Some good news and some bad news

[Tim]

Hi Steve,
  Sorry for the slow reply on this!
On 09/02/15 10:27, Steve Ovens wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have been evaluating my own situation lately and I feel it is time to resign from Ubuntu Gnome. I haven't really found a way to be useful. I
> don't seem to be overly useful in the packaging team and I feel like I am a bigger drain on resources than I am a help. Therefore I am
> submitting my  resignation today. I have mixed feelings about this because I know this is a small, dedicated team and every resource lost is
> felt. But at the same time I haven't been pulling my own weight.
Your contributions have been useful, even if they have deviated slightly from the usual packaging stuff, it was/is work that needs to be done.
Anyway the decision is up to you, but you havent been a burden, and really there is no minimum contribution required to pull your own weight,
just keep active! still plenty of backend tasks that need doing if you ever change your mind! and yes we will use your scripts to setup git
repo's probably after Feature Freeze now though....
>
> On to some lighter news. I am still contributing in my own way. I am on the philanthropy committee at work. Part of what I do is take
> computers which have been life cycled out, wipe them, and put linux on them. I have been deploying Ubuntu Gnome on a bunch of these computers
> so the user base is going up (particularly since this will be a lot of people's introduction to linux)
Great!
>
> Anyways thanks for the chance to contribute. I wish the team luck!
>
> Cheers
>
> -- 
> Red Hat 6 Certified Engineer
> Ubuntu Certified Professional
> Novell Certified Linux Administrator
>
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