Hi Daniel,

Just want to express my gratefulness for all the work you've done. The
amount of work you've put into the continued evolution of Squeak is
significant. Good luck with your studies and hopefully we'll have you back
soon!

Cheers,
  - Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> Behalf Of Daniel Vainsencher
> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 2:24 PM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: [ANN] Guide vacancy...
> 
> 
> Hi everyone.
> 
> I've started my studies 21st october (some of you may have noticed the
> relative peace and quiet ;-)), and have been hoping for a while that
> this would not interrupt my involvement with Squeak, and as a Squeak
> Guide, too much. 
> 
> That wasn't realistic - I come to see that at least for an adaptation
> period, I will need to give almost my full attention to this 
> new effort.
> I believe that if I call myself a Guide, that must mean that 
> I dedicate
> a significant effort and time to help this community find its 
> way. I can
> no longer do this, and I prefer to reflect this clearly, so I quit.
> 
> It is my intention and hope that this will open the way for someone to
> enter this team in my place. As I think the Guides have always said,
> most of the initiative and innovation in the community 
> doesn't come from
> the Guides, and isn't supposed to - it comes from all of you. 
> So I think
> a prospective Guide should mostly consider his willingness to 
> take with
> full seriousness ideas and issues raised by others than himself, so
> Squeak can fulfill everyones dreams.
> 
> This has been fun work - I thank you guys for this opportunity.
> Especially the various people that I've chatted and worked with
> individually, that's the part I enjoyed most of all.
> 
> Looking back to when I entered this role almost precisely a year ago,
> helping and mostly seeing all the progress we've made, I consider it
> time very well spent. I really like the direction we're going today.
> 
> So I'll see you guys around, though not quite as frequently 
> as I'd like
> :-)
> 
> Daniel
>