5 months and 7 days ago, I've posted this message:
"I shall not keep you long,..."
I have written this message for three Purposes! "First of all to
tell you that I am immensely fond of you all, and that
eleventy-one years is too short a time to live among such
excellent and admirrable hobbits...I don't know half of
you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of
you half as well as you deserve."
"Secondly, to celebrate our upcoming beta..."
"Third and finally, I wish to make an ANNOUNCEMENT. I regret to
announce that-though, as I said,
eleventy-one years is far too short a time to spend among
you--this is the END. I am going. I am leaving NOW.
GOOD BYE!"
I had since the opportunity to rejoin the project as release manager
but only for a while. You see, I was here for the fun of it but it is
fun no more for me. I have said what I had to say in the "dotLRN
governance rules" and the "Open 4.6 Items & Project Status" threads
and once again I'm leaving. If ever the OpenACS project becomes fun
again, I would gladly come back and start over and contribute again
but for now I want to thank the friends I made in this community and
they know who *they* are.
For some reason, I want to post one of my favorite poems:
Thermopylae
Honor to those who in their lives
have defined and guard their Thermopylae.
Never stirring from duty;
just and upright in all their deeds,
yet with pity and compassion too;
generous when they are rich, and when
they are poor, again a little generous,
again helping as much as they can;
always speaking the truth,
yet without hatred for those who lie.
And more honor is due to them
when they foresee (and many do foresee)
that Ephialtes will finally appear,
and that the Medes in the end will go through.
Constantine P. Cavafy (1903)
