Personal Byes¶

Mamadou¶

Bravo encore pour le tour de force avec Jenkins & les repos git de Portal/Vista & AVS.

Pour le reste, bah. Tu le sais.

G essayé.

Certes, à ma manière.

Mais avec le coeur.

G tt donné.

No me queda mas.

No puc més.

Bueno, cada vegada hi ha mès gent que pensa i diu: He perdut la por. Ya no tenim por.

No tinc por.

En veritat, hi han coses que em preocupen, com ya saps -- massa coses -- pero i ara que se m'ha acabat la feina i el sou d'Askia, justament, es més en aquestes coses/preocupacions que vull poner hi més del meu temps i esforç.

Pero hi han d'altres coses que em generaven estrès i por, i que de sobte, llegat a un punt de merda general, i esclar amb aixo del confinament i covid, pues que ya no.

I ha sigut el moment de:

Fins aquí he arribat amb tot aixo.

Ara toca tallar i pasar pagina.

Et desitjo el millor amb i per a tot!

Courage à toi -- et on se voit bientôt.

Jacques¶

Ibid.

Ya hablamos pronto

A ver cuando nos vemos

y ¡Suerte con todo!

Paul¶

Ibid.

Man.

So many years.

Recently I was reminiscing something you'd told me years back -- old days.

That thought was like 20 days ago.. when I had a feeling that new winds could kick in..

Anyways, it made me laugh.

And want to answer "w/ dismay": no, innefficient verticalities work not for me, if I had to etch out a diagram(s), they'd all contain stuff that'd all seek to be more horizontal, collaborative, wide, embracing and empowering.

¿Quizas sera para otra?

Ya veremos.

¡Salud! ¡Abrazos! y ¡Cuidate!

Ramona¶

¡Hola Guapa!

Pues mira, ¡ni nos hemos conocido IRL!

Espero que te haya gustado algunos tracks #random -- aparte de Calle13 ;)

Pero bueno, sepas que si vengas por donde esté, y seguiremos en CAT (mas bien TGN que BCN, cuando podamos): avisamé y nos vemos! ;)

Si no.. a ver cuando vuelva yo a pisar suelo d'EEUU... costa no-oeste...no lo sé la verdad :)

Besos

SoCal -- Michael, Jordan & Jamey¶

I really wish I'd had at least one occasion in these last 5 years to pay you guys a visit in the LA office.

When I went for my cousin's wedding to NorCal, it was too tight, no time, counted moneys too.

Anyways, I'll for sure be bringing Mila back to see real trees.. sometime soonish hopefully.

And since my biotech cousin will presumably never move back up north, I'll ping you guys in case&when I head down SoCal/San.Diego-way.

Big HUGs & all the best!

ps: get some GNU/Linux skills under your belt -- it's fun, it's cool, & worth one's time!

Dimitri¶

Merci d'avoir rejoins Askia

On a pas eu trop d'occasions de se connaitre, mais, your DNA is an old-school match AFAIK ;)

I know code review has been both taxing and chronophage

Still, I wish you fun.

Like honestly. I mean, I feel bad leaving -- cuz Askia's been a job I actually enjoy(ed).

And the reasons for my personal job satisfaction have been crucially/essentially because of the people on the Team.

Intellectual stimuli.

So yes, anyways.

Wonder if I can be reasonably proficient at being concise today..

..and so.. without further ado -- I hope we meet again ;)

& I wish you cool + challenging, and fun!, coding

Abrazos!

Olivier¶

Ibid. essentially.

Avec le bemol qu'on n'a pas eu l'occaz de se connaitre IRL.

À voir si un jour oui ;)

Take care, & all the best!

Serguey¶

"Ya nietchego ne ponemayou"..

Man, I wish I could have taken Russian at school

I missed out cuz my little feeder-junior-highschool didn't let us know it was possible upon getting into 2nde at Lycée. Only discovered ~10 days into the new high-school, and was too late: Russkiy klass was full (9 classes per year; lot of people)

Anyways

Merci encore pour les coups de mains -- (je repense à license.askia.com l'année dernière :) )

объятий & meilleurs voeux & continuation pour toi!

