Re: [Audacity-devel] News

[Dave F. <dav...@da...>]

On Thursday 02 March 2006 9:16 pm, Dominic Mazzoni wrote:
> Audacity developers,
>
> I have some exciting personal news to report - and it most definitely
> affects the Audacity project.

This is exciting stuff.  :)  Seems like now is generally a good time to bail 
out of NASA anyway.  ;)

Good luck and stuff!

Dave

> Today I accepted a job offer from Google and officially gave notice that I
> will be leaving the Jet Propulsion Lab.  I've had a great time at JPL, but
> it is time for something new.  It was a hard decision to make, but recent
> dramatic budget cuts at NASA, and the cancellation of several major science
> missions, have made it increasingly clear to me that JPL is not where I
> want to be anymore.
>
> In addition, all of the pressures on me at JPL have made it very hard for
> me to find time for Audacity lately.  While I don't expect Google to be
> easy or stress-free, I do hope to find work there less draining on average.
>  Also, the fact that Google tends to assign full-time but very short term
> projects (as opposed to several part-time multi-year projects at JPL) means
> that I could much more easily take an occasional week off to work on
> Audacity, in-between projects.  That's something I'd very much like to do.
>
> I will be going to Google's offices in Santa Monica, CA, not to their
> headquarters in Mountain View, CA, so while I will be moving to a new
> apartment, I will remain in the greater Los Angeles area.
>
> I finish up at JPL at the end of March and I start at Google on May 15th. 
> In the meantime, besides moving and taking some much-needed vacation, I
> plan to catch up on some Audacity development.  I'll have nearly a month of
> free time that I'm planning to spend at least partially focusing on several
> Audacity features I've wanted to develop for a long time.
>
> In addition, I'm on my way to three Audacity-related events in the near
> future:
>
> 1. Next week, I will be attending the SourceForge Advisory Council meeting
>     in San Jose, CA.  This will be a great opportunity to learn more about
>     the direction SF is going, share our experience, interact with other
>     open-source developers and enthusiasts, and possibly give suggestions.
>
>     If you have any suggestions that you'd like me to share with
> SourceForge, or questions you'd like me to ask, please let me know!
>
> 2. Later next week, Monty and I were invited to join a roundtable
> discussion in Washington, D.C. hosted by the Council on Library and
> Information Resources: http://www.clir.org/ - we're specifically there to
> talk about the use of open-source in audio preservation.
>
> 3. On March 29th, I will be in France to attend a workshop on open source
>     in education: http://www.29mars.org/ (portions of the site are in
> English; click the word "Enter" from the front page)
>
> Lots of exciting stuff!  Wish me luck.
>
> - Dominic
>
>
>
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