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!

Aron,

Thank you so much for all you've done for CollectionSpace over the years. Always the first to greet new community members, help someone through a tricky install process, contribute to the incredibly-boring-yet-incredibly-important work of QA, the list of your contributions goes on and on.  Did you know you reported 20% of the issues in Jira?

Our project and community would not be as strong without all you've done. Please look up from your hammock once and a while and check in on us.

All my best,

Megan

Megan Forbes
CollectionSpace Program Manager
megan.forbes@lyrasis.org
917.267.9676 Cell
meganbforbes Skype

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Subject: [Talk] Retiring from UCB - will remain a CSpace community member

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!