Congratulations, Aron! Glad you're sticking around. -Yousuf On Apr 29, 2017 9:02 AM, <talk-request@lists.collectionspace.org> wrote: Send Talk mailing list submissions to talk@lists.collectionspace.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.collectionspace.org/mailman/listinfo/talk_ lists.collectionspace.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to talk-request@lists.collectionspace.org You can reach the person managing the list at talk-owner@lists.collectionspace.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Talk digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Retiring from UCB - will remain a CSpace community member (Aron Roberts) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 17:20:35 -0700 From: Aron Roberts <aron@socrates.berkeley.edu> To: "talk@lists.collectionspace.org" <talk@lists.collectionspace.org> Subject: [Talk] Retiring from UCB - will remain a CSpace community member Message-ID: <CAGJh2S2U4TRGkdp4gsy53wqU8Lyxu7vAC-SLPKNGvdm+EC7ZGw@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" To all of those on the CollectionSpace Talk list, this is to note that after 33 years working for the University of California system, I'll be retiring from UC Berkeley in mid-May. I've thoroughly enjoyed working on CollectionSpace since 2009 - with my colleagues here; with our original project management and development partners at MMI, Toronto/OCAD, and Cambridge; with some of those same folks, now at LYRASIS; and with the many people I've met from museums and heritage collections around the world. Over the last couple of years, due to other work responsibilities in my department, I haven't been able to devote much time to CollectionSpace. As a result, my retirement won't materially affect our support for the product and community. Here at UC Berkeley, I'm delighted to say that we have a very strong team with deep knowledge of CollectionSpace, who have contributed mightily to its origins and development over the years. Chris Hoffman (Museum Informatics supervisor), John Lowe (UCB team lead), Ray Lee (UCB tech lead), Lam Voong, Rick Jaffe, and Amy Wieliczka (and any others I might inadvertently have failed to mention) have all made substantial contributions in recent years, and are as talented and committed as any colleagues I've ever worked with. Others here, including my boss, Patrick Schmitz, have been substantial contributors in the past. Our colleagues in UCB's campus museums have provided a myriad of valuable feature requests, bug reports, testing results, and many other contributions, including innovative workflows involving CollectionSpace webapps. And we're proud to count LYRASIS's own Richard Millet, CollectionSpace's Tech Lead, as one of our former colleagues, as well. You're all terrific, and I'm going to miss you - and this work - very much. Aron Roberts Research IT University of California, Berkeley P.S. In retirement, I'll remain a member of the CollectionSpace community, and will be glad to help out where I can. P.P.S. In addition to Richard, this is a shout out to Megan Forbes, Program Manager at LYRASIS, for all her terrific work in having shepherded CollectionSpace: from its earliest origins, to what it's become today!