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/me is leaving

November 9th, 2010 by

Moin,

after 7 years with SUSE and Novell I’ve chosen to change something in my life – and decided to accept a new job and will lay down my duties in the openSUSE project. I’ve been with the openSUSE project already prior to its launch in August 2005 and experienced a number of highs and lows. Overall the project  has been shaping up nicely, we reached a lot of our goals and the just passed openSUSE conference reflects this pretty well in my opinion.

Just to stop any rumours – I leave Novell because I found a new job in the trade show management area close to Nuremberg. Trade show management is where my expertise is and where I worked prior to coming to openSUSE. While I enjoyed the work at openSUSE, organizing the openSUSE conference meant doing what I really love and my new job will give me many more conferences and trade shows to plan and organise.  As I will leave Novell before the end of December the project needs a new openSUSE chairman who should serve until the openSUSE foundation is created.

Best wishes to the openSUSE project and the people behind it. I had a lot of fun over the past 7 years, met numerous outstanding people and learned a lot which will help me in my future life.

Best
Michael

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6 Responses to “/me is leaving”

  1. November 9, 2010 at 16:03 |

    Ah 🙁 Didn’t see that coming.

    Whom shall we ping now for openSUSE DVDs hereafter !!!!!

    All the best and Congrats for a better, happier and a more peaceful (no more GNOME vs KDE catfights ;)) career 🙂

  2. F2
    November 10, 2010 at 00:38 |

    We shall miss you Michael! Good luck in your new endeavor!

  3. November 10, 2010 at 04:38 |

    Good luck Michael, hope you meet a nice opportunity on your new job. Thank your for what you have done for openSUSE community.

  4. Marcel
    November 10, 2010 at 11:54 |

    wish you all the best. Thanks for the good work and cooperation!

  5. nelson marques
    November 10, 2010 at 17:51 |

    Michael,

    It was nice to meet you in Nürnberg. When you drove us to the Lizard Lounge, you were probably wondering where I was looking for all the time… I was picking up reference points and admiring the architecture of the buildings and the surroundings 🙂

    I wish you all the best on your on new job, but deep inside, you know that once you tag along with openSUSE, it’s for life!. Don’t be a stranger Michael.

    Nelson

  6. Helen South
    November 27, 2010 at 01:10 |

    Wishing you all the best for the future! Have a lot of fun….