Hi, Some of you know, I have recently taken a position at SUSE here in Silicon Valley. I've joined the Sales Engineer/ SUSE Linux Technical Specialist team. It has been a bit more than a month and I can say it has been a really great experience. As I am now on the "inside", I can see that SUSE has never been better positioned to succeed in a long time. I've not had the chance to engage the business side of SUSE before in the same way I have with the engineering and openSUSE team side of things. That said, I've never had the kind of welcome joining a company like I have at SUSE. It's been extraordinary. Because of this, I must resign from the board. I've thoroughly enjoyed working with my fellow board members and I now consider them friends. It does not matter if they are SUSE employees or not. They all care a lot about the community. All my dealings with them have been very forthright and correct. As for me, I will not disappear from the community. Far from it. Now that I am here in North America, I am one more voice inside the company who will be actively evangelizing on the community's behalf. As I have reached out to my new colleagues, there is definitely an openness to listen, learn about and engage the community. I could go on longer, but I do want to thank publicly Alan Clark for helping me get on board. We as a community are really lucky to have him as a board member and chair. Alan has done a terrific job on behalf of the community, though often times it is quite invisible and not recognized publicly. I've learned he has enormous respect inside SUSE and he is a great ambassador for the community. Thanks for listening. Peter Linnell -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org