there.
>
> 2) Keep lists of best practices to one or two items.  Eyes glaze over and arguments break out if you go beyond that.  It gets ugly.
>
> More later.
>
> Jim
>
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