[yocto] Gratitude

[Bas Mevissen]

Hi Jeffrey,

Many thanks for the hard work over the years. The Yocto Project has 
helped me a lot with creating great pieces of software for several 
clients.
Good luck and a lot of fun with your new job!

Cheers,

Bas.

On 2018-06-06 08:42, Osier-mixon, Jeffrey wrote:
> I have been the Yocto Project community manager for over 7 years now,
> and have had the pleasure of knowing or conversing individually with
> several hundred of you. It is with mixed feelings that I must announce
> that I am stepping down from my position as the YP community manager
> and the Advisory Board chair after 7 years, as I am taking on a new
> role in my job.
> 
> I am very proud of the progress that the project has made, growing
> from a small set of build tools into an industry standard for building
> and working with embedded Linux-based operating systems, supporting
> upstream projects including the Linux kernel, hosting projects like
> opkg, and inspiring many very successful downstream projects,
> including AGL and OpenBMC among many others, and also supporting
> countless configurations of hardware among seven different
> architectures. We have also seen the community of users grow from
> fewer than 1000 in 2010 to a large city-sized community, estimated in
> the tens of thousands of developers.
> 
> Please continue to participate, collaborate, and come together as a
> community! The Yocto Project is a success because every one of you
> participates.
> 
> Jeffrey "Jefro" Osier-Mixon, Intel Corporation
> Open Source Community Ecosystem Strategist