Roger¶

Ah. là là. qu'est ce ki fait ce libre javelot?

Bah. En fait Tatie, pour moi, (à nouveau), Askia == C fini.

Enfin, ça en a plus que l'air en tt cas..

ze karottes iz bérrybérry cooked

Alors, c'est le moments des adieux, & des mercis.

Désolé pour tous les petit/gros trucs relou dont j'ai pu être la source au fils de ces années.

Merci pour ton aide, et soutien, dans tellements de moments différents, au fil de ces mêmes années.

cad. Merci de ton amitié.

Merci pour tout le reste aussi! les plantes, les mille&1 choses des bureaux que nous avons connus à ce 25 rue d'Hauteville!

Je te dis à bientôt

Et sorry/zoldé pour mes fautres de fappes, les anglicismes, et puis mon usage questionnable de monologues en angliche tt court :)

Bises

Jerome¶

Slim Shady -- & friend.

I believe by now you've fathomed/measured the extent of my caring.

Though not that of my dreams.

Anyways, sorry for a LOUD ~week.

& Thanks for the fun ride over the years.

I wish you wholeheartedly the best with it all!

Do send me answers to my questions

Even an audio msg if easier/faster (I use telegram, or by what/whichever means..)

When you can¹

Thanks!

Abrazos

Patrick¶

I don't really know anymore what to say, aside first from an over.belated: ¡Feliz Cumpleaños!

With a broken ticker, I missed the date.

I did eventually see my calendar reminder, but, Hey. I still basically haven't heard back from you.

I know you're busy

And stuff I've said likely been difficult or painful

But I quite literally bled to get that 1hr6' video out to you.

I mean even after sending it, that Monday, I still arranged with my neighbour to play with Mila for an hour+ just to transcribe those ~9 questions I voice during video

So that you wouldn't lose/spend your time.

So you wouldn't spend your time inefficiently.

All that for nothing, apparently.

I mean, basically, all I have is:

silence.

Go figure.

People change.

I miss old.(younger. actually)P.A.T.C.H.

Still, I wish you all the best -- with everything.

Christine¶

Hola Guapa,

Happy belated BDay ;)

I still remember when we first met.. in Patrick's then office

You were about to be hired.

I think it was your "hiring interview" actually.

And Re: those years, 2001-2 I think it was:

Thanks for those numerous times you dropped me off at Opéra, so I'd get home w/ RER A a bit faster that evening.

Pff.

So many things i'd like to say

But many now in my train-thought are personal/private.

Anyways, it was cool working with you -- across the spectrum: from the times we disagreed, til the ones we fully agreed & shared position.

Your energy & drive is what I keep most of those years.

And, as with all women who've I've worked with at Askia, Thanks for those countless, yet lacking, times when a resolutely feminine decision/demand was put forth & realized.

Bises

Yannick¶

Alors -- comment on va faire?

Pff.

Je sais pas.

Par reflexe/prudence d'historien, je dirais on attend ni l'independence de BZH, ni celle de CAT.

It's been cool working with you man, even if often it was in urgent "small crisis" things/genre.

And some bigger ones.

There's been so many.

Thenagain, compared to some of the other old schoolers, we had less -- cuz our years have overlapped less, and then also the actual PO+Support.work divide between field||analysis.

Still, I hope you recovered fully healthwise from flu you had few weeks back

Thanks for 7th Art discussions over the years.

And I wish you the best with everything!

Ens veim, i fins la proxima ;)

James¶

Hey Man,

Where to start?

Well, wanted to share I was so happy when I rejoined Askia in 2015 that you were still around :)

I missed Joe not being around anymore.

Anglosaxon colleagues were always a minority for me in Askia.

Ah. but, I'm tired of talking work/Askia.stuff

I'd rather talk about "all the rest(TM)"..

So, until such an occasion arises,

I wish you the best with it all,

And in as far as you guys stick around Europe -- let's keep in touch, and welcome to visit again in BCN, or anew in TGN! :)

¡Fuertes abrazos!

