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jpaetzel
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One week from today I'll be concluding my time at iXsystems. It's been a very enjoyable 7 years and I have really enjoyed working on FreeNAS since iXsystems sponsored the rewrite of FreeNAS with the 8.0 version (released in early May 2011, five and a half years ago!)
I've really appreciated the support and input many of you have had over the years as we've worked to improve FreeNAS. Your contributions and feedback are what make Open Source Software an amazing development model. To say that FreeNAS would be nowhere near as good as it is today without a community of people using it and giving the developers feedback would be an understatement.
I thank you all. Some of you I've met, others I've talked to online. Many of you I've never interacted with. The experiences I've had working on the FreeNAS project have been memorable.
(Silly FreeNAS factoid. I still have the build server that was used to create the FreeNAS 8.0-RELEASE isos and the router that connected it to the internet. It's a little long in the tooth these days but maybe someday it will end up in a computer history museum.)
I've really appreciated the support and input many of you have had over the years as we've worked to improve FreeNAS. Your contributions and feedback are what make Open Source Software an amazing development model. To say that FreeNAS would be nowhere near as good as it is today without a community of people using it and giving the developers feedback would be an understatement.
I thank you all. Some of you I've met, others I've talked to online. Many of you I've never interacted with. The experiences I've had working on the FreeNAS project have been memorable.
(Silly FreeNAS factoid. I still have the build server that was used to create the FreeNAS 8.0-RELEASE isos and the router that connected it to the internet. It's a little long in the tooth these days but maybe someday it will end up in a computer history museum.)