On a friday, the 13th…
Last friday I went to work in the SUSE office as I did for more than the last twelfe years. With that friday however something was special: Not only that it was a friday the 13th, but it also was the last day I worked for SUSE.
SUSE was an amazing place to work for. Starting as a novice packager in 1999 I moved on and worked on and developed various tools used at SUSE such as Bugzilla, FATE and other stuff. Later I was part of the team which founded the Open Build Service and finally had the chance to be part of the openSUSE Boosters team, which is the dedicated community interfacing team at SUSE.
I had the chance to do a lot of interesting things at SUSE, worked with really interesting and talented people and learned a lot. But even thought I had a great team and job at SUSE I tought it might be cool to move on… Movement keeps the brain fluent :-)
Starting in februry I will work in the development force for ownCloud Inc. and help to bring the company behind the ownCloud project to success. I like the ownCloud idea and concept from the first day on when it was presented on a KDE event.
ownCloud attracts me because it helps to protect one of the most valueable things we have nowadays: Our own data. Furthermore it has a strong end user orientation, aiming at simplicity, it’s elegant in various aspects and it’s users problem solving approach is examplifying. And there are so many ideas for more intelligent and useful things we can do with ownCloud, also combining the power of cloud and desktop.
I think ownCloud has huge potential as a free software project in an enterprise environment - exactly what we all used to dream of for our various projects.
It’s a honor and pleasure for me to work with Frank and the other guys to get that going - I am really looking forward to this challenge.