(Keep) Bike(ing) safe!

Seyf¶

You too:

Bike safe!

Be safe.

Be Seyf²

Thanks man, for all your help & assistance over the years.

You're an amazingly cool person to work with -- talent & skillz, sharpened.

Was great to have those few days in Brașov,

at least we got to see each other,

have a few beers,

nice dinners,

really questionnable lunches,

and some good fun+memories in 2020!

Big HUGs

ps: once CAT becomes independent, you know you're gonna want to get that stamp/tickbox stamped/ticked.. Ens veim! ;)

Irène¶

Salut Mlle,

Ibid.

Special Thanks for all your help & assistance over the years.

I wish we could look forward to conducting round ii Ipsos/IIS training together.. mais. bon.

J'espère que tu comprendras les raisons que j'ai essayé d'exposer ici, même si les grandes lignes.

C relou.

Ça me tue en fait aussi.

Mais bon.

¿Que le vas hacer?

¿Que le puedo hacer yo?

Ya intenté.

Y volvi a intentar.

Ya no me da para mas.

Aun asi, te deseo lo mejor para todo.

& j'espère à "bientôt/when-covid1984-allows.." ;)

Bises

Julia¶

Thanks again for arranging accomodation for me back then in London!

Though we didn't have that much shared work, thanks for your help, and apologies for anything I may have not done (that) well.. thinking of delay in sending those travel expenses in March.. :p

Anyways -- shame didn't get more occasion(s) to meet!

I hope & wish you all the best ;)

HUGs

Jatin¶

Hey Man, hope this message finds you well.

I wish we'd had more occasions to talk & work together -- but the few occasions we had were cool, so I'm grateful for that :)

Hope you like(d) ¡¡LKJ!!!

Take best of care & wish you all the best!

Matt¶

I also hope this message finds you well

And extend my thanks for the different projects & topics we worked on together, as well as apologies for any "things I may have done wrong".

Overall I think we formed a good team, and we managed to work well

Obviously the latest/shinyest example was JTI, ~80/90 K.EUR/annum

Just you, JS & I

No one else from Sales Team needed on presentation & calls

And quite fast it was (though lockdown time was odd)

Ipsos/JTI decided they wanted Askia..

& then wrap-up+relay of quoting+invoicing to Paris.

Yeah. Overall we did good w/ that JTI PoC ;)

Anyways, those are now my old days.

I wish you all the best with whatever new projects come from the Ipsos factory (and beyond?)!

Hugs & Take care!

Dietmar¶

I häte nie gedenkt daB unseres ertes échange im Paris, beim Askia Büro, seit n jahren, daB ich darauf drann wieder errinert "Sie" (die Konversation?) während diesen läzstes Wochen/Monaten.

Aber daB hat mich passiert.

Ich weiB nicht was darauf dieses integrazion's prozess denkst.

Würde es ein bisschen mehr einfach für mich wissen obwohl es nür ein klein Detail daB die Wiedervereinigungs' die Piloten ein Art Bericht produzieren das der ganze Team lesen konnte -- aber es gibts keine, daB Ich kenne/wuBte.

Anyways.

Von die weniges zachen wir zusammen gearbeitet haben kann Ich nur zagen daB die waren im allgemein gut, und glaub ich daB es "alles geklappt" hat.

Désolé pour les fautes ;)

It's shame I didn't managed to figure a regular/consistent way to practice (unrust) meinen Deutsh via askia.de

Aber, Ich sage nicht niemals, sondern wie die hier im Katalonien/Spanien sagen: Quizás, quizás, quizás.. ;)

Hertzliche Umarmung y Saludos!

Sven¶

¡WTF!?

Yeah. I know. It sucks.

I'm gonna skip the whyz.

I still keep very much to mind things you told me this last year.

Thanks for caring.

Thanks for your support.

And your invaluable help.

