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Welcome to Panela, Matt Harrison's take on mostly Open Source, Linux, Python, innovation in those areas, other buzzwords and Dick Proenneke. It comes complete with the illustrations as needed. Note the opinions expressed here are merely my opinions and not the opinions of my employer.
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Exciting times ahead
The last couple of weeks have been stressful, bittersweet, and exciting. An exciting opportunity fell upon me and the end result is that I resigned from SpikeSource and am now starting up a company.
SpikeSource has been wonderful to me, and I've very much enjoyed my time there. I've worked with startups ever since graduating, but when I joined Spike there was 14 people in Kleiner Perkins incubation site on Sandhill. Things were wild and crazy and busy. There was a cool anticipation in the air for the future. Over time, I was able to work very closely with the founder, Murugan. I was also able to see the corporate side of Open Source. I worked with commercial companies, commercial open source companies as well as non-commercial open source entities. I was also able to attend many conferences (oscon, pycon, mysqluc, linuxworld, osbc, foss.in) and take a trip to India. I got to program in python, a lot. I got others to program in python, a lot! And I got to play cricket a couple of times.
But the best part was the people I worked with. Every startup prides themselves on their people. And Spike was no exception. The people were wonderful and I learned much from them, and will miss them. Thanks again Spike!