Hi all,
Out of several reasons and after a long time thinking about me, myself
and my future development, I decided to take an offer from another
company that I got, so effective from 2019-07-17 (my last day at SUSE),
I will no longer be working for SUSE.
It was a fun time that I spent with you over the last approx. 3 years.
And I enjoyed it a lot. We mastered all the fun but also the challenging
and tough topics that appeared over this time.
I can't say, I will not miss it.
What I liked the most is, to meet all of you amazing people in the
openSUSE project working on driving a huge big Stegosaurus-size
Chameleon in the right direction. I tried to do my best, to help here
and there to keep the Chameleon moving forward and helping getting it
back on track if it goes off the path.
An honest and deeply grateful THANK YOU goes especially to the people
who helped rocking the openSUSE conferences over the last 4 years (2016,
2017, 2018 and 2019) - I guess we did a great service to the world and
community out there, although they maybe could not join the events
in-person. This you can see from the view counts as well [1] - which are
sometimes higher than the number of participants on-site. If you helped
in the Video / Infrastructure teams of the last conferences, you know
that I mean you - thanks a bunch - feel yourself hugged!
I guess I will still use openSUSE on some of my machines, but I always
was and always will be open to think outside the box. And there are
still some challenges for openSUSE to become even better and more usable
for "normal people like me ;)" on the Desktop - like booting a 32-Bit
UEFI to a 64-Bit Processor, which is a crazy but
Intel-favourite-power-and-cost-saving-architecture [2]. Sorry for buying
such crappy hardware :). I did.
Although, the next months I will definitely be busy with hand-over of my
old job and getting on-boarded on my new job, as you can imagine, I will
try to help with the questions maybe arising in #openSUSE-admin [3] in
Freenode and regarding the openSUSE Video team [4]. I will forward my
(at)opensuse.org address to a private mail account of mine, so please
feel free to contact me via this address if needed.
But please keep in mind, as soon as I leave SUSE mid-of-July, I will
lose my internal access rights and will no longer be able to access the
hardware or software "behind the scenes". So I can make this true
openSUSE-Heroes-experience in the end - which I only knew from the other
side over the last years. Until than, we still have 1.5 months left of
course to tinker on things.
I will -of course- still be part of the C3VOC [5] like I am since
approx. 10 years and video recording and live streaming of free/open
source related events will still be my passion. As I hope to be able to
support the openSUSE events with video recording and live streaming in
the future - I also hope that the openSUSE video team will keep on
partnering with the C3VOC - as we did in the past - for example, to help
making events happen like "FrOSCon 2018", "FrOSCon 2017" and "Qt World
Summit 2017" - which the C3VOC could handle because we were able to use
the openSUSE hardware for some rooms on these events.
(More than the CCC hardware could have handled on their own.)
I don't know yet, who will take-over my responsibilities - like
organizing the pushing-around of the openSUSE video hardware in the SUSE
building in Nuremberg and making sure it arrives at several events
on-time. But this is a call-out to the volunteers as well who are
working at SUSE and could maybe help with this. If you feel yourself in
a position to move those boxes and organize some transportation with
some delivery companies, feel free to reach out to me.
Without making this mail too long, let me say the following words.
I enjoyed the time and working with you and wish you all the best for
the future. I hope we stay in contact.
[1] https://media.ccc.de/b/conferences/osc
[2]
https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2015/07/22/why-cheap-systems-run-32-b...
[3] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Heroes
[4] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Video
[5] https://c3voc.de/
Happy hacking & Best regards,
--
Thorsten Bro