Just now reminiscing the mixed embarrassment at having to ping you to rollback a Live VM -- small/sinle-server, but Live nontheless. I say mixed.. mixed with the stress of "how long/what's-the-back-online ETA..?" and.. "it will work.. yeah?..like, I never restored an AHS snapshot. Hopefully all is well & at peace & functionning on our hypervisors.. and their ability to mend human error -- mine in that case :)"

So yeah, Thanks.

And, pff. Aargh. It sucks to have to quit Askia.

Keep up the good work

I wish

speedy & non-violent EOL to all 2008R2 boxes that remain at AHS, and beyond :)

And well, not much else except maybe a word of caution

"Automate, or be automated"³

Best of luck with everything

I hope you soon get more of a team that can help out/assist you!

Ein weitere Runde Umarmungen ;)

Stephen¶

Bon -- que dire -- j'espère que les choix techniques arrêtés (outils/etc. essentiellement) apporterons les fruits attendus/espérés.

Sinon, c'était très cool de te connaître, de bosser ensemble.

On a pas exactement le même style -- mais l'objectif de coeur était partagé.

For me it's not:

Ce n'est pas les outils l'important. C'est les process

rather it's:

The tool is paramount due to both its inherent ability (or lack thereof) to accomodate & drive the best humanly thinkable processe(s), as well as its ability to be hacked/tweaked/groomed/configured-as-a-lean-machine into shape to accomodate any process we'd like to use/try-out.

--- and to (out)perform.

Oherwise, as you know, software, hardware even, are very close to me.

But yes, Free Software for me is not just a way of attracting talent and ensuring we stay "on top / in the know", but also stems/springs from an ethical standpoint.

Et puis, tout ces process.. & ces process de décision -- c'était nul.

Je vais pas faire semblant en disant: "au final c'est pas si mal".

Faire tourner une boite de soft avec deux project-management tools en //, is not what I can agree to call WINNING, or anything truly positive.

That being said, I do hope sanity on internal tools arrives/arrived

Even/Especially just for the whole Team to be able to focus better on their work, vs. fight & suffer tools.

#Breiz_Dishual

Je t'embrasse & meilleurs voeux pour tout

Iman¶

بله بله :)

It didn't work -- I tried to hang on, I really did.

Aaah. So. I heared about an Fx2 plan.. the third way...

All I can say is: I think things need to, and can, move faster. Waiting/taking longer implies zero increase for success, IMO. Seems to me risky as a longer timescale implies more chances for irremediable pain/damage/stress/frustration/etc.

Otherwise..

Well, we do have/had key disagreements.

The Jira/Redmine essentially.

I'll share that video -- not with any aspiration that Redmine survive within Askia/Ipsos.

Redmine is dead.

I heard that, among chuckles, while on a call with "Management".

That same day, same call, I also better understood the peculiar circumference of meaning & intent embodied in Management's "Ground control strategy".

I also understand that the trigger was already pulled on Redmine at least a few/several weeks ago (writing June 26th here).

So yeah, it's more just to share my perspective.

Some history too.. with a tribute/hats-off to dev.askia.com's first maintainer: Joseph Chin

An attempt to better explain

"why Redmine rocks in a way Jira never will"

And also just cuz I have yet to be shared a specific list of "thing(s) Redmine can't do, that Jira can".

I don't remember exactly what made the "video edit cut", but overall I share different aspects where Redmine blows Jira out of the water.

• ~16', re.done with good sound -- tech aspect, security/etc.
• ~27', Lockdown.shitty.sound, but it is < 30', and achievable to understand/hear 95+ % of it.

Bon, et puis sinon bonne chance avec tout

Wish you well & !آرامش با تو باشد

MyForce Team¶

At my level of interaction, we didn't have that many topics wich we worked on together, still, mainly support issues, both ways.

Overall things worked well.

There'll always be a part of me wondering "what if n years ago this/that had been decided" -- basically I guess, the only less positive for me was that we were never enough of a "collective team".

Maarten, rewinding to my London/Paris years, it was good to work with you, good memories.

Bert I heard you were leaving too -- maybe you already have -- if the latter, please fwd to Bert my best wishes too!

