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Moving up in the freedom stack

27Aug12

Lick Observatory from Ranch Grant, by Sean O’Flaherty.

Hi, just a short note to let everybody know that I’m in the process of leaving Nokia and joining… the Platform Engineering team at the Wikimedia Foundation! There I will help improving the volume and quality of community contributions in technical areas like QA, sysadmin and development of features for Wikipedia and related projects. I don’t need to tell you how excited (and impatient) I am about diving into such massive and complex project full of openness and freedom.

But before I need to deal with something more prosaic and mundane: the change of status of my US visa. Hopefully it will take just a few weeks. In the meantime I’ll have time to leave things properly at the Qt and Maemo communities, while getting more familiar with the wide and deep Wikimedia biosphere. I’ll also have time to read units of 140 pages instead of the usual 140 characters, learn something requiring full concentration and perhaps get a few samples of the peaceful Summer holidays I didn’t have with all this professional instability. Like attempting to pedal up to the Lick Observatory while, down there, Silicon Valley is pushing frantically new businesses, products, releases…

This is enough for today. Not saying “Thank You” yet. 🙂 I’m saving my closure and opening blog posts for the days when I will effectively leave Nokia and become a Wikimedia Foundation employee.


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  1. 1 Peter on 27 August 2012 said:

    Congrats, Quim! I’m so glad for you. This is a perfect job for you. Don’t forget your roots in open contribution.

    Peter@MaemoMarketing

  2. 2 mirkoboehm on 27 August 2012 said:

    All the best, Quim, and thanks for your great work, passion and patience. I am sure you will be a great addition to the Wikimedia team!

  3. 3 Lydia Pintscher (@nightrose) on 27 August 2012 said:

    Hah! The Qt folks are taking over Wikimedia. Looking forward to working with you more.

  4. 4 timsamofff on 27 August 2012 said:

    This is so *good*.

  5. 5 kromain67 on 27 August 2012 said:

    Great news! I’m glad it worked out for you and your family!
    So I assume your new position is still in the Bay Area?

  6. 6 qgil on 27 August 2012 said:

    Thank you everybody! Yes, staying in the Bay Area was the family priority number 1. The new position is located at the Wikimedia Foundation headquarters in San Francisco downtown. Less bicycle and more train. Less sport / sun and more reading / listening while commuting. 🙂

  7. 7 kimitake on 27 August 2012 said:

    Thank you for all your work on Qt and Maemo 🙂
    Good luck!

  8. 8 kromain67 on 27 August 2012 said:

    Nice! Looks like I’m gonna become a caltrain commuter myself soon, so maybe we’ll see each other in there 🙂

    All the best!

  9. 9 Jed on 27 August 2012 said:

    All the best Quim, & thank-you very much for all you’ve done over the yrs.
    Don’t be a stranger to the Maemo (or whatever we’ll finally call it) community in the future!

  10. 10 Ryan Paul (@segphault) on 27 August 2012 said:

    Congratulations! I wish you the best of luck at the Wikimedia Foundation. They are very fortunate to have you joining them.

  11. 11 Dinesh on 27 August 2012 said:

    Good Luck Quim! 🙂

  12. 12 Jaffa on 27 August 2012 said:

    Congratulations – hope it works out well!

  13. 13 Marius Vollmer on 27 August 2012 said:

    Great! This makes me smile and warms my heart.

  14. 14 Mardy on 27 August 2012 said:

    Congratulationes! Io es felice que tu ha trovate un excellente empleo, e in si breve tempore!
    Io te augura un bon continuation, e spera que il habera ancora occasiones de revider nos!

  15. 15 John Kneeland on 27 August 2012 said:

    Congratulations, Quim! I will miss you at Nokia

  16. 16 Andres Gomez on 27 August 2012 said:

    Muchas felicidades, Quim! Espero que puedas resolver el tema de la visa sin rápido y sin problemas y que esto no signifique que no nos vayas a hacer más visitas 😉

  17. 17 andre klapper on 27 August 2012 said:

    This is just lovely! All the best wishes, and see you soon!

  18. 18 Matt Austin on 27 August 2012 said:

    Congratulations Quim, fantastic news! I know how much a hassle visas can be, so hopefully it will all go smoothly.

  19. 19 Chris Winquist (@winquist) on 27 August 2012 said:

    Good luck Quim! Was good to work with you during Maemo and Meego days.

  20. 20 Gil Forcada on 28 August 2012 said:

    Nice to hear you excited about something! Wikimedia got such a brilliant person on board!

    All the best!

  21. 21 qgil on 28 August 2012 said:

    Thank you very much for all your kind words!

  22. 22 Thomas Perl on 28 August 2012 said:

    Glad to see you found a new place to put positive energy into 🙂 All the best for your new challenges – keep us updated how it goes through the usual channels.

  23. 23 Huan T (@huant) on 30 August 2012 said:

    Congrats, Quim. You did an exceptional job with Qt and I wish you will have a lot of fun working for the Wikimedia foundation.

  24. 24 Aniello Del Sorbo (anidel) on 2 September 2012 said:

    Congratulations for your new job Quim 🙂
    And THANK YOU for all you did while at Nokia for pushing openness within Maemo/MeeGo. It’s been an honor and a pleasure to meet you.

    Of course, I am sad about you leaving. It’s one more step backward for Nokia.

  25. 25 qgil on 25 September 2012 said:

    Well, I made it to the Lick Observatory! http://www.flickr.com/photos/quimgil/8023715768/in/photostream

    Still waiting for the new visa, though…


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