These are the last days at my current job. Considering that summer has come and the attitude here is not much different from the one Russell describes when talking about Spain, it’s getting very hard to get any work done.
Starting officially on July 1st, I’ll be joining the ranks of Pro-netics, where I’ll be doing more or less what I’m doing here, i.e. designing and developing web applications using a score of Open Source libraries and frameworks.
The main difference is that I’ll be mainly working from home — that’s why I’m searching new furniture and a new desktop computer — with frequent travels to Rome.
I’ve never worked from home for long periods of time, so I really don’t know how it’s going to work out. I am determined to make it right and don’t slip into bad habits like getting up every ten minutes to open the fridge, but I’m afraid I’ll miss things like water-cooler talks and office humor. We’ll see, I guess.
Another major difference is that my work will be much more focused on promoting Open Source Software, actively participating in OSS projects and exploring the possible business models of OSS, as opposed to just being an end user, albeit an advanced one.
I am particularly excited at the prospect of being part of a European consortium of OSS-oriented companies like Orixo. It’s great to be working together with friends like Gianugo, Sylvain, Andrew, David, Jeremy, Steven, Marc, Matthew and Carsten (to mention just those who have a blog and can therefore be linked; hope I didn’t miss anyone). Can you name any other company featuring so many respected bloggers, OSS developers and advocates as this one? I guess not and with such a concentration of great minds thinking alike, I’m sure we can really be the reference company for Open Source in Europe. The future is bright.
Welcome to the party Ugo, I hope you enjoy working for Pronetics, Orixo etc..
Working from home …. I have found that water-cooler talks and office humour etc. can be partially replaced my long iChat sessions with your colleagues. I hope it works out for you too.
Hi Ugo,
I follow your blog from time to time and I found it very interesting.
I have seen your last posting and I have noticed that you will join a new company that is focused on Open Source technologies. Do you think that you have enough time to spent on blog? How many project do you think you will have?
best regards
I sure hope I’ll have enough time for blogging, but who knows? As for the number of projects, what do you mean?
I have seen that pronetics has many projects about open source; which project do you think you’ll follow?
Bye
Congrats Ugo !
It’s interesting to see how involvement in opensource projects often has some impacts on people’s carreers. You come to opensource because it eases your job, and later opensource *is* your job.
Best wishes for this new adventure !
Congrats!!!
/jealous