To other Devs, it was cool to see you during the Dev Conference Iman had organized -- that was a cool event, IMO :)

I wish you all the best

Ciao

Samuel¶

Je vais faire court -- (ces adieux sont compliqués ma foi)

C'était cool de te connaitre, un peu / quand même :)

on a, au final, pas trop échangé, mais les quelques occaz qui sont advenues étaient cool.

Donc, merci à toi

& je te souhaites le meilleur pour tout aussi

Jéjé, Djedj¶

Bon.

C'est pas malin tt ça

Mais c'est la vie.

Merci pour ton aide, ton oreille & ton input aussi, au fil des ans.

Was cool to work with you

Even if with you too, in the end, it was every so "randomly often"

But we had stuff to get done or figure out.

And we did -- it worked, well.

Overall, at least :)

Take care,

Best wishes for everything,

Abrazos! y a ver cuando nos vemos ;)

Yoann¶

C'était vraiment cool de te connaitre

On se voyait pas souvent, mais un peu/par chance|aléas.

Thanks again for your help too!

Yes, our work didn't overlap/inter-connect that often

But it did at times

Top of my mind are those slack shared screen calls we did to get darn vista.sln to

1. open
2. compile
3. troubleshoot.bug+fix
4. compile 4 realz

And thanks for your & Paul's work on getting that Slack bot

Sorry I didn't use it much/enough.

Coulda/Shoulda. Thenagain, at MADE-BCN everyone uses Telegram -- and we "in person roll-call lunch options IRL mostly"

Anyways, that's the past.

J'espère qu'on se voit un de ces 4

par ici,

par là,

là-bas,

let me know ;)

Molta sort amb tot i abraçades!

Anastassia¶

J'espère que les quelque occasions/interactions avec moi était ok, niveau taffe en tout cas.

De mon côté oui ;)

Et sinon, et bien je te souhaite tout le meilleur aussi & peut-être à une autre fois!

Bises

Richard¶

Well, I'm not sure at which point I became a problem for you

But it's been obviously a while.

I guess, at least, there's a part of me that doesn't feel sad, in the sense that I surmize that my sudden & quick departure from Askia, is more-than-likely a source of positive news from your perspective.

Thenagain, unless I'm completely mistaken in the above, I do think the aforementionned to be a shame.

FWIW -- you are better at working in Askia, at writing/marketing, doing demos⁴,.. I mean, with my limited visibility, I'm tempted to say just better at "Sales per se", than an "similarly important" ex-Askia.colleague I had the misfortune of working with in years yonder.

Still, we had fundamental disgreements.

Most notably on KPMG during both October 2018 and January 2019 fuck ups.

Which, to explain my perspective, ie. what hurt me in the aftermath of these events was:

• Nothing good came out of it.
• No true post-mortem was done.
• No new process was implemented.
• At the reverse, I was "firewalled/sandboxed" off from KPMG.

Oh. And special mention of personal distaste for that twisted methodology/process of a staff member being guilty until he/she manages to prove themselves innocent.

Anyways.

Wrapping up here

I mentionned to PG&JS, it would be good/better to make sure AskiaVista PO know what KPMG guys are doing

If they're still running Vista 6.0.3.6, well, the next Vista PO should be allowed to discuss & ideally force them to upgrade.

Maybe sell it as a forced Consulting OPS.. why not.

Cheers,

Pascal¶

Merci pour tes derniers deux emails.

J'en ai acté:

L'absence de toute offre réelle/sérieuse émanant de la part d'Ipsos(Askia).

Que ce soit concernant une amélioration significative de ma compensation financière, ou n'importe lequel des autres sujets/aspects qui m'importent(aient).

Que dire de plus..

Je vais contacter Bally/KANTAR pour d'abord avoir confirmation directe de sa part de Bally/KANTAR quand au retour de leur portable.

Ainsi que les infos sur quel transportiste viendra le récupérer à mon bureau⁵.

Sur ce, je te souhaite à toi aussi une très bonne continuation avec tes prochains projets/aventures professionnelles.

Cdt.