Today is my last day working at Red Hat. I’ve been there for nearly nine years – most of my adult life – and I have a lot of fond memories. In some ways I would say that Red Hat and I grew up together. Working in three cities: Raleigh, Toronto and Boston, getting to work at the center of some very interesting projects and having the ability to work as people should: transparently and honestly with an amazing team. I couldn’t ask for much more than that.
As for what’s next, starting in mid-November I will be joining the Evangelism team at Mozilla Corporation. Working with Shaver, Deb, Eric, John and Mark to help tell the story of the Open Web. My role will be to work with other open source projects that are well aligned with Mozilla’s mission and help them take part in writing that story.
I’m incredibly excited about this opportunity. The people at Mozilla are fantastic and what they have done so far has been great for everyone who uses the Internet. I’m hoping that by joining them and working with them on a day to day basis that I can help accelerate the accomplishment of their mission.
It’s going to be a great time.
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Wow… very interested to see more about what your working on.
Congrats on the new job.
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Congratulations on the new job!
/ Hallski
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All right Chris! I’m really glad for you – its always good to move on to new things and the Mozilla org couldn’t be a better place for you.
I can’t wait to hear your evangelizing!
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w00t!
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Hey Chris!
Good luck at Mozilla — I know you’ll do well there, and that they will benefit from your experiences.
Also, welcome to the ranks of Red Hat Alumni!
Ken
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Wewt! (Don’t forget Seth and Asa!)
I’m pretty excited we finally get to actually work together :D
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Thanks for a fun time!
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That’s awesome, Chris!
I’m working at Participatory Culture Foundation and as time goes on, we’re doing more work with Mozilla and Firefox in particular. I very much look forward to our continuing role in the continuing story of the Open Web. It’ll be great to work with you!
Rock on!
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Is ‘open web’ story going to be focusing on open/standard protocals, or does it include open codebases which run services that use open/standard protocals?
-jef
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Congratulations, Chris! I hope you won’t forget us GNOME folks when you go to Mozilla!
sri
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Congratulations Chris! I hope your new job brings you plenty of joy and challenge. We’ll still be seeing you around Fedora-land, right?
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Chris — Congratulations! Now we *have* to talk. Will you be headed out west soon?
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Congragulation, you have achieved one of challenge in the One Laptop Per Child project and start a new one. Hope your contributions will further improve Mozilla project.
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Fuck you.
Fuck you.
Fuck you.
You’re cool.
And fuck you!
I’m out!
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Congratulations on the new job!
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Bwahahahah… so many years ago you were Mozilla @ redhat.com and now you may be RedHat @ mozilla.org (well doubtful but it is an interesting turn of the circle of life.)
Good luck with the future life, and don’t forget us little people :).
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Wow, quite an achievement to work at Redhat doing what you love and then go to work for another passionate company – Mozilla. Good luck at your new job.
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Jef -
I don’t have my story honed down quite yet but the open web does tend to encompass open standards and protocols but my job will to be focused on those who have open code bases as well. There’s a natural alignment there that I think that we haven’t taken advantage of so far. Lots of opportunity to work with lots of great groups of people.
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By the way, Ryan wasn’t trying to say I was some kind of asshole. He was being funny. Specifically, this kind of funny.
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A belated “welcome” from me as well. I look forward to working with you more.
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I hope you will do at Mozilla some internal evangelism too and get them a bit more Linux friendly.
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Oh my good god !!. Take care and be good. I know you will weave your special magic over at Mozilla too. And yes, I am sorry to have taken you around in India and introduced as “the guy who will fix Indic printing” – there simply was no other way to get eyeballs to look at that problem.
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A new baby, a new job…what next to complete the Trifecta? :) Congrats.
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…a new car?
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Looking forward to see your contributions at Mozilla. ~Jay Asafi
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Good luck in the new role, keep up the flying!
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Wow, changing days, cheers to a continued brilliant journey!
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Nice to see people going to Mozilla and not only getting off to Google.
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Congratulations. You’ll do great things (again). Does this make you St. Christopher?
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That’s a fantastic team. Don’t forget to plant your staff in the ground on the other side.
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