Sad News
After five years of being a member of the core developers of the Gallery open source software — and reaping many personal, academic, and professional rewards from the same, I quietly left the team on Thursday. A large contingent of the core developers had met at the extended Googleplex here in Mountain View to sit down and hammer out as much of the next version of Gallery as possible. Halfway through day two I realized that my heart simply wasn’t in it. Yes, I still love software development, and still need software to manage my images, but somewhere during my sabbatical for school I drifted away and just never came back. Splitting from your high school girlfriend when you go to college is a bit cliché, but that’s pretty much what happened. I continued to offer logistical support to the team for the rest of the week, but Thursday afternoon I went back to my day job and tried to stay out of the way of Gallery’s progress.
Leaving was an incredibly difficult decision. I am still a bit flattened by it.
Isn’t it funny about personal growth? It has a distressingly covert quality to it.
You still got to show up in #gallery though, even if you’re not an active member of the team. We still love ya. :-)
Thanks for your hospitality on my recent visit. Hope to enjoy your company again if I come to your neck of the woods or you come to Canada! Thanks again for your contribution to the project and hospitality to me. Yes we love ya :-)